You know what, I'd be fine with paying for 'certain' mods as long as its sizeable and as long as their is a 'cut down' free version that lets you try it before it breaks on you. But I looked on the workshop its fucking bullshit, 2$ for fucking animated fishing minigames, and 75% goes to the mod author and then 20% goes to Bethesda; like what the fuck? Only 5% goes to the actual mod author, and Valve gets to bathe in more money.
And you know what smite me for heresy, but I'm kinda getting sick of Valve's "who fucking cares, we're rich!" policy and their money grubbing 'accessibility' policy with updates for their games. TF2's last update made me full on quit it cold, we waited for that fucking map for ages only for it being removed because it was "too complicated" , and not to mention how they nearly break every gun that was perfectly okay before the patch.
Then they won't make any games, unless someone feels like it because Steam is the end all-be all platform for PC; because its the only one with a decent interface, and player base. Like Hobocop said.
But I can only see this getting worse and worse on our end if they keep this up, they've already gotten flak for their customer service policy... and yet they've done fuck all about it.