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Valve Has Ruined the Workshop

Modding isn't about money, it's a hobby, not a job. The point of mods are to enhance game experience for no fee and just to make modders happy that people are enjoying them. Unfortunately, Valve's greed got in the way of the community on Steam. Join the group to protest against Valve to bring back free mods and get rid of paid mods.

If you haven't, please sign this petition
https://www.change.org/p/valve-remove-the-paid-content-of-the-steam-workshop#petition-letter

Current Groups A Part of the FMFAA

None yet, contact Swaghetti The IV in the group chat to join

Goal of FMFAA

We want to make it easier for groups to join. We will work with FMA in the process and deliver support and hear ideas and what to do.

FMA Description

What we are against
-Valve taking money from modders (75%!)
-No system in place to stop stolen mods
-No system in place to limit low-effort mods
-Overpriced "micro"transactions.
-No guarantee that the mod will be patched if an update happens.
-Modders lose rights to their mod after uploading.
-24 hour return policy which does nothing to ensure that a mod is compatible. Errors may only become evident days after "purchase."
-Not even a minimum guarantee of Quality Assurance. At least developer-produced DLC is expected to have gone through QA.

Originally posted by BlueWorrior:
There is a distinct difference between accepting donations for your work and demanding money for your work. We should not have to pay for community content like this.

What We are OK with
-A donation system.
-Perhaps a "stamp" system, like TF2, to purchase and distribute support
-An escrow system to ensure that money raised by a stolen mod is distributed to the proper developer.
-A more equitable distribution of money to the developer. 75% seems a bit high for "bandwidth" and "distribution," when the Workshop continues to support free mods with the same operating costs.
-A curator system for only professional, high quality mods

Current members of the FMA:
http://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/groups/antipaymodding
http://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/groups/BoycottSteamWorkshop
http://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/groups/hashtagsavethemoddingcommunity
http://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/groups/FreeTheWorkshop
http://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/groups/bringdownthepaywall
http://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/groups/ignishope
http://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/groups/pootisislovepootisislife
http://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/groups/FreeTheWorkshopForTheWin
http://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/groups/StopPaidWorkshop

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Removing Payment Feature From Skyrim Workshop

27 April, 2015 - Iakovos | 0 Comments

From the Steam Workshop group, they have made an announcement stating that they have removed the paid mods, Hoorah!

"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."
(Source)

27 April, 2015 - Iakovos | 0 Comments

Valve CEO Gabe Newell said that if the new Steam program that allows users to sell mods instead of just giving them away for free turns out to be bad for gamers, the company will ditch the idea.

"Our goal is to make modding better for the authors and gamers," Newell said in a Reddit Ask Me Anything thread. "If something doesn't help with that, it will get dumped. Right now I'm more optimistic that this will be a win for authors and gamers, but we are always going to be data driven."

Newell also took a question from Nexus, a free modding community that's been very concerned about Steam's paid mods feature. Newell guaranteed that Valve isn't asking developers to protect paid mods and make them available only through Steam, and that in general it's against the company's philosophy to tell developers they can't do something, like give mods away for free on Nexus. He added that Valve would also be happy to work with Nexus to better support the community.

"The goal [of paid mods] is to increase the total investment the community makes in extending its games," he said. "We thought we were missing some plumbing that was hampering that."

Valve's new modding program launched on Thursday only with Skyrim (other supported titles will be announced in the coming weeks), but it's already caused a great deal of controversy. Many players are saying that Valve is greedy for allowing modders to sell work that was previously free, and one mod's been removed after claims that it contained the work of another modder.

Newell didn't seem concerned about cases like that becoming too common. "This is a straight-forward problem," he said. "Between ours and the community's policing, I'm confident that the authors will have control over their creations, not someone trying to rip them off."

As for the current revenue split on paid Skyrim mods, which gives the creator of the mod only a 25 percent share of sales, Newell said: "The pay-outs are set by the owner of the game that is being modded. As I said elsewhere, if we are censoring, it's dumb, ineffective, and will stop."

(Source)[www.gamespot.com]