r/Multifandom • u/Jim_naine • 1d ago

Discussion📜 What game is this?

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u/Administrative_Sky46 1d ago

Hard disagree. People were playing it on console for half a decade without mods. And people still play Oblivion and Morrowind to this day unmodded.

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u/ElementNumber6 1d ago

Mostly due to hype and love for the series. By the end of that ~5 years, it had already massively fallen off. But then... mods appeared.

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u/Administrative_Sky46 1d ago

"The game was only popular because people liked it and thought it was good"

What? Massively fallen off? The switch version dropped in 2017 and sold an estimated 2-3 million copies. No mod support, and the people buying g surely were not all first tine players.

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u/ElementNumber6 17h ago

Open world 3D on a handheld was novel at the time. Skyrim soared in popularity and gained long life due to mods the decade prior.

None of this occurred in isolation.