Also, think it’s kind of ironic considering this website has hacks of IOS games :p

I know this is old but I’d like to address this (especially since this system is still a hot topic to consider, especially with Fallout 4 coming out), as someone that would rather see free mods overall but still try to flesh out the idea of paid mods. See, the thing is that in a market economy, competition would more or less sort this out, eventually. But that’s exactly the problem, there is no traditional market economy, so to speak and there is already a huge and established “open-source” system. The introduction of a market system would destroy this, even if it does come back to “fix it”. SKSE would not able to keep a price of $100 (unless there is intervention by Bethesda) since, I’m sure, there would be others that would sell a competing product for much less. I mean there are already people that put their products over paywalls, hell there are those that people OTHER peoples mods over paywalls.

Still if you look at it, games like Second Life have been quite successful using such a system, relatively and arguably of course. The problem here, as the above have said, is that many mods depend on other mods and this would create a further stalled system. Overall, a paid mod system would not work out if it formatted in a similar manner as the previous one. I’m also sure that many modders will group together (or get taken advantage of) by “corporate groups”. Look at TSR (The Sims Resource), their paywall system didn’t really work out as many of their “VIP” mods got pirated and they eventually switched to a pure ad system (not to mention their illegal actions).

I personally think that a donate and ad-based system for modders would work the best. It seems to be working for the Nexus, TSR, Curse, etc. There are just too many issues with direct-paid mods. There’s a market and it could be achieved but as we have noticed, the backlash from it wouldn’t bold well for the community, not to mention all the other issues that come from it.

I Agree with GameGeeks. if essential mods which is used for almost every all other mods like SKSE, SkyUI, FNIS, SexLab Framework, and some others are have to be paid, i can’t even imagine that i can continue to mod skyrim anymore. For example : SKSE’s price is $100, if we can’t afford that, then we have no future in playing skyrim with mods, if that happen, pay $100 or bear with playing skyrim w/o mods. And if they sell it for $400 then…….!!!!! Not to mention other essential mods like SkyUI, FNIS, SexLab Framework, SFO, SMIM, CoT, ELFX, etc. As for me myself, i can’t play skyrim w/o mods, it just sucks.
Well we can always use the simplest and best method to avoid paying, uninstall skyrim.

I’m going to change your mind on Valve/Steam getting a cut because it is they who provide the service, handle the payments and customer service, including what to do when a modder falls off the face of the planet and their mod breaks, crediting refunds, and, of course, maintaining a popular site which improves sales. They’re not really middlemen, but service providers and system managers.

But I can’t see them raking in such a large percentage, either. Maybe 10% of a sale. Maybe 20% if their splitting that with the game publisher

Microsoft Flight Simulator isn’t say, Skyrim or Fallout.

Paid mods aren’t a new thing either and some people are totally unaware that in simulations such as Microsoft Flight Simulator paid mods exist and some of them are also quite expensive. There is also no guarantee that such mods will work with your current mod set up, and trying to prevent conflicts with so many variables is just not possible.

However they decide to split the revenue, I think modders should be allowed to get some revenue and I also think that enough time for a refund should be granted so that people can return mods that conflict with their set up.

Thanks Otte!! :D