You Can Now Sell Skyrim Mods on Steam

Valve and bethesda, just download a mod to remind you. It's called "give me money for no reason". There is a rich and welathy girl there that asks you money. Her name is Beth. Just to remind me of you, biggest disapointment of gaming

Won't be long before every mod becomes DLC. Not only that, but think of all the ramifications and difficulties. Most mods don't have extensive reviews like actual games, which will make purchasing them a difficult choice. Practically all mods have insane amounts of glitches that never get fixed (the main reason I typically don't bother with them), which makes it foolish to justify any price. And what happens if someone wants a refund?

I've been done with buying anything new on Steam for awhile and I stick to GOG and consoles nowadays, but news stories like this just make me happier about my decision.

Well looks like I won't be modding my games for much longer .

Steam's going down.

I used to release mods I made for games (mostly for Morrowind and Rome Total War) until someone took a couple of my Morrowind mods that were on TES Source (now Nexus), claimed them as his own, and uploaded them to a paid website. The hassles I had to go through to get those mods removed from that site was ridiculous; and made more so because they contained material that was owned by the game company I worked for at the time and used by me with their permission. I still mod games today: but I only ever release them to my close friends who I know will never make them public.

Be prepared to have tons of incidents where mods are 'stolen' just so they can be sold or people including someone else's free work without permission for paid mods, and the resulting fallout that will begin to tear modding teams and communities apart. There's a reason very few modding communities go the paid route with their mods; it just doesn't last long before the whole thing begins to collapse...

this could be bad. the idea is noble but not all mods deserve to be put behind money wall. sometimes mods dont work at all and crash so this could cause trouble. i don't understand why valve is becoming so greedy. i think the donation is better because the community can rate a user for his mods and reward him. its better than this where it could be abused by a lot of people. bad move valve.

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Yep, this will do it!

This is a terrible idea. Even if Valve's intentions are right, this will end up like Steam Early Access, a lot of broken overpriced junk. Donation is much better idea. First devs used to milk people through DLCs made by 2 or 3 devs within few hours. Now they'll just take their 75% cut through mods that are fixing their broken/unfinished/feature less games and they won't even have to do anything. Basically, this system is rewarding devs for releasing broken games. This is the first time when I'm going to sign a petition.

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This is the worst development in gaming since Anita Sarkeesian.

Valve, turning a hobby into a capitalist cash-grab. Not everything should be about money! :(

Well, this is crap. How do I not know I'm wasting X amount of money on something I find game-breaking and need to uninstall after? Meh, who cares? Nexus has more mods anyway.

I dislike this. DLC is not enough? now mods will also be monetized?

I'm all for supporting Modders but with Valve taking 75% to themselves (does not say if they pay Bethesda or not) then I don't see how this is supporting them.

Most of the profit going to Valve, what for? Hosting it on their site/workshop? It's not even their game but yet they get the largest slice? GREEDY!

I think they are trying to push people away from modding Skyrim on their platform. Intentionally or otherwise, that's what will happen.

Donations or larger sums go to those who actually do the work, this is a joke if done this way.

System should be around donation, not paywall.

looks like we'll be pirating mods

whats going to happen to top 5 skyrim mods of the WEEK!!! i love that show, dont let it die because of money.

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really... mods that cost money while they are free on nexsus?

So will steam have sex mods now? Who's asking the real questions here people?

Does anyone know how much the creators earn from their mods? 25%? 50%? 75%? No way that they earn 100% of the revenue. Valve and Bethesda has to take a little piece of it due to Bethesda supplying the tools/game and Valve owning Steam n sh!t.

I see so many problems in this. People copying other mods and passing them as their own to make a buck. People over promising what a will do to get support a la Early Access. Developers making a buck from modders, while leaving more work unfinished on their end (looking at you Bethesda). I would also expect steam refund policy changing, because I'm sure there will a be deluge of requests from users.

What can you expect from Steam, a company that encourages incomplete crappy games to be sold on their site?

The more I read about this, the more I see how wrong of an idea this is.

Honestly don't know what to think about this. Paid mods aren't something new but I like that we can support the mod creators but I'd rather do so through donations than be forced to it and I don't think they're gonna support full versions on Nexus anymore because of this.

Though I guess this could create jobs for people and maybe even get signed up by Bethesda due to skill/creativity and sh!t.

I feel like this is a terrible blow for the average player and the mod community in general.

Mod pirating will be a new thing now.

Don't content creators have a right to make money off their work?

Lol, turns out the "premium fishing mini-game" got force taken down by Fore for using his FNIS as part of the mod and profiting off his free work. Steam was forced to remove the bundle as well because it contain the fishing mini game as a a main seller. This is what I mean about having to use outside scripts and tools such as SKSE. A lot of mods uses pre-built framework created by other modders and when users have to make their own script vs a community built and tested script, expect in the quality of mods to worsen.

Worst news of the year. F U Valve.

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I don't mind modders selling their work, but I do think Valve made a mistake by removing donation options as well. On the steam workshop, all links to donation sites have been removes. Plenty of modders support themselves with donations from fans, but right now on Steam, they HAVE to put their mod behind a paywall, or get nothing at all. I expect several modders will create "Donation Versions" of their mods to circumvent this, but I hope that soon Valve will offer a "pay what you want" model as well.

Fortunately, "the nexus" community is vast.