-You say the sky is not falling down, mod authors are continuing to make free mods here. But that's just thinking short term. I doubt Valve will get noticeably more rich by the curated skyrim workshop. This might just be a test, the main issue of Valve's step might come in the long term. They will possibly try to go 3 steps further for future titles and become control freaks of modding in general, irreversible altering Modding as it is known now, may it be Paywalls only or even completly taking Monopol and making free modding pirating. -Nexus is a company after all (being able to employ a full time community manager apparently, so things might not go to bad, but im speculating here and dont have any insight) and it is understandable for a company to take money. I have no clue if you need the dirty Valve money to maintain your income while updating forum servers or not. It's even more understandable to not want to get mortal enemy of Valve and Bethesda, as big companies can be very nasty. It is easy to say that mods should always remain free here when you actually are forced to keep it like that (i guess you would run into bethesda/valve licence issues when trying to sell peoples mods). But I still trust you though that you wouldnt want to sell peoples' mods even if you could .... You neither want or can be the white knight of free modding. And I see that Nexus as a company isn't the thing that can be a white knight of defending free modding (on all platforms everywhere, not just the Nexus itself). But maybe we NEED to stop this thing before it evolves like i described in my first paragraph. Right now it looks bad. Valve is going the disgusting ignore-and-censorship route and hopes for things to calm down and get away with it in the end. If this happens, modding my take serious damage in the far future. It's not about the Nexus, which wants to maintain its status as a <i-dont-know-how-successful-company>, its about modding with all of its ingenuity, and community spirit in general. This is my opinion. I admit I havent invested 1k+ hours into creating a mod like some other people did, so I clearly accept my opinion counts like nothing to theirs since I hardly contributed anything to the community compared to them. Still, I feel its ok to post my opinion as a user here. If I'm obviously completly on the wrong track with anything of the above I said, because I'm not thinking/reading properly I'd appreciate if someone corrects me.