Steam is monetizing mods. Yes, you read that right.

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My personal thoughts are that one of the main reasons that Source engine 2.0 is free is because of these paid mods.

First off any game created on the engine the automatically get a 30% cut because it has to be sold on Steam.

Second any mods created on the source engine means that valve can potentially take 75% of the profits on that as well.

Really quit sneaky.

Valves rep has been seriously harmed by this situation, they will need to do some serious ass kissing if they want to get into the good graces of PC gamers.

Valve showed their true colours over the past few days. These are some of the things they pulled.

*Banned from store if you got a refund on the mod.
*Banned for voicing your dislike of this paid mod fiasco.
*Awful AMA that dodged the real issues.
*Anyone who actually agreed to sell stuff on the workshop no longer owns their own work.
*Complete and utterly greedy profit split.

 

They won't. Not unless the profit share is fair. They've learned a lesson. They pull this crap again, there'll be backlash.

 

I'm just amazed at how fast this blew up and then was pulled..

 

Skyrim currently has 25 million copies sold on Steam, alot of those are most likely due to free mods. Even that group of people alone is a large amount of people to piss off.

 

I'm going to make a cup of tea.. and then read like everything everywhere. haha..

starting here.

http://www.reddit.com/r/modpiracy

*edit*

lol.

http://imgur.com/a/K14fJ

Spoiler

 

Good. I'm glad they backed off on this. I'm fine with a donation button; something the Nexus already has. I've been getting mods of the Nexus for over a decade and I'm not going to stop irregardless of this (failed) stunt by Valve/Bethesda.

 

Holy crap.. Just got back from work... WE WON SOMETHING??? Holy crap...

 

No matter how quickly and "transparent" Valve backed off and removed paid mods from Skyrim.. The damage is done... No one will look at Valve and "The Gaben" the same again after this. His little cult following is over.. For years they've been getting people to raise an eyebrow at their true intentions by the little things they kept adding and doing to make more $$$.. This though was Valve going full EA/Ubisoft. I know from now on I'll be prioritizing GOG before Steam for any game purchase I want..

 

What they SHOULD have done was start a community licensing program for Source 2. Give out free access to the engine tools to make content, then allow publishing to the Steam store/workshop and give the creators a cut of the sales. Then at least the split would have been understandable. Everyone wins in that situation, because source is pretty easy to develop on and backwards compatible. If you're going to start something like this, you have to do it the right way.

 

I hope GOG Galaxy takes off that's for sure....

There is just no competition for Steam.

Other than EA's Origin which is pretty much EA games, and Ubisoft's Uplay which can honestly go and **** itself with an elongated rusty piece of metal... Steam has no Real Competition.

If I buy a game outside of Steam, Be at Amazon, eBay... or from an actually store like EB Games... I'm receiving a product key to activate on Steam, with the disc containing old data that needs updating via Steam.

This whole Paid Modding saga has left a very bitter taste.

 

You're sadly mistaken if you think this will change people views about Valve. Sheep will be sheep.

 

It is suprising just how fast they backpedaled, we have seen EA weather far worse blow back before .

nm that bethesda had to give up its 75% take and agree to it.

of course they did have the hindsite of horse armor and how the community felt about that and took a moment to think that through on this whole venture...

gglad they caved on this i was waiting for nexus to implode if this crap took off.

 

So whatever happened to the mods which started charging? I searched for wet & cold and the gifts of akawhatever and they were removed. Strange thing is, during the time there were paid mods, my subscriptions were reset. Now they're back. Weird.

Yeah I hope GoG takes off with the release of Witcher 3. They need more eyeballs.

 

I only own it because it was on sale for £2.50 or something, I never play it though lol

 

I dont know if I am the only one that think this mess was begin from Bethesda.
They want 75% from mod price isnt?

"Update from Bethesda: After discussion with Valve, and listening to our community, paid mods are being removed from Steam Workshop. Even though we had the best intentions, the feedback has been clear – this is not a feature you want. Your support means everything to us, and we hear you."

So Valve was just a "reseller",not behind the idea of paying mods.IMHO.

http://www.bethblog.com/2015/04/27/why-were-trying-paid-skyrim-mods-on-steam/

 

Good.

 

Hah, it was Xbox One trying to first make used games unplayable that shut this down, and the PC people of course came through for mods lol. Nice!

 

I'm genuinely shocked Valve didn't see this coming, while there were some positives for charging for mods, there were a lot more negatives.
It's good they backtracked but the lack of foresight is worrying.

I saw someone mentioning removal of previously paid mods, can't imagine the modders will continue with the work for free, and do you think Valve/Beth took the hit or did the modders also have to return money.