This is far from normalnormally, no. he should be able to release it on whatever platform he wants, and there hasn't been any sort of official release stating that all mods should be exclusive to the steamworkshops.
Absolutely. This looks like long-term plan, for Fallout 4 and TES6...(but i can definitly see it happen in the future)
Jesus christ Valve....
Has Gabe lost his marbles? This is going to kill their reputation.
Unfortunately, nobody will care about that in a month when Fallout 4 will be announced.
If Fallout 4 supports paid mods then I expect it will get downvoted into oblivion before it even comes out. It will be like the Diablo 3 always-online, real-money-auction-house situation all over again. The ironic thing is Cybperpunk 2077 will come out looking like heroes. They're playing into CD Projekt REDs court.
I can see Iwinski licking his chops right now and coming up with a way to capitalize.
Holy crap. Never in my life did I expect Valve to fall this low.
We've.. we've created a monster..
Very true. Start earning a positive reputation now so that you're already ahead when Cyberpunk 2077 comes out.The best way to capitalise would be to get REDKit available for modders as quickly as possible.
GOG.com isn't going to knock Valve over that quickly. According to some statistic I read a long time ago GOG.com is only responsible for 13% of digital game sales, whereas Steam is responsible for something like 80%.Really? Valve is not ready to face the challenge of TW3? It has rested on its laurels and the only way they have to avoid losses is to make pay even more to your customers? This sounds like tantrum for loss of monopoly ....
Steam and G.O.G are not the only which give both of them benefits... If TW3 really is waht we expect Dev and publisher companies will need to make a washup of their mind about what costumer want from now on. And statistic is made of numbers, market is made of feelings.
@thehotsung8701 Isn't UBI$OFT an european studio? Being a money grabbing company without any concern for gamers is not associated with a continent or country of it's origins. Also buying a game not for it's value but in spite of other publishing studio/developer is imho not very mature.
Since the beginning i've treated steam as alien pod that sooner or later wil spawn a greedy monster. All the childish "achievements" bullshit, always online, drm, fuck-up with greenlight, double moral standards.... Another pointless application running in the background wasting my old cpu's power and doing god knows what. Installing games into folders that i don't wan't to, patching constantly without my consent, troubles with modding... Uninstalled this crapware after couple of hours. I so much prefer physical games - just as i prefer hard money instead of virtual one - binary code on some server of some private or national bank. I truly don't know why anyone would use it in the first place....
Lets say modding with REDkit really takes off, what control does CDPR have over this? Could they deny Steam the sale of their own mods?