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I am really not sure why there is so much hate. People are still free to create, well, free mods. All valve is doing with this, like many companies are starting to, is empowering it player base to, if they choose to, receive compensation for things they have put time into creating...just like the game developers do. It just makes sense. By doing this, such as in DotA 2, you allow a large group of talented people to create things they love and receive compensation for it. It basically increases the pool of talent for use on their game. Basically freelance workers. Game company takes a percent since they provide the platfoem and often the tools and the creator makes some cash for his work. Also, this is great for the industry as a whole as it creates a much for visible talent pool for game developers as far is recruiting goes. Considering all this, please explain how this is such a negative trend. :)
It's 17 minutes of a guy yelling obscenities, clicking through skyrim mods, and not saying anything besides the slippery-slope "they're going to sell you the game piece by piece now" argument.
It's a way to get content creators paid for their work. Why the 17 minutes of yelling hate?
Doesn't matter allow me to tell you why.
You don't actually have to pay for anything sure people will try to make mods to sell however (You do not have to buy them) As a Developer I would never design mods for Skyrim anyways because they take most the money.
However as a consumer you can get almost any single-player game on steam for free meaning you can download and easily crack a game, even those games using steam encryption are easy to bypass I wont tell you how of course, meaning you can get games like skyrm for free + Mods because mods themselves can be shared on torrents, and other sites without any encryption required anyways.
All a movement like this does is encourage more piracy just like dead or alive 5 after they banned mods I wont play the game, and I gave the game bad reviews because they had no EULA, or Agreement then started banning people for modding skins and cosmetics.
Although the guy in the video makes sense to me while he is pissed off, games with DLC I generally avoid I don't like DLC content, Free mods sure, the only exception is if the game is a MMO, or a game like League, DLC like Bioware makes is a big turn-off for me I generally only play the game as it was released and that is it.
So what you're saying is ... you have to be Incorporated in order to receive monetary compensation for add-on content.
Ummm...NO.