Dexter
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Rejecting his justification for selling paints were they to make money is a clear refusal to respect an objective truth.
You are defending the practice of a corporation with an almost monopolistic stranglehold on the Digital PC games market to take an unilateral stand and take what was free and rip you off. You are arguing against your own interests. If you aren't Modders that think they will become millionaires by selling Horsecocks for Skyrim (which won't happen, the majority of Modders will likely not even break the $400 Payout limit once the Market is flooded, no doubt maybe one or two will hit the jackpot and will be paraded around for gullible morons to follow suit and make Valve more money) you should be declared clinically braindead. You are asking to be able to pay more money for the same product and for the Publisher and Valve to get a cut for no work. Valve is using their market position to push this through, if this was an unknown small site or "Mom & Pop" paint store nobody would give a shit and they would laugh a bit, ignore it and then move on, upon which it would fail.If depended on me, I would get the IP laws and throw them on the garbage where they belong to but as there is no way in hell of that happening, this is chance of modding become something more widespread but companies should not wanting to exploit so much something they didn't lift a finger to help. If some crazy fuckers made a not shit version of Skyrim, I would happy to pay them.
In any case, if someone is willing to put years of work and effort into something and build up a team, they might as well take Unity 5 and Unreal Engine 4, which are free now and start building their own game, where they get 75%+ of their revenue and not as subcontractors for Valve and Bethesda/Paradox etc. which also require to give up all the rights to said content to the platform maker.