"Disappointed" Skyrim modders pledge to never charge for their creations after Bethesda resurrects paid mod shop

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Some Skyrim modders are pledging to never charge for their creations in the wake of yesterday's update.

On December 5, Bethesda published a new update for Skyrim on all platforms that significantly overhauled the in-game Creation Club. In fact, Creation Club was gone entirely, and replaced by a new community-driven storefront simply called Creations, where paid-mods and other player creations could be purchased for real-world money.

Now, less than a day after the update, some Skyrim modders are pledging to never charge others for their mods. The post author just below, for example, writes that they're "disappointed" in the change and "don't support the new creations system," because it's attempting to capitalize on something they honestly just like doing purely for the fun of it.

The comments underneath the Reddit post above are full of Skyrim players pledging to not only steer clear of paid-for mods, but also to check out the mods of the post author. It seems like plenty of the comments are supportive of the modder wanting to stay away from charging others for their work.

The post just below, meanwhile, comes from someone who's a bit of a celebrity among Skyrim's modders. The texture-based mod they're referencing in the post, Skyland, has been downloaded well over half a million times on NexusMods, and they write that they'll never submit their mods to the new storefront from Bethesda in protest.

Elsewhere, the player just below writes that they're "devastated" by the new update after it effectively broke their version of Skyrim with over 150 mods installed over several days. They're now attempting to roll back Skyrim to an older version on their PC, while others in the comments write that they're disabling auto-updates