Grandsome

In response to post #24771999. #24772144, #24772774, #24772924, #24773434, #24776364, #24776744, #24777839, #24777939, #24793649, #24794624, #24795194 are all replies on the same post. I'll copy part of a post I did on the steam forum yesterday on how that thing could work: "With that out of the way, I think it's time to bring back the era of the Demo. Either have a say XX hours of *game-play* (not that clock crap origin uses) to test the mod and see if it's okay. Or modders, that are now developers at this point, make a functioning un-crippled alternate lite/free [mandatory] version of their mod. This would also ensure that nobody is stealing anybody's work because during those XX hours a community curator/savy user would have access to the assets. The alternate lite version should also share all their assets with the paid version. As for prices, valve should just copy the pay-what-you-want of Humble Bundle, with average paid price and all, and maybe a non-in-game related bonus if you pay more than average like a donation or something. (for #humblebragging) To split the revenues, not lower than 33.3333333333333...% for the modder, you know, splitting the price equally in three for modder/dev/valve. I think that's the less offensive split they can make, but ideally, modders should get more, maybe relative to the size of the mod. And a possibility for modders to renegotiate any time, they should also have complete control over their *original* content, valve shouldn't have the right to retain a mod even if the author retired it. For support, both the devs and valve should be part of the process, both get a cut it's also their responsibility. Partial refund (50%?) should be emitted with no question asked if a mod stops working after a game update or a major update from the author. Well, I said no question, I meant that if it is still broken after human support has failed. And if support is not given within the 48hrs of the demand then it should be an automatic refund. If it stops working soon after-purchase it should be in full (the grace period should be still at least >24hrs), no matter if the game or the mod just updated."