Ill answer all of the posts above without much quoting since it would blow into something difficult to read.
Several posters above noted they wouldnt agree with something like this but you all misunderstand what i proposed.1. The various small usual mods would not be charged, as usual. Ever.
2. Larian studios must have curating responsibility and the final say in what could be sold or not.
This would ensure that no inappropriate content is sold and that those who could be sold get a proper quality testing (community should play a role here too) and are up to a certain quality standard.
3. Only huge mods, completely whole new campaigns, stories and big expansions and such would be considered as a material for official support of this kind. And again, would only be put up for sale IF Larian studios deems them good enough.
- All this would completely prevent people just putting in garbage for sale and would also completely prevent Larian studios getting any bad rep because of it.
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It would also help more serious modding teams to stick it out and actually create whole new games in the Divinity editor - which cannot be done without spending at least a year working on them.
Big mods are huge efforts - even with the editor - and we wont see many of those if there is no valuable motivation and reward for people to stick working on them over a long time.
This would also affect the production of these mods to be relatively shorter. Since it would provide direct and big motivation for people to keep working, stick together, not to argue, not to leave the modding team for any random reason - which is what usually happens with big mods. (it would still happen of course but much less overall)
And therefore to get these mods done relatively faster, overall.
I could name many such ambitious mods that fell apart and were abandoned as im sure you all can too.
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Personally, i see no problem with paying 5 or 10 euros (random prices figures there) for a whole new game and thus directly rewarding the work and effort some people put into making it.
Which would ensure i would get more of those down the line.
Of course, this would not be mandatory at all. So anyone who doesnt want to try for this option would not need to. And even if they try it - Larian studios would have the final say and therefore quality assurance would be enforced.
Hi Hiver, I know this is an old post but I think your ideas are very valid ones indeed. A game like this deserves such a system and quality in mods is only a good thing. I have been browsing the forum over the last two days because I have just started a new world and completely new storyline. As you say, the hours of work are phenomenal when it comes to creating a "whole new game experience" using this wonderful engine.
Thanks for your post.
Hey, no probs. Hopefully something good comes out of it.
