were all resolvable with time

I think allowing the option of paid mods is a great idea and the financial incentive for Valve and the publishers is too great to not revisit.

Their goal is “full HD” (1080p) and 30FPS, but frame-rate is more important to them than resolution. (Smart!)

My mistake. Assumed both the 25% dev cut and the 25% rightsholder cut figures being paraded about by others were accurate.

A better analogy would be someone designing and printing Breaking Bad shirts and selling them commercially. Even though that’s off the air, it belongs to someone and you are profiting off one of their trademarks. Either need to find a way to cut them in or not charge for it.

It’s their game. They’re the rightsholder. If you’re piggybacking off their trademarked, copyrighted work to make a profit, why wouldn’t they get a cut? It’s not like I can sell a Breaking Bad shirt commercially and not expect to hear from AMC’s lawyers unless I work out a way to cut them in.

Wise decision.

That’s another issue: attribution.

I think the problem is that it opens a can of worms based on how modding works in practice. There’s a lot of interlinking between free mod a and free mod b. Something like a comprehensive Skyrim re-design mod may “borrow” work from 25 other people. Even if that mod doesn’t get monetized, if one of those 25 people…

Yeah, I mean. That people had this idea that Valve was their imaginary friend instead of just a for-profit enterprise that’s made a ton of money for itself by happening to fill a niche providing something people like is sort of their own fault.

Get to the bottom of this Kojima thing, Jason. It’s your calling card.

Let’s assume for a second that we are stupidly greedy. So far the paid mods have generated $10K total. That’s like 1% of the cost of the incremental email the program has generated for Valve employees (yes, I mean pissing off the Internet costs you a million bucks in just a couple of days). That’s not stupidly greedy,…

Good call. I forgot about that one, lol.

Combining two news items. Steam started charging for some mods the other day.

12 with mods sounds like a great idea, assuming they aren’t monetized.

The Underground Waterway you have to play through five times to finish the game.

Twitter is an excellent tool with which one can get news instantaneously. It’s like automatically editing your own newspaper, with the exact content you want and having it printed and delivered to you the minute anything breaks.

Sold millions? Seems sort of obscure to have been able to have accomplished that.

“This man was A CONSUL OF ROME!”

I think there are a couple things going on here that are causing problems for you.