Relevant Forbes Article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/04/24/valves-paid-skyrim-mods-are-a-legal-ethical-and-creative-disaster/ http://www.forbes.

Relevant Forbes Article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/04/24/valves-paid-skyrim-mods-are-a-legal-ethical-and-creative-disaster/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/04/24/valves-pai... My big hangups were: -Bethesda gets a cut, but offers no guarantees concerning compatibility and user support. -Mods usually use other mods for back-end functionality or as an augmentation. i.e. using a new cloud generation mod for an overall weather mod. It generally devolves into a legal tangle of who owns what and who gets what. -The steam green light and early access marketplaces are becoming clogged with low-effort garbage that unscrupulous devs are trying to make a quick cash in. Steam has no structure in place to stop that from happening in the paid mod store. -They poorly and shoddily introduced monetization in a model that didn't have one already in place, skewing incentives and placing the community under tension.