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Steam Now Offering Paid Workshop Mods

posted by CoolHand on Friday April 24 2015, @09:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the finally-getting-paid-for-work dept.

riT-k0MA writes:

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: 1) by nitehawk214 on Saturday April 25 2015, @05:54AM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Saturday April 25 2015, @05:54AM (#174984)

    Wait, I don't quite understand your comment. Are you saying that people getting annoyed over stolen comment is "no reason"?

    It isn't the thieves profiting that really makes me mad, even. They were going to steal content and try to profit off of it one way or another. It is the fact that Valve is allowing this to happen because they are the ones making the most profit. Though between Greenlight that has games that obviosly were intended to suck money out of people and never be finished and Steam Sales that screw over developers... I suppose nobody should be surprised.

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  • (Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday April 26 2015, @04:29AM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Sunday April 26 2015, @04:29AM (#175264)

    What thieves? What stealing?

    • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Sunday April 26 2015, @03:21PM

      by nitehawk214 (1304) on Sunday April 26 2015, @03:21PM (#175355)

      Someone makes a mod for free. Someone else uploads that mod to steam for pay.

      This is theft.

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      "Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh