OK im not going to a debate or in the intention of trolling. but this was merely my perspective and opinion. take it, consider it, or simply just leave it. and please excuse my terrible English. I personally think it should be about the choice of its individual. lets look at OS for example.. there are Linux which is completely free, and Windows that makes you pay for almost everything (yes, i do type almost Everything) aside from the OS itself. both has been in a somewhat of a "fight" of claiming who's best. but the most obvious thing is, each has its own perspective regarding "money". Linux and it's massive community believe that technology should stay free forever. thus giving people the knowledge for free and further tech development which had a certain impact on life itself, can easily be achieved through contribution. whilst Windows and its massively (maybe)"dont-have-a-choice-users" community are in the opposite way, that people should and deserved to be paid for their hard work and ideas. this goes the same to Modding. while i agreed to the fact that mods are free, but, if you look through other perspective, that, if a mod so good, regardless of everything, you HAVE to buy the original game to play it. i have a friend once whom completely doesnt know anything about Mods. once, he brag about how he finally purchased C&C Generals and being such a person that humiliate me for just being his friend, by posting that on each of his social network. he even post an update saying that his "precious" game are in the process of install with an excited emoticon !. but about the next half an hour later, he posted an update saying he that bought the wrong game. the problem was, because the first time he experienced C&C Generals was on my PC. and the game were modded. so, he pist, regretting his action of paying quite amount of money buying of what he sure it's the wrong version of the game, not knowing that he did purchased the right game, just havent got the mod that he loved/liked which he played on my PC back then. so then i tell him about the Mod, which is funny, because he suddenly says "im willing to buy the expansion". he thought it was an offical expansion, and willing to pay money for it, and says that he still got arround 50USD left on his account, and asking does the amount of money he has left enough to pay for what he mistakenly thought was an official expansion. my friend dislike the original C&C-G. and he doesnt even play the vanilla campaign mission. even until he quit and got bored with it, he never ever even play the vanilla campaign not even once and only play skirmish custom maps or simply vanilla maps but with mods. while 95% of the mod that he loved was merely a retexture. no scripts or whatsoever, and simply changing the gameplay a bit. and that was just one story. there also that are for the least arround 30 of my other friends who crazy in love playing DOTA (1), but have no idea how to play or know even just a bit about Warcraft 3's lore. the same thing as my humiliating friend above, they have never played the vanilla or the campaign AT ALL. purely ONLY play DOTA. but to play DOTA, you HAVE to own Warcraft ROC and the FT expansion. no compromised in that. my point of the story is, there are hundreds, thousands, or maybe even tens of thousands of people out there whom im convinced are somewhat "clone" to my friend(s). they simply loved the modification. they are completely dont give a damn about the vanilla. and for that, mods, are definitely making company like Bethesda, Blizzard, EA, etc, richer !. no sense denying that. ideas are precious. there are companies whom willing to pay you plenty of money simply just giving them a good and a profitable concept. be it an event, product, marketing strategy, and/or whatever that will profit them. and devs like Obsidian, Bioware, Bethesda, and so many others, they actually gather to come up with some ideas to developed a good Video Games for a living. yes, for a living. this is why IMHO, we should leave it to the choice of the modders. as what Dark0ne stated, there are people who choose to be like Ronaldo and/or Messi (carreer), and there are those also who simply choose just to have fun, regardless. and its not "something new" to see on Nexus, that modders are leaving their mods un-developed further or updating or bugfixing it because of RL, which im pretty sure are mostly because they have a job they need to tend to, simply because they needed the job for living. now, im NOT against what Nexus stands for. i highly-regard Nexus for it's "non-exclusivity". and all of the mods in my games(DA:Origins, DA2, Oblivion, Skyrim, FO3, FONV), were downloaded from Nexus. but, as i stated above, we should leave it to the individual (modders). IMHO. peace. :)
