The good thing about a market is that if something is easy to do then many people will do it and compete with each-other by lowering/eliminating prices. I doubt we will be seeing ini tweaks being monetized or texture packs for outrageous prices because there is always an alternative. Mods are already very competitive endeavors while they aren't monetized. 

If people must put their time and effort into creating something unique which you want then it certainly is worth paying for. 

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It's a dumb idea which will only fuel drama when the mods are inevitably hosted elsewhere, but it doesn't matter. No one gets their mods from the workshop anyway, except from the select few people who, for some reason, only make mods on the workshop. They get them from Nexus because it's a better platform for modding with a much larger userbase.

The market will probably similar to the indie game market. Very competitive, and it will be hard to sort out the trash, but the games that do make money are become popular deserve it. Anything else will be cheap. 

Hmm, wasn't a big component to PC games the modding? Seems kind of terrible if they start charging for something so valued in the PC community, but I see it's fair that modders get paid for their hard work, the good ones at least... : / I dunno, I don't play a lot on PC.

Honestly, I don't know what to feel.

Unless this starts to get a lot of praise, I really don't think this is a good idea, considering that mods have been free for a long time, and are a huge part of PC gaming.

As a primarily PC gamer I'm excited. This means more time and resources put into mods than they already get. It means long-term mods have their release dates pushed sooner, and a lot of people who do good work and are successful are rewarded for it. There will still be free mods, and tweaks, I'm sure.

This could go either way, but hopefully it'll mean some of the bigger mods will get the funding they deserve. Some of those mods really do deserve some financial reward considering they can play better then many full commercial games.

So huge ass companies are yet again making money off of the hard work from someone else. I'm so sick of this.