Bethesda and the awful E3

[JEMC]

vivster said:

JEMC said:

As I said, I have zero confidence in Bethesda and what will this new business will mean for modders that don't want to take part on it.

Time will tell what happens but, given what we saw when Steam tried it, I'm not optimistic.

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.

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.