A Better System for Mod Authors

[Deleted28570945User]

Nobody donates...how rewarding it is not.

 

So what if mod authors were paid a percentage of the money made per day, week, or month...based on whoever gets the most downloads for that day, week, or month?

 

Something...anything!

[Brandon007]

Nope. Not gonna go through with 'paid mods' crap again. People dont 'need' to be paid to mod, they are doing it for the love of the game. Its all volunteer work to, becuase they do it when they want to.

[Deleted1205226User]

Whatever our opinion is about paid mod, it not allowed by Bethesda, at the present time.

[FrankFamily]

 

[...] were paid a percentage of the money made per day, week, or month [...]

 

Its not allowed but, question, a percent of the money made by who? The nexus?

[Rabbit1251]

You are creating these mods for yourself to play with. The Nexus just provides you a convenient place for you to freely upload those mods and freely acquire new ones posted by other mod users. If you are just making and posting these mods in order to become the next millionaire you are definitely in the wrong business. The last time this was tried the 'paid for' mods ended up for free on the pirate sites.

 

 

The Rabbit

[Hisu]

A system offering tangible rewards for best mod authors would be nice on the first approach.

However.

Current sorting system is ill-suited to find the best quality in mods. Just look at what gathers most endorsements: skimpy, sexual, otherwise adult content — and huge-ass "supermarket mods" like OCDecorator and Skibadaa's Weapons Collection that come with all sorts of compatibility issues attached, up to being borderline unusable (yes, I'm looking at you, Weaponsmith Extended). Small mods that do small, but necessary things lie in ignorance, just because they don't attract a swarm of horny teenagers. Or — which is the other problem — because they are not the first of their kind. They might do their job better, but they weren't there first, so they will almost never reach the number of endosements the headliners did, often even after those very headliners are no longer updated.

Solution for this (weekly/monthly selection of handpicked mods) brings upon another problem: to make yourself visible, you need to cater to specific tastes of whoever doing the handpicking. Which, again, doesn't necessarily spell quality.

 

So, all in all, while monetary rewards can be done despite all that bethesda's bullshit about paid mods (as I mentioned earlier, it can be a recurring event with awards for winners), those rewards will very rarely come to the right people. Thus, I personally advise against instituting such a system.