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Has society turned everything into a big commercialization??? Everything takes money these days... What is happening to society?..... Free modding is almost like "the last stand" if you will..... And if we don't have free mods, then what do we have?
Just look at Christmas for instance.... These days, is it really about the spirit of giving?
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Society is totally out of our puny hands. We are nothing but peons in the grand scheme of things.
But modders do have a choice to make either payware or freeware... So why make people pay, when life already does more than enough of that?
Every SH3 fan should be glad to know that I will NEVER take part in a payware project. NEVER
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I had this hypothesis, now you gave me the fundaments to base it.
Are you sure you make mods to make your users happy? I think there is a greater reason, something above that, given the fact you created this topic to despise payware and glorify your freeware mods, you are not out there to make anyone happy, you want fame and glory, you want to be recognized as the freedom fighter of freeware against the evil hordes of payware modders of the apocalypse, either to the public, to yourself or both.
Now you are a contraditory fellow, you deem little importance to money yourself, but then, to your users, money matters, money is so important to them they shouldn't have to waste it with your mods.
Why make people pay? Why bother making mods? Why should professionals waste their time with mods while they could be working on a game development? The full length of your question could be: "Why make people pay when a mod is not worth it?", that sounds fair for someone who understands what both options offer, but you chose to exclude payware entirely from your realm, that means you automatically exclude 50% of your modding possibilities, like tribes in Africa who exclude women are missing 50% of their talent, you pompously believe freeware to be the last stand, but that is a comfortable position for you to take with a game like SH3, where Ubisoft does not grant rights to sell payware mods to anyone other than X1 (who packages stolen mods) and considering how limited the game is, without an SDK it is difficult to offer any mods other than superficial editing.
I'm glad you will never sell any mod, I'd tend to believe it is a pitty you decide to always work as an amateur, always in your spare time, but you must be a master in the art of divination to know the future and this must be the right choice, you have probably noticed all your payware projects weren't good enough to be worth money.
But you could at least respect other modders, who decide to make a payware from scratch and create a product worth the money, because you make it sound as if your mods and all future mods you will ever make were and will be worth the money and you made the decision not to charge for them, and that payware modders want to suck the last drop of life off their clients. Good for you, shine, liberator angel of the helpless gamers, we shall follow your swanking.