The Steam Workshop has always been a great place for sharing mods, maps, and all kinds of items that you’ve created. Now it's also a great place for selling those creations.

With a new, streamlined process for listing and selling your creations, the Steam Workshop now supports buying mods directly from the Workshop, to be immediately usable in game.

Sauce: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/aboutpaidcontent

Anyone else think this a load of crap?

I personally do. By mods I believe you mean addons, correct me if I'm wrong.
When I go to a game's workshop, I don't want to buy an addon for a game and later find out it wasn't worth it. I want to have free mods to add to my game as I wish. I say that workshop addons/mods should be without fee.

Q. Can I get a refund?
A. If you discover that a mod does not work for you, or does not meet your expectations based on the description of the mod, you can get a refund within 24 hours of your purchase. You can view the full refund policy here.

That kinda makes it a little bit better... a little bit.

The lord Gaben has betrayed us.

The only way I see it working is if the user was not allowed to place their own price tag on it. If the mod was anything short of a total conversion, then it cannot be monetized in any way, shape or form.

In my mind, if you buy something you end up not liking (referring specifically to any sort of DLC or add-ons for any game) then it's your own fault. No one's gonna force you to buy anything off the workshop, so what does it matter?

Also given that there's a 24 hour refund policy I don't really see what the problem is.

Don't see this ending too well for Valve, the idea's prettyyyy dumb and goes entirely against the point of mods to begin with.

While I don't have a problem with people who put a lot of time and effort into their work getting paid, this is the Steam Workshop we're talking about here. Optional donations, sure, but locking sword reskins behind a $0.99 paywall is just atrocious.

Omniary wrote:Don't see this ending too well for Valve, the idea's prettyyyy dumb and goes entirely against the point of mods to begin with.

While I don't have a problem with people who put a lot of time and effort into their work getting paid, this is the Steam Workshop we're talking about here. Optional donations, sure, but locking sword reskins behind a $0.99 paywall is just atrocious.

>implying anybody even needs sword reskins

>implying valve has pushed themselves to a point of no return

Wow, seriously guys. I was expecting people to debate the moral standing of making money off of simply modifying the work of someone else. Instead all I see see is "Wah, I don't want to pay for stuff". A bit disappointing really.

Don't see this ending too well for Valve, the idea's prettyyyy dumb and goes entirely against the point of mods to begin with.

While I don't have a problem with people who put a lot of time and effort into their work getting paid, this is the Steam Workshop we're talking about here. Optional donations, sure, but locking sword reskins behind a $0.99 paywall is just atrocious.

Funny, I thought the point was to modify something for whatever purpose the creator of the mod chooses, but no, apparently the point of a mod is just to be free.

Also, any one charges a dollar for a reskin is just being stupid and they shouldn't be surprised when nobody uses it...... wait a minute, now that I think about isn't that what valve has been doing with TF2 for a while now, only more expensive............ does that render my previous point false?

I honestly don't see anything atrocious about this. The developers and publishers get to set the precedent on whether or not priced mods are permitted for their game and there is a refund period. (Granted, I think 72 hours is a more appropriate length of time, but I digress) There are issues with the system no doubt, but I don't think the notion of a paywall for a mod is a bad one.

At the end of the day, it's up to the modder to determine a price point; if the price isn't appropriate, that's on them, not Valve. If someone wants to charge $0.99 USD for a sword skin and the developers/publishers of the original game are okay with that, I see no reason to flat out refuse the request on the notion that it's "against the point of mods to begin with."

D-9999 wrote:If the mod was anything short of a total conversion, then it cannot be monetized in any way, shape or form.

Why not?

Awesomeguy147 wrote:I was expecting people to debate...

Don't get your hopes up.

MonocleBios wrote:

D-9999 wrote:If the mod was anything short of a total conversion, then it cannot be monetized in any way, shape or form.

Why not?

Sort of like Omniary said, I would prefer not to BUY an addon that I could just as easily get for free. It really ruins the point of the workshop.