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| Acadian |
Apr 24 2015, 03:45 AM
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Paladin

Joined: 14-March 10
From: Las Vegas

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Gstaff, of Bethesda, announced on the Bethesda forum that Skyrim Workshop Now Supports Paid Mods. Here's the thread. To say the reaction there has been underwhelming is a massive understatement. If I spend more than a moment pondering unintended consequences and pitfalls, I’m afraid I must agree with the ominous implications this has for the future of modding. A ton of posts on that thread already beat up the subject pretty well. I confess I prefer as little to do with Steam as possible and have never touched their 'workshop'. I get my mods from Nexus, but the implications are disturbing - even for private hobby modders. Naturally, Steam is taking a big cut of all proceeds. Does this mean that for future games, the CK/CS will only be made available to 'for profit' Steam workshoppers? This seems to validate the concerns many of us have about Steam and their ability to control what you thought you paid for.
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| SubRosa |
Apr 26 2015, 05:52 PM
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Ancient

Joined: 14-March 10
From: Between The Worlds

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I have been doing the opposite. I am deleting mods I currently have whose authors have decided that money means more to them than the modding community. I saw Arthmoor has a for pay mod, so I deleted the Unofficial Dawnguard Patch. That was the only thing of his I had. Since his Unofficial Patch for the main game only caused bugs for me, rather than fixed them. I will just deal with whatever Dawnguard bugs I meet myself. Shezrie has sold her soul for cash too, so out went the Hearthfire Kitchen mods she made which I was using. How that will affect my games where those were already built, I don't know. Worse comes to worse I will just not use those houses in those games and mod my own. It would not be the first time for that. And the maker of Pure Waters is up there too, so I deleted that. I will just have to find another mod that makes water semi-transparent. Or do it myself. Whenever I get back to playing Skyrim. If I ever do that is. This is not as easy to do as I thought, as Apparently Valve no longer speaks American. And this is after I manually set the language to English... I also found this on the Steam Workshop. I wonder how much it costs? I cannot tell, since my Finnish is not so good... Change.org also has a petition you can sign if you are against this. Not that believe it will make the slightest difference in Bethesda's business plans. But it is one way to voice your opinion. This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 26 2015, 06:31 PM
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| mALX |
Apr 26 2015, 09:09 PM
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Ancient

Joined: 14-March 10
From: Cyrodiil, the Wastelands, and BFE TN

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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Apr 26 2015, 12:52 PM)  I have been doing the opposite. I am deleting mods I currently have whose authors have decided that money means more to them than the modding community. I saw Arthmoor has a for pay mod, so I deleted the Unofficial Dawnguard Patch. That was the only thing of his I had. Since his Unofficial Patch for the main game only caused bugs for me, rather than fixed them. I will just deal with whatever Dawnguard bugs I meet myself. Shezrie has sold her soul for cash too, so out went the Hearthfire Kitchen mods she made which I was using. How that will affect my games where those were already built, I don't know. Worse comes to worse I will just not use those houses in those games and mod my own. It would not be the first time for that. And the maker of Pure Waters is up there too, so I deleted that. I will just have to find another mod that makes water semi-transparent. Or do it myself. Whenever I get back to playing Skyrim. If I ever do that is. This is not as easy to do as I thought, as Apparently Valve no longer speaks American. And this is after I manually set the language to English... I also found this on the Steam Workshop. I wonder how much it costs? I cannot tell, since my Finnish is not so good... Change.org also has a petition you can sign if you are against this. Not that believe it will make the slightest difference in Bethesda's business plans. But it is one way to voice your opinion. I had Steam do that to me too, it took me a whole lot of jumbling around and finally restarting my PC and re-signing in with them/verifying something - it finally went back to English. I agree with you in this: nothing we do will make any difference at all in the long run. Bethesda had these plans a long time before they pulled this, knew there would be an outcry, that is why they are totally ignoring the threads and letting everyone spew. When we are all tired from hashing and reacting, it will all still be there. The only way to stop it would be a united boycotting of Valve/Steam/Bethesda; and that will NEVER happen. We are gamers, our games are on Steam, and Fallout 4 is about to be announced and revealed at E3. So we may as well face it that no matter what we say it won't change anything. We all need to start proactively planning how we need to protect ourselves for the future and what we are going to do in the long run.
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| mALX |
Apr 27 2015, 01:08 AM
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Ancient

Joined: 14-March 10
From: Cyrodiil, the Wastelands, and BFE TN

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Here is the list of mods behind the paywall: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/...pproval&p=1And here is a list of the Service Providers who a person can opt to give 5% of Valve's cut of the take: Blender MCM Nexus AFK-Mods Polycount (who?).
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| gpstr |
Apr 27 2015, 01:09 AM
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Agent
Joined: 26-March 15

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QUOTE(mALX @ Apr 26 2015, 02:09 PM)  When we are all tired from hashing and reacting, it will all still be there. The only way to stop it would be a united boycotting of Valve/Steam/Bethesda; and that will NEVER happen. We are gamers, our games are on Steam, and Fallout 4 is about to be announced and revealed at E3.
So we may as well face it that no matter what we say it won't change anything.
I have not bought and thus have not played Skyrim. I will not buy and thus will not play Fallout 4 or TES VI. The ONLY thing that counts for anything between you and Beth is whether or not they get your money for their games. If they get your money for their games, then they've succeeded - you have chosen to reward them for making that product. Your opinion of the product or of Beth counts for absolutely nothing (hasn't M'aiq told you that enough times already?). Their only goal is to get your money from you, so if you give them your money, you've done the only thing they need you to do. Giving them your money then complaining about them on a forum is the equivalent of giving a mugger your wallet then flipping him off as he walks away. I guess it might feel somewhat gratifying, but it counts for nothing - they still have your money and don't have to, and don't, care what you think about it. Now - I don't believe that my refusal to give Beth any of my money is going to have any real impact on them. But, first and foremost, it satisfies my sense of integrity. I know that I am doing my part as a consumer - doing the ONLY meaningful thing that a consumer in a free market can do - by refusing to give a company my money in exchange for a product that I don't find satisfactory. And, more to the point, I know that if more people thought the way I do and approached it the way I do, it actually would make a difference, and FAR more difference than any number of posts on any number of forums could ever make. All it would take is for other individuals to make the same decision. And they, like me, have to make that decision on their own, one at a time. /sermon 
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| mALX |
Apr 27 2015, 02:30 AM
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Ancient

Joined: 14-March 10
From: Cyrodiil, the Wastelands, and BFE TN

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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Apr 26 2015, 08:11 PM)  QUOTE(mALX @ Apr 26 2015, 07:08 PM)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-U1HZrV_ZI...eature=youtu.beRead the subtitles - (Bethesda/Valve meeting caught on camera) Oh my goodness, that guy's laugh! It sounds like his heart is going to seize up like engine of an old chevy! I am kind of surprised that Hitler has not popped up to say anything about this. Given his previous opinions about Kanye West, or getting a Wii for Christmas instead of a PS3, not to mention Ben Affleck being cast as Batman...   Oh, Mirocu would love the Taylor Swift one, lol. Oh, on his laugh - YES! I actually knew an old lady that laughed like that, and just hearing her laugh used to make me fall into hysterics laughing. I would walk into the office and look at her, she would pull the ever-present cigarette from her mouth and make a "PAaaaaaa" sound, and that would set me off laughing. Then when I was wiping my tears from laughing so hard I'd hear "Huiuuiuuiuuiah huiaiuih" and go off again. Our boss had to separate us to get any work done. Peggy. Her face was brown and her mouth all wrinkled from smoking all the time; her ash tray was a tire hub and was full constantly; and you never saw her without that cigarette. She would even talk with it in her mouth, her thin lips gripping it as she talked around it and it flipped all over without ever once dropping a long line of ashes - OMG, she was so funny. I LOVED her! I could have developed lung cancer just working in the office with her though, lol.
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| mALX |
Apr 27 2015, 04:24 AM
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Ancient

Joined: 14-March 10
From: Cyrodiil, the Wastelands, and BFE TN

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QUOTE(Acadian @ Apr 26 2015, 10:23 PM)  MALX, thanks for posting that list of paymods. Pretty much what I'd expect - mostly junk.
Yeah, I was shocked to see that Redguard house just dumped down in the middle of the road - meaning NPC's traveling through there will have issues - no landscaping; and one of the windows looked like it was below the dirt! Really crappy work. I got a kick out of a few of them "Nothing" - an empty ESP because I just want your money; etc.
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| haute ecole rider |
Apr 28 2015, 01:00 AM
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Master

Joined: 16-March 10
From: The place where the Witchhorses play

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Now that's interesting! I honestly did not expect Valve and Beth to back down from this new "business model." But the article you quoted has one statement that leaves me uneasy, and yes, fairly queasy: QUOTE We think this made us miss the mark pretty badly, even though we believe there's a useful feature somewhere here I doubt Valve will give up so easily.
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| SubRosa |
Apr 28 2015, 01:26 AM
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Ancient

Joined: 14-March 10
From: Between The Worlds

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That is good news. h.e.r. Forbes ran this interesting article a few months ago. At first I thought it was merely ironic when all the paid mod stuff happened over the weekend. But it might be that useful feature. Still, I doubt Bethesda would have the vision, or enlightened self-interest, to do it. This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 28 2015, 01:27 AM
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