Bethesda Faces LAWSUIT Over Fallout 4 Creation Club DLC

Mods Vs "Community Creations"

This is what has landed them in the middle of a Deathclaw nest.

In an interview with GamesBeat, The Law-X Group say the definition between 'DLC' and 'Community Creations' is incredibly blurry as Bethesda has verbally and literally classified the Creations Club as 'DLC' multiple times.

On Steam, it's even listed under DLC. They both contain re-skins of old items, new gameplay and brand new items, purchasable from an online store. The Season Pass, at least upon release in 2015, stated:

"Get the Fallout 4 season pass and get all Fallout 4 DLC for one S.P.E.C.I.A.L. price."

Yet notably, this doesn't include anything in the Creation Club.

Some players - like the person behind the lawsuit, Jacob Devine, figured the Season Pass would allow them access to every future addition to the game.

When finding out that players who had already bought the overpriced Season Pass now had to spend hundreds of pounds if they wanted to have access to everything the game had to offer, Devine was outraged. In 2019, The X-Law Group filed a lawsuit on the behalf of Jacob Devine. In their interview, Filippo Marchino (an attorney for The X-Law Group) stated quite poignantly:

“[Bethesda] promised people at the onset, we will give you everything we made. And then they reneged on that promise, and they did so to their benefit or the detriment of the plaintiffs. So that’s where they did something wrong. They lied. They took money from gamers, and then they made more money.”