PC people like to make stuff for their games – especially fans of Bethesda games like theElder Scrolls. Recently in an interview withRock Paper Shotgun(via1UP) vice president of marketing Pete Hines at Bethesda said thatFallout 3would not ship with mod tools likeMorrowindorObliviondid.
The reason for the lack of a tool is fairly simple. Bethesda wanted to do it, but the release timeframe ofFallout 3got in the way. “We need to get the game done and out.” Hines remarked before adding, “It’s not to say we won’t do it. It’s that right now we have an enormous amount of work to do, for three platforms and all these different languages to get it out around the [world].”
Hines wouldn’t rule out the possibility of Bethesda designing tools for the game later down the road. Interestingly, Hines dodged a question regarding the lack of mod tools as a way to encourage Bethesda paid DLC. Hines simply reiterated that tools take awhile to create and therefore will not be available at launch.
