Robb Brissink with the nickname Cosideci refused to develop an analogue of the popular Skyrim Together mod for Starfield. He believes that “this game is a piece of trash” and refuses to “put heart and soul into mods for such a mediocre game.”

2023 unexpectedly turned out to be the year of Baldur’s Gate 3 and it’s easy to forget that no one thought it would be like this. Many expected the biggest and best game of the year to be Bethesda’s long-awaited Starfield, the studio’s first new series in a decade and its first single-player role-playing game since 2011’s mega-hit Skyrim.

Skyrim is the game with the most mods in history. More than 130,000 mods can be found on Nexus Mods alone. Given that Starfield was widely perceived as “Skyrim in space”, it was expected that something similar was in store for the game. Yes, over 6,000 mods have already been created, but will this trend continue? Recent events suggest that modders are losing interest in Starfield.

One of the main creators of Skyrim Together has announced in rather harsh language that he is not going to make a mod. Skyrim Together is a high-quality and popular mod that allows you to play cooperatively with up to 30 players. Skyrim Together Reborn (the latest version of the mod) has over a million downloads. The Skyrim Together project is generally so large that other authors create mods for it.

Robb Brissink was one of the coders working on Starfield Together. He announced in the mod’s Discord channel that he was discontinuing development.

“I was involved when the game came out, as were a lot of people, but probably for different reasons… I ported about 70% of Skyrim Together’s code to Starfield Together. There was only one problem: this game is fucking trash. I didn’t realize this until I started playing the damn game a week after launch.”

He calls the gameplay “boring”, “bland” and says that the main advantage of Bethesda games is the exploration of an interesting living world, which is “completely absent” in Starfield.

“I will not be continuing the development of Starfield Together. I’m not going to put my heart and soul into mods for a mediocre game like this. I started working on Starfield Together, but Starfield is ass, so I stopped working on it.

• One commenter aptly observed: “I never thought that [принцип] “mods will fix the game” only works when the mods WANT to fix the game.”

The code of the mod will be made open, everyone from the team of developers or other modders will be able to continue the work if they wish.

Boring Starfield: 1000 planets are empty and fast travel doesn’t feel like space exploration

Source: PC Gamer