Wonderful, after the DLC/Patch rip offs, gamers will pay for mods now aswell!

[Angantyr]

Skyrim 75% off.

A sale which is almost standard price for the same game in Steam version on G2A. Not that I'm complaining, it's a good price for a good game.

[Son Of Odin]

A sale which is almost standard price for the same game in Steam version on G2A. Not that I'm complaining, it's a good price for a good game.

Well I'd rather buy from steam sale than wait for them to purge 3rd party keys and lose those games in the process.

[Angantyr]

What? G2A offers completely legit Steam cd-keys, no strings attached.

[Kafein]

I think that even though the shares are egregious, it is still a step in the right direction for modding. One of the biggest problem with modding is that it is illegal (for good reason) to sell mods without explicit consent from the game producer. Even though 25% is miserable, it is still something, and 35% for the game producer is a nice way to reward games that offer modding capabilities.

Of course this means that conversely, some modders will create paying mods instead of releasing them for free, plus start enforcing their IP over that. There's also the problem of free mods transitioning to this.


Edited because I didn't read the thread before.

[Casimir]

Actually went to go and have a look at the paid for mods but seems I'm unable to access any of their pages.  Valve already pulling the service or some error on my end?

[Christo]

steam is ded, can't log in

i wonder if it's somebody DDOS-ing because of this

[Casimir]

Thing is I'm able to access the pages for all free mods, just every singly paid one says:

Sorry!
An error was encountered while processing your request:

This item is no longer for sale, but if you have purchased it, you will still have access to it.

Steam already had to pull one of the paid mods they were promoting due to it using animations without the creators permission.

[Son Of Odin]

Steam already had to pull one of the paid mods they were promoting due to it using animations without the creators permission.

And that will not be the last one

[Kafein]

I wonder how they will go about refunding that after the money has been transferred to the "modder".

[Leshma]

Isn't "money" stored on steam wallet account which is basically monopoly money?

[Kafein]

Isn't "money" stored on steam wallet account which is basically monopoly money?

If it's that then the only things the modders can do with it is buy things on Steam. I'd be extremely surprised if that was the case.

I'm already seeing the beginning of huge problems with mod dependency:

http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/33qcaj/the_experiment_has_failed_my_exit_from_the/
http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/33quz6/skyui_pretty_much_one_of_the_most_essential_mods/

Also, paid mods will inevitably bring mod piracy and mod DRM. What a time for popcorn.

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[Oberyn]

Kills any sort of modding community in so many ways. Let's use Warband as an example. It's an emminently terrible fucking game to mod. The tools and structure do not lend themselves to it. The only reason people figured out how to mod to the extent they did was because of open communication between modders, happy to give out the knowledge, tips and tricks they figured out after slogging through the morass of code left by the original devs. With a pay for mods model, there is absolutely no incentive to share out knowledge. Why would cmp EVER explain or lend out WSE when he could just hoarde it?
Not to mention the endless, soul darkening bullshit that will come with paid mods, the marketing, the reviews, the impossibility of using any sort of IP (goodbye GoT mods, goobye LoTR mods, goodbye Warhammer mods, etc), the bickering and thieving over assets, etc. GJ Valve, truly the wave of the future. Not surprising to see some tards in this thread gleefully sucking at Gaben's fat hairy nutsack as he rubs his asshole all over your stupid faces.

[AntiBlitz]

gleefully sucking at Gaben's fat hairy nutsack as he rubs his asshole all over your stupid faces.

quite the mental image

[Clockworkkiller]

Skyrim workshop sucked anyway, anyone who uses anything but nexus is a nub

[Xant]

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