blarty

Good luck, and to the winner enjoy your spoils.

I think the obvious flaw in their plan was not consulting with the community early doors. As has been said if some of these rationale blog posts had come out as a 'we're thinking of doing it this way, what do you think?' posts instead of hastily written 'pseudo apologies' after the fact, then I doubt there would have been an issue. The problem seems to be that in general, the modding community has no problem with money - donations, subscriptions and the like - but the way in which it's been framed particularly with the Chesko - Fore concerns, was seen to be threatening to an existing meritocratic economy that placed weight more on thanks, endorsements, donations and accreditation than on making a quick buck. Quite simply the communication between Valve, Modders (those chosen to showcase this feature AND those that weren't), Bethesda and players was very lacking. So much so that instead of offering a choice with well reasoned, debated and accepted terms of reference and presenting that to the community, the way it was handled was more akin to farting in a lift and no one taking responsibility for it.

"Skyrim will be able to play it, for free, this weekend (unlike some mods, ho ho ho. Sorry, too soon?)" I didn't just lol..... I swear I guffawed.