Gabe Newell har denne helgen svart på spørsmål på Reddit-forumet om det omdiskuterte tillegget til Steam Workshop som lar moddere selge arbeidet sitt. Mange har blitt opprørt av blant annet den manglende kvalitetskontrollen, men også det faktum at modderne selv kun får en liten bit av kaka.
"Our goal is to make modding better for the authors and gamers. If something doesn't help with that, it will get dumped. Right now I'm more optimistic that this will be a win for authors and gamers, but we are always going to be data driven."
Newell forsøkte å forsikre folk om at det nye systemet er til for å forbedre moddene i fremtiden, og han sa også de er veldig klar over hvor viktige modderne har vært for Valve.
"Skyrim is a great example of a game that has benefitted enormously from the MODs. The option for paid MODs is supposed to increase the investment in quality modding, not hurt it.
About half of Valve came straight out of the MOD world. John Cook and Robin Walker made Team Fortress as a Quake mod. Ice frog made DOTA as a Warcraft 3 mod. Dave Riller and Dario Casali we Doom and Quake mappers. John Guthrie and Steve Bond came to Valve because John Carmack thought they were doing the best Quake C development. All of them were liberated to just do game development once they started getting paid. Working at Waffle House does not help you make a better game."
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