Working on PS4 Mod Support
Bethesda has been working to bring mods to PS4 for months now. During that process, I was deploying and updating my Zombie Walkers mod so it would be ready and had a fair amount of favorites with comments from users waiting to try it out.Sometime later I published my Ambush Replacements extension and noticed a 24-hour waiting period was in effect for PS4 mods before I could publish the mod. Apparently Sony wanted to institute a review process and Bethesda was trying to accommodate them (Xbox doesn't have any review and you can publish anytime).
Announcement from Bethesda
On September 9th, Bethesda released a post stating that mod support for PS4 was being put on hold."Sony has informed us they will not approve user mods the way they should work: where users can do anything they want for either Fallout 4 or Skyrim Special Edition."
PS4 Mods Deleted
On September 13th, I received a couple email notifications that my PS4 mods have been deleted by users Famo and Dinasaur. I checked the website around lunch time (EST) and the number of PS4 mods had dropped to around 400. After checking this evening, the option for PS4 has been completely removed from the platform dropdown.
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| 9/13/16 - no option for "Playstation 4" anymore on Platform dropdown. |
Future?
My impression is that Sony is worried about modders significantly hurting the user experience because I'm not sure how much further you can go from corrupting save files or crashing the game? Hopefully Bethesda and Sony can work this out and bring mods to the PS4, but it certainly doesn't look good right now.
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