(04-25-2015, 11:04 AM)Kellach Woods Wrote:(04-25-2015, 10:56 AM)Hammersmith Wrote: Looking at the nuclear option, and in conclusion:The platform won't implode, it'll just take longer to be implemented, and quite frankly I almost wish the SKSE team would. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm saying it's currently horrible in the current incarnation because Valve did not remotely think about the ramifications that their platform will have.
If the SKSE team issued something like a no-monetization notice, legally, the entire skyrim mod platform Steam just set up could potentially implode.
Tell me that Early Access Fishing's guy would be willing to type up their own SKSE equivilent that has no intellectual property rights infringement and we'd have something to talk about.
But I doubt that, it's why there isn't a unique script extender packaged and written by every modder who ever put out a mod. Â Mods run on other people's work, to a massive degree. Â The more of the shared resources that go behind/refuse to be allowed behind a paywall can, and will, cripple the community of modding as we know it because it gates or denies things that make it very accessible to people new to it. (The same kind of people who one day would put out say: Mods that are longer and better than the base game in a lot of ways.)
I kind of hope this does swing one way or another very rapidly because I do consider this kind of pay-gating to be a cash grab, on the part of all parties involved because things like this:
OttoVann
Quote:SkyUI is going free / paid route with future updates. Â 5.0 will be 99 cents minimum.
Indicate the start of the destruction of the ability of people to make resource-dependent mods without paying additional costs in addition to the mod they want.
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