Fallout 4 console mod piracy threatens to destroy modding community

[Zkuq]

shikamaru317 said:

Zkuq said:

You expect Bethesda to moderate potentially thousands of mods when they can even moderate (i.e. check for bugs) their own games? I somehow doubt Bethesda is interesting in doing anything like that.

They already have to moderate the mod database on consoles though to remove nude mods and mods with copyrighted content due to restrictions by MS and Sony. It would be a simple matter of checking to see if the person posting a mod is the actual creator of it, they can do that by cross referencing with their own PC mod database and Nexus.

Checking for nudity and copyrighted content is pretty easy if there's screenshots. But checking for the correct author is a lot more work, and in some cases even impossible. What if the author is using a different name in different places? And what if the uploader is using the modder's name on Bethesda.net? That's already two tricky cases that are impossible to solve without a significant amount of work.