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Valve cancels paid mods / Bethesda lost millions b/c mods

IgGy621985 · 2015-04-27 04:17:10

For Skyrim.We're going to remove the payment feature from the Skyrim workshop. For anyone who spent money on a mod, we'll be refunding you the complete amount. We talked to the team at Bethesda and they agree.We've done this because it's clear we didn't understand exactly what we were doing. We've been shipping many features over the years aimed at allowing community creators to receive a share of the rewards, and in the past, they've been received well. It's obvious now that this case is different.To help you understand why we thought this was a good idea, our main goals were to allow mod makers the opportunity to work on their mods full time if they wanted to, and to encourage developers to provide better support to their mod communities. We thought this would result in better mods for everyone, both free & paid. We wanted more great mods becoming great products, like Dota, Counter-strike, DayZ, and Killing Floor, and we wanted that to happen organically for any mod maker who wanted to take a shot at it.But we underestimated the differences between our previously successful revenue sharing models, and the addition of paid mods to Skyrim's workshop. We understand our own game's communities pretty well, but stepping into an established, years old modding community in Skyrim was probably not the right place to start iterating. We think this made us miss the mark pretty badly, even though we believe there's a useful feature somewhere here.Now that you've backed a dump truck of feedback onto our inboxes, we'll be chewing through that, but if you have any further thoughts let us know.Link.They didn't confirm it means paid mods scheme is completely removed though.Update: Bethesda responds too:We have a long history with modding, dating back to 2002 with The Elder Scrolls Construction Set,' it wrote in a new Bethesda Blog post. 'It’s our belief that our games become something much more with the promise of making it your own. But this part is particularly, well...The availability of mods is one of the reasons Oblivion was re-rated from T to M, 'costing us millions of dollars,' it continued. Even so, 'while others in the industry went away from it, we pushed more toward it.

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#101 FireEmblem_Man

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@ronvalencia said:

@FireEmblem_Man:

You just answered my point i.e. it's missing in action for normal users. Windows 7 and 8 users far exceeds Windows 10 TP users.

It would take a while for Windows store to displace Valve Steam.

You actually think that the current state of Windows 10 is ready for the public? Okay, we'll talk in July when the actual OS comes out.

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@inb4uall: that's because they are talking out of their assholes, the esrb wasn't changed due to mods to even begin with. They are just trying to save face and act like they were on the consumers side all along.

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