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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: 1, Flamebait) by Hairyfeet on Saturday April 25 2015, @01:46PM
Exactly. Look at Greenlight which Valve said would help get good indie games on Steam, reality? For every 1 decent you now have 100 "attack of the cheap Unity art assets" pieces of trash shat out quickly clogging up the pipe. And its not like modders don't ALREADY have ways they can make money, they can accept donations AND there is always the option of turning your mod into a full game and selling it, see Killing Floor or Red Orchestra for just 2 examples.
No what this will do is crapflood every moddable game with broken, cobbled together trash that will be more likely to crash the game than work and within 90 days there won't be a single mod for anything that doesn't have a $ next to it so you will quickly learn not to even look at the mods because like Greenlight it'll be filled with shitty cash ins by devs that don't have anything but a quick buck in mind. Its a shame as modders used to be able to create real value for their favorite games and keep them alive well past their "sell by" date but this will kill modding quicker than banning it....I have to wonder, is that the point? After all if you are playing mods you aren't as likely to buy new games, if so its brilliant from a marketing perspective. Just let the modding community destroy itself with greed under the guise of "helping" it.
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