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  1. Use to be (and still is at the moment) that the community itself created its own value by helping producing parts of a whole. Creating meaningful content is difficult (especially by a single person) and the community helped one another by exchanging individual skills towards a bigger piece in the form of resources, tools, expertise so modders and mod users all benefited. 5 years ago the attitude was different and in 5 more it will continue to change as the new enter and the old leave. I personally think a segregated modding community (whatever you want to call it) benefits no one in the long run. Usually if people felt modding wasn't worth their time as a hobby they moved on, now if its not worth their time some want compensation. Do the free timesaving tools and frameworks talented people create still exist in a future world (TES6/FO5/etc) with some mods available freely and some behind a paywall? Is the motivation there to share free time to create them when others can use them for profit? We have already seen what happens to mods like Wet&Cold and that fishing mod when you have 2 or more contributing parties with different ideals and goals. Will people be allowed to create compatibility patches between paid and non paid mods? how much time will people spend dealing with DMCA threats or stealing accusations? I don't know. I never viewed modding as a job and I would say in the past (at least in the days of Morrowind and most of Oblivion) a great majority felt the same way. But like I said above, times/attitudes change. I don't think there is any right or wrong in paid or non paid mods for the ES series, only feelings about what I personally want and don't want. In the end, I think people take the combined efforts of one sharing community for granted sometimes.
  2. Hey I wanted to say thanks for sharing your characters with us. My favorite shots have been your Lattamer and White Tabaxi's.

    As for porn well the line between it and art is user defined/personal opinion. I cant recall how many people I knew in collage who took an art class cause of the model and yet they cant draw a stick figure to save their lives.

  3. Modders should be like musicians, in my honest opinion. People who create for themselves, and themselves alone. Their tastes, their styles, all for the sake of themselves, and release it to the world with no expectations of gratitude. Take every non-rate, and anti-rate with a grain of salt, and embrace the love and praise they recieve. If those modder's you're talking to don't feel like they're getting enough, then they're being a tad self-important. Couldn't have said it any better. I know when I release something I certainly don't expect end-users to grovel at my feet and give me worship. Comments and ratings are a nice bonus but in no way should be mandatory. If thats why why a person is into modding then I think they need to re-evaluate their reasons for doing so. A strict rules system would do nothing to benefit anyone.
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