Bethesda, we need to talk...

[@samf137]

Breaking Fallout 4, right as the TV show was peaking, is one of the greatest examples of Bethesda snatching defeat, from the jaws of victory, I've ever seen

[@kyeongmin9396]

You, don't, need, to, put, that, many, commas, in, one, sentence

[@samf137]

@@kyeongmin9396 my bad 🤣

[@ashroskell]

Oh, if ONLY they taught Wallet in schools! We just can’t communicate with Bethesda. We speak and they DO NOT HEAR US. If only I spoke Master Card or Visa! Your wallet is the only language they understand.

[@ashroskell]

And lest we forget, Fallout London, sabotaged upon release, by an update that broke the game, hurting both Bethesda and these wonderful creators who hired really good actors and everything to make an awesome DLC! That’s just . . . 🤦‍♂️

[@chilbiyito]

​@@samf137You can edit it you know

[@redwolf4123]

One of the things that makes me so angry about creation club is that they charge money for some mods and that still disables achievements. I believe that if we are paying money for anything it should not hinder the game in any way. 💯

[@KyleSetFire]

Whilst I semi agree, you pay for the mods because they pay the creators.

[@redwolf4123]

​@@KyleSetFireright exactly. And I think that is great, all I am saying is if I am paying for something, don't lock off a section of the game.

[@MrMattyPlays]

I agree with this. I think mods disabling my Starfield achievements is what killed my last playthrough lol.

[@redwolf4123]

@@MrMattyPlays Bro same! That's why I recently disabled all my mods and went back to a vanilla play through for Shattered Space knowing that I wouldn't get any of the new achievements. 🤦 Great coverage as always Matty 🤘

[@johnwrath3612]

@@MrMattyPlays What killed my last playthrough of starfield was a sense of overhwhelming, existential ennui that made me question every life choice i had made up until that point that would make me waste 80 hours of the finite number of hours i have in this life playing something so profoundly mediocre.

[@Ssecave]

"I would buy the escape quest".... We're at a point now that we PAY for quests. 1 freaking quest....

[@marconihimself]

People used to buy skins for horses, and that was the first dlc ever if Im not mistaken.

[@Maetiks]

Automatron is basically a quest

[@smthsmth]

They gave 1000 store credits for free with the premium version, thus most people had to spend it somewhere, this quest was a top choice.

[@dtube441]

​@marconihimself exactly. People pay for skins in first person shooters where you will rarely see it yourself

[@brianherrera1390]

​@@smthsmthwhen you buy premium version its not free. Crazy dude.

[@John-xs5wh]

I’m shook that Matty said a 5 dollar quest line is acceptable. That’s a slippery slope my friend.

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

Todd gave Matty an interview and now Matty is afraid to lose access.

[@TheParagonIsDead]

Questline is fine, quest isn’t.

[@Hatterboot24]

Matty is straight up wrong. The slippery slope started with horse Armor more than a decade ago.

[@Quiet_9]

I mean think about what you're saying. Each expansion sold for probably 30-40$ and was basically just a few great quest lines. If the volikar quest line is worth 20$ and the dawnguard line worth another 20$, then clearly there is some point where a quest line is worth 5$. Personally, I think the brief shadowbow quest for Skyrim is easily worth 5$, and that was probably their comparison point for the tracker's alliance quest weapon fiasco.

[@Hatterboot24]

@@Quiet_9 you're missing the detail that it was SINGLE quest getting sold for $5. Or maybe I am misunderstanding some details.

[@ninja1man4u]

Man what a blow to fans. "Hey people are really excited to play fallout again after the success of the show and are buying fallout 4 in droves what can we do? I know LETS BREAK THE GAME!"

[@juicedup14]

I'm happy new players get to go through the genuine Bethesda Experience™ now that F4's not stable anymore.

[@ninja1man4u]

@@juicedup14 well played 🥳

[@antonyjames4698]

not to mention we waited like 2 years for it.

[@deohere7647]

Bethesda most likely sees it being broken as a net positive. Imagine how many people bought it again so they could play fallout London. Or how many big modding projects are unplayable for most people now so folks can't see what a fallout 4 with good writing, art direction, and mechanics would be like. Or how many people will give up on modding and just turn to the storefront or even stsrifled or 76. They have virtually no incentive to fix this or acknowledge it.

[@samf137]

​@@deohere7647 🤣🤣🤣 no no. It's a huge L, thousands of people wanted to mod the game, they were pissed.

[@TheGerardo136]

Bethesda really dropping the ball hard here. They did ABSOLUTELY nothing with the huge momentum the Fallout TV series brought. The company is just lost tbh.

[@jeremiahjohnson2784]

Actually, the fallout version of Warhammer (wasteland warfare) is taking off. Same with the fallout dnd. People are just sick of the buggy games and making their own

[@headshot531]

theyre such a joke atp i dont expect anything. the bar is in the basement.

[@epicfox567]

@@jeremiahjohnson2784what fallout DND is good?

[@localkate]

This is silly but I was so excited to see fallout come back to spirit Halloween this year. I know it was super cheap but the prop guns really just needed some touch ups to look cool. And yet... nothing. Hell, there's hardly any merch in places like Hot Topic and Box Lunch and the gear store hardly expanded. The show smashed everything else that came out and stayed number one streamed for like a whole month, I don't understand why they did nothing!

[@planescaped]

Bethesda are the next company to go the way of Bioware it seems. From the beloved golden child, to the pathetic shadow, and (probably after veilguard and TES6) a tombstone.

[@falconnm]

I still disagree strongly that Bethesda needs to curate content better on creations club. They have too many conflicts of interest to be a referee or moderator. They are creator themselves and have a vested financial interest in every transaction. What creations needs is a customer rating system so the community can grade content. Also a commenting system So information about each month can be freely shared

[@JaredKohr]

I think it could work if they restricted comments and rating to verified purchases and remove if refunded to prevent abuse. I've seen enough ridiculous negativity and entitlement across various social media platforms for Creations to know exactly how it'd go if they didn't.

[@julieblair2615]

It wouldn't be a conflict of interests to prevent asset flips at the very least.

[@davryder12]

As you said they have a vested interest in the game, would that not imply that these bad/crappy low effort, high cost mods would sway opinions of players to that of a negative light due to the lack of moderation and quality assurance?

[@Virakotxa]

​@@davryder12 But at the same time gives their own creations an aura of artificially inflated quality.

[@RandomWandrer]

And refund policy

[@yeti112]

I know that people from Bethesda, including Emperor Todd, watch Matty's videos. If any Bethesda employee reads this, please fix these problems. I still play your games, in fact, I played Fallout 4 today. I love Bethesda games and want to play them more. So please, get some structure and fix these issues. Don't take us for granted.

[@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc]

They are arrogant.I recall Pagliaulo telling the fans in twitter we don't understand how games are made.That kind of stuff. We don't understand the process. So they can hide behind that and ignore our concerns.

[@juancarlosalonso5664]

They just don’t care, the people that made Bethesda great all left years ago.

[@skyriminspace]

​@@juancarlosalonso5664nonsense. You can Google search every name that pops up in any of the developer direct videos, (most of them have a wikipedia page in fact), & it will tell you how long each one has been with Bethesda. Most of the guys in important roles have been there since morrowind or oblivion.

[@skyriminspace]

​@@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2ncwhat do you do for a living? I do interior building & i can tell you that a homeowner who can put up some shelves or build flat pack furniture cannot necessarily build a staircase or tile a bathroom properly. What they can do, is have an opinion on those things! That's what Pagliarulo was telling you.

[@NostalgiaNet8]

You can talk, but they sure aren't listening. Bethesda Game Studios haven't been listening for almost two decades.

[@johnstewart2981]

Username checks out Yall this guy prolly doesn’t like any game that came out after 2007 don’t listen to him lmao

[@Mojaveknight17]

They can listen but end up following the money

[@Capper_Bra]

@@johnstewart2981mate your name is johnstewart2981 Thats a literal bot name

[@JacobG2801]

​@@johnstewart2981 nice lazy strawman argument, stop shilling for Bethesda. Actually pathetic.

[@imdentist4745]

he is right though ​@@johnstewart2981

[@jonathanmatthews5245]

Bethesda simply does not care.

[@gorgha3988]

The images for those starfield "mods" are reminding me more and more of the Sims lol. Just thousands of tiny skin packs that nickle and dime you so hard you don't realize you've dropped like $1500 until your credit statement comes in. TBH I think Bethesda made a massive mistake opening the creation club to everyone who can draw a picture instead of carefully curated content like before. Was every mod in the CC gold? Hell naw, but you got what you paid for and it was always worth it to someone.

[@jynxce]

Behtesda and Todd don't care. They saw of what monetization potential Nexus could be if the could mimic it. All they've ever been interested in is getting their grubby. little hands on a cut of the pie whether its garbage or not.

[@TheParagonIsDead]

It’s impossible to spend more than 70 bucks, on it.

[@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo]

Time is money to be compensated

[@somethingbrite8484]

I honestly don't think Bethesda or Microsoft care whether you can draw or not.

[@TheParagonIsDead]

@@somethingbrite8484 I haven’t seen a single drawing related mod.

[@elementalxposure3730]

Sorry to be a naysayer, but I really wish you had asked Todd about the FO4 brokenness when you got the opportunity to interview him.

[@K.R.98]

He probably had to spin it positive, otherwise Todd wouldn’t have shown up. Maybe he had to send the questions in advance and had to sign a contract to stick to that questions. Gaming-journalism is corrupted, because they are dependent on the game-sellers. But I can’t really blame anyone in that situation. Money dictates and it ensures the survival of employees…

[@warrum9457]

todd doesn't show up to interviews based in reality, he's a serial liar LOL

[@Tinywars]

Yep. He side stepped that.

[@tyler3372]

No way he would even get the interview if it wasnt going to go todds way. They have rules set before recording and gaurenteed that was on the dont ask list

[@DeavtheDev]

He would never. He's Todd's little good boy that would NEVER dare speak up to daddy Todd. Hence why he gave him softball questions and didn't ask any hard questions

[@unpopularbear77]

The Three Certainties in life: Death, Taxes, and Bethesda disappointing their fans.

[@Scowleasy]

Bethesda has been doing this so long that they already had a reputation for it when Daggerfall released in ‘96

[@veryrare432hz]

they know tes 6 will still sell like little bakes from the name alone

[@SerPodrick]

If an "update" makes a game objectively worse, its not an update

[@theepicraccoon4589]

downdate?

[@tjhedgescout3052]

@@theepicraccoon4589 yeah that seems about right.

[@spartansheart808]

Or it was done on purpose. Kinda like how Apple and T-Mobile would throttle back order devices to encourage customers to move on to other products. Cough. Cough. Play Starfield please.

[@GHOSTRIDER373737]

I don't know, the performance suffered a bit, but I can tell the graphics are sharper than before.

[@SerPodrick]

@@GHOSTRIDER373737 sure, except for the textures that are now missing

[@EnragedTofu]

I’ve given up on Bethesda. WHO’S PLAYING SPACE MARINE 2, though?

[@goerdn]

Absolutely loving Space Marine 2!

[@popatsot1]

Brother!

[@truthseeker6532]

@@goerdn I was until I started playing FF 16. FF 16 took over for me.

[@chiefsean16]

The Emperor protects.

[@ni9274]

Yet you're watching this video

[@FalloutTributeMusic]

Fallout 3 is one of my favourite games of all time but current Bethesda shouldnt be making games anymore. They are better at breaking then making.

[@notforwantoftrying1]

I wish, 13 years ago when I was a young man playing Skyrim for the first time, I'd have known that this was the last good Elder Scrolls game that would be made in my lifetime

[@lioraja9951]

domt worry it is not old dudette

[@Erynash]

At this rate I'll be the last TES game released in your lifetime, period.

[@AzViking69]

I was 41 and my son 13. Now I’m 54 and my son is 26, he has served 8 years in the navy, became a pilot, and got a bachelors degree and still no new Elder Scrolls game. And literally at this pace the next game will be my last one I play, ever. That is if the company even makes it through the financial crisis that’s about to cripple all of western civilization.

[@SilentSpringzzz]

@@AzViking69Microsoft need to force them to others make new games. Like vegas use same assets mostly and cause if that more time to make a better RPG. Tbh only thing I want Bethesda should touch is making the maps. 76 map is the best they made so far. But they suck these days on anything else

[@erikmorales1641]

ES6 probably won’t even be as good i bet

[@Choteron3]

Matty, Microsoft is also responsable. They own bethesda and they allow this to happen.

[@it2spooky4me79]

I have some proof that Microsoft may have influence on this, look at Minecraft Bedrock's Marketplace, it has the same problem, there's thieves, over priced content, mass produced cash grabs, and a ton more stuff, and it looks like it's happening to Bethesda's Creations now.

[@arthurcarezzato5360]

They are barely holding themselves, looking for Bethesda or Activison is just a distancie dream right now

[@hhjk377]

Company notorious for ignoring communications with customers for literal years on end… it’s time to talk.

[@lexdeobesean]

I've given up on Bethesda. Bethesda is so disconnected from what players love in their games. It's pathetic. Starfield was my last game, I still play f4, but the pre updated version. I'll squeeze out a few more playthroughs with mods but I'm not going to bother with ES6 or F5. I don't trust their approach anymore.

[@TapestriMusic]

They don't care about the people already playing their games. They only care about the audience they believe is out there for them to grab. We are already hooked.. paying.. and taken for granted

[@matthewbelamont5800]

Bethesda pre fallout 4, one of the best game studios ever. Bethesda post fallout 4, greedy, setting low expectations and releasing mid to low tier games. Oh and changing development cycle from 3-5 years to whatever it’s turning into… Fallout 4 is a great game but we all know after it was released is when all of this started. It’s amazing what money can do…

[@amsterdance9051]

Yep, money changes everything. We can say the same about Rockstar after GTA V, that's why my expectations for GTA VI are low.

[@matthewbelamont5800]

@@amsterdance9051 money, money never changes… Like what it does corporations

[@TheFantorius]

I agree with your points but Fallout 4 is'nt even that good (well, maybe Far Harbor is, but the rest is pretty mid)

[@matthewbelamont5800]

@@TheFantorius fallout 4 is a solid high mid tier game with far harbor and nuke world just pushing it over the edge I’d say it’s aged well until the enclave update we got this year.

[@epinardianguardian2979]

Investors always win

[@AllanScott28]

Imagine console owners waking up tomorrow & Fallout 4 has had a massive update. •Everything works like before/ no stuttering etc. •50GB mod limit. •Fallout London plus other larger mods we’ve missed. •Top Notch search engine what creators/ consumers both appreciate. I’d kiss Bethesda. I’d have hope again. But for now, everything feels neglected 😢

[@jeremiahjohnson2784]

This is some schizo level cope. And I mean that genuinely nicely. Because none of that is happening, dude, I would even say at no point in the past would Bethesda have done that

[@melodierice5551]

I’m pretty sure they are allergic to what players actually want.

[@Ollidor]

Fallout 4 is my favorite game in the world and I feel really let down that they updated it only to break it and not care to fix it whatsoever. Makes me wary about Starfield updates, and I adore Starfield.

[@anthapersephone7311]

Remove the mods. Oh wait you can’t play without mods? Then I guess fo4 isn’t your fav game

[@skyeTES2568]

@@anthapersephone7311 Maybe bro isn’t using mods? But if he is, there’s no need to be such a jerk about it, it’s okay to play with mods. For example, games like Skyrim are outdated but that doesn’t mean the game sucks, but also it’s nice to give the game updates from mods. Even games like BG3 that is not outdated, modding that game is okay too. Whether people are using them or not, I’m sure bro is enjoying the game, like his favorite thing, just fine either way. But we don’t know that because we don’t know each other or who we are behind the screens, therefore, it’s non of your business to judge someone based on how they play video games either with mods or not. There’s also other things we can modify, not just video games. Modifications are not new and are not just for gaming. You can even mod your weapons in certain games like Fallout and Starfield and even in real life.

[@gtfokthxbyecya]

Sounds like you're part of the problem then. Maybe wake tf up?

[@maofria1452]

No Matt, there no potential in this. Modding only works when Bethesda is not involved. This are being proved time after time.

[@DNye]

“Drowning in a sea of turds” at 13:31 got a good chuckle out of me 😂

[@VampireNoblesse]

want Starfield to succeed, but Bethesda keeps doing things, that pushes us away..

[@ChrisM541]

...like the last huge patch that improved things greatly? !!!!

[@VampireNoblesse]

@@ChrisM541 truthfully, Starfield seems to be on track with updates & mod stability (Xbox).., hope it remains that way ... but Skyrim & Fallout 4 need help

[@ChrisM541]

@@VampireNoblesse "truthfully, Starfield seems to be on track with updates & mod stability" --> Then you might wanna change your original post?

[@ProDTeach]

Where was this energy when you had that interview with Todd....

[@juancarlosalonso5664]

He was afraid of asking tough questions and losing access because of it, one of the biggest problems with actual journalism too. That shows he cares more about getting to interview him again rather than getting the truth out though.

[@veryrare432hz]

@@juancarlosalonso5664u should have known he been a sellout tho. from his thumbnails alone

[@khemeher]

Bethesda is not interested in fixing fallout 4. It works good on console, and they assume that PC modders will fix it themselves. Then there is the issue of the creation club, which essentially is a boiling frog. They've introduced monetization to modding. And they are using it to pull modders away from free mod sites to get control over the mods in order to monetize them. The sooner we figure that out, and the sooner we stop paying for mods and paying for Beta testing and paying for bug fixes, the better.

[@gibbit2k496]

It's amazing that people still have any sort of expectations from Bethesda.

[@gamingdevil800]

What pissed me off the most about the next gen update was the fact it delayed Fallout London and caused them to have to make a whole work around... Fallout London comes out and it's better than anything Bethesda has done for the Fallout ip in the last 10 years.

[@chrisj320ac3]

I'd to do far as to say 20 years. Fans put bethesda to shame almost every time.

[@jeremiahjohnson2784]

New Vegas used the engine and bones Bethesda layed down. Or are you saying new Vegas was not good?

[@Scowleasy]

⁠@@jeremiahjohnson2784 NV was an unplayable mess of a game on the scale of cyberpunk when it first released, so yes.

[@Thedrunkenswede1337]

​@@Scowleasylol litterly the best Fallout ever made sooo. And Yes i have played them all

[@grahamshirling3433]

@@Thedrunkenswede1337 "when it first released"

[@lolmao500]

Nobody needed that crappy "next gen update" that broke everything. They should UNPATCH the game.

[@nhanon67as]

Consoles did. Night and day diff

[@Thedrunkenswede1337]

Oh Yes consoles needed then not even a question about it.

[@sagenebula7120]

@@nhanon67asexcept my mods dont work now, so i havent touched the game since

[@nhanon67as]

@@sagenebula7120 let the console pleebs have a turn. You need to learn to share

[@conza1989]

Hi Todd, I think a great place to start would be a moderation team, and if it exists, expanding the hours they work and re-examining the rules that the moderators follow to police items to re-sell. It's also possible that the hours devoted to moderation increase in controlled bursts when new releases occur, and maybe time focused a couple of times a month instead of a constant review by a person. Of course, a register of free mods that's updated frequently that an automated system could check against, simple things, file names, sizes, directories and thumbnails, that could pre-flag a mod for review.

[@juicedup14]

moderators will go on powertrips and ban modders they don't like because of drama

[@Steel-101]

Honestly, I haven’t had a lot of problems with Fallout 4. I play on the Xbox series X. I did experience that exclamation point bug with that one DLC gun but later on it went away. Also I haven’t had any graphics issues. I have some creation club stuff, but zero mods. I’ve always been nervous when it comes to non-Achievement, friendly stuff. Also thanks for bringing this up Matty. Love your channel!

[@SabiJD]

Yeah, I'm on Series X. F4 with about 80 mods - not many for PC, but a fair number on console when you have to order the LO entirely manually - ran pretty much faultlessly across a few months. It's far more stable for me than compared to when it first came out. Though partly that's being more knowledge about LOs and doing more testing, but still.

[@anthapersephone7311]

Shhhhh pc modding babies don’t want to hear that it actually does work for people

[@coreywong6229]

Since I have it on pc through steam, maybe I am lucky because I didn't have those issues everyone else had. Not trying to brag cause I get it, a game you enjoy stopped working right and all the other issues just added up mucking that more and here is the company just making it worse like they do not understand their own game engine which is itself a modified mess in its own right.

[@13453R]

Bethesda owes everyone a refund for Starfield. 😕

[@glassworktrophic8465]

I really don't see myself playing Bethesda games moving forward. Whatever they had with Skyrim/FO4... they've lost.

[@tjhedgescout3052]

Same, i dont know if i want to touch elder scrolls 6 or fallout 5. too worried about it going deeper down the rabbit hole.

[@Marcustheseer]

I disagree but maybe in the future i might agree,People these days are just hard to plz

[@tjhedgescout3052]

@@Marcustheseer That's due to expectations from playing older games.

[@alvaroruiz3009]

Peak braindead comment

[@13453R]

Bethesda is laughing all the way to the bank & singing "go on take the money & run..."

[@perdedor3571]

Honestly I'm never buying or downloading another Bethesda game. They have the worst practices in the industry, currently.

[@it2spooky4me79]

Idk, Nintendo, Activision, Ubisoft, and EA HAVE FAR MORE WORSE practices.

[@CatBack94]

Yeah I'm glad I didn't bother ever buying starfield or fallout 76

[@XNyvedX]

@@it2spooky4me79 nah Bethesda is somehow worse than Nintendo now. Because at least Nintendo doesn't put micro-transactions in their single player games and release half-baked broken games.

[@it2spooky4me79]

@@XNyvedX idk about that, Pokemon has a word for you, also I would rather take microtransactions than taking down fan projects.

[@2138Dude]

Who's gonna pay a dollar for that? The same people who paid 7 dollars for 1 quest from bethesda... You deserve creations, you deserve blatant reskins for money. Enjoy getting scammed

[@skyriminspace]

It's all optional though. I get all my mods from creation store (or whatever it's called) & so far i haven't paid a dime.

[@Marcustheseer]

The price is hight but paying for someone elses work is normal

[@matthewbelamont5800]

Honestly my expectations for Elder scrolls 6 tanked after they released starfield. We all gave them a pass for Fallout 76 because it was multiplayer but too think TES 6 might be 5-6/10 game is just fucked, especially given they had almost 2 decades to make it

[@dtube441]

Starfield didn't even score that low by the majority. Assuming a 5-6 is wild.

[@matthewbelamont5800]

@@dtube441starfield is trash

[@dtube441]

@matthewbelamont5800 ...ok cool but if it being trash gave it a relatively high score, assuming TES gets a 5-6 is ridiculous

[@numb1gxfan]

Please, can we stop? Once ES6 is fully revealed you and most of the negativity crowd will eat it up and buy it. Same thing happened to Starfield. I remember reading comment sections when 76 released and people were ready to burn down Bethesda, fast forward 6 years and I haven't seen a negative 76 comment in a long time.

[@jamesmeldrum4563]

@@numb1gxfan You must be blind.

[@killertortoise1]

The biggest issue with creations is that the market place is trash, there needs to be more moderation of whats shown to us, there needs to be a review system and we need some level of expectations around pricing!

[@SabiJD]

The thing I most want is the thing they'll never do; let us filter only *mods*, separated from all the """Creations""". I've not played SF all year, bar check ins for [underwhelming] updates, but when I've launched it just to check mods I just give up eventually. I despise being forced to sift through grifter 'Creation' shite just to see if there are any interesting *mods* to check out. BGS have been wanting to monetise mods for so long, and they finally got their wish - *and* interfered with modding at the same time. It's so frustrating.

[@coreywong6229]

​@@SabiJDits gonna be an up and down battle no matter what. On one hand I think its neat that modders can get paid beyond just donations and we now have good examples of whom can take it to that level cause it is on their reputation at that point. On the other hand it shows how weak the system is and we really do need some rating or moderation system. Cause there are some creations that are questionable in quality and after playing the bards college. I got to see a paid mod worth its tag and I am impressed cause that should be a great standard and I know not all mod authors are equal or can do that which can be unfair, but for every kinggath there are other good authors that do it freely like there is mod for skyrim I like that gives you an alternative take to bothiahs artifact quest that I wish we had in base game or a way you get rid of the ebony blade and expand upon the quest to make it more worthy of being thematic.

[@SabiJD]

@@coreywong6229 Another issue with what BGS have done is that they've made a meme/pisstake effectively real... As in; there was always the joke that BGS just wait for the community to fix their games. Well now? Now they're literally incentivised to allow that to happen. And it doesn't matter if they never actually think or act like that, because they can never prove it. There will always be doubt, suspicion, when mods essentially fixing BGS's shit now have price tags. They will profit from leaving out features. Had they let modders take all the profits, they could've guarded against that. But they've been wanting to profit from modding for so long, and now they have it. There are now monetary grifters; lazy oppositionists. And BGS allowed that. 100pts for a weapon health buff edit? Fuck right off. These people have no place in the community - and especially not a storefront. I would like a way to block MA's, so I get their content out of my feed. I suddenly miss the time when it was just BGS's regressive game design and mostly bad writing people were complaining about...

[@XNyvedX]

The biggest issue with creations is that it exists.

[@killertortoise1]

@@XNyvedX gotta disagree, I think modders deserve to be paid for their work (so long as it's actually a substantial piece of work). And I think because they can get paid the potential quality could increase exponentially. But the current system is bad, we want more stuff like the bards collage expansion, not small code edits being sold for £1 a time.

[@rebelarrow9041]

I'm super worried for Elder Scrolls 6. I don't see Bethesda getting their shit together anytime soon.

[@ChrisM541]

Don't buy it them. Let the fans/true gamers buy it and enjoy it ;)

[@GameBoyDame]

​@@ChrisM541 quit being a shill

[@ChrisM541]

@@GameBoyDame I see The Braindead are in town ;)

[@GameBoyDame]

@@ChrisM541 I see the tood Howard ball lickers are also in town.

[@GameBoyDame]

@@ChrisM541 I see the tood Howard #### suckers are also in town.

[@aegis5499]

Fallout 4 still busted and now I've seen the same stuttering in starfield, not really worth play either title

[@nergalvondrool280]

"It's drowning in a sea of turds and you gotta clean it up." Good stuff 😂

[@stonechat2236]

Besthesda is dead quality wise. We can only hope Wayward Realms .turns out to be the game we hope.

[@Vert_GreenHeart]

This and JuiceHead is like the safest criticism channel i ever seen.

[@CatBack94]

Yep it's like they want to say more but don't want to upset their supreme overlord toddy

[@numb1gxfan]

Because this was a Bethesda channel at 1 point, Matty likes Bethesda, is that so crazy to like Bethesda these days?

[@julieblair2615]

​@@numb1gxfan "If you don't vomit poisonous, bloody puke on their face, it doesn't count as criticism."

[@ferrite1707]

Part of me wants to say that it's not Bethesda's job to fix issues surrounding a mod not made by Bethesda. However, when said mod is designed to fix technical issues with the game that Bethesda made, things become a little greyer.

[@ChrisM541]

The principle stands - it's 100% up to the mod makers to fix their mods for the latest base game updates. Same with any game. Don't get pissed off at any company for trying to improve their products.

[@skyriminspace]

​@@ChrisM541not to mention automatic updates can be opted out of (certainly they can be on PC) to give mod authors time to update their mods if necessary. But we know the angry mob won't be reading this....

[@PopeDuwang]

It honestly feels like Fallout and Skyrim are updated to break so we are “forced” to play Star Field.

[@TheT0nedude]

The next gen update for PC isn't broken, it now performs like a PS5. Stop assuming they meant PC next gen.

[@iNathanLite]

I understand what Bethesda is trying to do with Creations, but they really need to better moderate it.

[@vezner]

I’ll never pay for a mod. Ever.

[@darkstar0000000000]

I will never pay Bethesda for someone else's work but I will make donations to the most used mods in my list when feasible.

[@MarcusPacheco-ep8kk]

It's Bethesdover bros...

[@thecyndaquil155]

I still have the Fallout 4 "next-gen" update sitting in my unscheduled updates on Steam, and it will remain there indefinitely. I just have to launch it through Vortex whenever I want to play.

[@ericcarterofthehillpeople]

Same.

[@JamesCZFEA]

remember when Bethesda pitched paid mods as a seal of quality assurance?

[@XoRandomGuyoX]

I remember things like the literally $5 Hellfire Power Armor skin having visual texture issues for like a year after its launch. I remember the triple-barreled makeshift shotgun having its own issues with the sight. I remember more recently the $7 Tracker's Alliance quest for Starfield having a sniper rifle that didn't reload in its default configuration. Stuff just isn't properly playtested.

[@purgatoriprytania5382]

They used to be, hands down, my favourite developer. Now? I couldn't care less about any of their upcoming games---even ES.

[@DLMyth2]

Bethesda could’ve collaborated with Nexus mod and provided all the mods free with advertisements, and they both would’ve won.

[@pharismo9]

Don't forget that Starfield is also broken atm. The Rev-8 patch introduced all kinds of issues with their texture engine (Invisible enemies, robots, NPC body parts/clothing). Renaming mesh files every other patch is also a huge annoyance to modders. Not to mention there is a major bug with interior cells right now where they are literally loading every other interior cell's data at the same time...

[@it2spooky4me79]

I swear, i can feel that Microsoft influence, look at Minecraft Bedrock's Marketplace and look at Bethesda's Creations, tell me the difference.

[@KeroŞero]

There's truth to that but the Creation Club was something Bethesda tried to force on us years before the Microsoft deal..

[@it2spooky4me79]

@@KeroŞero well that's the Creation Club, and Bethesda had full control on that, now basically anyone can make Creations just like the Minecraft Marketplace, and both have the same problems and basically no moderation.

[@KeroŞero]

@@it2spooky4me79 aah I get ya

[@it2spooky4me79]

@KeroŞero yeah, there was am incident on the Minecraft Marketplace where someone stole the Aether mod and put it up for sale, for like 10 bucks, and the most ironic part is that the author for the Aether mod is currently a Dev over at Mojang, and he was not happy at all, and now we're seeing the same issues with Bethesda's Creations, people stealing others work and profiting off of it, it actually needs to be delt with, but I know it won't, because it's been such a epidemic on Minecraft for years and Microsoft has done nothing about it, because it makes them a lot of money, so why should they change Bethesda's Creations? It sucks because the normal consumer doesn't know that some of these creations are stolen, and then there's the straight up cash grabs, it's really disheartening, but what can you do, even if you boycott, nothing with change, unless Media covers it, or a huge controversy erupts and causes a massive dip in reputation, sorry for my rambling.

[@keepitsteel1993]

Idk what it takes to get thru to Bethesda that "We just released an update" means "We just broke your game".

[@LeFaisDoDo]

You literally talked to Todd bro and didn’t push at all

[@Reaver1223]

He did push as much as he reasonably could about CC content. You have to walk a fine line between asking a tough question and being an asshole and I think Matty did that just fine. Todd of course gave his canned corporate approved answers, but what else is he gonna say? Todd isn’t the one making the pricing and business decisions at the end of the day. He’s a lead designer and executive producer, not marketing or finance.

[@capollard2011]

​@@Reaver1223Thank you!

[@Tsotmiam]

@@Reaver1223 People wanted MrMatty to go at Todd like it's a reddit thread. Tough questions are fine, but you have to be professional.

[@jeremiahjohnson2784]

'game director'

[@skyriminspace]

​@@Reaver1223the angry mob need to read this guy's comment, learn what some of the more complex words mean, & maybe we can all have a more enjoyable atmosphere surrounding the games we enjoy playing. 😂

[@TheFaithForge]

THEY NEED TO JUST WORK ON ELDER SCROLLS 6 🤦‍♂️

[@erikmhlum6451]

This is really funny. Bethesda is basically a used car salesman.. without their bought IPs they cant create anything anymore. Survival mode and settlement system in 4 are mods for new Vegas for gods sake

[@SerPodrick]

Bethesda has sold Skyrim in 5 different ways. Why would they moderate assest flips in a store for a game that itself has been an asset flip

[@thunder7073]

I miss having a fun bethesda game to play.

[@ChrisM541]

Fallout 4 - base game, no mods ;)

[@thunder7073]

@@ChrisM541 i played that in 2015.. it's almost a decade later.

[@Hatterboot24]

Using the StoryWealth collection off of nexus. Nearly 900 mods. 10/10 suggest it for folks wanting a hassle free experience with loads of great mods.

[@hammavergil-007]

I just removed starfield just now...wasted downloading 135gb so the game crashes every hour and often crashes every 10 30 minutes of gameplay it is the only game that does that very unplayable for real i started to enjoy it more but sadly they don't really care to fix that

[@joshuahensley9395]

Man if only you had an opportunity to talk to someone important at Bethesda about this....

[@nickzukowski4106]

Bethesda themselves are charging 3 bucks for a weapon skin (or 3 bucks for a couple of digital plushies). What makes you think that they are capable of (or willing to) moderate/curate the CC in a way that eliminates low effort cash grabs?

[@ChrisM541]

They - like most companies today - are only tapping into that ever-increasing group of idiots out there...The Braindead. If these braindead keep throwing money away then I don't blame any company. Unfortunately, of course, this hurts the sane majority. Same thing has been happening with GPU's, with braindead happy to pay more and more.

[@stupidflandrs4856]

No views in 4 seconds? What the heck happened to you Matty

[@Brooks4117]

This is the dumbest trend

[@subzero2678]

I'm a modder myself. Just for Skyrim and Fallout 4. The amount of mods that are flat out scams on Starfield's Creations marketplace is insane. Mods that I can easily make within 5 minutes of using the Creation Kit. And Bethesda is completely okay with opportunists stepping in and taking advantage. Pretty much every paid mod on console has a superior free version on Nexus. Please hit up porters to get permissions for them, or consider getting a PC in the long run. It's only going to get worse.

[@NuclearWinter69]

Havent even touched fo4. They broke 2,000 mods. I could have rolled it back but just didn’t bother.

[@gunzfohire8666]

No, next-gen on console sucks too. It crashes randomly & stutters.

[@markussmedhus9717]

You mean current-gen. Next gen is only next until it's there.

[@stadce]

The BGS we all grew up with and love is gone… I suspect that in 5-10 years they will be vilified by the community the way Ubisoft is today. Each game they release progressively gets more lazy and sloppy. Stripping RPG mechanics to appeal to the casuals has alienated the core fanbase. Now embracing micro transactions with no new Elder Scrolls game on the horizon is not how you create good will

[@9Nifty]

The fact that both Fallout 76 and Fallout 4 aren't standing strong right now matters far less than their latest IP being a garbage fire. Or that Tango and Arcane was closed down which was feeding the publishing arm new IP. So basically no good 3rd party titles now, and the first party titles are unplayable.

[@Wondering_Ghoul]

I've got around 140 Fallout mods on Xbox and the stuttering is real.

[@DougCrewe]

Mr matty plays I haven’t seen anyone talk about this yet, but Starfield is also very broken when it comes to mods to a point where you can’t even start the game and how many bugs and glitches because of creations, they need to put a mod limit like they did a Fallout 4 and how the mod space available in creations does not matter as you could never have that amount of space used without a breaking the game

[@Backbone420]

Starfield enjoyer here. Agree with a lot you talked about. But I’m gonna be brutally honest. If BGS wants Starfield to have a long and happy life, they need atmospheric flight. All of the problems we have with the game (mechs, story, POIs, mods, etc.) are moons orbiting the one problem at the core. Starfield is a game that taps into the magic of spaceflight, but removes flight. It deserves to fly. Shattered Space will probably be cool, but when you’re done with it, it will just join the rest of the stuff orbiting the problem at the core. Bethesda, this is on you. Not modders. Catch a smile out there. o7

[@t-rexreximus359]

Completely agree 👍 If they added the option to fly ours ships from planet to planet (with new tech introduced in the lore) - ‘zooming’ there, it would really change the immersion & flow of the game! 🚀 Then add lots of space POI’s: black holes, giant asteroids we can land on, wormholes, abandoned ships, ‘space-walking’. Make us actually feel like an astronaut excited to explore space itself.

[@Cosmic-Wanderer]

Microsoft pull your fingers out of your own and Bethesdas ringpiece. Get out there and find the best modders/content creators of Fallout games, hire them and team them up with the current devs, give them a nice budget and GIVE US SOME CONTENT/FALLOUT 5

[@monstermarc227]

Not only do they break their games, they ruined modding forever. It’s truly embarrassing and I thought I was disgusted with Bethesda after 76… what they have become since Xbox bought them is unforgivable.

[@deepaksingh-ku9uf]

focus on the real meat matty , netflix and CDPR are bringing in something big for cyberpunk

[@via_negativa6183]

You sound way more authentic when you are criticizing Bethesda, because they deserve nothing but critism at this point.

[@Nopuedo5902u]

I hear you... but, the market will decide the prices. Having said that, the people stealing free mods to then post them as their own and selling them, thats low key criminal lol.

[@fredgreen2431]

Mods are ruined. Greed again.

[@kenmck7802]

No Bethesda we DON'T need to talk. YOU got a LOT on your plate. GOTTA FIX Fallout 4, GOTTA save Slopfield. GOTTA fix 76. GOTTA make Elder 6 annndddd you GOTTA get a Fallout...out. You got NO time to be yappin. Get a WORKIN.

[@TheEditorify]

If I were MS, I would call Obsidian and Bethesda both into my office and say "One of you is getting less money and putting together a solid AA game while the other getting the big bucks and putting out a AAA mess. Let's switch things around." Bethesda is not capable at this point.

[@flightattendantsteven]

I'm just irritated that every planet in Starfield is covered in a big sign that says I shouldn't see this.

[@CthuluZombie]

If you are on PC on Steam, go to properties, installed files, verify integrity of game files. That fixed it for me.

[@MissNeonNyx]

Modding blew up with Skyrim? Modding is old as hell, and I recall tons of mods for Morrowind and Fallout 3 well before Skyrim. Hell, Doom has had a ton of mods since its debut. Most of the Doom clones were mods first. What was it, CSGO being a mod of Half Life? I am pretty sure Half Life is much older than Skyrim. The world (modding and otherwise) doesn't revolve around Skyrim and Bethesda games.

[@julieblair2615]

Don't be dense. He didn't say Skyrim invented modding.

[@wdf70]

They don't care. They released Starfield in the state they did because they don't care. They release mods with whatever price they want because they get a cut from verified creators anyway so they don't care. They release content they cut from updates to sell to us at a premium price instead of putting in the game because they do not care. Bethesda does not care what they put out because people buy it regardless.

[@chadwickpfeiffer8399]

As someone who has loved BGS games since Morrowind, it breaks my heart to say it, but Bethesda has become an example of the "Peter Principle." They have risen to the level of their incompetence.

[@SabiJD]

Did you play Morrowind when it came out?

[@darkstar0000000000]

@@SabiJD Yes, best TES. Probably bias, but there was magic in it.

[@mm-yt8sf]

i'm glad you use in your title the phrase "we need to talk" in what i consider a correct manner. when i hear the phrase i interpret it as "there are some issues i want to talk about" whenever i see the phrase in raptor's thumbnails i wonder "oh what's the deal with this game?" and when i get there as far as i can tell, there's no issue at all, he's just talking about what a great game it is...

[@LoveProWrestling]

We paid them for 25 Million copies of Fallout 4. They have stolen it from a huge amount of players with the NG+, we should sue.

[@Maya_Ruinz]

And this is why I always buy physical copies, if an update comes out that is terrible. You can always go back.

[@darkstar0000000000]

GoG also allows version control on PC. There are options on Steam as well, but not as easy as GoG.

[@jackmeowmeowmeow2177]

Starfield was originally meant to be a Fallout 76 in space, but all the MP stuff got scrapped and since it was too late to rebuild, they just slapped together what they could from the remains. That is why it is balanced for MP not singleplayer.

[@coycadaver]

Was really excited I switched to steam to play fallout 4 with mods. I haven't even bothered buying it again cause all the mods are apparently broken now. Really need avowed or atomfall to come out.

[@mitch7729]

When are people going to realize Bethesda literally does NOT care unless it makes them money, if it’s something for the fans it’s given minimal effort or just flat out ignored

[@ronaldsandifer8607]

The truth is fallout was being ignored when they should have been riding the shows success. It's weird because they seem not to care about it at all. Before and after the show launched.

[@brokes4191]

PS5 is nice for stability, but it fucks up Creation Club, so anytime you try to mod it, it crashes the game.

[@maesterdrew8606]

Mods and creation club worked great for me on PS5 🤷🏻‍♂️ there’s some crashes, but no more than any other BGS game lol

[@jeremiahjohnson2784]

Yum yum

[@jessicabiel7772]

Bethesda, Ubisoft, Konami, same crap... Money over love

[@Metaphix]

Don't get me wrong they should still fix it but you can absolutely play Fallout 4 without any mods and have a good time, I do it all the time.

[@Kiárán92]

Every game should be 100% finished before release, or finished soon after. This is just plain wrong

[@jamesmeldrum4563]

After nine years the vanilla FO4 is quite lacking.