[Navarr]

Hijacking for visibility (I'm so late to the party..)

Valve has not ended the paid mods programme. They've only turned it off for Skyrim.

From the Valve post:

> We're going to remove the payment feature from the Skyrim workshop.

They're very explicitly removing it only from Skyrim.

Personally, I'm completely okay with the paid mod system - and I think the reason it failed so spectacularly was because of Bethesda and the invisibleness of the "Valve takes 30%, Bethesda takes 45%" - But it is important to note

[erikb]

Yes, sorry, didn't say that clearly enough. The real mistake here was starting with the biggest mod community they have. You should first try to find a good system without being so public about it. And that's what they will change. Iterating with a smaller project.

[Navarr]

I'm personally incredibly hopeful for Tabletop Simulator.

The Skyrim community was just a bad fit, and Bethesda a terrible overlord.