It’s the “all” part that fails. For my part, I honestly don’t ever try to troll people. I don’t intentionally start fights and I try to make comments that are thoughtful, even if people sometimes don’t agree. But you know what my initiation to this site was years ago? I asked one of the writers if she had interviewed…

She can’t just be the coolest aunt, or have made the valid choice that, as an assassin and spy, maybe kids are not in the cards for her. Or even the more radical choice that she just doesn’t want them. No, she can’t ever have babies, so her life is ruined. She is an incomplete woman.

Nothing you listed off is even remotely an interactive medium like gaming is, which makes a big fucking difference.

That’s a joke, right? Gaming is more popular now than it’s ever been. It’s gotten so popular, nerds are becoming mainstream and ‘cool’. Call of Duty and Madden are staples among even the ‘dude bro’ frat guys in college, and things like World of Warcraft are known to even the most ignorant of the general public. Hell,…

How can you not just laugh?

Yeah, yeah it is. Because what would happen is more outsourcing to Korean studios, and lower quality animation to save costs - which they already often, using lots of static shots. They would have to use simpler shading and simpler animation, or move to things like Adobe Flash; Like what TV Animated Shows do.

I feel like modders should get payment for their work, that being said, I’m glad Valve did this. If there’s going to be paid modding, it can’t just be dumped into the fray like this. I have a few suggestions that I feel are fair.

Seriously... how are people missing this issue?

Since Morrowind, in the Jurassic period, People have been modding for fun or to add things they themselves wanted in the game. Even I did it for Oblivion, Just.For.Fun.

Because it has been since the dawn of computing. You do realize that alot of gamers thought it was ludicrous that you pay M$ to use their gaming network??

There was nothing that would have been resolved. I get you’re one of the resident idiots around here and you’re just a Kotaku reader so you don’t know much about gaming, but no one with sense wanted this. If modders don’t like making stuff for donations then the simple solution is don’t and go get a job. I get that…

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…

Im really trying to see both sides here. And honestly, it’s really hard to say either side is clearly in the wrong or clearly in the right. I wouldn’t want to see the workshop flooded with poorly made and overpriced mods, but at the same time I would love to see some modders compensated for some high quality mods, and…

Oh please, I hope they do. Then we will know who the whiny little kids are, crying and taking their ball home while the true modders stay and keep doing it because they love what they do.

It was a bad system. You can support paid mods but this system was broken and showed signs of not being thought out very well....

Anybody who has made a mod up to this point has done it purely for fun or experience, but no money. We are right back where we started.

Meh, a few salty losers are crying for their mommas. Big deal.

It is like the old saying by Abraham Lincoln:

Put a “Pay what you want” button. I’ll donate if i like the mod and feel like he deserves money.