Skyrim is About to Get a New Update & DLC

Did I lie to you six months ago I made a video talking about how Skyrim was about to get a new update and DLC this likely being paid mods returning to Skyrim but here we are six months later and nothing Well no I did not in fact lie to you and

I think we may just be closer than ever before for this surprise update and DLC to be dropping for Skyrim just this week we got some new evidence that something is coming very very soon and one of the crazy New Revelations about this all is this might not just be an update for

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End of 2022 like literally the last days of 2022 I originally heard rumors about a Croatian Club returning over a year ago now in the first half of 2022. one of the factors in this was that in many recent interviews Todd Howard has been talking about additional ways for

Modders to make a living I hired a large number of modders that are now professionals we want to support the people who are doing on their own so they can be professionals on their own we’re always looking at ways that we can make it like hey they can turn a career

Into it because it’s just awesome and I felt like he was alluding to some opportunities coming for them in the future so that was interesting enough it definitely made me go huh it sounds like he’s talking about something specific there not just a high level oh we hope

To create opportunities for them when things really started to heat up was when a former Croatian Club member posted on their patreon that creation Club was actually coming back in a new form but this member described how their under NDA and would be producing more content for this new creation Club too

Soon specifically saying how we would likely be seeing it in the near future this happened around the Midway point of 2022 so still quite a ways before I actually made my video covering this with the real major reveal coming in a late 2022 with the addition of a new

Steam DB Depot for Skyrim special edition that had the description of marketplace steam DB just tracks changes made to things listed on Steam so this basically meant that Bethesda themselves added something new to Skyrim and they manually put in the description of marketplace which taking that together

With the rest of the evidence it made it seem pretty clear to me but as in Microsoft were going to be adding in a new Marketplace feature to Skyrim special edition this likely based off the wildly successful Minecraft marketplace where modders can apply to join and in turn list their mods for

Sale and as their mods sold they would actually collect a commission and a lot of modders in Minecraft are making a lot of money off of this but of course along the way Microsoft and mo Yang are also taking their own cuts of those commission sales this type of

Marketplace would be quite a bit different to Croatian Club where mod authors were actually paid up front and Bethesda was heavily involved in curating what things came to Creation Club but as something like this was coming back to Skyrim we would really be getting one a new update to add in the

Feature which would probably break all of your mods but also a steady flow of fan made DLCs and considering money was involved and this was commission based so if people aren’t interested the mod authors won’t make as much money these definitely had the potential to be higher quality more DLC like for Skyrim

And even since all that original reporting there are definitely a few more clues that this is definitely happening we saw Skyrim get this random update late in 2022 where you can now view all of your installed mods and creation Club content in game it wasn’t

Really clear why this was added to an 11 year old game but if you consider that people might be purchasing a bunch of new content in the not so distant future and they’d want to see what they currently have installed as far as that content goes yeah then it does actually

Make a lot more sense earlier this month Bethesda announced that they’re going to be updating all of their mod making wikis this on creationkit.com on one hand this is just an awesome move by them a lot of these wikis were incredibly out of date making getting into modding very difficult I think a

Lot of people just used fan made tutorials rather than the official ones from Bethesda but although this could be unrelated at the same time if they’re planning to have a bunch of people start making mods for money it would make sense to have even better documentation

On how to make those mods Skyrim also released on a bunch of additional storefronts finally and perhaps most interesting of all we see that star field will feature some Thai type of in-game transaction also this being according to the recent ESRB rating for Star field so yeah maybe this

Marketplace isn’t just coming to Skyrim but more games than that although we’ll talk more about that in a moment alright so all that happens we have all these Clues and then six months go by there’s a bunch of evidence that something is probably coming why am I making a video

On this now well over those six months we’ve been seeing a ton of activity on Steam DB for Skyrim and especially as of late as of right now Skyrim is getting near daily updates on Steam DB that basically means Bethesda uploaded this new build to Skyrim onto Steam and at a

Near daily basis for over a month now things are being changed with that regularly and now one hand this isn’t all that crazy there’s tons of games that are getting daily updates on Steam why is this a standout for Skyrim well it’s of course the fact that it’s an 11

And a half year old game that doesn’t actually have any planned updates or at least nothing officially has been announced so why for months now has Bethesda been editing things on a daily basis something big is clearly going on so in one hand even if you don’t necessarily believe in this paid mod

Theory something definitely is happening that’s undeniable since mid-november Skyrim has been getting weekly updates on Steam DB and over the past couple of months that has turned into daily updates We Now find ourselves just a few weeks away from the Xbox and bethesda’s summer showcase and to me that seems

Like the most obvious timing for this to release to the world at least maybe although in one hand there definitely has been speculation that bethesda’s shadow drops this after the Showcase what I actually think could be more likely is exactly what they did with Croatian Club if we are really getting a

Paid mod Marketplace they probably want a bunch of creators to sign up they give us a preview and a trailer at the Showcase and open up applications for a launch later this summer likely at some point in July or August and I think at that point we would officially see a

Return of paid mods to Skyrim and Skyrim getting an update at all is actually a pretty big deal anniversary edition created a huge divide in the modding scene with Skyrim certain mods took many months to get properly updated and some people even still play on the old pre-anniversary edition of Skyrim even I

Myself maintain an old build as certain out there only support the old version I can definitely see this happening again with a big new update like this featuring a major new feature coming to the game so with that in mind make sure you disable auto update and actually

Protect your mods they don’t all break if Skyrim does get a surprise update and one of the other interesting components of this is Fallout 4 has also been getting near daily updates on Steam DB there really hasn’t been any rumors of a marketplace coming to Fallout 4 but we

Have seen multiple new builds uploaded for that game one deep out was named New Vegas 2 which was deleted a day after this could be related or just the ultimate troll job by Bethesda even though we certainly could see Marketplace extending to Fallout 4. also

One thing we do know is that Fallout 4 is planning to get an extra update in 2023 so it’s really impossible to tell if this is just the Next Gen update being worked on or actual Marketplace being worked on although hypothetically it could be both we really wouldn’t know

But then there’s also Starfield when I first heard the rumors of paid mods returning to Skyrim all the way back in early 2022. considering how old Skyrim was it just seemed to odd to do this and unless it was a prototype to add it later to their other games like

Starfield what if Marketplace isn’t a one-off what if Marketplace or paid mods in general are part of the long-term plans for Bethesda games Todd Howard keeps describing how these games are being designed to be played forever especially with Starfield they know people are going to play this for a very

Long time Starfield will come out we’ll likely get some DLC for it but there’s gonna come a point where Bethesda moves on to the Elder Scroll 6 and Fallout 5 and we’ll probably have a situation where it’s a decade or longer in between Star Fields if a star field 2 comes at

All so from bethesda’s point of view what would be better to fill that Gap than a bunch of modders flooding the market with fan made add-ons for Starfield and Bethesda is going to get a cut of every single one that gets sold to me this honestly makes a ton of sense

From bethesda’s perspective and then of course with all this in mind when all of a sudden a couple of weeks ago Starfield becomes the first AAA Bethesda game studios game other than Fallout 76 to have in-game purchases listed on their ESRB rating you can bring easily connect

Those dots at least I could these in-game purchases could be a variety of things but that would certainly be quite the coincidence for paid mod rumors to be popping up for Skyrim and then right around that same time star field is confirmed to have in-game purchases I

Imagine throughout all of this many of you have strong opinions one way or another on a paid mods like feature after all Bethesda has already attempted this two other times and if they really do use Minecraft Marketplace as a model there is an interesting situation where we could genuinely see higher quality

Mods come out of the Skyrim version of the marketplace most people don’t make that much money modding Bethesda games we just saw a post from the head of Nexus mods which describes how there are some people making a living off modding thanks to donation points this is this

Nexus mods point system that introduced a few years ago now it’s a pool of points distributed to mod authors based on downloads each month and you could even contribute to this overall pool yourself via patreon if you want to actually give back to modders on a wider scale although even despite me shouting

This out numerous times since release the community only contributes less than one percent of the overall total with Nexus themselves really doing the heavy lifting here but even with some of these wild numbers with how much money Nexus is putting into this pool we hear from

Dark One how over 24 mod authors made over one thousand dollars in a month and quite a few made less than that and although some people are able to live off that depending on which country they live in many Americans cannot and looking back at that original post from

A creation Club author they explicitly say in that that while Croatian Club was around they were getting checks from that they were even able to work less at their main job and focus a lot more on modding so what if some of these payouts could increase what if some of the most

Talented modders out there could actually do this full time and Bethesda start implementing this Marketplace feature into all of their future games to give mod authors that opportunity on the Minecraft side this has been wildly successful their entire groups creating mods full time and there are hundreds of

Millions of dollars being spent on this Marketplace you can definitely see how this could be a huge benefit to the Skyrim modding Community although there is definitely that interesting dichotomy it seems likely that script extender mods or which are honestly some of the most impressive mods for Skyrim would

Not actually be compatible because of course you need script extender a third-party tool it’s doubtful Bethesda would allow mods like that onto a marketplace where a lot of users could not download that tool and run into a ton of difficulties as a result so to those mod authors some of the most

Impressive out there just kind of get cut out of this whole situation and even further I have to wonder how popular something like this actually gets for Skyrim I could see it doing massive numbers if it really did come to Starfield but scarm’s getting pretty old now although it’s still incredibly

Active in the modding scene is there’s that much interest in paid mods at this point either way something is definitely happening and I imagine we’re going to be learning more about this all soon if you want a full breakdown of what you’d expect from Bethesda showcase though

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