Steam Workshop allowing creators to charge for mods

Maybe there will be a free 'fend for yourself' version of mods on Nexus that you manually install and the 'Supported' steam version with one click installing and support afterwards. I wouldnt mind fiddling with a mod to make it work.
 
Remember this is just the begining.. Rome 2 would be fairly useless without mods like DEI etc. and games like the ARMA series are thriving due to the active mod scene....
 
But but Steam are the greatest company ever! They're here for the gamers!

Sadly people can't see it and insist everything has to be on Steam even though it's getting worse as time goes on.

As above, one mod already removed for using files from someone else's hard work.
 
Sega Mega Dave said:
But but Steam are the greatest company ever! They're here for the gamers!
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They were, but the veneer is wearing thin after this for some people. Me included sadly.

I've always held Gabe and Valve in very high regard, but over the years I can't help but feel that they're listening to customers less and less and trying to be a Jack of all trades by branching into all sorts of areas.
 
DampCat said:
I.. just cant see how that's relevant to anything i said.
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DampCat said:
These people are already supporting themselves and are doing the modding for the love of it. That will always produce much higher quality than someone who is just doing something for easy money . Always.
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People who do something for nothing will always do a better job than people that do it for money....seems to be the takeaway from that sentence.

It might surprise you to discover that every single person that works in the games industry (including the evil, money-grubbing producers that make sure things actually get released), is in it because the love playing and making games and they want everything they do to be the best they can make it.

They sure as **** don't do it for the money.....
 
Stop talking down to me, for a start.

And what you have inferred is not what I was implying so i'll try again so you can get on board.

People who spend 100's of hours creating a free mod will always produce a much higher quality of work than people who have made some crappy sword skin so they can sell it for a couple bucks several hundred times.

Notice my use of the term "easy money" in the original quote, this is where the implication of a low standard was supposed to have come through.
 
Well, fair enough, but that's kind of obvious....like "someone who produces trash quality amateur mods will never produce stuff as good as a professional who cares about his work". Neither is a good case for or against a paid mod marketplace. There's plenty of awful mods around, always has been.

I don't see the big problem. Having a paid marketplace isn't going to stop quality free content being available. Valve are just being a smart business, they were ahead of the curve on digital delivery....I think this move is going to be very successful.
 
mid_gen said:
It might surprise you to discover that every single person that works in the games industry (including the evil, money-grubbing producers that make sure things actually get released), is in it because the love playing and making games and they want everything they do to be the best they can make it.

They sure as **** don't do it for the money.....
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you are having a laugh aren't you? so you're saying.....every single person working in the games industry is in it because of their love of playing games and making games......and they ain't in it for the money?????

I hope I am taking you up wrong and if I am I sincerely apologise. if you are being serious though, I really do fear for your level of sanity! ;)
 
I do think it is a very cynical move by Valve. After all, it's simply nothing but a cash grab with nothing to lose. If they wanted to support the modders - most who I am sure deserve something - then a donation option would suffice.

What next, reskinning Left4Dead and releasing it, expecting people to pay for it?
 
Thekwango said:
you are having a laugh aren't you? so you're saying.....every single person working in the games industry is in it because of their love of playing games and making games......and they ain't in it for the money?????

I hope I am taking you up wrong and if I am I sincerely apologise. if you are being serious though, I really do fear for your level of sanity! ;)
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The money is crap in games. You don't go into the industry if you want to make lots of it.....if that's what motivates you then you can get more of it, much easier, in pretty much any other industry.

If people are the industry for the money, they are the ones that need a sanity check.
 
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mid_gen said:
The money is crap in games. You don't go into the industry if you want to make lots of it.....if that's what motivates you then you can get more of it, much easier, in pretty much any other industry.

If people are the industry for the money, they are the ones that need a sanity check.
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oh right, you were being serious. oh dear. :eek:
 
Thekwango said:
oh right, you were being serious. oh dear. :eek:
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I think he's thinking of "people making games" (coders, artists) who with afew notable exceptions are probably paid unimpressively, as opposed to "people running companies that make games" (marketers, managers, executives) who I'm sure make out like bandits just as they would in almost any field.
 
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