I'm not exactly against paying for mods. The Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod was pretty great. I'd pay for that. And it seems pretty fair for content creators to be paid for their work if they choose. HOWEVER, I don't like how this was implemented at all. Poor Skyrim with it's already established modding community has been torn asunder by all this with major dependencies and popluar mods suddenly being put behind paywalls, mod content being stolen or misused by both sides, it's chaos, at least for now. I also don't feel that Skyrim was the best medium to implement this because modding Skyrim is a fragile and tedious process, there's a lot of things that could go wrong and it isn't exactly something that can simply be priced. It might have been better for Valve to try this with a new game, that way there isn't all these conflicts and we can see if the prospect can draw in content creators. There's also the future ramifications of this new system. A lot of bad things might come from this, surely more bad than good. But we'll have to see. I just want Skyrim to be left alone.
