How Much Would You Donate?

[kitler53]

Captain_Yuri said:

kitler53 said:

Captain_Yuri said:
$1 at most but even then, it is iffy... Modding is supposed to be a passion project, not ur whole life. They are supposed to do it as a hobby cause they like doing it so it certainly shouldn't cost him that much money

i have a woodworking hobby that i'm passionate about.  should i not be allowed to sell the furniture i create?

I never said you shouldn't be allowed to sell something or make money from it but if it has been free for the last 20+ years and when you do try to sell it, there is a large outcry that it shouldn't be sold, then if you want to make money, you should try a different method such as donations or don't bother at all. Because if you don't, not only will you not be selling many units if any at all, but you would also lose the people that like your mods and who you make the mods for cause they would go to someone else who does it for free.

20 years of free mods where a vast majority are utter shit.

allow monitization to exist and more high quality mods will exist.  the question is do you want more high quality mods to exist?

 

you can buy software these days and that hasn't prevented free-ware from existing.  there will always be free mods.   ..but there could be some really great ones if a way to recoop investments made existed.