• [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    In a perfect world, Bethesda would produce a whole game and rely not on free labor but themselves to create something. They went the Reddit route, instead opting to do as little as possible until it was inconvenient or even actively antagonistic toward their audience. They cannot have their cake and eat it. Their company is as much their modders as their employees. But they didn’t rerelease it under another edition, so I guess I can compliment their finite capacity for greed.

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      7 months ago

      their company is as much the modders’ as it is the employees’

      You lost me there, lol. Just because I go to eat at a restaurant every single day for years doesn’t mean the restaurant is partially mine, nor does it mean I work there if I just decide to help with the dishes some time.

      This is a bad take.

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        7 months ago

        If you solicit teams of vagrants to roam your restaurant, mending the walls and supports to prevent its imminent collapse, it’s a bit different. I’ve already given up on modders, their dysfunctions are as nonsensical to me as defending the company that takes advantage of and discards them.