Skyrim paid mods plan canceled

Steam's plan to allow creators to post video game mods for sale ended almost as soon as it began. This brief but instructive disaster has left a chain of questions in its wake, and the arguments are far from over.

Steam's overall intention was good: allow independent developers a way to earn money from their work, if they wanted to. No one was forcing modders to charge money, nor forcing fans to pay money for the mods. But the implementation left something to be desired, and the licensing issues proved burdensome to say the least.

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