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    Cool The Steam Paid Mods Fiasco

    (How did we not talk about this already?!)

    Okay, you're probably thinking, why is this topic necessary? It was like a one day deal and Steam already abolished it because it was so bad!!!!!

    Yes, okay, you're totally right. As we saw from the extra apple mod (costing an outrageous $30 USD), there were many problems with Valve's recent decision to allow paid mods on Steam. Within the week, the feature was removed, to the joy of many outraged gamers. However, was the idea really so terrible? Could paid mods be a viable option? Many mod creators allow optional donations on their personal websites, but many others put in loads of coding and graphical effort completely for free. Is there another, more effective way to support these content creators, or should they rely solely on their own motivation and some donations?

    How did you react when you heard about Steam mods? And what could Valve do to support these creators in another way since the feature was removed?



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    I totally didn't copy and paste this from what I wrote like eleven minutes ago.

    thought about making one of those twenty five dollars for one extra apple mods myself, but got lazy about it and then they removed it anyway.

    There were some even better ones, though, did you see the physical "Gaben Paywall" thing where someone put a wall with his face in front of one of the critical points in the game?

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