Sat May 02, 2015 9:27 am
Re: Stop uploading mods to steam. They're forcing payment
Even if the original idea was ill conceived, certainly very praiseworthy of them to back down when it became clear what the reaction was. A lot of companies, particularly larger ones, would not have done so given the amount of inflexibility in those organizations.
I've always thought that a simple solution would be just to allow the option of accepting donations through the workshop, like how for certain games, mods will include donation links in their forum threads (I know several KSP mods for example do this). Can't help but wonder if thats just too obvious an answer, or a case of there being some kind of legal issues with it, or just not going to happen because Valve/whoever don't get to take a cut?
I've always thought that a simple solution would be just to allow the option of accepting donations through the workshop, like how for certain games, mods will include donation links in their forum threads (I know several KSP mods for example do this). Can't help but wonder if thats just too obvious an answer, or a case of there being some kind of legal issues with it, or just not going to happen because Valve/whoever don't get to take a cut?