2ckirbyA lot of his posts are leaving me in a weird spot. On one hand, I understand a lot of what he's saying, but at the same time I don't see why any of this is necessary.
its the exact same thing as paid cosmetics. unimaginitive retards will whine doom and gloom while content creators will make the big bucks now that they finally have a platform to release on
he's not going to post "well look you retard, we gave people the chance to make cartoon hats and now a lot of them make 200k a year so i think this strategy may be more viable than putting a donation button when catering to a market that that still has >50% adblock on despite constant appeals from ~the sites they love~".
it should all be common sense that this is direction steam has headed for the past 3 years or so. you're basically looking at a preview of dota's custom map system
This is literally the farthest thing from paid cosmetics its unbelievable you can act so condescendingly on this thread without even having a shred of understanding of what this is.
These are not supported by the official developer, unlike Valve and cosmetics. This isnt content that is official, you are paying for unofficial content that is literally just being hosted by Valve, not certified or quality proofed.
If the mod gets broken by a patch by the actual developer, and you are out of the 24 hour refund period you lose your money. There is no consumer recourse. There is no developer support, many mods contain copyrighted content since they are not developed professionally and have no sort of legal agreements for fair use.
Comparing paid mods to cosmetics is actually one of the dumbest things I have ever read and it would be excusable if you weren't such an ass while being so ignorant.