Bethesda Faces LAWSUIT Over Fallout 4 Creation Club DLC

The Crummy Creation Club

The Creation Club was greeted, unlike the game, with nervous eyes and awkward laughter.

Mods are notoriously free and ridiculous. Want Thomas the Tank Engine to soar down from the sky and pluck you off the mortal plain? There's a mod for it. Want some naughty fun time with NPCs? You bet there's a mod for it.

Bethesda taking it upon themselves, like the heroes they are, to claim and monetize mods was... a decision, to say the least.

The main problem with this is that due to it being designed for console games and being directly affiliated with Bethesda, they had rigorous rules set for what they could and couldn't sell. All the fun spicy ones featuring your mom and the ridiculous ones were no-where to be found. Plus, the majority of this content was actually made first hand by Bethesda anyway.

They've even said multiple times that these are not 'mods' per say - they're 'community creations'.

The webpage for the Creation Club specifically states:

"No. Mods will remain a free and open system where anyone can create and share what they’d like. Also, we won’t allow any existing mods to be retrofitted into Creation Club, it must all be original content.

Most of the Creation Club content is created internally, some with external partners who have worked on our games, and some by external Creators. All the content is approved, curated, and taken through the full internal dev cycle; including localization, polishing, and testing. This also guarantees that all content works together. We’ve looked at many ways to do “paid mods”, and the problems outweigh the benefits. We’ve encountered many of those issues before.

But, there’s a constant demand from our fans to add more official high quality content to our games, and while we are able to create a lot of it, we think many in our community have the talent to work directly with us and create some amazing new things."

So if they're not mods, what are they?