Originally Posted by Type941

i think noone would have a problem with this if the CD cost like 5-10 euros and EVERY single person whose mod has been included has been contacted, given credit, etc. This didn't have to be a bad thing, yet it turned sour.


Thing that pisses people off is that the bottom line is like this:

I spend time making skin, for instance, it takes from 10 to 20 hours from my experience to make a skin, not to mention research. That's just 1 skin! So imagine the time we spend, for free. Now someone is selling it to make money. comon. something's not right. It may be all kosher legally, but it's just not cool for the community that made these mods in the first place.

As someone said, this thing discourages from making mods. I keep all my mods released with big readme files, notes, etc, and still find 'f7ckers' releasing them under their own name, scum bags, may their sad lives be filled with joy. X1 surely has thought it would pass, but it's very easy to ignore a some forums. There will be people just going to store, buying SH3, and than - buying this Addon as 'recommendation' from salesman.

Idea of having BEST mods nicely packaged is great - but not like this.


Get agreements with Ubisoft, get the people who modded the game, pay them a tiny royalty (or ship them some free hardware or whatever), and do it right. Right now it looks like a bunch of dudes got together on an adventure and are looking to see how much than money they can sucker people out of. They don't seem to have the strength to do it the right way, so it's getting done like this. The fact that modding community in general rarely gets a deserved respect is all too magnified in this particular case.

Like I said - for 5 euros I'd buy it, but I'm not very happy that the people who actually MADE the mods are not seeing a penny from it. That's wrong.

Just my .02c