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Facts from the official website:

 

 

  • Creation Club is a collection of all-new content for both Fallout 4 and Skyrim ... created by Bethesda Games Studios and outside development partners including the best community creators.

 

  • Creation Club is available via in-game digital marketplaces in both Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition and purchased with Credits. Credits are available for purchase on PSN, Xbox Live, and Steam. Your Credits are transferable and can be used in both games on the same platform.

 

  • Whether you are a professional developer, artist, or modder; you can apply to be a Creator.

 

  • All content must be new and original. All the content is approved, curated, and taken through the full internal dev cycle; including localization, polishing, and testing

 

  • Creators are paid for their work and start receiving payment as soon as their proposal is accepted and through development milestones.
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"Is Creation Club paid mods?

No. Mods will remain a free and open system where anyone can create and share what they’d like. Also, we won’t allow any existing mods to be retrofitted into Creation Club, it must all be original content....We’ve looked at many ways to do 'paid mods', and the problems outweigh the benefits."

 

But one has to purchase credits to purchase content from Creation Club just as you would to buy DLC from many other game developers. So, strictly speaking, it's not paid mods, it's paid content. I think. Is anyone else confused? O_o

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Here is from the FAQ

https://creationclub.bethesda.net/en
What is the Creation Club?

 

Creation Club is a collection of all-new content for both Fallout 4 and Skyrim. It features new items, abilities, and gameplay created by Bethesda Games Studios and outside development partners including the best community creators. Creation Club content is fully curated and compatible with the main game and official add-ons.

 

Is Creation Club paid mods?

 

No. Mods will remain a free and open system where anyone can create and share what they’d like. Also, we won’t allow any existing mods to be retrofitted into Creation Club, it must all be original content. Most of the Creation Club content is created internally, some with external partners who have worked on our games, and some by external Creators. All the content is approved, curated, and taken through the full internal dev cycle; including localization, polishing, and testing. This also guarantees that all content works together. We’ve looked at many ways to do “paid mods”, and the problems outweigh the benefits. We’ve encountered many of those issues before. But, there’s a constant demand from our fans to add more official high quality content to our games, and while we are able to create a lot of it, we think many in our community have the talent to work directly with us and create some amazing new things.

 

By the sounds of it. Modders cannot make mods for free, and then also sell it. That way there is no "Ads" for the free mods.

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After the hundred of thousands of copies of Skyrim Bethesda have sold on all platforms including DLC over the last few years, haven't they made enough money out of an old game? Shouldn't they concentrate on a Skyrim sequel?

Because modders want to extend the life of the game with mods, Bethesda are muscling in this territory to make money too. I don't believe for a minute they are going to get their devs to test and polish everything in the Creators Club and kid us all into thinking it is like official DLC. It is just a way to exploit modders and coax them the their new platform where they can use modders to create for them for peanuts and make Bethesda even more money, and at the same time, kill off Nexus. I would rather continue to donate here so the modders get 100% of the money.

Everyone should boycott this. There is now way the Creators Club could survive without external modders.

All modders should stay well away and starve this thing of oxygen so it dies a horrible death. As soon as we buy into this, there will be no way back and all game developers will go down this path and it will destroy the modding scene for all games.......and if Steam get wind of this, don't think that they won't do something similar on their platform. This is a wake up call to us all.

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