How would that be legal? Since they would be benefiting off of someone else's IP.

Bullshit headline. Article makes fuzz about nothing.

Valve allows modders to stick a price tag on their work and earn some money. It's well deserved considering the quality of some mods and the hard work and long hours the creators put into them. Nobody is forced to buy anything. There is really no controversy here imo.

This better not become a thing.

SAY WHAT?!?
Paying for mods?

Hard to say where this is headed, but some of the prices are pretty crazy already. ($7.00 for Wet and Cold?!)
I would have much rather a more streamlined pricing experience. Possibly one where you can have the option of paying the Modder what you think is fair for content.
I really dont see a difference between this and full-on DLC. And I am no fan of DLC in any measure. Just release the full friggen game already...

In general not a bad idea if the people involved give a fair pricing on the content they provide. After all at least with the good mods the people spend a substantial amount of time making them so it is deserved if they make some money off it.

Obviously Valve needs to make clear rules around content from IPs that they can't charge money for that. They will also need a system where the dev/publisher first needs to agree on mods being sold for their game.

Valve no why you do this there aint going to be a happy conclusion to this stuff.

The only way to stop this is by getting very, very vocal against Valve and Bethesda so as to harm their PR. Like happened with EA when they became "worst company of the year".

I've been a modder in the past before, but this really isn't sensible.

An extremely smart move from pure business perspective. Monetizing content, any content, is the way of the future, and this will put the modders into spotlight. They will make more money, start studios and everyone will benefit. It's a great way to motivate gamers to become developers, too.

However, I can see this becoming a huge issue in the gamer community in various ways. Nevertheless, it's an interesting development in the PC games industry. I hope this doesn't receive too big of a backlash, so that they won't cancel this.

It's time to give the modders sum money for their work!

man they like to complicate things, with the amount of cash spent on pc and consoles you would think we would of had gotten to a point where gaming would be a lot simpler

aren't most popular Mods revolve around inject another IP into it so that's going to be a whole problem because how can a modder ask to be paid for a IP they don't own and if they still decide to post the mod and make money off of it by applying some more discreet or false identification for it, it just opens up Valve for a lawsuit because they would of had created the distribution system and worse if they take a cut of the sales

I'm more than happy to donate to the modder but there is no way I'm paying to get mods.

thank the gods for http://www.nexusmods.com/ga... lol. im really not liking this.

So much bitching from entitled gamers for nothing.

Don't want it, don't buy it. STFU.

This will end badly for everyone.

I'd like to see how this works first before judging or saying they should do donations instead. For people that mod stuff like Falskaar where it adds its own narrative and 20+ hours of content then I see no problem with this.

As long as they only put a pay wall for developers like Bethesda that encourage modding and the mods have sufficient amount of content and the original developers get a cut of the profits then why not charge people for it?

Looks like I'm going full nexus from now on. Why are people actually labeling mod making like it's a full time job? I make youtube content for fun and I don't expect to be paid just because I made someone laugh. Mod making is something you personally do out of your own time for others. Development is a term used to describe it like its a full time job, which its not. Donating is one thing, But putting full pay control behind random users will affect many other mod sites like the nexus sites over long term, because it shows that people will pay money for the saMe content they could have gotten free.

Besides, developing a mod onLy costs time. Its not like your gonna go hungry because you couldnt push out that gmod mlp pony model pack.

A lot of game companies like Mojang don't allow charging for mods. We'll see what happens. Of course, Mojang isn't on steam anyways though.

Even if they jump through every legal loophole I'm assuming Valve and the Devs will be getting a cut of the profit. At that point don't the mods become DLC and modders free labor?

I mean seems clear after that court case that his days were numbered.

24 years of mediocre out the door. This should be good for Bethesda.

Smart

Best of luck Pete, thanks for the great memories.

He did bring us the original Evil Within that was the best game !!!

So the exodus resumes....

Could be a great free agent pickup for PlayStation. Xbox's loss is Sony's gain ;)

Makes sense to me , hard job promoting products that do not come out good . But thanks for DOOM 2016 and DOOM ETERNAL.

Meh...Probably best that he left.

12 years to late. He didn't have much but lies to work with but he still told them as slimey as he could.

Under him and Xbox/Microsoft, we got fallout 76, starfield and redfall; moldy power armor helmets, broken starfield watches, abandoned mobile games( elder scrolls blades, fallout shelter) and broken ports of games. Not a good legacy and not a good future for Bethesda.

I honestly see Bethesda closing in under 10 years. Microsoft did that to a few other studios they obtained, like lionhead.