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[UPDATE] Just about an hour after Bethesda released a blog post defending paid Skyrim mods, Valve

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The announcement of paid mod support on Steam last week was met with plenty of skepticism, so Valve head Gabe Newell participated in a Reddit AMA to help alleviate concerns.

First off, Newell explained the reasoning behind Valve's decision to introduce paid mods to the Steam workshop.
Our view of Steam is that it's a collection of useful tools for customers and content developers. With the Steam workshop, we've already reached the point where the community is paying their favorite contributors more than they would make if they worked at a traditional game developer. We see this as a really good step. The option of MOD developers getting paid seemed like a good extension of that.
He also clarified that the 75/25 revenue split for modders in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim isn't decided by Valve. Game developers set the percentages on a game-by-game basis.

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"A fine selection of the worst paid mods on Steam Workshop for Skyrim."

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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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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."