Official Mods

[Vagrant0]

Maybe because no-where else can you get mods that are clean, safe, bug free and high quality. Sure, OOO and MMM are good mods, but you just can't beat bethesda made artwork.

'Bug free'? By what standard?

By the standard that all their mods go through some closed beta testing, so naturally most the bugs are worked out before the public sees it. Forget the whole "expansion pack and patch that breaks parts of the main game, as well as some official mods" part since that happened after the mods were released and people bought them. You can't expect bethsoft to fix every little problem when you aren't giving them more money to fix it. Although rumor is that all those bugs are caused by user mods, and by using even a "ask quantity at mod (containing nothing else)" any problems you come across aren't related to anything Bethsoft has done.

 

Ok, now that that bit of sarcasm is out, seriously, there are plenty of mods out there that are clean, safe, and high quality that become bug free after they've been updated a few times by the maker of the mod. Additionally, if I, or many modders had a team of artists to do the meshing and rigging, we could release stuff that would make official mods look like crap, but we don't so we have to either use standard meshes, or take the time to make our own with what limited artistic skills we have. To suggest that ONLY Bethsoft can make good mods is an insult to every single modder here, to suggest that Bethsoft makes good mods is just a lie. Most of their official mods were things planned for release that were cut to be resold later, they also have a team of people working on that area, and are being paid for it. Compared to most mods which are made by single people who have to learn the game inside and out on their own, work on the mod between school, life, and employment, and get nothing for it other than the satisfaction of doing it. Again, if you paid me, or a few other modders, as much as Bethsoft employees are paid, we would be turning out more, better, content than anything Bethsoft can do now.

 

Have you seriously looked at any of the scripting notations made by bethsoft staff? In a few cases they spent many hours working through simple things which the community has already found ways of doing (without OBSE). Even though they wrote the code, they aren't the most capable of figuring out how to use it. So please, stop licking their boots, their work is only "good" because they have so many people to do the work, even then half of it isn't very good.

[Sypron]

I didn't say it was good for any reason. I just said its good. I mean bug free because from using only bethesda made mods i've had no errors. And it is their job to do this stuff. If you didn't go to school or have employment but got paid to make mods as a team, isn't that a job? And if its your job then you are expected to do well at it. I'm not saying the no modder can produce good work, cause they do. What I'm saying is when its someones job to do this then the results are somewhat better than some other work you find. Sorry Vagrant, people don't make this for free. Besides, this topics not about "do you think bethesda can do thier job", this is about "will they do it".