Todd Howard has always been, and will always be, the star face of Bethesda Game Studios. He's served as project leader on Morrowind and Oblivion. He's directed Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Starfield. And I'm roughly 90 percent certain I've gotten those roles more or less correct in the preceding pair of sentences, but Todd, feel free to drop me a line if I need to revise this paragraph.
Howard, unsurprisingly, has opinions on Bethesda's Creation Club marketplace. It's where paid mods are posted, and yep, sure enough, the very notion of paid mods has been problematic for some fans for as long as they've been around. Their existence has by no means stopped the continued production of free mods, but their very nature is contentious. If you ask him, though? They're great, they're "healthy," and the one real hurdle to overcome is that they just aren't quite visible enough.
Prolific YouTuber and noted Bethesda fan Mortismal Gaming—who, like yours truly, tends to focus on RPGs—had the chance to sit down with the Todd Howard himself. The interview covers pricing issues, the infamous PC hardware situation, and eventually, the big four-letter word that's on so many minds when it...
