

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." I suggest that you try it again a few hours laters.A petition calling for Valve to remove the pay-for-mods system quickly garnered more than 130,000 signatures. It can't happen that the download with SteamCMD don't work, i encounter that problem serveral times so far.īut i think it is because of your anonymous login and registered user get prefered. Then use "Download" to activate steamCMD and download the mod's from the download list. To remove entries from the download list, double click at them. "Check for updates", would check for updates from workshop mods and add them to the download list Then use "Add mod to download list" and continue browsing and adding. !įirst use the browser, to select a workshop mod. RimPy download and install SteamCMD by it own now. Under Downloader, you can setup SteamCMD (button is down left). Setup the path's, without using steam let the path for steam mod's empty. SteamCMD allow you to download workshop entries with an anonymous login, so you don't need a steam account.ĭirect download at the steam description. The author of RimPy the offline mod manager add the integration of SteamCMD, a commandline tool from valve itself. (worked well, but sometimes overrun and you still need to copy/unzip the mod manualy) (bad expierence since i rarely got he latest version of the mod even after tynan set some flag) I discoved some websites which allow to download workshop mods. Since 95% of all mods are released at the workshop and only a few of the mod author's provide non-steam download link it was sometimes frustrating to get interesting mods. This is for the minority of people who don't use steam for various reason.
