No I mean a unified storefront for mods on PC.

Hm...nothing interesting for me. Was expecting doom 2 and or Rage 2.

Bethesda or Valve don't have to be involved at all. It can be an independant store front where people put their stuff and then the game owners can go there and get their share but are not directly involved with the mod creators.

Why it would have any effect on modders who give away their stuff for free I don't know.

I think Rage didn't sell enough to warrant a sequel... or as I would call it, the rest of what should be included in the first game.

And Doom came out last year. Give it another year or two before the next one!

Because people woudl rip off other modders and steal their content, putting it up on the store. Whetehr it a direct complete rip-off or they change the color something miniscule to be NEW.

If people coudl get money for mods, you woudl see so much plagerism.

The content was fine, with two new games and some interesting DLC, and the presentation was far better than we typically see with like EA or Ubisoft.  I thought it was pretty good.

As usual, the worst part of E3 is that some fans are extremely entitled and complain about everything.  Especially, god forbid, when games are announced that aren't aimed directly at them.  The horror.

It's Bethesda, what do you expect?

Their big titles will not be shown at their conference, and when they don't have any in development you get their usual line up.

ah ok

What was the deal with modders before? I think that if somebody works hard in making one, why shouldn't they be paid? It seems pretty logical. I remember there was a really big shitstorm when that was announced before, and I can't exactly remember why.

Any store would need to make money (at least enough to pay servers and admins), meaning that any money made by a mod needs to be splited between the author, the store and the company making the game of that mod. The result? The mods will be expensive and the whole business will fail.

And, what can I say, I think that money makes companies do evil things. so I wouldn't be surprised if a company decides to go against the free mods in order to try to force us to use the paid ones.