(04-25-2015, 10:29 AM)Kellach Woods Wrote:(04-25-2015, 10:21 AM)OttoVann Wrote: Why are people here going ballistic over the 75% cut when Valve is giving access to sell goods via their infrastructure and tools to their developed and robust install base.
Do people here think anyone should be able to utilize that for peanuts to free? Â Valve should let you profit of their work for free because...?
And you think that modders don't deserve fair compensation because...?
The problem in this particular situation isn't Valve (though doing something like this without thinking pretty much sent their own lawyers into overdrive, btw which is never a good thing to hear), it's Zenimax who decided that modders get practically nothing for doing the majority of the work on that particular mod. Which is also why I don't believe for a single second Zenimax'd release an Elder Scrolls game for free and go for only add-on money.
(Then there's the whole issue of a check only being issued when 100$ has been reached, but that's another whole ballgame and also been how internets money has worked for quite some time.)
What exactly is fair when the modder makes the mod and essentially has someone else publish and distribute and advertise for them.
They endured no risk to bring their mod to the market. To be in any market of any kind selling anything, when you assume no risk you assume smaller takes. It will always be this way. It's not even a bad or immoral thing. Zenimax could take less, but they are entitled to royalties from people taking their assets and making money with them.
