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by emodendroket 4067 days ago
Why would making it possible to make money from them make it impossible not to charge for them?
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The system in place didn't do anything to protect the mod from being uploaded fraudulently. If I wanted a $0 price tag on my mod, I especially wouldn't want to spend time I could otherwise be working on my mod policing the store to make sure nobody is selling my mod. Fix that and you fix a lot of the issue.
That's a pretty nontrivial problem to solve technically.
Well, I guess the other issues listed here were nontrivial enough to make a solution unfeasible, or Valve probably wouldn't have backed out.