I definitely wasn't against paid mods as much as many of the folks here were. This cannot be allowed to come to fruition lest we drive the need for control and profit to every aspect of gaming, a hand gripping tighter and tighter and more than willing to strangle fun and artistic viability in the process. At absolute best, this will turn high quality mods into essentially paid expansions for pennies on the dollar, whereas the "free" modding remaining will be relegated to its own ghetto as it were, where modders only spend the time there long enough to get good enough to "go pro". will be incompatible with whatever proprietary requirements to release "officially". With this kind of thing (or their previous attempt under Steam) that will pretty much end, because it will mean such permissive licenses from the GPL / MPL to Creative Commons etc. The modding community for many Bethesda (and other) titles often releases the mods and artwork under permissive licenses that helps to keep the modding scene alive as people bundle and build atop the work of others (with proper references and credit). You start poaching the best modders with sponsored/paid stuff, then everyone loses. Modding is at its best when it is open and unrestricted. Pretty much everything TaintedSquirel said above is correct, this will have a massive impact on the viability of modding as a whole, as well as foisting yet another goddamn infurating "client" (ie app) as necessary to make use of them. If it does, then you can bet that soon every company will be pushing their own proprietary, locked down, paid-mod scheme of one sort of another. We can't allow this kind of thing to succeed.
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