exactly. anybody that pays for that crap is part of the problem

There's a lot of casual players who just don't see the problem with it because they don't really play other games, and it sucks

That is one of the reason xbox players can't have nice things

Funny how he said the mistake was making quest a paid quest and instead he should made the items part of the quest a paid mod 😂

Pre-orderers got 1000 Bethesda bucks included. So I just have my fingers crossed it's a one off, and the next drop won't sell to anyone.

Lol. Wouldn't surprise me. Announcing our new solution! Just like Nintendo we have got rid of those pesky review things and all our games are now exclusive to the Behesda launcher! Yayyy!

"thats not what we want" "thats not what we want"

"Please stop accurately describing our game."

He’s a modern day Peter Molyneux

I learned my lesson with Fallout 4. Bugdeadstha.

I say the gamers that perpetuate this deserve to be scammed. They earned their idiocy and can have it. I've moved on to indies entirely. CrossCode, Vintage Story, RimWorld, Avorion... There's an endless bounty of fantastic games so I really do not need a bunch of egotistical scam artists and their trash such as Rockstar, Ubisoft, XBox, and even Nintendo. They lost me years ago. I have fun again and that's all I wanted.

@@MorfsPrower Yeah these practices along with the recent push for fake "diversity" has made me also go pretty much fully into indies. Crosscode is a shining example of an amazing one. There's only a very select few games from AAA companies I'm interested in and they're all A: from Eastern based devs and B: aren't overly monetized.

I'm hoping it's just from the free 1000 points most people got. Please don't tell me most people spent money on this. Damn I hate normies.

@@GameBoyDame Can't do anything about the large sea of casuals. Informed gamers are a small drop in comparison. A few years ago I talked to somebody on the train who chatted about the FIFA games with his buddy. Apparently, they were buying the same game every year and spent about a thousand euros on player cards on each game. I can't fathom how they could still buy this crap, but my attempt at convincing them to change to better and cheaper games was in vain. They didn't even understand the overly expensive monetization and kept happily spending money on it.

@@ollih.901 I don't understand how these clowns fall for it over and over again.

That itself is a lie

i get that reference

that's crazy talk

I heard the words in tune but can’t remember the song

And that guy will go to another company and do the same thing.

“It’s just good business”

Tale as old as time😭

Todd needs a new yacht. He got well bored of the old one.

@@decorumlopez9147 "It's gonna have 5-times the detail"

The next 5 years of Tamriel Rebuilt updates is way more exciting than Elder Scrolls VI to me.

That it does, and they even have community projects to make modding easier. Extra scripts, extra models, extra textures etc.

Chiming in, OpenMw also has a VR VERSION, very enjoyable

Skywind, Skyblivion, openMW multi-player. Stuffs gotten nuts.

Hell, daggerfall still has an active modding community

It just works

4x the size of previous s-storms

see that massive red review bar, you can make it bigger!

16x the lies, 4x the deception

100x the reason to remember the name

@@Gaheku 1x truth.

@@Gaheku To be frank, if he promises lies, he's more likely to give the truth.

because "it just works".

Yeah, he's giving Peter Molyneux a run for his money.

Money laundering casino mafia frontman speaks with forked tongue.

People still paid attention to Peter Molyneux after every over-promise and under-delivery with Fable. Even after 3 lol. So idk man.

Because “muh Elder Scrolls”

Not me!!! It's laughable that people still trust anything he says

raw eggplant i hope.

Whole eggplant I hope

@@Akirathedon92 A radish. Look up Rhaphanidosis.

No, 300 is a better minimum for awkward pricing. Then 650, then 1450, etc...

500, 1000, 2700, and 5500. At least on steam.

Yup, it's just cut content that they decided to charge for instead

It's a weapon and armor DLC, the quest is just a lore friendly bonus quest in the same style as past creations from Skyrim

check out The Wayward Realms it is being made by the makers of elder scrolls Daggerfall and they want to bring back the good parts of old RPG games

@@DragonmasterKeel that game actually looks awesome! i cant believe i have never heard of it..

what is bgs?

​@@NkenKenYbugthesda

@@maofria1452 ah ok

Allowing for mods to be installed on consoles, or making an in-game mod launcher to help people just install mods and play, is a big convenience. Sure I know how to set up a nexus account and get mods from Nexus, it sure is easy to just install mods from within the game, and no one's talking about that. This menu will help the game outlast other games released this year.

@@kay94 Selling something =/= giving back to the community, setting up a storefront so you can turn other people's work into revenue, because you can coat it in 'convenience' for some, IS NOT GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. I think paid mods are a good thing, overall, I'm not mad when mod makers would like to get paid, I'm mad Bethesda takes a cut while acting like they're doing some good community service, when at the core of it they only care about it being a source of revenue.

@@sazjnk95 Why does steam take a cut from game purchases? Any online service needs some income to keep servers running.

​@@sazjnk95 So you expect them to pay modders to make content for their game while they make nothing? I hate to break it to you, but video game companies need to worry about way more other than their fans, especially one like Bethesda who is owned by two bigger and much more greedy companies.

A very 'were sorry you feel that way' type of energy.

@@naruhearts1 We are sorry but thanks for your money. Also, we do keep it.

Todd Howard’s yacht insurance is charged monthly however

The sad thing is, when you look back on it, if BG3 had kept the initial September release date to iron out some things, it probably would've done just fine overall. Yeah, the initial release of both games could make things more competitive, but BG3 would've still come out on top full stop. It'd probably be even better with the extra month. Don't get me wrong, I understand why Larian decided to jump ahead by a month, and I'm stoked the game succeeded, which makes the 20/20 hindsight feel redundant, but I think it's still worth thinking about.

L take.

@@zoldlen883 Feel free to say that about stated facts if you want.

@@monody that was 15 years ago bro. Not a very good counterpoint. Another L take.

@@zoldlen883 You mean the interview with Sawyer, who only ever used Creation to work on NV? Then you mean to say it was an L take to use him in the video as well? Or are you simply looking for confirmation bias?

@@zoldlen883 Bruh, learn to quit when you're already behind.

"25 years in the making!" 😆

​@kay94 see that's the problem, mods should never have reached console, it led to shit like this.

@@mikerotch8375 ? Why shouldn't it? What's your logic behind this? "Shit like this" is you get very few mods that are paid, but access to thousands of free mods to enhance your experience. So I want to know why you think console players shouldn't have access to mods.

but that's what we get anyway, as long as somebody is paying for it.

​@@kay94Its not that i dont think Console Players should have access to mods. I dont think they should be paid. Period. If i want to pay a mod dev ill paypal, kofi, or patreon the dev. Bethesda shouldnt earn a cent from the modders hard work, especially since they dont even make sure the package works before shipping it as a "creation". Also $10 for a *single* *shitty* quest is outrageous. (Yes it is only 700 credits but the smallest pack you can buy that has enough credits is $10) The game is in a terrible state and instead of fixing the fundamental problems (bad narrative, boring exploration, and a useless, unfun outpost system hanging off like a vestigial limb) Bethesda is more concerned about nickel and diming players to milk them for all theyre worth. Id rather go back and play Skyrim or Morrowind than Starfield right now.

@@thegamedoctor1457 I enjoyed the game. I am not paying for any mod, as I don't see how it's forced upon me. It is not at all. If you didn't enjoy the game I can see how you'd like them to fix things instead of this BUT, almost no other company especially for AAA games allows mods on consoles. They want you to pay for every single Assassins Creed and COD rather than giving you the ability to download FREE content. Working to bring mods on consoles SHOULD be standard for most games, but they don't because they want you to buy their next title instead of you having the option to download infinite free content and play the same game for years and years. Bethesda instead chose to do it and I don't care if they charge for some mods to recoup that cost as long as people can keep making mods for free and console players downloading free content. I really don't get the outrage. Suddenly a "mediocre" game has a modding community on consoles which will only bring more worth out of your 60 dollars and will allow all people who own it to keep playing and playing and playing new content that you don't even have to pay for and you're complaining. I WISH i had the option to download free content for Elden Ring but instead i'm forced to wait 2 years for an official DLC that costs 30 dollars. With Starfield I don't even have to wait for bethesda to release a DLC when I can just grab whatever free mission people will build. And you're all outraged over a $7 mission. Just do whatever you do in real life when you see something that isn't worth it, don't buy it and move on. I am not gonna pay for any mod and I'm on PC so this doesn't affect me TO THE SLIGHTEST, but I get that Bethesda wants to recoup some money for bringing mods to console when no other company does it. You all are just a hive mind, instead of actually thinking WHO this benefits more(the player or bethesda) you're outraged over a $7 mission that you don't even have to buy, you're not forced to buy it and you even claim it's not worth it, so what's the big deal? Just download the free missions which are better.

Or better yet, don't play Shitfield.

The unofficial patch is fine

That has yet to stop people from buying Bethesda's stuff. It is not like starfield was their first major backlash. They have screwed around since skyrim came out, and everything they do is still super successful. So when what you say is true on a technical level, it is not true in real world application to Bethesda. They literally keep getting away with it.

​@@LanthirrhosElden Ring has given them competition, and no one is going to bother playing Starfield 2 if that ever comes out. If the Fallout show tanks which it most likely will then they really don't have any IP to lean on. Bethesda will collapse eventually. You can't produce mid game after mid game.

people will never learnt, trust me.

Yeh man that's why they do not teach kids math and percentages anymore, when you start doing the math on A LOT OF THINGS in society, especially relevant to the business world, do not add up correctly

Not to mention break games that have since been fixed?

They could just get another studio to make it for them. MS owns inXile Entertainment who made the new Wasteland games. I bet they could do a pretty good job of remaking FO 1 and 2.

@@Nodiee1 That really depends on how much Xbox top management sees in the value of fallout 1 and 2 remakes/remasters. Afterall xbox studio current set up is kinda odd with both zenimax and ABK currently having a completely separate management to the rest of Xbox. Also bet there is a bunch of office politics nonsense between the different sections where they don't share toys between them like ip and engine tools they built

Interplay and Bioware. By Gamers, For Gamers. That is how the golden age of video games was manifested. Stock/Shareholders killed it

One of the problems is that people continue to moan and complain that Bethesda didn't make the original games as if they're kidnappers holding the franchise for ransom. It's ok for them to be critical, but they really need to move on from that and provide more useful feedback. These day people have played 3, 4, Morrowind, Skyrim and probably enjoyed some of them. But then they're also the same people regurgitating the same nonsense about New Vegas, or Todd Howard being jealous of it or some such. People of the community really need to have an original thought of their own if they want to see the franchise improve. Odds are most of them have never played the original games and are just complaining about it because everyone else they know is. Bandwagoning without adding anything useful is creating more of a problem than a bad studio ever will. It dilutes the voices that could actually help the industry. This is something I hope people become aware of.

The only truely great fallout game made whilst they owned the ip wasnt even made by them. If they did remake those games, it will either be mediocre or terrible. Skyrim was lightning in a bottle and new vegas was because it wasnt them

I fell for the trap too, and even I have to say we were all fools. We actually thought, like Dr. Weird once said: "This time, SHALL BE DIFFERENT!" But then it turned out like New Vegas, Fallout 4, Skyrim, and Fallout 76. A half-baked mess that only the modding community can save. "IT'S NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL, IS IT STEVE?!"

Stop using "mediocre" instead of"bad" "awful" "shit".

The stupid thing is, if you play Starfield and fallout 4 with Starfield first, you could SWEAR that Fallout 4 came out AFTER Starfield

@@samuelfawell9159 Starfield is very logical evolution of Fallout 4, if you see how Bethesda gamedesighn "evolves" in TES series.

​@@varvarith3090Except they they haven't even used game design documentation for a long while

If it's a great game, they wouldn't have the need to do it. Especially if it's a great developer who just gives these kinds of updates for free

@@Akeyins one would think, but when a game is good, people for give its monetization schemes. And that's the danger that this might bring with companies simply not willing to leave money on the table.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@dumaskhanthank you people forgive any scumbag monetization if the game good when that shouldn’t matter since it still scummy

@@dumaskhan oh yeah for sure. I was more so referring to companies like Larian who put out a ton of new content in their games through updates without charging for any of it and even let people have the ultimate editions of past games for free if they bought the original. The companies who decide to charge for this kind of thing are scummy, and it immediately makes me not trust them and less likely to buy from them in the future. I just wish more people would refuse to give these companies money

What do you think is gonna happen when they finally launch ES6.

Consoomers gotta consoom the slop.

Because “MUH NOSTALGIA” and “I don’t care if it’s gonna be harmful as long as ***I*** have fun!!!”

Literally.

​@@jashloseher578Not at all. Loading screen time is probably 1% of the time you spend in menus.

@@michaelh878 People use literally when they literally have no idea what literally means

Disagree. Almost all of my favourite games are from Bethesda. I love that they support their games long term and offer paid expansions instead of sequels. You don't like it. Fine. Move on. Why watch youtube video's about stuff you don't like? Talk about wasting your life.

@@RandomWandrer Fan boi alert!

Play is counted every time a player starts up the game. Every instance of the same player turning on the game massively inflated the stats.

The deluxe edition costs more the then base edition. Meaning anything additional "free" products are baked into the increased price. This is a marketing tactic. It's lies.

​@@ninjason57exactly. It's wild to me how many people think a bonus they get from buying something is considered free. Like if you buy currency in a gacha game and they say "free extra gems" or whatever, you still have to buy the gems first. It's a predatory and gross marketing tactic

​@@ninjason57false value proposition in full swing, just like buy one get one half off

He's changed, he went from walking on egg shells to straight up reptilian. In this interview he's like Zucc if he could talk smoothly to sell you his snake oil

Todd is known to be a huge fan of barbarian gameplay and despises magic. Easy to see why the College of Winterhold doesn't need an archmage to know any magic at all. Apart from that he was the head of multiple clubs during his school and college time which directly leads him to the philosophy that the MC of TES games needs to be able to do everything without any restrictions at all. The moment the people capable of straining him left TES games went down in quality.

@@jpineapple9495 Politician is definitely the word to describe Todd Howard. He says what he thinks people want to hear, and doesn't mean a word of it. He is duplicitous.

You realize he doesnt decide these things. He doesnt own all of zenimax or bethesda.

Its like blaming the president for gas prices. Thats not how the world works.

Sounds like he's being honest and the subject is just one you don't want to hear

the game is too new and not good enough. It's mid at best and them already charging for new content is not a good look or sign

Is it just the greed of the makers at fault here? Or is there any responsibility of the masses of addicts that bend over and accept anything as long as they get their precious escapism?

@@gstreetgames2530the masses the problem without them the scheme wouldn’t be use cause their no money to make

@@gstreetgames2530heck look how many people buy it 4:25

It's both. Unchecked corpo greed built on trend chasing and jealousy, and addicts whom have a narrow minded approach to their game purchases because they only buy what is marketed to them. Normie gamers. They don't know how economics work, they don't understand they incentivise bad behavior and allowed publishers to jack up the price and extort them. They're don't have the capacity to know, or care, that they are causing companies to degenerate into lazy, soulless scam artists. And then there's the children fresh entering the gaming sphere and have no idea what came before all this. Well, that's a bit dishonest. A number of newer gamers are playing the old school stuff and loving it, saving their money and getting real stories and gameplay. Kudos to those little geniuses.

I basically only play games that are 4 years old, and have never released a single DLC. Because why should I pay 400$ for a game that's 50$ of actual content value.

If Jason Scheier learned anything damning about Bethesda he would just sit on it and not publish it. After all he did it with the sexual harassment story on Activision Blizzard.

Jason Schreier can be trusted approximately as far as I can pitch a Buick. Well, maybe not that far. I will add that Todd, for all his faults, is working for a corporation which he serves as loyally as he is able. Schreier, on the other hand, is one of these pseudo journalist's to whom honesty is a foreign concept and whose agenda is always readily discernible.

Even before his Bloomberg days, Schreier had two angles for his articles: social justice, or corporate perspective. Both have their place, and can be tremendously powerful, but I think an interview with Todd wouldn't be terribly constructive. BGS is going well, and they've not had any social justice issues (at least that anyone has leaked).

Jason Schreier wouldn't do anything to hold Bethesda to account. He actually loves justifying bad microtransactions. Jason only cares if a studio is going against his pet causes, aka game dev unionization, employee layoffs, or the dreaded "crunch". Also Todd would never sit down with him, because Bethesda blacklisted him after he leaked the entire intro script to Fallout 4 in 2015. Ironically, Schreier also has written articles condemning people who leak info pre-launch. Guess it's only allowed when Schreier does it. Integrity is low with with him.

Both of them are disingenuous liars, but Jason is especially a liar with blatant political agendas. Why would you want to hear them at all?

So modders can actually have a income, from moding that isn't entirely based on patreon.

@@sleepngnightModders hardly get payed through Creation Club, and it’s nowhere near a livable income. If you have a very popular mod on Nexus, I believe the amount of people donating to you would outweigh the flat fee that Bethesda pays you.

Its up to the modders if the mods are paid or not as seen in the full interview, most of those who do paid mods - made a career out if it. If you don't like to pay for mods just visit nexus.

@@sleepngnight its alright what they are doing and hats off to "modders" that get some money doing "mods" finally. But in my mind, these are not "mods" anymore but dlc. So every mod on their creation toolkit should be named dlc's instead. Mods in my mind is something thats being made with love for the community. And these new ones are purely dlc and paid ones for that. But I guess I'm problably the only one not liking it.

LOL, I love how you shills keep pushing that fantasy, like the bulk of the money you pay for the mods isn't going straight into the pockets of Bethesda. Its interesting how many modders are happy to make mods for games like Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 without the need for any "Creation Club" style bullcrap. Its almost like modders-unlike Bethesda-are motivated by something more than money.

I'm not even interested in the game but I'm rooting for them. Anything to create competition and cut down greedy companies player counts

@Akeyins mine really is i want to see what the elder scroll games could have looked like if they went with getting bigger instead of condensed.

*2003:* I enter a store to find a game. *2023:* I enter a game to find a store.

@@MichaelPohoreski So true, and quite sad

I think it is a weird one. I'd rather have games complete at launch. So if further things are added I don't have a problem with some of it being free and some of it being paid. I don't really understand the expectation for free things to be added to games for years.

@@michaelh878 You're strawmanning the position. What people want is to not be nickel & dimed or conned with the promise of a good & substantial game which falls off within a few hours. If you're adding 1 quest that was obviously cut to make the ship deadline... it should be free. Especially when the game is known for being low on content & the content being mostly bad. They should be scrambling to actually make the "good game" Bethesda convinced people they were buying. They're verging on fraudsters trying to con you a second time before you've even forgotten the last time. Add-on content should also be substantial enough to be worth people's attention. No one wants to make a transaction & direct their attention to Starfield again, slog through all the loading screens for a 40 minute quest in a game known for all the quests being bad... then shut the game off and transition to something else. Better to just go straight to something else & not suffer the frustration of all the extraneous problems of Starfield & purchasing... even ignoring the actual monetary amount.

By his speech with the lore regarding Fallout, it's clear he has no fucking ideas what his games are about.

Doubtful

Nope

Obviously not.

Why?

​​@@noahlefebvre29because the Modder for Unofficial is a bellend and has been caught bricking games for having mods he doesnt personally like. (At least I think thats him, i might be wrong on that one. I know for certain hes just been a dick in general.)

@@thegamedoctor1457 Arthmoor yes, he's well known for it.

​@@thegamedoctor1457 damn that sucks ass, USSEP was pretty useful

This was always their plan with 76, but they faced so much backlash early on that they were forced to push it off until later

@@toolshedvideo This was always their plan? No. In 2018, Pete Hines got on stage and said that the only monetization that would come to Fallout 76 would be in the form of cosmetics in the Atomic Shop. That was before the game launched. There was no backlash. That's a false narrative. There is even a Pete Hines interview where he addresses being called a liar. He basically said it was never their plan to stray from charging for anything beyond cosmetics, but it didn't work so they had to.

Lmao imagine believing anything someone says on a stage

@@kharmachaos667 What I wrote has nothing to do with belief. It's just an accurate accounting of the facts. What toolshedvideo wrote isn't.

No, you finally weened off the teat. They were always villains.

@@gstreetgames2530 Damn, guess I gotta grew up.

@@gstreetgames2530 yeah bethesa might have had the very first microtransactions on a home console, they've been rotten since oblivion _at least_

@@comyuse9103 Indeed at least since Oblivion. IMO thy have been coasting on Morrowind's impact.

Y'all acting like Skyrim didn't set the bar for the longest time on open world game design smh. Give credit where credit is due they did not coast on Morrowind at all.

That will honestly be the saddest day of my life. And that’s saying something since as a Marine veteran, I’ve had to cope with the deaths of brothers both in and out of combat.

don't worry, we will finally have a real TES game soon, Oncelost Games is made up of the people that _actually_ made The Elder Scrolls and they are making a new game called The Wayward Realms.

They already did, if their moronic DEI activists in positions of power in the company are any indication.

@@comyuse9103 While the community has fixed the previous Bethesda games, let's not pretend that it has also been a good thing to the game(s). Will we see the same community for Wayward Realms?

You wouldn't have to worry about versions if Bethesda stopped doing meaningless updates to their games.

@@speedingoffence yeah, i am convinced some of them are just to break mod compatibility to make users buy into their shitty paid mods.

@@comyuse9103 Which means that the people buying those mods are directly harming the modding scene. Ya, I'm not not happy about that.

Of course, because it's not the grifter that's at fault for grifting! It's the mark. Sure bud.

You bought the horse armor didn't you? 😆

Blame goes to all.

Disappointment, yes. Bad? Probably not. We just expected more. I think if Bethesda sold this game as something other than the greatest thing ever made in the history of humanity, we wouldn't have expected that. It's looking less and less like I'm every going to bother playing it, tho.

@@speedingoffence nah, man. All they said was that it was Skyrim, but in space. And they did a long video of explaining the game, so I don't know what else people expected. Star Citizen 2?

@@jassykat Consider that Skyrim is in about 90% of people's top 3 games ever, and perhaps 10% of people's top game ever, I think it's realistic to say they set the bar pretty high.

@@speedingoffence Actually, they never said that, it was just me. 😬

@@jassykat no, Tod Howard did refer to it as 'Skyrim in Space.'

Disagree. They need to be held up as an example of what games used to be about. "By Gamers, For Gamers"

@@TimeDagar First of all, that implies that the originals will be lessened by a remaster, which is a) questionable b) less important than making the games more playable Second of all, it implies that the remasters would be bad, which is obviously not what I want and why I said that Bethesda shouldn't be the ones making them.

​@@TimeDagaryou still think that the old guard still works and or make games? Bruh.....