Steam Launches Paid Mod Support

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April 28, 2015, 07:40:22 AM Last Edit: April 28, 2015, 07:44:11 AM by steve58
Glad to see Steam came to their senses, but I suspect we've not heard the last of this.  Pay-4-mods will be back eventually in some form or another...

Quote from: RooksBailey on April 28, 2015, 01:40:32 AM
Story here:

http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-has-removed-paid-mods-functionality-from-steam-workshop/

...did not know of the online petition mentioned in the PCGamer link.  133,000 sigs.  O0
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Boggit

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April 28, 2015, 09:14:41 AM
Good thing. You'd have thought Valve's PR people would have given this more thought (or even some thought... :idiot2:) before diving in to something that was so full of PR toxicity. Anyway, all's well that ends well.
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MengJiao

#62
April 28, 2015, 09:28:31 AM
Quote from: challerain on April 23, 2015, 09:59:51 PM
Have to agree with Jomni her...this is totally optional

I agree.  Some modders do a lot of work.  There may be copyright issues for some games though right?

I usually don't get mods anyway -- I'm usually tired of a game before the mods get good.

Nefaro

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April 28, 2015, 12:38:20 PM
Quote from: steve58 on April 28, 2015, 07:40:22 AM
Glad to see Steam came to their senses, but I suspect we've not heard the last of this.  Pay-4-mods will be back eventually in some form or another...



Yep.

They're just saying that they need to do it with new releases. 

Gusington

#64
April 28, 2015, 07:11:58 PM
Valve need to do more research on their customer base. They clearly did not know which way the wind would blow. And they should have.
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April 28, 2015, 07:22:28 PM
^yep. They really screwed the pooch on this one.
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April 28, 2015, 07:44:59 PM
Valve may also be feeling a bit too big for their britches, like they are the only outlet to purchase games. They are dominant, yeah, but it wouldn't take much to whittle that dominance down - as we see with this whole mod thing.
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April 29, 2015, 11:47:48 AM
Quote from: Gusington on April 28, 2015, 07:44:59 PM
Valve may also be feeling a bit too big for their britches, like they are the only outlet to purchase games. They are dominant, yeah, but it wouldn't take much to whittle that dominance down - as we see with this whole mod thing.
Any "abuse" of the dominant position - cartel agreements, anti-competitiveness, tie-ins, overweening anti-consumer contract terms can lead to some pretty heavy penalties if someone finds a chink and wants to exploit it. "With great power comes great responsibility..." (Spiderman I)
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat
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