Steam Workshop Now Supporting Paid Creations
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  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
    37·
    2 years ago

    Coming soon: 5000 spam copes of the same relabelled, stolen mods by every single scammer in existence

  • Tosti@feddit.nl
    21·
    2 years ago

    This will be epic in terms of the cluster fuck it can generate.

    Mod makers making more than the game creators, commercializing someone elses products, asset and mod theft and monetezation, revenue split…

    Lemme grab my popcorn.

  • Butterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    There’s a lot of negativity here, and a lot of it is pretty justified. But I don’t hate the idea of paid mods. Like if there’s a way for authors like the ones the made Enderal or other really big mods to make some money off of it that’s really great. Is Bethesda going to be fair about them? Probably not. Is Bethesda going to be competent with the system? Probably as competent as they are at anything else (derogatory).

    But at least it’s a way that you can make some money back for your work where you don’t have to worry about chargebacks from trolls costing you more than the donations they were originally giving you. And this can be a pretty big problem for donation driven works. Someone donates $1, 200 times. Then charges them all back. Paypal charges you $15 processing fee for each chargeback. And you can contest it but who needs that? If Bethesda can be the entity brokering all of it, then they are the ones that take the chargeback risk.

    So in theory, I don’t hate it. But it will all depend on the implementation and competency of Bethesda (not looking good here).

    • PlatinumSf@pawb.social
      7·
      2 years ago

      If you’re looking for monitary returns, make a game not a mod. Otherwise you’re building your foundation on sand and owe the lack of monitary return on nothing but your own choices. Having Bethesda broker this is just a horrible idea and will lead to a cesspool of fraud, exploit, and death to genuine creative love works and passion projects. Not everything need be made for profit, and often it’s better for it.

    • Don_alForno@feddit.de
      4·
      2 years ago

      Someone donates $1, 200 times. Then charges them all back. Paypal charges you $15 processing fee for each chargeback

      Don’t use PayPal. That’s a good policy in general.

    • lustyargonian@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      I think Flight Simulator has paid mods and I’ve seen ambivalent or slightly positive opinions of it. It is definitely doable and is actually a good idea, but something about Bethesda and their way of doing it always seems shady.

  • vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    It’s wild how many people who do not have mods published on nexus/workshop/bethesda are happy to speak on the behalf of modders.

    • pimento64@sopuli.xyz
      12·
      2 years ago

      I have mods published on the Nexus, and I feel confident in saying paid mods are degenerate and so are everyone who supports them.

  • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    I am not paying extra so that Bethesda can push the burden of fixing their 12 year old broken game that I already paid full price for onto random people.

    I will be pirating paid mods and you will not change my mind.