In an interview with Kinda Funny, director Todd Howard called the upcoming space RPG a “modder’s paradise”.
“I think that Starfield is going to be kind of a modder’s paradise. It’s part of our DNA, we’ve been doing it for over 20 years, and [we have] our community. We’ve classically been single-player, that’s been our community, and people are still modding our games and playing them.”
Howard went on to say that with Starfield, Bethesda wants to go beyond simply supporting the modding community and giving players the right tools to actively engaging with it. This can also be seen in job opportunities at Bethesda itself, which hired one of the developers of the Fallout: London mod.
“One of the things that I look at is that it’s important for us not only to enable it, but to participate in it. To make it easier, to make it so that modders can make this not just a hobby, but a career. We’ve had a lot of great success there.”
Starfield will be released on September 6, 2023, for Xbox Series X/S and PC.