Skyrim Fans Beg Bethesda To Stop Releasing Updates

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Skyrim has received two updates in the past few months, and players hate it. Whenever Bethesda releases makes changes to the game like this, mods have to be updated. And when many players have a ridiculously long list of mods installed, waiting for all of them to be made compatible can take a while - if they're updated at all.

Now, many of these players have had enough, and are begging Bethesda to ditch Skyrim altogether. They argue that the updates don't even address issues with Skyrim anymore, and instead serve to monetise the game further with the new Creations feature.

"Bethesda needs to STOP F**KING UPDATING THIS GAME," writes Reddit user johkungo, speaking in the Skyrim Mods subreddit. "It makes modding hard as hell [...] one of the biggest reason people love this game is the modding which updates f**k up."

Many in the replies agree, saying that it's time Bethesda ditched the game, with Skyrim launching more than 12 years ago now. Much of the frustration centres around the fact that these mod-breaking updates are in aid of the Creations store, which some have argued is just a return of the controversial paid mods storefront.

"The new updates never contain any more Skyrim and instead ship a bunch of tiny mods for money that nobody asked for," says Reddit user IshayuG. "Like if we got a third expansion I’d be paying attention, but we don’t. It doesn’t fix anything, it doesn’t improve the engine, it doesn’t really do anything except update the store."

With the next game in The Elder Scrolls series still years away, don't expect Bethesda to ditch Skyrim anytime soon.

It's rare to see a player base actively asking developers to stop supporting their game, but it makes a lot of sense in this case. Updates and re-releases of Skyrim have long stopped fixing bugs, to the point where many players will rely on mods to make changes to their game instead. It's common for players to have carefully crafted setups, with hundreds of mods installed in some cases. And when