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> I paid full price for the game and all of the DLC. > Part of the reason I did this was due to the ability of the game to be easily modded. I knew with modding the lifetime of the game was much greater. So you paid full price for the game because you knew people would spend their time and effort making things for you for free... and now that there was an option for them to get paid for their work, you get pissy?
I knew the mod community around the game would provide value long past the original game. Did I say I never donated to mod authors? Did you ask? I'm not pissy, but it sounds like perhaps you are.
What difference does it make? Even if you were a good citizen and donated, there aren't enough people donating for it to be a dependable income stream.
> it sounds like perhaps you are
133,000 people who claim to represent gamers signed a petition saying that modders should work for free, how dare they think they should get paid. I'm not a mod author. I'm not even a mod user. But I'm someone who believes in paying people who make the things I like, so that they can keep making more. This was an opportunity for a new marketplace, a new way for people to start making content for games—and for some, support themselves by making that content. An opportunity for anyone to use the IP of another company—which I don't think exists in any other industry. Can you imagine what it would take for Disney to allow anybody to legally make and sell their own Mickey Mouse cartoons? But no, it had to get shat on by entitled assholes who want people to make and make and make and give nothing back. You say it sounds like I'm pissy? Damn straight I'm pissy.