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funkyfritter posted...

Snuggletoof posted...

As long as there's proper quality control on Bethesda's end

Sadly that isn't the case, hence the backlash. You'd think they'd have learned after it flopped the first time.

I would agree with that for the first time around, as Valve had a completely hands-off approach at the issue. That's where it falls apart, that's why we see stolen content and shitty "protest" mods.

But lets be real, 90 percent of the backlash was people crying at the word "paid". Screaming that it would be the end of free mods, and completely ignoring all of the benefits having a compensated supply of quality content creators would bring. Consider what happened with Youtube when people started making money for their videos. We got hours of high quality content, and thousands of people got to make careers out of doing something they love.

I'm not going to say with confidence that this will work out this time round. It's entirely likely it will fail again. But I have much more confidence now that they've had a chance to fail before and possibly learn from their mistakes.