Response to the addition was widely negative, with Steam users submitting negative reviews of Skyrim and the initial batch of paid mods. Valve added the payment option to Skyrim's Steam Workshop last week, letting mod makers charge for their creations and set their own prices. Your support means everything to us, and we hear you.'
Valve says it will be 'chewing through' customer feedback on its attempts to bring paid mods to Steam Workshop.īethesda Softworks also weighed in on the issue, saying of the removal, ' Even though we had the best intentions, the feedback has been clear - this is not a feature you want. We think this made us miss the mark pretty badly, even though we believe there's a useful feature somewhere here.' We understand our own game's communities pretty well, but stepping into an established, years old modding community in Skyrim was probably not the right place to start iterating. 'But we underestimated the differences between our previously successful revenue sharing models, and the addition of paid mods to Skyrim's workshop. Facing extreme abuse, Skyrim modders defend paid work
