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Artist's Rights Matter
Recently, many of you became aware that Bethesda began to allow mod developers to sell mods. They then took that right away. Mod developing is a form of art. They essentially took away our right as artists to sell our work. Please help fight this decision on their official forums by following this link and commenting:… -
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While I absolutely support Valve and Bethesda trying to come up with a way for people to effectively monetize their work as a part of the Steam ecosystem, I think it's a bit silly to treat this like some sort of huge ideological crusade when it was literally not a thing that existed less than two weeks ago. Yes, it would… -
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With an attitude like that, I can't help to say that bethesda and valve also have every right to do as they please with their games. It is exactly the same thing as an artist and a gallery. -
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there were just too many problems with due to people stealing work from other artists and selling it for themselve which kinda shocked me, I thought they would review the mods that came through, but maybe not. I also think you are going over top with this artist rights thing. -
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Artists do have every right to sell charge for their work. Valve and Bethesda back tracking on a badly executed idea (even if it was a good idea) doesn't mean that they're saying you can't sell your artwork. They're saying that the platform wasn't good enough or that they aren't comfortable with the way it panned out. If… -
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They banked too much on people not being assholes and that consumers would help police the copy cats and people stealing work, but it definitely got way too out of hand way too quickly. I understand their back tracking, but they are not entirely to blame, was a lot to do with how shitty people can be. That being said, I… -
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Now the content creators are mad, bethesda just can't catch a break -
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Selling mods wasnt really the issue in my opinion, sure there was push back by those expecting everything to be free. You could even see this when Blender had a plugin store for paid plugins and content... there is certainly a sense of entitlement. Reminds me of those who defend the used game market even though its clearly… -
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The thing I don't understand is why modders bended over backwards for 25%. Bethesda or Steam have done no zero work, but they take 75% of it, seems really insulting. -
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Since when do people actually get deterred because there is terms of usage / potential consequences? People steal and pirate stuff all the time even with real potential consequences. Even if they allowed people to charge for their mods there would be some people giving it out for free. I like the idea of a donation system.
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