jwarneratl

While I would prefer to continue to get mods for free (for purely selfish financial reasons), I have no problem with people wanting to be paid for their hard work. They are exchanging their time and expertise, both of which have a value, for what people are willing to pay for it. They spend large portions of their lives creating a product which provides huge numbers of people hours of entertainment. I don't mind paying a small premium for huge, complex mods like those created by Chesko and Isoku. What I absolutely refuse to do is use the Steam Workshop! My concern is that Nexus mods will no longer be updated or supported by mod creators because they have no financial incentive to do so. I think Chesko has the right idea here in that he releases his updates and new mods on Nexus at a later date. I hope that others will do this also if they choose to sell their hard work on Steam. I don't think that this is going to go away. The only solution that I can see, unfortunately, is for Nexus to allow mod creators to charge a small amount (if they want to) for the most up to date version of their mods while requiring them to leave older versions on the site for free. I don't like it, but it solves the problem for those of us who understand someone wanting to get paid for their work, want to use the most up to date versions of these mods and don't want to break our games with the horrible Steam Workshop system.