Sorry to hear that you are opposed to this, but I really don't think things will be as bad as you say. I would have paid you a small fee for your Asian Tileset, Phitt. They can do whatever they want and people will have to bite the bullet. Now it pays of for Valve that Steam has more or less a monopoly on the PC gaming market. Personally I think this is an absolute nightmare and I can only hope people will boycott this. Why invest into DLC if you can let modders do the work for you? Just make some nice tools and the cash will flow without you spending a single cent. I could even imagine it's the next step in the DLC madness. They get 75% of the money and have to do absolutely nothing for it. They do it because it's free money for them. A modder's resource like the tileset I released a few weeks ago? Forget it, only if you give me 50% of your revenues.Īnd don't forget that Bethesda and Valve don't do this to help modders get some money for their work.
PAID MODS ON STEAM MODS
Modding won't be the nice spare time hobby of gaming nerds it used to be anymore, it will become a harsh competition between jealous modders who try to advertise their mods and who will blame other people for stealing their ideas or resources. People kill for money, and that's how it will be for modding as well (kind of.).
It's because everything changes as soon as money is involved. And it's not just that I think we should all do it for the love of the game or other esoterical reasons. Modding is the one reason why I love(d) PC gaming so much and I think if paid mods become the norm we won't have nice modding communities like this one anymore.
To me this is the worst thing that ever happened to PC gaming.