Nothing against mods but why sould we wait to have mods made with what should already be in the game? Not everyone will have the same mods so people will get different Ideas of what Fallout should be, this will divide fallout fans. We need to bring people under one Umbrella of Fallout goodness. We can do that by having Bethesda make future games the way Black Isle did by the poll people what that content in the games.
Actually... :grad:
Bethesda is in a Precarious place, in terms of FO fans... if they attempt to change it, hardcoe FO fans will yell at them for moving away from the universe, if they change nothing, hardcoe FO fans will yell at them for not adding anything to the universe.
It all boils down to the fact that you can't please 100% of the people 100% of the time. You're lucky if you can please 80% of the fans 60% of the time. Not every idea that a fan likes can be placed into the game, and this is the exact reason Bethesda released the modding programs like the GECK for it's games. The blatant mod support is Bethesda's way of saying "If you don't like what we have in it, or if you want something in the game we missed, feel free to add/remove it!"
Mods won't divide FO fans, they actually unite them (in fact, I'm partially convinced that the amount of repair mods that add junk to the repair list is why Bethesda added in the Alien Epoxy in MZ.) The only people who lose out on mods are Console Gamers, and it's because the makers of said consoles don't like 3rd-party content on their systems. It's possible to hack your Console to get mods, but it voids whatever warrenty on the console you have (and I think it may even be illegal for some odd reason...)