>>3746447
>They're neat projects, but their userbase would plummet if it cost 50 bucks.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. OpenMW isn't a commercial project. It's licensed on GPL-3. Even if it became closed soured and commercial, users could fork and continue to develop the latest GPL-3 version.

>What's the point?
A lot of people do this for fun, but the point would be that you now have a FOSS way of playing Oblivion and Skyrim and a FOSS version of the engine for people to make their own TES-likes on. Of course, this is achievable in most game engines, but obviously, a reverse-engineered approximation of gamebryo would already be setup for it. Further, you could implement native support for something like script-extender, and expand it's functionality far beyond whatever would be possible in the original engine.
With the source code available, you would also have the ability to re-add cut skills and attributes (many TES fans coming from Morrowind often complain about this). In fact, one of the goals for OpenMW currently is de-hardcode skills. I believe openMW also already supports the Oblivion BSA format.
You could also implement a rendering engine more suited to modern hardware. This doesn't mean implementing memes like ray tracing, necessarily. But you could make the uGridsToLoad substantially higher. Or have a system where you only simulate 3 cells out, but render 10 cells out in full-detail. Additionally, gamebryo games are notorious for RAM limitations, and often need a patch to use 4 GB of RAM. With a re-written engine, you could, of course, remove these restrictions entirely utilize 32 or 64 GB of RAM if you have it.

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Grow up. In terms of game engines made for RPGs and modding: it doesn't get better than this, baby.