Bethesda: Sony Won't Approve Mods for Fallout 4 or Skyrim on PS4

[DaCosta]

Good. Maybe now Bethesda will focus on making entire games, instead of just creating a map and saying "the users can make the content themselves if they want it so much".

 

[thewatergamer]

Man...I'm feeling really glad I didn't buy a PS4 right now

 

[Arnoxthe1]

They say "they [sony] will not approve user mods the way they should work: where users can do anything they want", so that means microsoft allows users to do "anything they want", right?
Do they not or what?
If not, how come mods are on xbox anyway but sony is somehow special even though they have the same standards of not actually allowing "anything they want"?

There are three limits to the mods you can upload for the XOne.

1. You cannot upload nude content.
2. You cannot upload copyrighted content.
3. The mod's size must be 2 GB's max.

 

[weirdee]

A small part of me is wondering if Sony actually said no or imposed requirements Bethesda found so onerous that the result was effectively "no". I mean, this is Bethesda's version of things, here.

In either case, probably not a good call on Sony's part, but I wonder if we'll ever hear their take on the situation. It could be anything from their deciding that they would need a permanent presence to oversee mods to make sure "inappropriate" content didn't make it on to their console to a concern that mods might expose some sort of security vulnerability in their code. What I doubt is that they just decided to dump on people who enjoy mods for no reason or out of spite. They've been doing too much work on the PR side of things for me to think they'd make this decision lightly.

Their reasons may well be stupid, but I'd like a better idea what they are.

you're closer than you think, but can confirm that it's not because they hate mods

 

[RaikuFA]

My guess is this is why the mods kept being delayed for PS4.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

A small part of me is wondering if Sony actually said no or imposed requirements Bethesda found so onerous that the result was effectively "no". I mean, this is Bethesda's version of things, here.

In either case, probably not a good call on Sony's part, but I wonder if we'll ever hear their take on the situation. It could be anything from their deciding that they would need a permanent presence to oversee mods to make sure "inappropriate" content didn't make it on to their console to a concern that mods might expose some sort of security vulnerability in their code. What I doubt is that they just decided to dump on people who enjoy mods for no reason or out of spite. They've been doing too much work on the PR side of things for me to think they'd make this decision lightly.

Their reasons may well be stupid, but I'd like a better idea what they are.

you're closer than you think, but can confirm that it's not because they hate mods

What do you know?? Reveal your secrets, mysterious one!!

 

[weirdee]

A small part of me is wondering if Sony actually said no or imposed requirements Bethesda found so onerous that the result was effectively "no". I mean, this is Bethesda's version of things, here.

In either case, probably not a good call on Sony's part, but I wonder if we'll ever hear their take on the situation. It could be anything from their deciding that they would need a permanent presence to oversee mods to make sure "inappropriate" content didn't make it on to their console to a concern that mods might expose some sort of security vulnerability in their code. What I doubt is that they just decided to dump on people who enjoy mods for no reason or out of spite. They've been doing too much work on the PR side of things for me to think they'd make this decision lightly.

Their reasons may well be stupid, but I'd like a better idea what they are.

you're closer than you think, but can confirm that it's not because they hate mods

What do you know?? Reveal your secrets, mysterious one!!

nah

i will respect sony's decision to dig their own grave on this one

 

[RaikuFA]

Okay, that's surprising. And sad, too. Really, why doesn't want Sony that to happen?

Wow...huh.

Guess this will determine which console I buy this game on.

PC?

I think he's referring to the Atari Jaguar.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

Well there goes at least 80% of the sales for Skyrim SE on PS4. I was looking forward to mods, but now barring the new version having WAY better stability and faster load times fancier graphics don't mean much to me.

No EMBs, no new gear to replace the ugly crap in vanilla, no new character options, no new dungeons etc. means no buy.

I'll just keep watching MXR and imagine what could have been..

Yes I know the PC version exists.

 

[Riddle78]

This is a nasty blow to gaming in general,especially modding. Sony,in its shortsighted,suicidal insanity,decided to put the kibosh on modding? Fuck you,Sony. Shortsighted corporate fuckery like that is the exact reason why the video game market is so fucking toxic,right now. What,you're scared someone will make their games more enjoyable with a self-made experience? Fuck you,Sony,for denying your users the joy of making their own,tailor-made experience. Fuck you for actively trying to keep the medium as a whole back.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

And then people ask me why I despise consoles...

Killing modding, one of gaming's sacred things... such is life I guess.

"Killing modding"?

I mean, hard to kill something that wasn't really on consoles to begin with.

 

[Avnger]

And then people ask me why I despise consoles...

Killing modding, one of gaming's sacred things... such is life I guess.

"Killing modding"?

I mean, hard to kill something that wasn't really on consoles to begin with.

I was insinuating that the lack of modding on consoles is affecting PC modding as well.

And that is an extremely uninformed insinuation to make. I dare you to provide some evidence to support it. Even better, if you actually find hard evidence that the lack of modding on consoles has caused either fewer mods to be made for PC and/or inferior mods to be made for PC, I'll happily make a thread that purposely causes a mod strike against me. Triple dog dare you

 

[Jacked Assassin]

Should I be happy or sad about this?
If I really wanted mods I'd be a PC Gamer.
But if I got mods for Consoles, well, I'm not immature enough to say I'm too mature for nude mods.
....
I probably shouldn't have wanted ESO.
And I should've stayed away from PS4 until PS5.

 

[loa]

major limitations.

Like what?

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

Perfectly understandable. Question is, are they going to add select mods handpciked and approved by both Bethesda and Sony (Warframe on PS4 for example adding user created skins selected and approved by both developer and Sony). Or it's a no to any mods ever???
Personally, I never touched mods. I like pure game experience as devs intended, that kind of thing. That's why I moved to consoles - they uphold it for singleplayer and multiplayer too.

 

[Parasondox]

Sony, meet me at camera 3 please.

*turns to camera 3*

Sony? Is something bothering you? Has someone been picking on you at school? Is Samsung making of you again? Listen, what ever it may be, we can sort it out. Just tell us what's happening because lately your behaviour has been questionable and a tad bit... strange. Is this a phase you are going through? Midlife crisis in the tech world. God. Are you being the Microsoft of the 00's? Your creative media (movies, music and the sort), has been slacking. Your other tech projects, Bravia, Xperia, Vaio, Cybershot, Walkman have been pushed to the back and passed by other companies. PlayStation is keeping you guys steady but the more you do crap like this, the more that will be pushed aside too. You guy were in the lead in gaming. Do not get cocky. You arent Apple. You do not have strong loyalty.

So. Fix up and snap the fuck out of it. Get your shit together, dude.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Perhaps Bethesda should have approached them about it before announcing it for the PS4. That said, dick move Sony.

 

[Vigormortis]

And then people ask me why I despise consoles...

Killing modding, one of gaming's sacred things... such is life I guess.

Uh...'scuse me? How is Sony's decision to not allow mods for one game on their console going to kill modding in general?

Let me see if I can suss out the logic here: Modding grew and flourished on PC for decades, with nary a presence on any console. Now, Sony continues that trend of blocking modding, and suddenly modding's going to die?

Nope. Can't suss it out. Makes fuck-all sense to me.

:/