In response to post #47378620. #47381125, #47382375, #47382860, #47383605, #47383890, #47384455, #47385670, #47386165, #47387535, #47391155, #47418760 are all replies on the same post. Oh that's punchy AF; it's got to be NeMO.
With BioWare and DICE it's about EA wanting to use the Frostbite engine as a selling point; something proprietary that potential competitors can't get their fingers into. It's true though, like removal of online passes just to replace them with microtransactions, that in practice it will become just another means of control for the less scrupulous. Having said that, I have to believe that Bethesda and ZeniMax see how great the modding community has been for TES and continue to encourage modding by making it as open source and malleable as possible. On the other hand they could sell out so badly that the next iteration omits PC entirely. They sure made love to the Xbox with Skyrim.