Valve/Bethesda announce paid modding for Skyrim, more games to follow

[AKG115]

PAID MODS ARE GONE! https://steamcommunity.com/games/SteamWorkshop/announcements/detail/208632365253244218

[Drednots]

Paid mods have been removed but I am going to actively donate to my favorite mods anyway because of all this.

[Brandon007]

The ANti-PaidMod team won?! Huzzzah!

 

Tis a golden day for all of us!

[Pixeldust]

In response to post #24729904.

AKG115 wrote:

Praise the Nine!

Now I'll be able to buy Bethesda games again. Though, this action still has damaged the community in a way that I doubt will be easily forgotten or forgiven.

[Solongchu]

Now its time for those who made a big deal about donating to put their money where their mouths are and show our modders some love.

[Socratatus]

Well i`m glad Valve and Bethesda backed off. I feel this would have killed modding. A friend of mine nearly cancelled having a pc made because of this. One of the things he loved was the idea of mods and suddenly having to pay extra on top of already expensive games was putting him right off.

We don`t mind paying a donation when we can afford it, but we liked the altruistic attitude of modding.

 

Also, i never gave modders a hard time for buggy mods cos they were free. I would not be so nice if I had to pay.

 

I find it strange the bethesda say they hate DRM yet they force Steam (which I hate), so i don`t quite believe their words.

Edited April 30, 2015 by Socratatus

[Richardo11]

This is another move yet from the greedy game industry, you don't see it? First DlC's do they can release half finished games and get more money, your money, from people's pocked when the game is finished, later unbelievable promotion campaign where they lie to the disgustisness (Rome 2), so they can lure the people, not just now to buy DLC to play the whole game, but even for have a "playable" game, and now that, I tell you what is that.

They make the guide-lines of the game and a little bit more, then they release the game, a extremely trimmed game, then modders mend the lack of content, modders get a meager 25% of the sales at the best and that f*** greedy industry gets the big chunk for saying the least, for a game that they didn't even make..... brilliant

 

They are killing the game industry, if mods of the like like Frostfall, Realistic Needs...,Winter is coming, SKYUI, ..... etc for naming just a very few, becomes downloadable-payable, my gaming computer days are counted, that i am sure about, getting feed-up of being milked more that high production cow, damn it.

Edited July 8, 2015 by Richardo11

[Richardo11]

In response to post #24820939.

Socratatus wrote: Well i`m glad Valve and Bethesda backed off. I feel this would have killed modding. A friend of mine nearly cancelled having a pc made because of this. One of the things he loved was the idea of mods and suddenly having to pay extra on top of already expensive games was putting him right off.
We don`t mind paying a donation when we can afford it, but we liked the altruistic attitude of modding.

Also, i never gave modders a hard time for buggy mods cos they were free. I would not be so nice if I had to pay.

I find it strange the bethesda say they hate DRM yet they force Steam (which I hate), so i don`t quite believe their words.

You did say several righteous things in your post, but the really one is that, "don't believe their words" (as you can see, I have taken away the "quite" word from your post, just to correct you a bit if you do not mind)
Game industry is not to be trusted, they have became big corporations or bought for big corporations that despite repeating till boredom their interest on the customer satisfaction, we all very much know that their only interest is the money, our money. Edited July 8, 2015 by Richardo11

[Beriallord]

I don't see anything wrong with groups forming to push out really high quality mods that are comparable in scale to a real expansion pack and charging $20 for it. Such as rebuilding Tamriel in Skyrim, as well as adding new content to the world, etc. I'm not gonna pay for minor cosmetics, although others might.

[daze507]

In response to post #26787254.

Richardo11 wrote: This is another move yet from the greedy game industry, you don't see it? First DlC's do they can release half finished games and get more money, your money, from people's pocked when the game is finished, later unbelievable promotion campaign where they lie to the disgustisness (Rome 2), so they can lure the people, not just now to buy DLC to play the whole game, but even for have a "playable" game, and now that, I tell you what is that.
They make the guide-lines of the game and a little bit more, then they release the game, a extremely trimmed game, then modders mend the lack of content, modders get a meager 25% of the sales at the best and that f*** greedy industry gets the big chunk for saying the least, for a game that they didn't even make..... brilliant

They are killing the game industry, if mods of the like like Frostfall, Realistic Needs...,Winter is coming, SKYUI, ..... etc for naming just a very few, becomes downloadable-payable, my gaming computer days are counted, that i am sure about, getting feed-up of being milked more that high production cow, damn it.

My god, Rome 2... Being a huge fan of the serie, I fell totally betrayed.
The day I played this game is the day I drew a big red cross on CA.
I can accept a little over-exaggerated advertising, that’s what they do with movie trailer and that’s OK, but this... this was plain lying (IA, totally different graphics etc.).
Watching at their ad videos now just makes me remember how they took us for fools, never again, sorry CA I can't forgive that.