Earlier this year, Valve sent the mod community into crisis mode with paid mods for Skyrim. It did not end well.
Fan projects Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 have shut down after Valve intervened in their development.
First they open Steam up to more AI, now they are shutting down fan projects when at one time they used to support or even give the fans jobs.
Wonder what's going on with Valve at the minute.
There's potential that Valve had already planned to bring Source 2 to TF2 officially after Counter Strike 2. It's been getting some renewed attention lately.
You got Nintendo to thank for Portal64 being taken down. As for TF2, most likely it's due to the probability of Valve working on a source 2 port themselves. It's sucks but Nintendo are the biggest pricks in the business and not letting this drag out into a huge court drama is the best decision.
Valve has updated its stance on AI games on the Steam storefront, allowing creators to publish AI-created games.
Hell no. I want games that have been made by creative minds who have a passion for their craft, not a bot with a penchant for plagiarism.
So instead of paying for an engine and assets to create a game they are paying for an engine and assets to create a game.
Valve has officially warned against inhaling the Steam Deck vent fumes in an official response due to potential health hazards.
Wow people will huff anything nowadays some people just have way too much time on their hands.
Another reason to love the PlayStation Portal, no chance of breathing in noxious vapors.
Get a Steam Deck they said, to which I reply, what are you high?
It's a screwed up world when we insist that modders aren't entitled to earn money from their hard work, yet we're perfectly OK with Youtubers making videos using these mods and bringing in large sums of cash. A good quality mod can be a lot more work.
I'm all for a donation based system.
Pay if you want.
I know A LOT of mods and modders would do quite well with this as there are lots of people who would LOVE to support mods and their creators.
But forcing you to pay with this all or nothing system?
NO THANKS!
everyone love bring up the past an say it great the way it is since...it...free.
an disappointed that their having pay for what other use to do for free.
yes their will be those that milk dlc for easy money but their will also be others that use too too push things forward.
everything cost $$$, paid mods can help modders make a career out of it an teach them financially responsibility. how greedy do you have to be too assumes that you are entitled too anything free, just cause it was before.
why pay for tv? watch it free online. why pay for movie? watch it free online. why pay for a book? free online. why pay someone for work he did? you can find it free online.....
TLDR
am 100% for paying people for their hard work, even if they don't mind working for free. the world need too learn too help each other, not themselves an we all need $$$.
Duh, that was clearly their beta run. They were never going to completely stop.
Go home Valve, you're drunk.