In theory I'm not entirely against the idea of paid mods. I don't necessarily buy that mods are more "pure" if no one is able to make money from them. And I do like the idea that people might invest more resources in mods than if they are effectively donating their time to the projects.

That said, things can definitely get complicated quickly once you start providing financial incentives. I think it's smart to require mod makers to go through an approval process rather than just make it open.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The perverse incentives alone can be enough to ruin the whole modding scene for the game

[–] Goronmon@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, but people's egos alone are enough to causing issues in the mod community, I'm not sure paid mods are necessarily going to make this significantly worse.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One or two egotistical modders don't ruin the entire community unless those are the only modders in said community.

Greed ruins everything, though.

Not only would once free mods suddenly have a price tag, you're gonna get a lot of bullshit shovelware mods flooding the scene trying to capitalize on the market.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As long as they don't take free mods away I'm fine with it.

[–] 9715698@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Apparently it's broken SKSE, which is required for many many free mods.

[–] Goronmon@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Many updates for Skyrim have broken SKSE. That's not really a new problem. Hopefully they'll be able to fix it just like they have in the past.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

So just wait a couple days after the update like normal?