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I don't think Gabe's response was the result of a thorough financial analysis or specifically limited to just the costs of email. He probably did some "napkin"

• astrodust 12y ago
  They make a lot of money from casual purchases of in-game items and the games themselves. Every day someone's too irate to purchase something is lost revenue. It probably hit them harder than that, it'll take time to see what kind of a dent sales in add-ons have taken. Honestly, I thought it was a good idea, funding mod makers to do even better work directly, but maybe they should've stuck to a new game to launch that idea rather than push it back into existing titles where people might get miffed their formerly free mods go paid.