BellatrixII

In response to post #24742594. #24742759, #24742849, #24742924, #24742934, #24743009, #24743059, #24743149, #24743254, #24743299, #24743359, #24743449, #24743474, #24743514, #24743524, #24743584, #24743604, #24743624, #24743724, #24743739, #24743769, #24743774, #24743884, #24743929, #24743984, #24744049, #24744139, #24744159, #24744279, #24744479, #24744519, #24744574, #24744719, #24744789, #24744794, #24744929, #24744964, #24744989, #24745004, #24745054, #24745174, #24745279, #24745339, #24745449, #24745494, #24745729, #24745734, #24745839, #24745939, #24746154, #24746294, #24746544, #24746674, #24746704, #24746719, #24747064, #24747169, #24747379, #24747459, #24747514, #24747554, #24747774, #24747799, #24747909, #24748204, #24748329, #24748344, #24748534, #24748849, #24749024, #24749029, #24749224, #24749279, #24749419, #24750314, #24751879, #24752384, #24752494, #24752744, #24753274, #24753624, #24753979, #24754244, #24754444, #24754479, #24754484, #24754654, #24755899, #24761019, #24762099, #24764289, #24765089, #24765834 are all replies on the same post. I have to say I agree with Rekkhan. One thing that didn't seem to come up often in the paid vs free debate was that when you expect payment for a mod you have to take it to the next level in terms of customer support, mod compatability, mod stability etc (i.e. you expect that if you purchase all the DLC for a game you will be able to run all the DLC in your game and not suffer from DLC incompatibilty. This isn't true for mods and I didn't see much on how the community was going to get from modding as a hobby to DLC standards in the steam expt). I can see why people might want to profit from their work, but feel very sorry for everyone involved in this. It was badly thought though by Valve and Bethesda on pretty much everything from fair pay for mod authors and consumers, policing mod content, customer support etc and caused a lot of damage as a consequence.