KaneBunce

To add to that, these are all things that Bethesda only added relatively recently. Also, you don't get to be as succesful as Bethesda are if you are willing to waste money on promoting things you want to do away with. That level of stupidity is incompatible with being even mildly successful let alone so massively succesful. After all, don't forget that even articles eventually start contributing to ever rising server costs let alone hosting mods. Plus they have to pay the people who write the CC news and the mod promotion articles.

Yeah, modding is not easy. I found that out by making a very basic mod Skyrim. TIt was not easy. It took me hours just to make the mod and most of that was unproductive as I was mostly hunting for the right stats to change. I didn't even give the option to donate either. I knew it wouldn't be worth bothering with as my mod was small and niece. Plus there was other mods like it. It just didn't change the values to what I wanted and I added an extra thing the others didn't have. But I've not updated it to SE as SE does have a mod that does it closer to what I wanted. But I don't think it is selfless work. At least not for me I enjoy doing it. Well, I enjoy solving the problems and getting a finished product. Sure, there are frustrations but the benefits for me outweigh the negatives. Any time I enjoy something I consider it far from selfless.

Realism and dragons don't go together at all. Nor do realism and a video game about someone that shouts dragons to death go together. There is nothing realistic about dragons no matter how you draw and animate them. Nor is there much if anything realistic about Skyrim.