So in your opinion taxi drivers should pay car manufacturers a cut because they drive their cars ?
If they leased the cars from the manufacturers, yes, absolutely. Fortunately they don't have to do that since they own their own cars, however they still have to split their profits with their taxi companies that drive their discoverability and hook them up with passengers, these are the taxi driver's
"Valve", so to speak. The difference between a video game and a car is that a car is
a physical good that you own wheras a video game is
not -
you don't own a video game, ever. You have a
license to use a copy of a video game, but you don't
own the game itself - the developer does. I know it's something that's hard to grasp since you have this weird plastic disc with a game on it and you
think you own it, but really, you don't - you own a piece of plastic that entitles you to use one copy of the game, not the game itself.
You see this is a problem, the system implemented took stuff that was already there for free, and decided to take it away from being free to being sold. People did start taking off their free mods, either because they wanted to start selling them, or because they didn't want to see people steal and sell their mods, you see valve is crappy when it comes to cleaning their shit up.
Completely incorrect. Valve didn't make mods commercial overnight themselves, the modders were given the option to submit their mods as commercial which is exactly what they did out of their own volition. Valve's downfall was not making background checks on the mods to verify that they're original content made by the people who submitted them.
Well you see, thing is, red had didn't break the ecosystem of linux, they found a way to make money without breaking whole thing down.
Did commercial mods break the modding ecosystem? I don't remember seeing some cataclysmic event that made 100% of Skyrim mods commercial overnight, there were still free mods available, and not just on Steam.
It's actually very relevant to the situation. The whole skyrim community is a living ecosystem, that suddenly got nuked by valve and bethesda. It's not something as simple as resking, mods depending on mod who depend on other mods, take one away and whole shit breaks down. And this is exactly what valve and bethesda did here.
It got nuked and yet here we are and so are the mods. I'd argue that
"nothing" happened, actually.
So let me get this straight, you don't mod, you don't understand modding community and don't have experience with it. You don't have any experience because you don't like it. Yet you act like you know better and you have the higher moral ground here ? Ok...
Do I have to drink poison to know that it's not good for me? Or do I just have to be aware of that fact? I think it's the latter. Me not fancying mods doesn't automatically mean that my opinion is irrelevant, my preferences in gaming do not invalidate my points. Besides, I used to use mods when I was much younger, particularly Counter Strike 1.6 ones, I simply lost interest in using them.
Once again. I'm not against paid mods. Hell i'm all for it as a way to make money of f2p games. If any game is gonna have microtransactions i want it to be those mods because that's good for community. However I'm against valve and bethesda making a landgrab and destroying a living ecosystem.
Destroying the ecosystem by providing legal means to sell mods? You just said you're not against them and yet you are? Which one is it? All they did was providing modders with an option, I have to underline this, an
option to monetize their mods and yet they've
"destroyed an ecosystem"? Someone's overdramatizing here.
If bethesda wants paid mods. Sure i'm cool with it, let them do it in TES 6 or F4 and see how it goes. I dunno if'm gonna buy the game with such setting. But i'm not gonna protest it, criticize it or protest it. Because new game will be a new ecosystem that won't get destroyed by such actions.
I have no idea what your point is, it doesn't matter which game gets modded, a system is a system - either it's present or it isn't. If you think Bethesda should release an update to Skyrim that would standardize mods as well as their own tools to make them then I'm all for - if they want to benefit from modding then they should make a contribution towards that goal, I'm down with that line of logic.