HAHAHAA GREEDY GABE

I'm fine with that!

Mods for money?
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Sounds like a NOPE for me.

On one hand, it's fine for me that people who make good mods can make money for it. But on the other hand, I don't think people will appreciate this sudden change. Nobody wants to pay for something that was always free.

it would have been a good thing if it was like a donation system.
it would have encouraged modders to work harder on their projects and get paid reasonably base on the quality of their mods,but now....
i don't like it :D

*Edited my post :| :D

Bad idea: As a long time modder I'm afraid that this step will get modders to pull their content off of pages like Nexus, TWCenter, Gamefront etc in order to become Workshop-exclusive and get paid (which is totally understandable). I'm all about supporting modders (I'm a paying supporter on the Nexus forums) but this step might hurt the modding community and the wide availability of mods.

Also imagine this: an advanced Skyrim gamer plays the game running 150-200 mods at all once (adding, switching, testing mods frequently), if an average mod costs $2 a 150-200 mod-setup would cost $400, Skyrim Legendary Edition costs $39.99. Although rewarding modders for their hard work is understandable, spending 10 times more on mods than the money you gave to the developers is a bit extreme. (and people who like to mod Skyrim as a hobby also play Fallout 3, New Vegas, Oblivion etc with their 200-200 mods). I'm not sure if Valve really thought about the impact of this decision, or they just simply don't care.

Statement of Nexusmods

Now lots of ppl obviously gonna sell their mods, which is complete bullshit, I mean if there was a donate button, someone could donate, but buy.....nope. And obviously this leads to piracy.

See kids changing the color of a car skin, changing one texture or whatever and selling it on Steam...

I barely install mods as it is since I don't like installing buggy messes. The idea of paying for a mod that may or may not work that great doesn't sound like a good for me. But good for the modders to make some money.

Worst thing possible, they started with Skyrim. I honestly wonder wtf they're thinking there at Valve..
If this was for CSGO or something like that, sure.. but skyrim jeez.

Great, even more Mirco-DLC. Only this time its unofficial.

I wonder what would happen if a paid mod stops getting supported and the game updates and breaks the mod. Do you have to deal with it? Or do you get refunded? Knowing Valve its probably the former one.

Now this really depends on the mod, no I wouldn't pay for the mod that makes my skyrim character naked.
But for example a mod that adds a whole new story, with good voicing and characters. (basically a quality mod with lots of content), then sure!

UPDATE: So I went looking at the skyrim mods and people are asking like 5$ for a new follower, and 0,20-1$ for a sword. or a couple of dollar for some remodeling.

I agree with its a bad idea.

Good mods may end up being pulled from other sites were they are free.

And I'm 10000000000% sure there will be a flood of pointless mods that alter or add just one tiny thing.

I also agree on the grounds it should be 'donate', and NOT 'buy'. Specially if valve is getting the reported 70+%?

for fans from fans... well it had a little bit another meaning as I remember.

I would only pay for a mod if it was a total conversion mod or a massive overhaul. Not going to pay 5,49€ for a few extra spells. I can get AAA games on sale for that price.

I am perfectly fine if they add a donation button, but NOT forcing you to pay for the mod if you want to use it. Before anyone says "just use the nexus" (in the case of the starting game skyrim) they already launched at least one mod that has extra stuff in it only in the paid version (midas magic), This is the end of skyrim modding unless they do something about it.

I kinda want to believe that the good mods are still going to be free even with the option for them to charge for them. I don't think they would've done any to this day if they were after money.

Charging for weapon retextures? You're delusional if you think I'm going to shell a cent for it. Falskaar? That definitely deserves recognition, but it should be a donation, leaving it up to the users if they want to. Paid isn't the spirit of mods.

i like playing the original games anyway,i only maybe add texture improvements so no cheeseburgers from me for mister Gaben

Good one Valve, April fools was 3 weeks ago.

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and I was going to buy skyrim in the closest sale... it won't happen. I will buy skyrim and later mods and I will pay 3x times more. Sure. I'm going to use nexus mod manager without steam.

Maybe this is also the beginning of mods piracy?

thats the worst news I could hear this week. Why Gab3n whay ? ;_;

I wonder if people can buy and trade mods as giftable copies, then we can have bundles just for mods and then Steam will implement region locks for mods.

I thought there already was April Fools this year?

this will make free mods turn into crap and everyone will be cashing theirs.

at least nexus sites are still free.

and yet another pointless feature nobody asked for