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Post by GrimmPrince on Apr 25, 2015 6:27:35 GMT 10
It seems that steam wants to convert modding communities into business man/woman shaking each other down for a dime What am I talking about? The Steam workshop now allows mod authors to charge money for their mods so a lot of mod authors are pulling their mods off the Nexus and uploading them on Steam selling them for cash and of course Steam and Bethesda are taking a huge cut of the profits. For the time being it is only for The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim. Which is on sale right now if anyone is interested. I made a video about it if anyone want to hear more (I kind of ramble a bit though)
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Post by blademaster1215 on Apr 25, 2015 14:40:33 GMT 10
Not everyone may realize what this brings, but remember that guy who kept stealing mods from this site and selling them as "premium" mods? Imagine this times 100, that's exactly what precedent has arrived for Skyrim, and now every modding community's fate rests on this. You think Capcom won't get smart and start doing this with RE and DMC? They will if Valve makes this profitable enough, btw 75% of all mod sales go to Valve, not the modder.
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Post by GrimmPrince on Apr 25, 2015 14:59:15 GMT 10
Not everyone may realize what this brings, but remember that guy who kept stealing mods from this site and selling them as "premium" mods? Imagine this times 100, that's exactly what precedent has arrived for Skyrim, and now every modding community's fate rests on this. You think Capcom won't get smart and start doing this with RE and DMC? They will if Valve makes this profitable enough, btw 75% of all mod sales go to Valve, not the modder. I know. There are already people stealing mods and uploading it on the workshop many mod authors are pulling down their mods to prevent them from being stolen. The entire Skyrim modding community on Steam are at each others throats, Nothing but everyone shouting at each other, all Valve is doing is locking threads and banning people who are too vocal. Its an absolute mess.
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Post by blademaster1215 on Apr 25, 2015 15:07:34 GMT 10
Not everyone may realize what this brings, but remember that guy who kept stealing mods from this site and selling them as "premium" mods? Imagine this times 100, that's exactly what precedent has arrived for Skyrim, and now every modding community's fate rests on this. You think Capcom won't get smart and start doing this with RE and DMC? They will if Valve makes this profitable enough, btw 75% of all mod sales go to Valve, not the modder. I know. There are already people stealing mods and uploading it on the workshop many mod authors are pulling down their mods to prevent them from being stolen. The entire Skyrim modding community on Steam are at each others throats, Nothing but everyone shouting at each other, all Valve is doing is locking threads and banning people who are too vocal. Its an absolute mess. Yep... it's the literal Modding community apocalypse led by the company you least expected.
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Post by GrimmPrince on Apr 25, 2015 15:29:19 GMT 10
Yep... it's the literal Modding community apocalypse led by the company you least expected. Well Steam has always had some shady business ethics like their non-existent return policy, Their terrible customer service and those early access games that they allow on their store without any kind of quality control to protect customers from purchasing completely broken games. This one is the worst though and it really needs to go away fast or many if not all modding communities will have a grim future
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Post by Shigu on Apr 25, 2015 16:04:20 GMT 10
I kind of doubt any games without direct modding support would allow mods created by sketchy homebrew scripts with illegally ported models to be sold (Imagine trying to sell a DMC mod with Raiden's sword and Yoshimitsu's body), so I wouldn't worry about it affecting games like RE, DMC, etc. Honestly Jap-developed games never really directly support modding so then I guess this means that this won't affect any good games.
But for the games it does affect, it kinda feels like it could be...
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