Are you serious? Paid mods were a thing for less than one week. Mods were paying their bills through other means before that, and they’ll continue to do so until Valve figures this shit out. Fucking melodrama, man.

Your argument makes no sense. Up until a week ago, no one earned a thing, and in the week since, the general sentiment has turned to “Valve has taken away the modders chance at earning a livelihood”? Please. No one brought up the difficulty of getting exposure as a creative, and that’s not even germane to this…

Their delivery was horrible, but I agree with the sentiment. Until this week, modding was a labor of love, and Valve pulled the plug before people really had a chance to make it anything more than that...which will work out better for everyone than if they allowed this to continue for weeks/months and THEN pulled the…

So, this guy built his entire mod in the week since paid mods went online (and then offline)? Did someone tell him that up until a week ago, he was in fact “doing this for free”?

Were you in my wife’s Economics class? Because...

Were you in my wife’s Economics class? Because...

Actually, a non-profit is just an entity that uses all of its “profit” to further its stated mission or goals and does not distribute those to shareholders/principals. It is not required to be a charity or serve the public good. Now, the league office can take whatever profits they’ve got and build a war chest...and I…

Never said his explanation was bullshit. I was saying I don’t think it’s bullshit that the office held tax-exempt status, since they exist only to generate as much revenue/profit for the teams that make up the league and not for themselves. If the league office generated a significant profit for itself, I’m sure the…

That’s so cheap, I may need to buy one of these on principle.

That’s so cheap, I may need to buy one of these on principle.

That’s not bullshit, and that’s a fantastic job of explaining it. IMO, the “bullshit” part may come when people confuse NFL (the league infrastructure) and NFL (the league of 32 teams) or conflate the two.

No doubt. It’s more about the issues I have with Kinja’s layout than anything else. Maybe I’m too used to reddit’s tiered layout...

This is funny. You’re thoughtfully reconsidering your initial post, but reading through the thread it would appear that Kinja and Kinja-dom refuse to accept your reconsideration. Ah well...

Even if they sold creation kits, you wouldn’t get around the fact that any mod is built on an engine and/or IP that the modder didn’t create themselves, and someone deserves to collect a fee for those.

It’s one thing when all mods were free or supported by donations, but once Valve decided to turn this thing into a marketplace and allowed modders to take it commercial, all charity and ignorance of operating costs go out the window. The expectation was if you (as a modder) were going to generate revenue off of…

I’m going to keep that “hope you don’t reproduce” line in my back pocket...for when shit’s about to go down.

Hear, hear for victimless crimes!

There there. *pats top of head*

You just listed all the major qualifications to be a North American professional athlete.

In the arena of other CoD games, I thought BO2 was just about perfect...and I hate-hate-HATED BO. I’m hopeful for 3, though.

Your #3 resonates with me as someone who refuses to purchase extended warranty coverage on my appliances. I’ve taken to saying that I’m “self-insured” because I mark some money every month as “Repair/Replace”. When shit happens (and it seems to more often when you’re the homeowner), I use money from this “account” to…

Your sample size is way too small. Needs more sandwiches.