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From: The skyrim mods cost more than the game.

zappian

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The system was designed to enable content creators to spend more time making quality mods. It wasn't meant to be a "pull all of your old crap from free sites and sell it here" thing. They also miscalculated the amount of thieves and trolls this would bring. :P

The licensing deal with publishers for modders IS a very big deal. While Skyrim may not have been the best choice, I imagine this for something like Fallout 4 or a new Age of Empires where it would make plenty of sense. Despite the crybabies, it might make more people pick up modding themselves to add in the content they want. If they can be so inclined to stop their heavy breathing and furious keystroke typing anyhow. ^^

It has more cons than pros , thats the issue.

Pros:

- It might incentive more quality mods , which is not happening so far.

cons:

-Divided the community

-Is full of copyright issues

-Its very grey morally because mods are experimental and nature and usually depend on other mods , so making mods paid is a very complex situation. If mod A depends on mod B and mod A is paid does mod A need to pay revenue to mod B , do all mods need to pay something to SKSE?

-Will fill the store with trolls looking for a quick buck , its happening already.

-Its impossible to police and regulate and this whole self regulating BS from valve didnt work with greenlight.

-Putting the mods inside a pay wall will make users with 100-150 mods pay more on the mods than the game .

- The cut that valve and bethesda have set up for the modder that does the most work isnt enought to support them , even the apple store pays 70% to the content creator.

-Steam does have the infrastructure or customer support to handle this not even remotely.

-Mods take effort but putting them behind a pay wall instead of just having a donate button excludes part of the community and honestly it has enraged everyone toward the modders and steam producing bad will and general lack of interest.

-People can just rip mods from nexus and charge for them .

-Free mods now have ads which is retarded.

So while the idea is nice , the execution and the underlying issues make it a nightmare for both valve and the consumer.

Source: The skyrim mods cost more than the game.

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