Reading through this thread I'm feeling somewhat nauseated. Want your mods to be free? Cool. Want your mods to be paid for? Also cool, your perogative. Complaining that the companies that would legitimize this desire by introducing a system where it was 'mandatory' are pulling out so your desire for money is no longer justified and so you can't stand by it anymore? Ew. Just ew. It was okay to ask for money when people would have been 'forced' by huge companies at your back to comply? So you could shrug and go 'well I didn't want this, it's just the way it is, is benefitting from the actions of forces greater than us really so bad?' Nah man, that's pretty twisted. Either you think your mod is worth money, in which case there are ways you can implement this on your own, or you don't in which case this news is either good or neutral. But this? Icky man, icky.