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| Topic | bethesda added paid mods to fallout 4 today |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/17 10:08:02 AM #25: | adjl posted... Snuggletoof posted...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. The irony is, we're sort of heading in that direction with YouTube Red. And a lot of those money-making content creators are now getting strangled out of business (and into either retirement or moving to Twitch) because of YouTube's current reworking of the ad revenue system. Some of the higher-ranked channels on the site in terms of popularity are seeing massive cuts to revenue (like 75% reduction cuts) which are putting a lot of the creators who quit real world jobs to focus exclusively on producing YouTube content into deep shit. As a consequence, many of them are moving to platforms like Twitch, setting up Patreon accounts to support themselves, or otherwise moving content behind paywalls of one kind or another. So a lot of those "hours of high quality content" and "thousands of people making careers out of doing something they love" may be going away soon if YouTube doesn't sort its shit out (which it won't, because Google doesn't care) or an alternative video hosting site doesn't catch on (which it won't, because no one wants to stand against YouTube's current monopoly). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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