Steam mod monetization

[John Galt]

http://steamcommunity.com/games/SteamWo ... 5237576574

got people charging a dollar for a sword skin... a dollar.

but what would be real annoying real fast is if someone charged a dollar for my sword skin. i have to actively look to find if someone is making money off of my content

not to mention these are jsut modifications to games that someone else made. i don't think they get any cut. from what i read most of the money goes to steam, some to the modder

on the other hand financial incentive will hopefully lead to more and better mods

but having jsut sat through a talk on Hadoop I don't think so. the guy who made Hadoop also made Lucene, a search engine, of which he originally wanted to charge money but no one used it so he gave it away, and then it ended up being used in a lot of places like in Twitter once it was open source and free. similarly hadoop is so popular because it is open source and free. what i think will happen then is a bunch of mods being monetized then people giving up the modding business for good because no one buys them and then they get sick of it and don't even mod for free no more.

Thanks Gaben

[The Comrade]

there's also the issue of games updating and invalidating or potentially breaking mods

[Spider]

Sounds like Steam is soaking up 75% of it.

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[The Comrade]

or kill mods. because i'll be f**k if i'm paying money for a mod.

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[The Comrade]

if everyone starts charging money for mods, or even just the majority, it will. especially because now that money is involved, the lawsuits are coming. and mods are in a gray area of fair use. i don't want some crusty ass 80 year old judge deciding if mods are fair game or not, if monetized mods are fair game, etc.

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[The Comrade]

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