Pros
--Small Scale Capitalism: Because creators being able to make money is generally always a good thing.
--Creators set price: Because this means the community will be able to value content itself. Some DLC pack being worth 15 dollars for some skins? Better have a lot of skins if this type of idea takes off, cuz' they'll probably end up being 20-50 cents a piece from the community itself.
Cons
--Ponzi is spinning in his grave: Remember when everyone bought Diablo 3 thinking they'd make all their money back in the real money auction house despite blizzard taking a cut of anything you offer? Yeah. This issue is gonna get compounded immensely.
--Steam has no quality control: Just take one look at the steam greenlight page and realize that
Rock Simulator 2015 was almost approved as a game to be sold on Steam. If steam has this atrocious a quality control issue for
games, imagine the
mods.
--Copyright nightmare in 3... 2... 1...: A. You must have the necessary rights to post any content that you post to the Steam Workshop, whether it is for sale or not. If you upload copyrighted content that you or your contributors do not have the rights to distribute, then you may forfeit all earned revenue from the item, may be liable for damages and compensation, and may be banned from future participation in this Workshop or the Steam Community in general.
--25% is a fucking joke: No seriously, it is. That's just a huge tariff imposed on creators for the sole purpose of farming them. Now content creators on Steam wanting to make a buck will end up knowing what it's like to be involved in the book publishing industry.
--This hurts the community: Part of what made mods so special was that it was a love note from the community, to a game. If you wanted to donate money, most modding teams already had donation jars. I know, I've donated to a few of them. They're supposed to be, you know, fun. Now one modding team might copyright their product and sue another modding team if they make a similar product: Because the moment you can set a price on your product and start selling it, is the moment copyright is going to come right along and fuck you like a five dollar hooker on Friday nights. Capitalism will not help this community, it'll only hurt it,
especially with a borderline mercantilist piece of shit policy that has 75% of the profit taken from the modders.
This is a cash grab. It was a good idea turned into a bloody taxation drive for people who will shove their shitty model jobs in your face. I am not looking forward to getting Steam Greenlight's insane dribble in the modding pages of Steam.
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Oh, and no consumer responsibility because these are individuals, not corporations. So. Ha. Haha. Ha. No.