This is whole thing, stamping prices on free stuff, is supposed to be EA's trademark. Sure, the mod quality might rise a little with these paywalls, but I highly doubt that. This is just another clever trick from Valve to pull our money out from our pockets from stuff that has ALWAYS been free. I'm not saying that authors won't deserve the price from their hard work, but this whole paywall thing ain't the right choice. My guess is that this will only create a new way of pirating, mod pirating. People don't just happily agree with this. Mods should always be free. If you have to pay for them, they're no different from your regular DLCs, in sense. From this point, the future is looking grim for the modding community. My guess is that if Bethesda ever decides to make TES6, there won't be much free stuff to us at all. Most of the goodies, such as graphic and content mods will have 5$ price tag attached to them. This will only divide the modding community in two and modding will never be the same anylonger. :(