But again, we don't think it's right for us to decide who those creators are or what they create." "We believe the best should be paid for their work and treated like the game developers they are. But we also believe our community wants to reward the very best creators, and that they deserve to be rewarded," the publisher said. Prior to that - in the same blog entry no less - Bethesda wrote a lengthy explanation on why it decided to allow paid mods and why only 25 per cent of that revenue would have gone to the mod creators.įirst off, the Skyrim publisher shared its philosophy on why it decided to allow mod user to charge for content.
Your support means everything to us, and we hear you." "Even though we had the best intentions, the feedback has been clear - this is not a feature you want. "After discussion with Valve, and listening to our community, paid mods are being removed from Steam Workshop," the publisher stated on its blog. Canvassers add an unprecedented degree of realism to Skyrim. ORIGINAL STORY 12.33am: After much debate, Skyrim publisher Bethesda has removed the option to sell Skyrim mods on Steam. We think this made us miss the mark pretty badly, even though we believe there's a useful feature somewhere here. 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. "But we underestimated the differences between our previously successful revenue sharing models, and the addition of paid mods to Skyrim's workshop. 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. "We thought this would result in better mods for everyone, both free & paid. "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," Valve explained. It's obvious now that this case is different."
"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.
"We've done this because it's clear we didn't understand exactly what we were doing," Valve said in a community update. UPDATE 1.22am: Valve has stated that it will offer full refunds on all Skyrim mods purchased in the few days paid mods were available.
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