Never thought I'd see the day where I've to pay for a mod. Sure paying the modder is good and all but the implication is much bigger than that, it affects the community and pc gaming as a whole. Remember, modder only takes about 25% of the profit.

The idea alone is quite ridiculous though, I mean selling mods? Mods have always been free all this while. What they're doing now is more akin to DLC except that it's done by amateurs instead of a team of professional developers. What the other person said, how is the modder gonna guarantee that his mod will work on my setup / game? 24 hours is too little a time to test it, if it's even compatible with other mods or future updates. If you're unlucky you'll probably end up with a dead software and there's no way to get your money back.

This is just the beginning though, soon more games will adopt the same thing. DRM for mods? the idea isn't too far fetched. All signs are pointing towards that direction. Mods outside of steam will be rendered useless and the only way to obtain it is from steam workshop. 3rd party sites like Nexus and Mod DB will die a slow painful death.

Gabe's in this thread http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/33...mods_and_steam/ in case if anyone's missed

I'm for one glad this is over. I've reversed the negative review on Steam too. Somehow I feel like they'll try it again someday but probably on a new game, FO4? TES6? who knows

Wouldn't have expected that coming from him at all. A lot more reasonable compared to TB.
Anyway here's a good read, an interview with the owner of Nexus site, Robin http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/04/28...s-on-paid-mods/

This post has been edited by light bulb: Apr 29 2015, 04:45 PM