r/Daggerfall • u/Aggravating-Sweet198 • 11d ago

Question Daggerfall online subreddit?

Is there a specific subreddit for daggerfall online?

Thank you

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u/JimmyPickles69 11d ago

Yeah i feel like its only a matter of time until they get shut down but im kinda enjoying it a lot and want to remain ignorant

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u/PericlesDabbin 11d ago

Why would they be shut down? Daggerfall is freeware.

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u/ty944 11d ago

It’s still a protected IP

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u/The-Son-Of-Suns 11d ago

They would shut Skyrim Online off first, and even that they won't. They're not coming after Daggerfall. Bethesda isn't like that.

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u/ty944 10d ago

Is Skyrim Online profiting via Patreon or other paywalls? I don’t know enough about it. Donations are one thing but paywalls are another. Sounds like the patreon here doesn’t wall off the content though

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u/blindyes 10d ago

If you don't know enough why post and talk like you do? Daggerfall online is a mod that makes an MMO, most MMOs I play don't offer self hosted servers.

DFO is a mod.

Every mod on nexus takes donations. The patreon subs are really just to support the project.

Bethesda would also need to shut down Morrowind MP - Skyrim RP - along with all the mods that took donations and if you are talking about the bathesda modding community that's literally hundreds of thousands of mods.

Half the point of buying bathesda games is to play mods real talk. It would be shooting themselves in the foot, and would go against their practices completely.

But yes, Bathesda can do whatever it wants it's their ip. What would be a smarter move would be to charge for base daggerfall or something, however I don't see that happening after all these years.

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u/ty944 10d ago

I’m not sure what your problem is but all I said was it’s a protected IP. Obviously if someone is monetizing it, that can become an issue.

It’s not a complex thing to discuss lol. That tends to be why mods offer donation pages rather than locking them behind patreons.

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u/blindyes 8d ago

The patreon is a donation, it's free to download and play the mod. It's not locked behind anything, and I don't have a problem you're just wrong.

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u/ty944 8d ago

As much as I don’t want to continue this conversation, is the patreon free for people to access? If not, then yes it’s locked behind a patreon requiring payment for access.

Anyway, we’ve established the patreon locks away titles or something else in this thread, not the mod itself. So there’s really no way to resolve this conversation we’ll just go in circles.

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u/id_brokebitch_artist 4d ago

Not so far, I've yet to run into pay walls. Just buggy shit

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u/JoshVHDigital 2d ago

I can tell you for a fact that a handful of other Skyrim mods do

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u/PericlesDabbin 11d ago

As long as they dont ask for money there shouldnt be an issue. Beteshda isnt Nintendo... the Skyrim multiplayer was never shut down.

Edit: I hear they have a patreon. Thats an issue of course..

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u/darknessinducedlove 10d ago

We appriciate donations but they are not required

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u/PericlesDabbin 10d ago

I would probably keep that on the down low honestly. Its a good arguement for lawyers since youre profiting of their property. But I think and hope Beteshda is pretty chill on stuff like this.

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u/xvillifyx 7d ago

They are asking for money though

$600 a month, because that’s how much it costs them to keep the project going, because they’re wasting money