Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Paid mods for skyrim is now dead
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3434it/paid_mods_in_the_steam_workshop/
This battle has been won but we must continue to fight this in the future when it returns. As a modder myself I have this to say:
Mods should always be a open and free to everyone.
If you want to make money then make content for Unreal / Unity and other asset stores. Leave the mods to be free and liberated as a place for unlimited expression.
This battle has been won but we must continue to fight this in the future when it returns. As a modder myself I have this to say:
Mods should always be a open and free to everyone.
If you want to make money then make content for Unreal / Unity and other asset stores. Leave the mods to be free and liberated as a place for unlimited expression.
Monday, April 27, 2015
GOG Galaxy
Note: In my Rant about mods I said I don't have adverts on my site. This is a advert above but it is something I wish to promote - FOR FREE - as I feel it will better the PC gaming community. So to clarify, I get no money for having this on my website or from clicks. I just love GOG and what they are trying to do.
Dota 2 Compendium
Is up for sale again for this year.
Thoroughly enjoyed it last year.
Won't be buying it this year.
Thoroughly enjoyed it last year.
Won't be buying it this year.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
My stance of selling mods
The long and the short of it: Mods should be FREE
In the past I done a bit of modding. Started on the C64 with a few constriction kits. One being Aliens in the Adventure constriction kit ( which would be foxed if it was ever released ).
Later some Doom maps.
Most of the work people know me for is the quick maps I made in JK2. The 1 hit 1 kill mod my server used to run and my work in Neverwinter Nights with Tyranni.
During this time, I never felt entitled to being paid anything for my work. During the JK2/Neverwinter time I was in fact putting money in to keep the free services and games running. Even today I do this without any advertising or other kinds of funding. I don't even collect revenue from any of my You tube videos.
I am sure people think I am crazy as I have put a lot of work into everything I do but I just don't fell justified claiming money built upon other peoples games.
So steam selling mods has me disillusioned as to where things are going. Today I learned that Space Engineers might follow suit.
This is a early access game which is no where near complete wanting to make more money by getting the community to build content for it. Will they opt for the gold standard 75% cut of profits ?
Because of this, I utterly refuse to even think of getting Medieval Engineers.
Garrys Mod as well and I am waiting for Bohemia to say something about Arma.
If you want to make money from modding I feel you are better off getting Unreal or Unity and selling assets in their assets store or building a complete game. These days I am tinkering away inside Unreal and if I do make something worth selling I am going to get a far better return on money earned:
Once you make over $3000 a quarter with Unreal you pay Epic 5% of your earnings. This is a good Deal.
With Unity 5 you must buy Pro once you make over $100k. Even better deal
Steam workshop, they take 75% of what you make.
So if your like me and don't like all this rubbish, what can you do about it. One of the best things you can do is stop buying games that support this money grab. You can also buy games off other platforms. Here is the prefect example.
If you are going to get the Witcher 3:
1) The game is cheaper
2) You are directly supporting the devs CD Projekt Red
3) You get a DRM Free version of the game
This is the prefect example of a protest option. Valve get no cut of the game as it isn't a steam works title.
I know I will be checking other platforms before buying something off steam.
In the past I done a bit of modding. Started on the C64 with a few constriction kits. One being Aliens in the Adventure constriction kit ( which would be foxed if it was ever released ).
Later some Doom maps.
Most of the work people know me for is the quick maps I made in JK2. The 1 hit 1 kill mod my server used to run and my work in Neverwinter Nights with Tyranni.
During this time, I never felt entitled to being paid anything for my work. During the JK2/Neverwinter time I was in fact putting money in to keep the free services and games running. Even today I do this without any advertising or other kinds of funding. I don't even collect revenue from any of my You tube videos.
I am sure people think I am crazy as I have put a lot of work into everything I do but I just don't fell justified claiming money built upon other peoples games.
So steam selling mods has me disillusioned as to where things are going. Today I learned that Space Engineers might follow suit.
This is a early access game which is no where near complete wanting to make more money by getting the community to build content for it. Will they opt for the gold standard 75% cut of profits ?
Because of this, I utterly refuse to even think of getting Medieval Engineers.
Garrys Mod as well and I am waiting for Bohemia to say something about Arma.
If you want to make money from modding I feel you are better off getting Unreal or Unity and selling assets in their assets store or building a complete game. These days I am tinkering away inside Unreal and if I do make something worth selling I am going to get a far better return on money earned:
Once you make over $3000 a quarter with Unreal you pay Epic 5% of your earnings. This is a good Deal.
With Unity 5 you must buy Pro once you make over $100k. Even better deal
Steam workshop, they take 75% of what you make.
So if your like me and don't like all this rubbish, what can you do about it. One of the best things you can do is stop buying games that support this money grab. You can also buy games off other platforms. Here is the prefect example.
If you are going to get the Witcher 3:
PLEASE BUY IT OFF WWW.GOG.COM
You loose nothing but gain so much.1) The game is cheaper
2) You are directly supporting the devs CD Projekt Red
3) You get a DRM Free version of the game
This is the prefect example of a protest option. Valve get no cut of the game as it isn't a steam works title.
I know I will be checking other platforms before buying something off steam.
Friday, April 24, 2015
My thoughts on Steam Workshop selling mods
There are full complete games up for cheaper than some of the mods for Skyrim.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
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