Originally Posted by Raze
Originally Posted by Cromcrom
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If Larian said "Want to sell your mods on our marketplace? No problem, we take 10% of the sales and you get the rest" I can GUARANTEE YOU the result would be stunning and high quality mods.

And I guarantee you there would be no modding "community", only modding studios.

If anyone could guarantee anything, Larian would already have a policy in place regarding commercialization of mods. There are no guarantees, and there are no absolute facts in this regard. If you want to back up your opinions with examples of other games, etc, then do so.

Given the complaints about this topic, there may be a few deletions as I read through the rest of it...

Well that was kind of pointless. For those who complained:
- Some of posts did go off topic, but pretty much everything worth saying on topic was said before then, and the topic isn't completely derailed. It may or may not return to actual debate on the topic.
- The juvenile insults and condescending attitudes in some posts did not rise to a level requiring moderation.


Dungeons and Dragons 3.0.

They did something with that system that no one had ever done before. They made it open source. The end result was legions of books, addons, spinoffs, you name it.

Though it's a different medium in some respects the fact remains that by allowing other people to earn income off of their base game they made 3.5 *the* system to beat even a decade on later. To this day it remains arguably the most popular tabletop gaming system ever.

Again, it's an imperfect example. One is print, one is digital... but the basis is that a company puts out a product that comes preset with the belief the users may modify it as they see fit, and that selfsame company allowed others to profit off that system.