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Jim Sterling: "There was no way we couldn't talk about this one today - in fact, I don't think I've had a more requested topic! Valve recently allowed modders to start selling their work through its Workshop, a move that has ignited comment sections, social media, and Steam itself. It's chaos out there!"

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One Angry Gamer "The monetary or revenue percentage share that modders receive for their mods being on Steam's new paid incentive program for Workshop mods has been largely criticized because, right now, for Skyrim, modders are receiving only 25% of the share for whatever they sell through Steam's Workshop. However, the original belief was that Valve was taking home 75% of the revenue share from mod sales, but that isn't entirely true and has been grossly misconstrued."

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NerdBite: Its pretty evident at this point, that many people are upset at Valve for introducing paid mods into the Steam Workshop. With Skyrim being the first game to support this new paid model, were already seeing some of the most popular mods behind a pay wall.

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Garry Newman, the creator of one of the greatest sandbox mods of all time 'Garry's Mod', has posted on his blog regarding the topic of Valve opening up their Steam Workshop to modders to sell their mods. For those that don't know Garry's Mod started off as a free mod and then went to paid at a later stage. Interestingly, here's what he had to say;

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"The goal is to increase the total investment the community makes in extending its games."

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The introduction of mod monetization on Steam's dedicated platform Steam Workshop has caused quite the discussion, enough to prompt Valve Managing Director Gabe Newell himself to sit in a coffee shop for two hours in order to answer questions and address worries of the fans in a Reddit AMA.

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Community fallout from the Steam Workshop's new for-profit mod system has already started. Even worse is controversy over who owns the content has kicked off and Valve appears unprepared. These problems are popping up only a few short days after the program was started. This new program is bound to keep creating them, so how is Valve going to deal with them? The way things look now the for-profit mod system is going to keep getting worse and Valve will be left playing catchup.

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Dealspwn: "If you're a PC gamer, chances are that you've noticed the storm clouds swirling around Steam over the last 48 hours. Valve have finally allowed mod creators to charge for their wares and let publishers control the cut, resulting in a flurry of premium modifications onto the store. It's a real mess out there. Though we love the idea of hard-working content creators to earn money for their efforts, it seems that Steam's first foray is hitting some serious stumbling blocks and fierce resistance both from customers and the community. Seeing as Steam are already still struggling to stop the rising tide of shovelware and Early Access tat from engulfing the quality and deserving titles, there's a case to be made that this is yet another area in which they're throwing quality control to the wind."

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Valve CEO Gabe Newell said that if the new Steam program that allows users to sell mods instead of just giving them away for free turns out to be bad for gamers, the company will ditch the idea.

"Our goal is to make modding better for the authors and gamers," Newell said in a after claims that it contained the work of another modder.

Newell didn't seem concerned about cases like that becoming too common. "This is a straight-forward problem," he said. "Between ours and the community's policing, I'm confident that the authors will have control over their creations, not someone trying to rip them off."

As for the current revenue split on paid Skyrim mods, which gives the creator of the mod only a 25 percent share of sales, Newell said: "The pay-outs are set by the owner of the game that is being modded. As I said elsewhere, if we are censoring, it's dumb, ineffective, and will stop."