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Valve has announced that they will be allowing content creators to charge for workshop mods:
The Steam Workshop has always been a great place for sharing mods, maps, and all kinds of items that you’ve created. Now it's also a great place for selling those creations. With a new, streamlined process for listing and selling your creations, the Steam Workshop now supports buying mods directly from the Workshop, to be immediately usable in game. Discover the best new mods for your game and enable the creators to continue making new items and experiences.
While this seems a great way to incentivize the creation of more and better mods, of course not all gamers are happy about it. [venturebeat.com - Warning: lots of javascript]
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(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Friday April 24 2015, @11:44PM
I did not see that part...you are not serious??
In the past they have taken a 30% cut...
Are you sure you don't have it back to front?
If they ARE taking that it is surely because half of it goes to them, half to the game companies....
(Score: 2, Informative) by Pseudonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2015, @05:37AM
I'm sure, see here: https://i.imgur.com/BJP4c33.png [imgur.com]
Here for a discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/33mpuv/valve_takes_75_of_the_sales_that_are_made_from/ [reddit.com]
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Saturday April 25 2015, @09:55AM
It matches what I read over at Ars Technica:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/04/23/steam-workshop-lets-users-sell-mods-but-only-shares-25-percent-of-revenue/ [arstechnica.com]
It gets worse, though...from the Ars article:
"Money-making modders will have to wait until they've earned at least $100 of sales before receiving a payment"
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Saturday April 25 2015, @07:02PM
So in other words this is less about the fostering a healthy modding community and more about monetising something that was free to increase revenue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2015, @08:24PM
Yes. Even more odd considering people within valve have stated that they do not do things for money as steam is so profitable and valve has so few employees they can do whatever they want. It has been used by Newell as justification for why they have refused to be bought out for absurd amounts of money. Maybe making money itself has just become a game to them, like what Ted Turner does: "Life is a game. Money is how we keep score." Too bad he started with cheat codes enabled.
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Sunday April 26 2015, @02:27AM
Well then I predict this has the halflife highly radioactive substance.
See what I did there?