KSP Modder's thoughts on Paid Mods (yes, the Steam Workshop controversy)

How do some of the big KSP modders feel about this whole thing going on with Valve selling Skyrim mods for cash? On the one hand, you guys definitely deserve to be rewarded for your work, but on the other hand, Valve is offering a really lousy deal it seems. You only get 25% of any sales, and even that is only if it sells $400 or more. Anything less than that and Valve pockets all of it and laughs at you.

In addition, I can see this becoming a nightmare with people stealing mods from free sites to post for money (which with Valve customer service will probably be a pain to get them to take down), endless arguments with other modders about what creators of prerequisite mods deserve, and wondering what happens if an update to the game or  a prereq mod breaks a paid-for mod.

Would love to hear from one of the big guys like Roverdude or somebody- Do you guys like this idea, do you like the concept but see Valve's implementation as a cash grab, or do you just want nothing to do with any of it?

Personally, I wish they had just stuck to optional donations. I love the idea of rewarding modders, but between the inevitable arguments and ill-will this is going to bring, and the general feeling of cynicism, I think this is a terrible way to do it. Between day one DLC, microtransactions, and everything else in games these days, this is just too much. Im poor. I play games to escape being poor for a while. I just want to be able to have that escape from money worries without HEY LOOK HERE BUY MORE GIVE US MONEY MONEY MONEY waved in my face every three minutes.

Reposted since the formatting screwed up. Not sure what happened there, still kinda new to reddit. (in fact it was KSP that first got me to make an account lol)

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