'This is opening the door for mod authors to just outright charge for mods after getting verified by Bethesda. 'Creation Club content went through a Bethesda dev pipeline and was often developed by Bethesda themselves (and was also criticized on release and has been criticized every time a CC update broke the game),' redditor wertwert55 wrote. A few commenters in this r/pcgaming thread argue that the 'paid mods are back' angle is inaccurate because they've been around since the launch of Creation Club in 2017, but quite a few others say there's enough of a distinction to justify the anger. Still, there is considerable unhappiness about the development, as some fans see the change as a shift toward the system Bethesda tried to roll out in 2015.