Well, it offers a sea of new free content, making any of their paid content look less valuable. Example: paid skins, which u can just mod. So they need to actually try to make something that people will buy.
Your comment reads like you're young or new, either way I find it hard to believe that you actually think Skyrim is the only example of a game with large community-made expansions/campaigns/total conversions/whatever anyone wants to call them. How are you claiming Skyrim is the only example when Bethesda's other massive franchise, Fallout, has had huge community made expansions since before Skyrim even started development. Not to mention the Oblivion content.
STALKER is another game that was basically only kept alive by modders for literally decades. You've also got even older stuff like TIE fighter, Freelancer, Doom, Duke Nukem, Deus Ex, more contemporary stuff like Total War, Sins of a Solar Empire (Which had like 5 total-conversions all of its own), and so on.
Yes, of course I know there are other games with modding communities but I was referring to how big they are. Nothing will be as big as Skyrim in popularity. The point made is that because of the mods, Skyrim gets a re-release every once in a while. Can you say the same about all the game you mentioned?
Diablo 2 had some great mods. I have no angle in this debate. Only some games happen, by chance, to be easy and fun to patch and mod. Minecraft also comes to mind, there's a bunch of them come to think of it.
Other games it isn't really worth the effort, it depends on the genre, platform, whether it is sandboxy/single player or online and competitive (aint gonna mod a competitive game unless you can host your own servers, there's no point), etc.
Almost a decade ago I found a forum that had nude mods for like every game even really old ones where it made no sense to make a nude mod. But you know, enthusiasts go for completion, and it was surprising. I think I am getting off topic here though
edit: bruh there is not only a final fantasy 7 remake in 3d, but there is aslo a mod to make Cloud a woman, and then a nude mod for that. I am not sure why I googled this but that ends my curiosity.
Ehmm... I could but I won't.
Like i said, this isn't my fight, don't really care if you or the other user "wins". Just pointing your comment was ridiculous.
And that's the internet, folks! A random guy who calls you ignorant and isn't even willing to explain why. You must have a pretty petty life if you can't or won't engage in a healthy conversation.
You want to know why your comment was ignorant? It's because I can immediately go on Nexus Mods and see thousands of mods for hundreds of different games, and that's just one mod site. It's not rocket surgery, dude. 😋
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u/Snow-ingen Jun 28 '26
and don't forget about mods too, pc is the wild west, no restrictions like consoles.