Originally Posted by BioSpirit
I made a mod for the Dragon Age: Origins called "Hilltop Under Siege" and it took somewhere around 400 to 500 hours of work to create the mod. I don't think that I would make the same deal again just to get a few people to congratulate.


Pretty Much sums it up.

Modding is actually a genius idea that most people fail to see.

Modding is Extra Content for the Original developer, effortlessly.

Modding is Extra Sales for the Original developer, due to popular mods, again effortlessly.

Thank god for the passionate people who will do it all for free, whilst we keep on gaining for their efforts.

Then its: "it has come to our attention, that the community would not like to allow the sales of mods, so to keep everyone happy, and because we are the good guys, we decided to refuse such a tragic idea."

If you are modding in hopes of becoming the next big hit like DayZ, DOTA, etc. then statistics pretty much says "yeah... ok... good luck" Might as well go try being the next pewdiepie on youtube.

Its not all bad though, I bought UE4 for onetime fee of $19 (no subscription updates) and all they want is 5% of whatever I make (if any). Sure I need to programme more and create more 3D props but the trade-off is so much better and so many opportunities left open, also much more educational value too. What they ask for is so very little for such a powerful game engine, CryEngine even removed their royalty all together, so at least some steps in the right direction.