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Re: I thought the attempt was dumb as shit, but by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/29/2015, 9:06am PDT
Rafiki wrote:

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:



Were they paying the creators of these mods anything?


Yeah, that was the deal, although the percentages kind of gave modders the shaft in case of Skyrim. Valve took 30%, like mobile app stores, and Bethesda decided to take 45%, with the modder getting 25%. I understand Valve taking a cut for distribution and Bethesda taking a cut because what business wants to compete with DLC from people piggybacking off of them, but getting 25% out of what is likely to be a tiny market anyways seems like a hosejob. Apparently Bethesda could have set their cut to whatever they wanted, though.

I'm sure paid mods will get reintroduced, and it doesn't bother me a bit that modders might want to actually make money off of their work.


There was paid modding in the world of Front Page Sports: Football Pro (a great PC football game that is still better than the Madden shit EA puts out.) It was awkward as fuck. The guys can charge whatever they want, you're buying shit from just a dude, there's not really support in terms of a stable website or forum. There's no way to get the stuff back if you lose it. OK, typing all this out, it seems like Valve could help here but I think the mentality is as follows: "I bought this game at $60 and modding was part of the deal. You are changing the deal by now charging for mods."

Which is fine except that tons of people wait for the Steam sale and they aren't paying $60 any more. (Though some.... most? are.)

I guess the thing that sucks is that free mods was a nice thing about PC gaming. A friend working on a text game interpreter told me that you have to pay money to Apple to not have to "whitelist" a program to run on OSX. That's the greatest piece of horseshit in the technological world, now that I am aware of it. I guess the paid modding was perceived as another way that people are ruining the PC platform. I dunno, would be interesting to hear from non-lunatics here on America's favorite purple website.

(Did they at least launch with new, never-before-seen mods?)


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Mods for sale by Worm 04/23/2015, 8:17pm PDT NEW
    100 dollah for horse balls and snatch. by Oom Shnibble 04/24/2015, 11:07am PDT NEW
        And they're not even bothering to do due diligence in verifying creators! NT by xXxShiit4BrainzxXx's Coldfire mod 04/24/2015, 11:17am PDT NEW
    NOTE: This is totally a photoshop and made up. NT by Worm 04/24/2015, 11:42am PDT NEW
        I substitute it for my reality. NT by The Breadman 04/24/2015, 11:50am PDT NEW
        You appear to have some talent. Nice work. by Oom Shnibble 04/25/2015, 7:16am PDT NEW
            NOTE: I did not make this. NT by Worm 04/25/2015, 11:50am PDT NEW
                Re: NOTE: I did not make this. by MysterEd 04/26/2015, 11:54am PDT NEW
    They gave up on it. NT by Worm 04/28/2015, 7:50pm PDT NEW
        I thought the attempt was dumb as shit, but by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/29/2015, 6:11am PDT NEW
            25% NT by WITTGENSTEIN 04/29/2015, 8:38am PDT NEW
            Re: I thought the attempt was dumb as shit, but by Rafiki 04/29/2015, 8:43am PDT NEW
                GabeN floated the idea of tying in donations/pay-what-you-want by WITTGENSTEIN 04/29/2015, 8:45am PDT NEW
                Re: I thought the attempt was dumb as shit, but by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/29/2015, 9:06am PDT NEW
 
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