In my head I imagined something like "Nehrim: At Fate's Edge" being available for 5 dollars as unofficial third party DLC. In practice I can get a hammer for 20 cents.
I like Skyrim mods but it's rare when I find one that's polished and content rich enough to warrant paying any money for it.
A pay what you want "0 dollars" option would alleviate most of the heat I think. EDIT: And it seems that Valve will be adding a "pay what you want" option that the creator can set instead of the preset options. Hopefully there will be a 0 dollar one, making it effectively a donation.
Maybe the backlash will be less bad when games get released with paid mod support from the start instead of people taking away their free mod and suddenly making it paid. I doubt that the new Unreal Tournament that will have a similar system will get anywhere near the same amount of heat since it will be a free multiplayer game.
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