If you use mods you better be ready to pay for them

Why shouldn't the devs get a cut of the money you make creating assets using tools they provided for a game they created?

What exactly did you work on that didn't use a framework already created for you off the backs of hundreds of other, more skilled developers and tens of millions of dollars?

Wouldn't it be illegal for a mod creator to directly charge for their mods?

Could result in litigation, and they'll lose

Paid mods would be fine if we were paying the creators directly
Not micropayments like fucking creation club
This isnt very good either, this dude getting the money for mods instead of the actual creators

As long as you own the assets used or use assets that have a license that allows them to be used in paid projects it's legally fine.

it's worse in this case as the website is literally just a list of mods for skyrim with tags so their easy to find.

Wait so this guy isn't even making anything in the first place and then charging for access to other peoples content?

Hello lawsuit.
Even if what he's making is a time saver or something like that that's just not on.

Yeah but you can ask for donations for access to your blog that hosts your mods. Same way your not paying escorts for sex but you have sex with them.

no they'll just remove their mods altogether because they're literal children

>can't get coomer mods anymore without paying $2
oh nononono

yeah that was all bullshit

>you can pay the creators! finally!
>(publisher takes the lions share of the money, even though they make sales from people buying games just for mods)

they provided those tools in order to convince people to buy and continue to play the game. It's a feature of the game acting as an incentive to purchase.

Yeah don't forget to sue Google while you're at it

And?
If you're charging money for access to a tool that relies on access to someone else's IP, why should they not also get a cut of that money?

Paid mods are never acceptable because it is creating a buisiness out of making unfinished games.

Because paying for game mods is legally copyright infringement, you fucking retard.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Star_v._FormGen_Inc.

honestly with that guy's wording I think he's just going to delete everything and make a "fuck you" post the second people tell him he's stupid.
he should've just deleted the site as now someone is going to download an offline copy and upload it.

>Charging for babbies first PHP tutorial
Yea alright

No, he's locked most of the features away, and will be changing the link to the site every month, only giving it through patreon DMs (so site scrubbers like yiff party can't collect it), you can also personalize links in that way so if it gets leaked, you know exactly who and can ban them from your patreon, thots do that one.
He's saying if people don't pony up the cash through patreon he'll just delete everything though.

What's even the point of his site? Nexus works fine.

Wait, so this isn't even a mod but just a mod searching tool?

imagine your girl with a fat ass BBC in her mouth.

So then why isn't anyone suing Valve for copyright infringement?

don't even need to get technical as to why that's a retarded counterpoint - you know a judge would tell you to get bent

What?

You're thinking about this from the wrong direction. It's not about whether they're justified or not.

It's a perfectly valid decision but it's one that needs to be done from the start. There'd be nothing wrong with that. If Bethesda releases a base un-moddable ES6 for $60 or whatever, and then also releases the ES6 Creation Kit DLC for $20 which will allow you to create and use mods, that's fine. They'd need to determine whether removing that feature from the game and selling it separately would be a net loss (either financially or in public good-will. Not that Bethesda has much good will nowadays).

The current widely accepted model for modifiable games is that the ability to mod and use mods people have made for the game is a feature they don't need to additionally pay for. It's included with the game and is a reason to purchase the game. Games like Noita, or Cortex Command, or Slay the Spire use it as an incentive to purchase. The only thing wrong with how Skyrim did it (as opposed to say, TF2) was that they tried to do paid mods after the fact.

I'm not talking about the ability to make or use mods to begin with, I'm talking about trying to charge people to download and use your mods.
If mod creators can charge for access to their mods, then the devs should be getting a cut of that, because said mod relies on their IP to function at all.

Oh, well then if the creators of the game aren't charging for mod access and haven't put any explicit restrictions on the sale of moddable content then they've opted out of the discussion themselves. The only reason someone would be obligated, morally or otherwise, to give a cut to the devs is if the developer includes a licensing agreement that says so. If they're particularly savvy they'll also include wanting a percentage for people who have mods locked behind subscription-based payments like patreon.

The devs could get a cut if they wanted to, but so far nobody but Valve has opted to do so successfully.

the literal fuck is eskyrim in the first fucking place
i've never heard of it until now, so it must not be very important

that's because you're a console cuck