Mods aren't subject to quality assurance standards from publishers or console makers. Mods can do things that traditional developers often are not able to. They expect me to shell out money for mods that were previously free, for a 4 year old game? Fuck that," said one commenter. In this case, Bethesda's 45 percent seemed excessive to players and modders.īut for some purists, the issue wasn't about percentages-it was about money entering the equation at all. The game's publisher determines how much it wants to skim off the top.
But Valve's cut, just like on iOS, was indeed only 30 percent. Some contrasted this unfavorably to Apple's App Store, in which content creators receive a 70 percent share. In the case of Skyrim, 75 percent of the profit from a mod's sale was split between Valve and Bethesda, with only 25 percent making its way to the mod creator's pocket. Many think that the profit-sharing model is unfair to modders.
Valve boss Gabe Newell even took to Reddit to address the controversy directly and "to make sure that if people are pissed off, they are at least pissed off for the right reasons." Skyrim was crowned as Eurogamer's Game of the Show, E3 2011 back in June.A petition calling for Valve to remove the pay-for-mods system quickly garnered more than 130,000 signatures. It's also one of the games the Eurogamer Network (that includes all of our partner sites) has nominated as Game of the Show, Gamescom 2011. Skyrim is on display at German games show Gamescom this week.
The trio even opted not to sell huge hit Modern Warfare 2. In the past, services like Impulse (now owned by GameStop), Direct2Drive (now owned by GameFly) and Gamersgate chose to boycott Steamworks games. This particularly frustrates rival digital distributors. the visible presence of Steam can't then be removed. And by using Steamworks, a game opts to include these mechanics at a fundamental development level, i.e. Steamworks is a set of tools that contains Steam's useful bits and bobs: things like authentication, multiplayer, cloud saving and so on. This indicates a clear direction for future Bethesda PC games. The news lands days after Bethesda confirmed Steamworks for Rage on PC. The PC version of Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim will integrate Steamworks, Bethesda has confirmed.
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