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Valve Removes Paid Mods For Skyrim From Steam Workshop. Trending Today. Best of E3 2019 Awards: All Winners Announced. Marvel's Avengers E3 Gameplay Demo Looks Like You're Playing the Movie.

The petition’s mission statement reads as such:

The workshop is a place for people to share content with each other they made so all can enjoy it for free.

Since recently this is not the case for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Workshop. Valve has now erected a paywall for the mods.

Mods should be a free creation. Creations made by people who wish to add to the game so others can also enjoy said creation with the game.

We need to unite and reject this act by Valve. Unite have Valve remove the paid content of the Workshop.

On the opposite end of the courtesy spectrum, a number of Steam users have been harassing both Valve and the modding community. Many paid mods have had their pages saturated with spam in order to make them nearly inoperable. In addition, several death threats have been made toward Gabe Newell, which, if you remember the Paranautical Activity scandal, seems to be becoming somewhat of a hobby. The creator of the Change.org petition states that he does not, in any way, support death threats or spam and instead would like to go about this in a civil manner.

There is also controversy on the modders’ side . A paid mod, a simple fishing animation, has been taken down from the store due to a content controversy. The mode in question, developed by users Chesko and aqqh, contained assets from another mod made by user Fore. Fore said that the creators never asked for his permission to use his assets, and went on to say that making money on mods is totally against his attitude. He went on to say that this new paid mod system will lead to an end of the modding community, specifically for reasons like this. While modders frequently borrow and innovate on each other’s work, they will likely do so less if someone stands to make money off it.

Chesko and aqqh removed the mod from the marketplace and provided the following explanation:

'I would like to make it clear that I have been under a non-disclosure agreement for over a month, and was unable (not unwilling) to contact others. I asked Valve specifically about content that requires other content, and was told that if the download was separate and free, it was fair game.'

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'In the case of this mod, the animations are not required and the mod continues to work. However, I will defer to Fore's decision, which will issue a refund to all subscribers.'

Valve says that anyone that anyone who sees their work being used without permission should issue a DMCA takedown notice as soon as possible. They also urge modders to ask permission first before using the assets of other modders, especially if you plan on selling your creation.

That being said, Valve still thinks that allowing creators to sell mods will actually lead to a more robust modding community. 'By paying for mods and supporting the people that made them, you enable those artists and creators to continue working on their mods and inspire new modders to try their hand in creating new, higher quality items and experiences,' said Valve.

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While this is all nice in theory, Valve and Bethesda are primarily the parties who are profiting. When a mod is sold, they take 75% of the profit, leaving only 25% for the mod creator. So those 30 cent weapons you are purchasing are really only earning their creators about 7 cents a purchase. Valve also only pays out when modders have made at least $100 of sales. Approximately 1333 copies of those 30 cent weapons have to be sold before modders see even their first paycheck. Of course, this has caused controversy, and fans and modders alike have called this pricing model abusive and exploitative.

What do you think? Is allowing modders to charge for content a good idea or bad idea? Are the fans who are fighting against this change trying to preserve the modding community and fight against an exploitative pricing scheme, or are they simply people who don’t understand that sometimes you have to exchange money for goods and services? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

*The views expressed within this article are solely the opinion of the author and do not express the views held by Cheat Code Central.*