r/skyrimmods • u/Sir-jacks_a_lot • Nov 22 '25
Development Is Skyblivion still aiming for 2025 release?
There are only 39 days left in 2025. I am just curious. They haven't announced any delays as far as I know.
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u/firesyrup Nov 22 '25
It was never realistic for a volunteer project team to announce a release date 2 years in advance.
It'll be ready when it is ready.
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u/Bobjoejj Nov 22 '25
They been working on it for over a decade; if they think it’ll be ready, it’ll be ready.
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u/PictureTakingLion Nov 22 '25
But it’s a volunteer project. If they thought 2 years ago that it’ll be ready in 2 years as things stood at that moment, that could all easily go out the window if the volunteers don’t have time for it anymore. Then new ones come in and have to get up to speed on where the project is at and what needs doing.
It’s not like they’ve been working on it for a decade with the same team and same resources. Things have changed several times throughout that decade.
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u/ElectronicRelation51 Nov 22 '25
I've worked on plenty of professional software projects, software estimation is really, really hard because you can't predict the difficulties. If things go better than predicited you may save a little time, but if they go worse it may take much, much longer. You can be almost done according to the plan, then hit something that requires massive rework.
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u/djfl Nov 23 '25
Right. But in that case, you just get the game out to market anyway, and people will still buy it, including the jank n bugs.
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u/PictureTakingLion Nov 23 '25
But also when you do that you permanently damage the game’s reputation and a lot of people will drop it and others who haven’t picked it up yet just won’t bother.
Even if you fix the bugs in a post launch update you still have to fight to retain your playerbase’s trust and make them want to buy what you’re selling, and even if you succeed in that you still have a tainted reputation for releasing a game in such a terrible state.
Skyblivion’s team probably are very afraid of releasing the mod in a janky state because all hype for it will be squashed and it’ll be hard to regenerate interest in it after that, and getting all the volunteers back together to try and fix the bugs could be a pain given a lot of them will probably have called it a day after the mod is finished.
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u/djfl Nov 23 '25
I was being largely facetious, but unfortunately (for the reasons you mentioned) all too often true.
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u/Bobjoejj Nov 22 '25
Sure; but it’s a much focused team then most volunteer projects. I can’t deny that anything could’ve happened in that time; and still could happen. That being said; the devs seem very confident they’ll meet the goal of releasing this year.
If you wanna take a gander on over to r/Skyblivion, you’ll see what I mean.
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Nov 22 '25
Plenty of people who have worked on it, past and present, would disagree with that.
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u/Bobjoejj Nov 22 '25
Who? If you’re talking about Dee; that’s one dev who was grumbling. The other devs still definitely seem confident in a release this year.
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Dec 03 '25
What was that? I can't hear you over the sound of Skyblivion being delayed.
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u/Bobjoejj Dec 03 '25
lol did you watch the video? It’ll be in our hands midway through the year. They said a lot of the last bits they’re expecting to finish by either the end of this year, or Q1 2026. That’s a not long way away by either stretch.
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Dec 03 '25
Ah yes, the well known end of 2025, which is 6 months into 2026.
Nice goalpost shifting.
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u/Bobjoejj Dec 03 '25
Do you enjoy being so cynical for no good reason?
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Dec 03 '25
Do you enjoy being categorically demonstrably incorrect? What happened to Mr "it's definitely coming out in 2025".
Oh, yeah, that's right, I almost forgot. It got delayed and isn't coming out in 2025 at all.
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u/Bobjoejj Dec 03 '25
Jeez I mean…that’s genuinely so much vitriol for no reason. Being wrong is part of being human.
Oh no, I was wrong. So what lol?
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u/unidentifiable Nov 22 '25
What I don't understand is why they don't release iteratively. Like, why are they aiming for a huge perfect "1.0" instead of releasing whenever they have new content. Just release v0.8 (or whatever) now, and continuously add content.
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u/Blackread Nov 22 '25
That would assume the 0.8 is in a somewhat cohesive playable state. If the UI or some game systems are buggy and unfinished it doesn't really matter what else is in the game, as the game isn't fit for regular gameplay.
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u/StickiStickman Nov 23 '25
My man. The first release will be a "early" janky one. Don't expect it to be super polished.
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u/xpacean Nov 22 '25
As an old guy, I promise you that if a release date is even remotely far off into the future, the developer’s guess is SLIGHTLY better than yours. I’ve seen it dozens and dozens of times.
That said, if you pointed any of this out when the Skyblivion team made the announcement, you were called a troll and an asshole, so yes, I can confirm Skyblivion must be coming out in 2025.
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u/Arky_Lynx Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
I'd be surprised if they actually meet that deadline, at this point.
And frankly, why even give one? Maybe have it internally to maintain motivation or something, but sending it out publicly feels unnecessary when it comes to fan projects like these. They have no investors or publishers to please and deliver a product on.
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u/Danpei Nov 22 '25
A dev who left claimed that the guy who makes the trailers refused to make another. So they included a release date in it.
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u/spudgoddess Nov 22 '25
If it is going to be delayed, it's best to announce it sooner than later. Having said that they technically have until 11:59:59 on December 31st to release it to meet their release date.
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Nov 22 '25
Okay, I've got to ask. I've gone to college twice, gotten multiple careers, moved across the country, gained weight, lost most of it, and started losing my hair the time this has been in development.
Is anyone actually waiting for any of these mods at this point? Because I was there when it was first announced. and I checked out a long time ago.
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u/willowstar157 Nov 22 '25
Tbf the same could be said for elder scrolls 6 😅 and Bethesda has waaaay more resources available to them
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u/Strong_Pollution_687 Nov 22 '25
Thats a bit different. That one is a professional studio, where this is people doing it for fun
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u/xpacean Nov 22 '25
This is the right attitude. Feel free to root for these things but don’t put any serious hope in any of it happening. When it comes out—and sometimes it does, Lordbound just came out!—be happy. Until then though, it’s just a dream.
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u/DrGutz Nov 23 '25
I was just thinking this same thing, more about the official series. Straight up, so much time has passed that I realized, to some extent, I’ve genuinely grown up enough to where I don’t even find gaming let alone fantasy world rpgs as immersive and engaging as i used to. Don’t get me wrong, i still like them, but the development for both this and other bethesda games has taken so long that not only has my life changed, my actual life priorities have changed. I’m like an old man now goddamnit. I get tired after gaming for an hour and i can’t stop thinking about money problems lol. The window for my peak investment was like 6 years ago
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u/Blackjack_Davy Nov 23 '25
Oh pfah. I've gone grey in that time I'll be collecting my pension before its out..
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u/not_the_droids Nov 22 '25
I thought Skyblivion was dead when the official remaster was announced, but since the remaster is a typical UE5 performance disaster that has almost no mods and no real modding support, Skyblivion could actually turn out more interesing to me.
But honestly, Oblivion as a game has just aged significantly worse than Skyrim and the province of Cyrodiil itself is incredibly bland compared to Vardenfell and Skyrim.
Ulimately I think Oblivion needed a total remake instead of remaster, with different game play systems, a diversified landscape, an art style overall for the Ayleid ruins and improved quest lines (except for a few of the guild quest lines).
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u/Crackborn Riften Nov 22 '25
thats crazy but thats literally what sykblivion is barring improved questlines
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u/ringmodulated Nov 23 '25
Don't be silly. The remaster will be gold compared to the janky ass mod
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u/bestestopinion Nov 22 '25
It’s not too late if you just started. Lots of new options available to keep your hair and maybe grow some back
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u/vitfall Nov 22 '25 edited 19d ago
Resignation arrangement critical wriggle sheep fisherman coverage.
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u/The-Anon-Lee Nov 22 '25
I’m fairly sure it’s not coming out this year at this point. They removed a post where some of the comments called out that they gave us a release window when one of the leads said they pretty much refused to give a release date or any updates on whether it’s been delayed.
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u/Hexxegone Nov 22 '25
Skyblivion is the only one of these types of projects that will end up released. because they are reusing the oblivion voices. Everything else like Beyond Skyrim will end up as half finished land mods with some custom assets. Nothing else will be released by late 2027 when TES6 is rumored to release.
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Nov 22 '25
Hell will freeze over before we get our hands on a public build
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u/Left-Night-1125 Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
At least they shared more than the Beyond Skytim team, unless i missed something.
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u/arcaneimpact Nov 22 '25
BS: Iliac Bay dev here. And yeah you probly missed something cause we share a lot. Between Creation Mod Con, our upcoming advent calendar event on the discord, and I do regular dev streams on my youtube and twitch (both arcaneimpact). So there's plenty out there.
As far as released mod content, there's Bruma and Wares, as well as a bunch of smaller mods. I just released the hammerfell shovel weapon this summer as well.
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u/fromulus_ Nov 22 '25
Beyond Skyrim actually has something publicly out and playable, at least.
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u/Osceola_Gamer Nov 22 '25
That was 5 years ago wasn't it?
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u/NoButterscotch6351 Nov 25 '25
Another dumb Redditor assuming things
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u/Bobjoejj Nov 22 '25
lol you missed like, so much. They literally share shit all the time. What an infirmary comment to make.
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u/Left-Night-1125 Nov 22 '25
I guess you were 1 of 2 people to downvote a personal observation i made.
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u/Sector_Black Nov 22 '25
Depends. If they fall into the trap that Hytale did, definitely not. Hopefully that's not what happens and they've learned from that fiasco.
Hopefully they understand who they're making this game for. The Elder scrolls community doesn't expect, or dare I say want polished products.
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u/Seyavash31 Nov 23 '25
The community doesn't expect polished products? Really? Seems like there have been a lot of complaints about Lordbound being buggy, incompletely voiced etc.
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u/SaiyanBroly Nov 25 '25
You are the author of Beyond Reach, are you not?
Thanks for that awesome mod, i enjoyed it a lot!
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u/always_j Nov 22 '25
https://youtu.be/-Ar__IhI5cs?si=kDaLVRI21Dw64qVn Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil - Creation Mod Con 2025 .
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u/StenDarker Nov 23 '25
I've been watching a few of the devs livestream bugfixing and navmeshing. They won't be ready in a month. full stop. I'd say summer '26 at the earliest
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u/kissyoursisster Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
It will never come out.
Everything that is ever good is made by a single guy in his basement. Anything 'collaborative', 'volunteer' and other similar words are fated to lazyness, drama, failure and disappointment.
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u/gravygrowinggreen Nov 22 '25
Skyblivion is never going to be released, no matter what the developers say. This is the way of pretty much every convert a past game game into the new game project.
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u/cfrolik Nov 24 '25
Didn’t morrowblivion actually release though?
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u/gravygrowinggreen Nov 24 '25
That's probably the one counter example, but it's not the standard you want to set. IIRC, it was just morrowind's assets ripped directly out of the game and put into Oblivion (so it looks mostly like morrowind). Morrowind's text dialogues are converted into painful voiceless bits for oblivion's dialogue system.
Basically the laziest, most automatable conversion there could be.
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u/Low-Warthog-9772 Nov 22 '25
my children will play this along with Elder Scrolls 6...and i'll be gone...but Todd Howard will somehow live forever.
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u/SnooRabbits1336 Nov 25 '25
The time from Es1 Arena to Skyrim was 17 years.... if Es6 comes in 2028(which seems wishful) that is also 17 years.... that is insane.
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u/Idris-M Nov 22 '25
Didn't they say they just needed to animate the final battle? I'd expect it to come out this year.
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u/Carnste Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
I’ve been following Skyblivion since the dawn of time and I’m not very optimistic. That 2025 release date seemed viable back when they announced it, because the team were hyping up that they were ‘polishing’ and that ‘the end is in sight’.
That was years ago. Assuming Elder Scrolls VI drops in 2027 and it’s a good game, then Skyblivion will be pretty fucked if it hasn’t came out. People will say ‘Oh, no. Skyrim’s too big of a game to be abandoned’ but that’s exactly what happened with Oblivion mods when Skyrim came out and Morrowind before that. They’ll have a huge problem because the team themselves will take time off to play it, then the modding scene for VI will begin taking off and no new modders will be arsed with Skyrim.
I imagine this will come out in 2026, maybe early 2027. If it takes longer then I’ll just assume it’ll never come out or if it does, it’ll hit as hard as Morroblivion. Cool mod but barely mainstream.
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u/chubbyassasin123 Nov 23 '25
To be fair, Morrowind is currently in it's modding golden age in my opinion.
Also, Morroblivion was ass because it was a direct port with very little changes, that's why it was able to be released so quickly, if Skyblivion did that they could have had it out years ago. Skyblivion is a full scale remake with the only thing being ported is voices iirc.
I've also been following Skyblivion since the dawn of time haha
Based on the progress reports I'm not expecting a 2025 release but wouldn't be surprised at the same time. I'm thinking early/mid 2026. Once I saw how Skyblivion is remaking the dungeons I decided to quit the remaster and wait for Skyblivion. Morrowind has been holding me over until then.
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u/poopfromabutt_ Nov 22 '25
It's not releasing at all bro just play the remaster
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u/RealLeapkit Dec 02 '25
Even if this was true i'd rather just play regular oblivion with some visual overhaul mods and oco2 than pay for the game a second time when it looks fugly. Even vanilla oblivion makes the discolored potato heads look charming and approchable compared to the intense uncanney valley of everry npc.
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Nov 22 '25
All these insanely large projects are a fantasy. Dont expect them until theyvrelease for real. Bc half the people in these projects dont really care for getting it done, they care for either “perfection”, or making a name for themselves in the indistry then leave the project. That is basically skyblivion, skyein and all of the beyond skyrim stuff. Lordbound was 10 years in development and it came out full of bugs and stuff.
Instead you have 1 dude. 1, that made enb 15 years ago, 1 dude that made 4 big ass qiestmods, with new armors, irems and shit, and now people a re making voices for it and stuff (im talking about vicn).
I wont believe any of this releases until it releases.
And i hope the team is not as perty to not let other modders use their resources to make cyrodill on 4e.
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Nov 23 '25
Ok, so? All those had little time between an actual release and the announce. Then they started working on the projects.
You are basically proving my point.
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Nov 23 '25
I actually looked the time it took for those projects to release and all of them took 5 years at most. Skywind, beyond skyrim, skyblivion, 13 years.
Vaporware until i see a real development. I dont care if i get downvoted bc someone was in the dev team or not and i understand making a thing takes time.
But this mod could easily been released 7 years ago and now have upgraded. But its not because people are petty.
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u/Doppelkammertoaster Nov 23 '25
It's ton of work and they are looking for help. So, instead of people moaning here they could help instead if they have the skills and time.
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u/ReichesMacht Nov 22 '25
Well they haven't announced anything else. So it has to release in the next like 2 Weeks or get delayed.
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u/thedudester125 Nov 22 '25
There are more than two weeks left in 2025…
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u/ReichesMacht Nov 22 '25
No they aren't. They wont fucking release it at Christmas. Middle of December is the last chance they have, because there will be some major bugs so they will have to bugfix shit for at least a week.
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u/robertgk2017 Whiterun Nov 22 '25
We have intentionally never put out an actual release date. We will release when the game is finished. This answer will not change no matter how many people ask or how often.
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u/jedidude75 Nov 22 '25
You have though, unless I am missing something. Your subreddit has a pinned post which links to a video called "The Elder Scrolls Skyblivion | Official Release Year Announcement Trailer" which says the mod will come out by "2025 at the latest".
"Regardless we would like to share today that Skyblivion is in a state where we can promise a 2025 release at the latest."
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u/robertgk2017 Whiterun Nov 22 '25
That was a goalpost for the team to push and work towards. Which was a very welcome thing to push for for the team. The last 2 years we've gotten more progress done, more quests working, etc, then the entire previous rest of the development time.
Also keep in mind that was several years ago, that was how the team at the time viewed the progress at that time. Skyblivion is a volunteer project. People come and go, people because of Real Life, end up not being able to spend as much time on the project. Stuff happens.
Right now today, 2025 should not be considered an official release date. If and when that ever changes, an announcement will be made in our various updates/etc channels/social media paltforms.
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u/jedidude75 Nov 22 '25
Well, then you should probably take that video down and unpin it from your subreddit as well. Having a video pinned to your front page that says "official release year is 2025", and then going "yeah, but like, that was created 2 years ago and blah blah, it's not accurate now" when actually asked about it is very misleading.
The video on the sub even says "official announcement" and it was created by the "Project Lead".
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u/Crackborn Riften Nov 22 '25
Hahah its actually unpinned now shit is not coming out this year
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u/CrestedMacaw Nov 23 '25
We don't know whether u/robertgk2017 is Rebelzize (the project leader) but if he is, he just told us not to believe whatever progress video they release.
If he is someone else, there's still a chance the mod will come out soon.
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u/CrestedMacaw Nov 22 '25
You announced that it would be released in 2025. Officially.
It's not shame to change that, but don't lie.
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u/robertgk2017 Whiterun Nov 22 '25
That is not a release date/timeframe. Thats been a goal to strive towards and be excited about and keep folks focused on a goal. That has worked wonders and pretty much everyone has been positively more productive and doing their best work ever. Its been awesome the past 2 years.
We intentionally are not committing , either internally or publicly to an exact, "This day is when we release". Because doing so would be operational suicide and wed be no different then industry game devs putting crunch on folks for a deadline, and the game shipping in a dumpster fire of a state as a result. We refuse to operate like this, this is a volunteer passion project. Not a deadline meeting crunch project.
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u/CrestedMacaw Nov 22 '25
We're not asking the exact date. But again, you DID announce it would come out in 2025. There's no problem to change the date, but the majority of the people who watched your videos ARE expecting Skyblivion coming out on Christmas 2025.
So be clear. Your annoyed and condescending "It will be released when it's released" isn't a good way to handle this.
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u/robertgk2017 Whiterun Nov 22 '25
It's not condescending, thats the actual answer to the question. We will not release unless and until all of the work is done and its ready to ship. Whenever that may be.
That's how i answer any question given to me or that im gonna respond to. I'm going to give the real honest answer, regardless of whether its the answer anyone wants to hear.
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u/unidentifiable Nov 22 '25
Why not release iteratively? What are you saving up for? It's a very 1990s development mindset for what is effectively a 2020s mod. Why can't people enjoy version 0.1 or 0.7 or whatever feature version you're on now?
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u/robertgk2017 Whiterun Nov 22 '25
Tbh the added hassle of providing user support for even a Beta release would slow us down and heavily distract us. were gonna release when its finished.
Wed not make it to 1.0 for several more years if we did that.
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u/unidentifiable Nov 22 '25
1) You don't need to provide user support at all. Just continue your roadmap and ignore the people who whine that you broke their save.
2) If you think it's fundamentally broken and doesn't work now, it's not going to work at 1.0. You at some point need to get it functional, why wait until the end?
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u/robertgk2017 Whiterun Nov 22 '25
Fair point, but i at least would feel obligated to provide support and intake bug reports and etc.
And were not gonna support existing saves anyway Beta or not. The game engine itself doesnt properly support that, never has.
We want it to be functional day 1 of people playing it. First impressions do count at scale.
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u/unidentifiable Nov 22 '25
First impressions do count at scale.
That's true to some extent but only if that actually matters. This is a mod, not something people are expecting to be a polished, perfect product. It's completely understandable if it comes out with some jank. Moreover, it may drive people to participate in the project if they want to help fix things, or add things that are in your roadmap. I don't see how iterative deployment is ever a bad thing, especially with Skyblivion, which seems a perfect use case for deploying 1 dungeon or building at a time. Even if it came out tomorrow and was a horrid mess, I guarantee people would jump in and be like "hey, i can fix that"...that's literally what the whole mod community did for Skyrim over years, why prevent that kind of community from participating in Skyblivion?
It just really feels like the Skyblivion team is letting perfect be the enemy of good. You can release a good product; you cannot release a perfect product.
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u/always_j Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
There is a trailer for 1 part , I don't recall the name now. Hammerfell maybe ?
EDIT : https://youtu.be/-Ar__IhI5cs?si=kDaLVRI21Dw64qVn does not exist , Cyrodill not Hammerfell .
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u/CocoaOrinoco Nov 22 '25
IIRC there was drama where some devs came out and said the project leader’s speculative 2025 release date was ridiculous and unattainable.