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Valve/Bethesda announce paid modding for Skyrim, more games to follow


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  On 4/23/2015 at 8:01 PM, zzjay said:

 

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never gonna do that.free will prevail cause we do it for fun.besides its pointless to pay for mods of such an old game right now that there are thousands of mods for free

 

Mods are what kept the Elder Scrolls games alive for years. People are still buying Morrowind today and playing it for the first time, or replacing their long-lost disks to relive the great adventure in a new, shiny modded form. Luckily, they don't have to pay for any mods but Skyrim so far. But think ahead: Fallout 4 will certainly release with full Steam Workshop support, including monetization. It won't be "such an old game" unworthy of modding on its launch day, will it?

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Thanks ramccoid and Elianora for all the hard work you have both done with your mods it does go very appreciated
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But goy, don't you know there's mad shekels to be made?
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The only thing I did on the W&C is say I'm unendorsing and uninstalling. I don't support their behavior, especially when they have tidbits of other people's work inside their own.
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Early on, I get the impression that what is going to happen in the future, is that modders on the Nexus will keep their old content here but release new mods and updates of old mods (eg bug fixes, compatibility with other mods) as payware Steam Exclusives. About the only thing you can do to protest is to revoke your endorsements from such authors. Love is overrated; greed is the most powerful force in the universe.

 

The ability to make your own changes to a game, create your own content, download the content of others, and modify it to your own needs is a wonderful thing. In a console-centric world, very few PC games now support community content, though people have had limited success modifying mod unfriendly games, like the GTAs.

 

Skyrim will be the last game witha great modding community :( Fallout 4 will be a payware extravaganza. Nobody will share content, modders won't help other modders, collaborators with get into arguments about how to divvy up the spoils.

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As will mine.
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It's true that modders deserve more consideration than they usually get for their work and that I probably should have openly supported them and the nexus page more in past. However, this is clearly not the way to go.

 

Bethesda's product sell as good as they do due to the effort their community is willing to put into the game after release and now they decide to go the extra mile by pracitcally employing modders without any wage! Sure the modders deserve a piece. Bethesda has already got a huge piece when we bought their game. But what on earth entitles them to share the modder's profit?

It's like the super market and the meat industry cash in retroactively on whatever credit we deserve for cooking a delicious meal with the meat we bought.

 

I don't know about you but I just realized I cannot afford the 200+ mods I use if they're each sold for 1€-5€. The fact that I have never seen it this way before is one problem. The fact that they might cash in big with a new Skyrim patch that forced us to update all our mods is another one...

 

 

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Much appreciated
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