Money for Mods: Valve Announces Paid Skyrim Mods

[SmaMan]

Paying for mods is nothing new. Hell, I grew up with a great paid mod of Wolfenstien in the form of Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold. Thing is, that was officially published by Apogee, after going through much quality control and testing.

Steam needs to run it like that. And not like Early Access/Greenlight where untested crap gets pushed without a second thought.

 

[TomWiley]

Valve has shown that they can build up a fully-fledged hat-economy, but what they haven't showed is the ability to properly managing people's creative content, especially content created and submitted by enthusiasts. Steam Green-light might be the most recent, and perhaps most disastrous example, but the oversaturated mess that is Early Access is another one.

If this turns out to be another poorly managed, screw-up that ends up inadvertedly hurting the modding community, question is how much longer all that goodwill is gonna last.