Well my opinion on this entire situation: If gaming companies indeed wish to support modders (yeah right!) let them HIRE the best modders for some sort of 3rd party DLCs (completely independent agreement from their previous free mods), to create an independent, new DLCs (with some of their mod ideas and experiences implemented/OR not) with proper support and full, official quality control, while they can continue with their (free) mods as they like - something that Paradox for example, tried couple of times. btw I'm not a big fan of how Paradox exploiting and treating modders in general, nor i'm saying their practice always worked (magnus mundi or DIG fe), and i certainly not intend to argue about PI policies here, i'm just saying i think it is a better (basic) model, an example that should be improved and developed. Instead Steam/bethesda simply decided to attack (i can't use no other word here) players with this shameful act. I'm not at all surprised by greedy corporations, i do not even condemn (some) modders who decided to sell their work (i won't say their soul as well, we are all human afterall and we all need money), but i absolutely can NOT understand >players< who support this.. no matter what they say this is nothing but a sneaky aggression against modding and playing community, corporate overtake of free modding community. If we do not stop them now, soon more and more games will follow this practice, mostly because Steam already (almost) monopolized pc gaming, and now they obviously intend to take mods from us as well... They must be stopped. No pasaran. Just NO. How? Be united and be loud, continue with this internet campaign, forums, youtube, everywhere, and by all means - don't buy these 'mods' or whatever they call them now (they should find a new word for them anyway). Hopefully, confronted with bad PR and without profit they'll abandon this awful policy (at least until they find something else to profit on, and be sure they will continue with their intentions to incorporate modding community into their profiting schemes, this way or another).
