Originally Posted by Meynolt
Can't do that because you (or any other modder) don't own the intellectual rights to the product you've modded. Larian won't allow it either because of the danger of getting sued by other companies if a mod is monetized with elements from their IP or various rights towards that IP. Heck even free mods with certain IPs that people made for various games were gutted in the past, the most notorious studio to pull this off in the past was LucasArts with their Star Wars IP protection.

Don't forget the premise either that when you make a mod, even if you do import custom art and models etc. that you're still using the program made by Larian, thus you use their software to profit on your own creation. Conflict of interests still apply there.

Mod made by someone else and monetized by Larian? It's been done before with Bioware's Aurora Editor for Neverwinter Nights 1, but what no one told you is that in order to rake in part of the profit (which was VERY minimal at best), the modmakers had to fully sign over the rights of their creation to the creator of the tools used to make that mod, aka Bioware. I'm not blaming Bioware for being greedy, it's their own right to do so, they made the game and toolset after all.

In short, it's a terrible idea from a business point of view if you're the creator. I won't judge if it's a good idea or not, but the facts are there.


precisely what i was saying legal nightmare the one time i feel corporate butt rape actually works in a game communities favour

and Hiver a large subsect of the modding community does not like the idea and frankly from all intents and purposes it is not going to happen which means any arguments in favour of it are rather redundant.