Paid mods

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The whole system is backwards and reeks of greed on both the modder putting their mod up for a price, greed on Bethesda's part, and greed on Valve's part.

I haven't made any money from EQEmulator in my stay here. My personal belief is the system should work like P99: You should be able to donate to keep the mod author running if you like their mods. You shouldn't have to be required to donate to get anything, just 'if you want to, you can'. That's how it's been for years in free, open source software and the modding community as well.

The humble bundle works on this philosophy. The money goes to a cause, whether it be a hungry mod author, a charity, or a game company, or the humble bundle, but does not require you to donate any specific amount of money to get the games - at least it used to, anyways, it doesn't quite do that anymore although you get full games, not mods, in this case.

If they added a slider (Publisher, Developer, Mod Author, Charity of Mod Author's choosing, Valve) and a donate button to mods, that would be so much better than the current system.