The latest game from Bethesda Game Studios (hereafter abbreviated as BGS) will have modding tools, but they’ll not arrive this year.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim made the top thirty list on Steam’s all-time concurrent player list when this game was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC in 2011. At the time, BGS had over 287 thousand concurrent players. This record was broken by Starfield (not surprisingly, as the gaming industry continues to grow, but at some point, it will end, i.e., the bubble will burst), albeit only by a small margin. Fallout 4 had 472,000 players in 2015, and by comparison, Starfield lagged with 287,708 concurrent players, beating Skyrim by just 297.

However, the Steam result is skewed by the fact that others may have bought BGS’s latest game through the Microsoft Store. Still, Xbox Game Pass subscribers have also been able to access it on the service since September 6, so it’s subscribers rather than potential buyers who, in turn, have been pushing Game Pass figures hard (while with its price increase, PlayStation Plus simply can’t show anything of value…). Starfield already has over 6 million players, but we haven’t heard any sales figures yet.

There will also be DLC: Shattered Space will be the first story expansion, but free updates and mods will also be there. Director of Starfield, Todd Howard, told Famitsu that mods will allow you to do almost anything, as in previous BGS games. Mod support is coming in 2024, and since the studio likes the system, they are promising us something significant. So it’ll be at least four months until the mods are released, which isn’t that long: Skyrim took three months, and Fallout 4 took five and a half months to get mod support from launch.

We’ll be curious to see what creative minds can create from the space epic. There will almost certainly be some excellent mods.

Source: WCCFTech