Nailed it.

Well said

I only watched because it was Total Biscuit. And I want to make it clear I have no love for Bethesda, they were making me mad with all their lawsuits years ago and they really lost me when they tired to push paid mods something which they have said is still on their road map (which is why they removed mods from steam workshop and put them into a workshop which they 100% control). And that said I agree with whats said here 99.9%.

The only thing he didn't cover is the troll reviews, the for clicks reviews that people post that have nothing but negative things to say because they know that's what gets clicks. And while I agree that it's anti-consumer to deny people information in some way I feel like the "unscrupulous" review sites trying to make a name for themselves are at least in part responsible. That said I still don't think the correct answer is to with hold reviews entirely and I also don't have a good solution because reviewers need to be able to feel open to give negative reviews. So if developers just blacklist anyone who says anything negative that's going down the same path that this discussion is about.

I guess all I am saying is that perhaps this is in some ways another case of a few bad apples spoiling the bunch, though not really because at the end of the day i think the whole thing is anti-consumer.

biscuits are food not video games

I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.

Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.

Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.

Buying mods? No thanks.

I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.

Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.

I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.

Paid mods are just wrong

Yeah, the Microsoft deal has DEFINITELY worked out for everyone.

Can this mother fucker just get lost already

He belongs in here ⚰️, hopefully sooner than later.

Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.