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Steam backtracks on paid mods...for now?
Posted on 4/27/15 at 6:47 pm
Posted on 4/27/15 at 6:47 pm
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We're going to remove the payment feature from the Skyrim workshop. For anyone who spent money on a mod, we'll be refunding you the complete amount. We talked to the team at Bethesda and they agree.
We've done this because it's clear we didn't understand exactly what we were doing. We've been shipping many features over the years aimed at allowing community creators to receive a share of the rewards, and in the past, they've been received well. It's obvious now that this case is different.
To help you understand why we thought this was a good idea, our main goals were to allow mod makers the opportunity to work on their mods full time if they wanted to, and to encourage developers to provide better support to their mod communities. We thought this would result in better mods for everyone, both free & paid. We wanted more great mods becoming great products, like Dota, Counter-strike, DayZ, and Killing Floor, and we wanted that to happen organically for any mod maker who wanted to take a shot at it.
But we underestimated the differences between our previously successful revenue sharing models, and the addition of paid mods to Skyrim's workshop. We understand our own game's communities pretty well, but stepping into an established, years old modding community in Skyrim was probably not the right place to start iterating. We think this made us miss the mark pretty badly, even though we believe there's a useful feature somewhere here.
Now that you've backed a dump truck of feedback onto our inboxes, we'll be chewing through that, but if you have any further thoughts let us know.
from u/ErickatValve on Reddit
Posted on 4/27/15 at 6:55 pm to stout
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backtracks
Or listens to it's customers?
The cool thing to do now is trash Lord Gaben and Steam, so I'll be glass-half-full guy.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 6:56 pm to sicboy
Backtracking is the same as listening to your customers, dummy.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 6:59 pm to sicboy
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But it's so negative
The gaming community as a whole is negative, it happens
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:01 pm to BaddestAndvari
Again, being uber positive, but I'd like to think it's more because they realize what a problem it was for gamers, not because they were afraid of the bad press.
I'm sure there's enough of both sprinkled in there.
I'm sure there's enough of both sprinkled in there.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:05 pm to sicboy
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Again, being uber positive, but I'd like to think it's more because they realize what a problem it was for gamers, not because they were afraid of the bad press.
I would like to think it's a little bit of both
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:10 pm to BaddestAndvari
Depends on what argument I'm trying to make
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:13 pm to Mr Gardoki
I don't have any experience with the greenlight deal, and I know that's gotten some bad feedback, so I'm sure I'm just willfully naive to a bit of this.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:20 pm to sicboy
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The cool thing to do now is trash Lord Gaben and Steam, so I'll be glass-half-full guy.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:28 pm to stout
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but stepping into an established, years old modding community in Skyrim was probably not the right place to start iterating.
Seems like they are going to do it when a new game comes out that will draw the eye of modders. Just please not Witcher 3
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:30 pm to Alandial
Didn't Bethesda initiate some of that?
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:33 pm to Mr Gardoki
Depends who you believe. There was a Beth emp back in 2012 that posted that this was coming.
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