<story><title>Valve shuts down paid mod system after pressure from gamers</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32493895</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gkwelding</author><text>I think Valve&amp;#x2F;Steam (and Bethesda) really screwed up on this one. Although the idea of modders being fairly compensated for their work is a great idea the execution was poor at best.&lt;p&gt;Only 25% going to the content creators? Really?&lt;p&gt;And a poor returns mechanism, getting a refund gets you banned from the steam store for 7 days to stop abuse. That&amp;#x27;s a poor returns policy when you&amp;#x27;re buying things like mods that might be of really poor quality once you start to use them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stupidcar</author><text>I agree with everything you said, but it seemed like a lot of the more nuanced feedback on this was drowned out by a subset of gamers having a screaming tantrum at the suggestion of paying anything for a mod, regardless of where the money was going.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m hopeful that Valve will eventually try this again on a new game with a fairer compensation structure and a better community infrastructure in place. I&amp;#x27;m not so hopeful that that same subset of gamers won&amp;#x27;t have a tantrum all over again.</text></comment>
<story><title>Valve shuts down paid mod system after pressure from gamers</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32493895</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gkwelding</author><text>I think Valve&amp;#x2F;Steam (and Bethesda) really screwed up on this one. Although the idea of modders being fairly compensated for their work is a great idea the execution was poor at best.&lt;p&gt;Only 25% going to the content creators? Really?&lt;p&gt;And a poor returns mechanism, getting a refund gets you banned from the steam store for 7 days to stop abuse. That&amp;#x27;s a poor returns policy when you&amp;#x27;re buying things like mods that might be of really poor quality once you start to use them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhuffman</author><text>They still think that &amp;quot;the problem&amp;quot; was that they were asking for mods to be compensated(and that the exiting mod community doesn&amp;#x27;t like commercialism), not that they were keeping 3&amp;#x2F;4 of it.</text></comment>