Utterly Mad

The real issue here is even more power being put into Valve's hands.  I can't willingly support it.  Every aspect of this system on Steam workshop simply stacks the deck even more in Valve's favor when they're already the gods of the PC gaming market. 

I'll be waiting to see what Nexus puts into place for their donation system and making liberal use of it next time I get a hankering for some heavily modded Skyrim or whatnot.  Better to have my refunds for mods that don't work be in virtual bucks that aren't also lining Valve's golden pockets. 

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.

This cause such an uproar there is now a subreddit called Fuck Valve.
http://www.reddit.com/r/fuckvalve

People get 1 week suspension for speaking out against the paid modding or really anything negative against the paid for modding.

Paid items under review is pretty funny though

ok, im going to go on a rant here. i kinda like steam, but i really hate it. its kinda nice because games are cheap, patches are often, and it helps with matchmaking. i hate it because A: My net is shit so i cant use it properly B: Valve are goblins who made three good games (Half life one, TF2, and L4D 1) and now everyone worships them C: I JUST WANT TO BUY A FUCKING DISK COPY WITHOUT HAVING TO INSTALL IT ON STEAM AND DOWNLOAD 4 GIGS OF DAY ONE PATCHES BECAUSE THEY CANT MAKE A GAME PROPERLY! D: It starves out game devs that cant get on Steam E: I hate most DRM and finally F: Its just not as satisfying to click a button, its not the same as fighting with the game for 40 minutes to get it installed.

Also mod authors can set to "Pay what you want" So i'm guessing that means you don't have to pay for *All* mods.

GoG, GMG. two other sites that sell games. Yes not as big but from the looks of a decent size. Now if these guys could build an OPTIONAL client that contains similar features to steam I think they'd be good contenders.

I really can't understand why GoG isn't as big as Steam, it's a fantastic platform, the games are dirt cheap, they often either have 75% sales on games or outright give them away for free despite how cheap the platform already is
AND THEY'RE DRM FREE

i get a lot of games from GOG too, just mostly older games.

GOG is pretty good. Wish they had more selection, not that it isnt already prodigious. I recall a couple years ago they tried to raise prices a little bit so they could get funding to acquire more titles to sell, but the community threw an absolute ****storm over the minor price hike and so GOG scrapped the whole plan. Sometimes, the players themselves can be the problem. At least in the case of the GOG thing.

So... GOG is great but the community kinda sucks, Steam kinda sucks but the community is better?