The Skryim mod that makes the game unplayable just got killed

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The Elderberry Scrolls Five: Skyrim is the game that keeps on kicking. Information technology's even getting yet another release to celebrate the 10-year anniversary. Nearly a decade on, Bethesda's high fantasy RPG keeps holding on for dear life, cheers in part to its extensive modding community. The game's nature makes information technology open up to many interpretations — if you can imagine it, there's probably a mod for whatsoever y'all're thinking near.

The place to go Skyrim mods is Nexus Mods, which is where well-nigh people will go to for their modding needs. Mods get removed from the Nexus a lot for various customs or copyright violations, but, as reported by PC Gamer, the most recent one to stir up some controversy is called NoSkyrim.

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NoSkyrim has a simple premise: it literally makes the game unplayable. Why yous'd want to install such a affair is beyond me, but I suppose if you have a crippling Skyrim habit, this mod can help yous move onto newer things. Speaking as someone who has an extensive history with Skyrim mods, NoSkyrim baffles me in its premise, appeal and application.

It should come as no surprise that it was pulled from the Nexus. That hasn't stopped the developer ThatLittleCommie from throwing a fit, creating a change.org petition, starting a r/SaveNoSkyrim Reddit community, and throwing the mod up on the LoversLab site (to which I attach a hefty NSFW alarm).

I've been out of Skyrim modding for a year, and I don't know every single mod that'due south on the Nexus. That said, I hadn't heard of NoSkyrim until this point — quite frankly, why would anyone really care? Information technology's a mod that fundamentally breaks the game, and information technology can fifty-fifty bork your load order (every bit one user pointed out).

A mod serving a small-scale, singular purpose isn't uncommon, mind you, but NoSkyrim has but i role, one that I can't imagine anyone request for. I'm all for modders doing what they want with the game, but it'south hard to say who's in the right with this one. I can run across Nexus Mods' reasoning for removing NoSkyrim, simply I also sympathize the programmer's irritation. I doubt the ruckus ThatLittleCommie is raising will put a modern that purposefully breaks the game back on the Nexus, though.

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