However Fallout:76 turns out - i.e. Vanilla:76 - this will be such an incredible opportunity to just sit back and monitor player-created mods. Players are going to take Leaf-blower:76 and . turn it into Aston-Martin-Vantage:76 Imagine overlapping, boolean communities. Imagine a yoga mod - and appropriately-sexy outfits - is made, and pretentious-but-incredibly-hot yoga babe communities develop that have no interest in the deathmatch community - who opted for a mod to remove oversight of PvP and come up with some pretty badass deathrace-looking weapons and armor. Or you could have hot, deathrace yoga babes. Hell's Angel, leather-biker-yoga-chic. You feel me? You would need a message board for people to advertise the various kitten-noir or gutter-modernism artistic styles of their Fallout:spaces.

We know you'll monetize it, Bethesda. How about you set up the message board and market, and creators get to determine the fair value of their creations. Even going 90/10, creator/Bethesda share on the profits, you'll make ten times on mods what you make on the game.

If you generously incentivize creators to really contribute quality to your game, you will end up with all the future reference you need to make the Greatest:Fallout:Ever!

Do me this favor, Bethesda. You get stinkin' rich, Todd Howard becomes the godemperor of the RPG-FPS industry, and er'body be happy with they game at the same time, nawmean? Everybody wins. And, really, you'd be a fucking fool not implement it.

As a later amendment - Bethesda, go all the way and cash in on the cryptoken zeitgeist and pay people in digital bottle caps inside the marketplace, convertible to fiat currency.