We won guys! Paid mods are kill!

[ShadowCaptain]

Yeah I guess. Any extra wouldn't hurt, right?

 

I prefer paid mods to paid DLC

 

if I game ships for say $60 complete (no shitty dlc, no "premium pack" although proper expansion packs dont count) then I have no issues paying for good mods

 

the problem is imagine a game like say.. Call of Duty 400, game is $60, $50 for the "premium", then money for  extra maps and skins.. AND paid mods - then its too much

 

if the game was just $40-$60 and had paid mods - and the game released future content for free etc then its fine

 

What we dont want, is mods to become paid DLC - its a massive difference between the two - also mods pricing should reflect their content... less than $2 for items, $5 for characters, $10 for new maps, $20 for full expansions

 

sometihng like that, OR a pay what you want system - so its like "get our new map, starts from $1, pay what you want"

[aduman]

I prefer paid mods to paid DLC

 

if I game ships for say $60 complete (no shitty dlc, no "premium pack" although proper expansion packs dont count) then I have no issues paying for good mods

 

the problem is imagine a game like say.. Call of Duty 400, game is $60, $50 for the "premium", then money for  extra maps and skins.. AND paid mods - then its too much

 

if the game was just $40-$60 and had paid mods - and the game released future content for free etc then its fine

 

What we dont want, is mods to become paid DLC - its a massive difference between the two - also mods pricing should reflect their content... less than $2 for items, $5 for characters, $10 for new maps, $20 for full expansions

 

sometihng like that, OR a pay what you want system - so its like "get our new map, starts from $1, pay what you want"

 

Now that would work some people. But if you think about the people who actually mod their game, they use more than 100-150 mods for a single playthrough and that would cost a lot. This whole thing is a mess. I appreciate you taking the time to write your opinions.

 

Take a look at Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. Guys at CD Projekt Red have been my fav developers for a long time. They promised 16 free DLC quality content for the base game. You don't have to preorder or pay anything extra. Isn't this the way it should be?

[ShadowCaptain]

Now that would work some people. But if you think about the people who actually mod their game, they use more than 100-150 mods for a single playthrough and that would cost a lot. This whole thing is a mess. I appreciate you taking the time to write your opinions.

 

Take a look at Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. Guys at CD Projekt Red have been my fav developers for a long time. They promised 16 free DLC quality content for the base game. You don't have to preorder or pay anything extra. Isn't this the way it should be?

 

CD Project red are doing that to make a stand, and just to shout the loudest really. "ooh hey guys look at us we are DRM free" - sure DRM free is great, and should be applauded but the fact there are 16 is also kind of annoying to me, do I wait for them to come out? what if I complete the game and they come out after and change things etc 

 

Just release the game finished, and if you want to release new content do it in a major pack, whether its free or fairly priced is cool with me

 

 honestly I wish games just shipped complete, and if they want to do DLC, make it a worthy expansion pack - like Burial at Sea for Bioshock Infinite - an extra 3 hours campain is totally worth my money

 

yeah I have no idea how people have like 150 mods, personally I just cba with it all, outside of say an FOV mod or something I literally don't download mods i guess i dont get the point

[Remilia]

And no, paid mods would destroy the community but would 'work'. As the gaming community always accepts new implementations in the long run. I'm really glad that this got taken down before it was too late.

 

Just because mods has always been free doesn't mean it's a great thing and the way it should be. It's been like that because of restrictions, not choice. It's a complicated issue and has to be treated like one, unlike what Valve and Bethesda did.

 

The best thing about this is that it shows that paid mods has to be regulated to work, an open and completely free market won't work. Hopefully it also gave Valve a lesson that there's a limit to how much laziness the customers will accept.

[aduman]

Just because mods has always been free doesn't mean it's a great thing and the way it should be. It's been like that because of restrictions, not choice. It's a complicated issue and has to be treated like one, unlike what Valve and Bethesda did.

 

The best thing about this is that it shows that paid mods has to be regulated to work, an open and completely free market won't work. Hopefully it also gave Valve a lesson that there's a limit to how much laziness the customers will accept.

Mod authors get donations all the time. It's been working for 20 years now and will continue to work as long as nobody touches it with greedy hands. Look at all the amazing mods out there, some are DLC quality (Falskaar, Wyrmstooth, Beyond Skyrim, SkyWind...). Those authors were getting tons of donations even before releasing them. Modding is a hobby and like everything else it can work through donations but not with a paywall and the community showed that.