They went on to explain the reason for emailing me: I'd already cottoned on to that by putting two-and-two together when Valve announced Curated Workshops at the same time Bethesda announced they'd removed the 100mb file size limit on Skyrim Workshop.
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They explained that they were working on a new feature for Steam Workshop, in conjunction with relevant developers, to "allow mod authors to choose if they wish to charge money for their mod or give it away for free". Please understand, it would be illegal to simply paste or printscreen an entire email and post it up here without permission.Īround about a month ago I was contacted by a representative at Valve. I will be quoting small, relevant snippets from a couple of emails. In order to explain them, I'll give you my timeline of events, so they're in context.
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I don't know how long.Īnd at this time, as far as I'm aware, most, if not all of his mods are still available on the Nexus. I have deleted many of my accounts and will be leaving the modding community for a time. Arissa is currently hidden until we decide what to do. The Nexus files will remain in the end, this is the community that has supported me every step of the way. I have taken every mod I have ever published off the Workshop, and it will stay that way. Thank you everyone very much for your outpouring of support. In my previous news I'd categorically said "and I'm also not going to bury my head in the sand and pretend like it isn't happening.I think everyone should know everything there is to know about ", so it seemed right to explain the situation properly, here, not on Reddit.īefore I explain the concept of the Service Providers, let me finish off Chesko's story by saying that he has since announced the following in his Frostfall file page comments: However, when I got to bed I decided that no, I would do a news post about it no matter what. I figured I'd do a bigger news post tomorrow if it was really necessary, else I'd let my response on Reddit do the talking. By that point it was getting late, around about 8pm in the evening, and I'd been at my desk all day with a few hours sleep the night before. Things died down considerably once people had the facts. I responded to Chesko's post on Reddit pretty quickly and answered people's questions and even humoured a crazy person for a bit. Basically, people read it, some people justifiably wanted a reasoned explanation, some people went batshit crazy. People scrambling to see if it's true, wildly speculative wails of betrayal echoing across the internet. This obviously sparked some controversy, not least because it omitted some quite pertinent details. I may just host my mods on my own site for anyone who is interested.
I'm not sure I'm comfortable supporting that any longer. They are saying one thing, while simultaneously taking their cut.
However, The Nexus is a listed Service Provider on the curated Workshop, and they are profiting from Workshop sales.
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Why? The problem is that Robin et al, for perfectly good political reasons, have positioned themselves as essentially the champions of free mods and that they would never implement a for-pay system. I am also considering removing my content from the Nexus. He made a post on Reddit explaining his decision, and took a pop at the Nexus at the bottom by saying: Yesterday, Steam's new Paid Workshop had its first casualty as Chesko pulled his mods off the site. I'm going to preface this news post by telling you to read the entire article, to the bottom before you run off and start quoting things left right and centre out of context.
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