stg83: Yep, people will get caught up in the hype for the game thereby making it easier for Bethedsda and Steam to reintroduce paid mods through it.
So long as there's a platform for free mods available, I have a hard time drumming up much outrage about this idea. It's not all that unreasonable for people to be allowed to put a price tag on their work. Unless it looks like Bethesda will be taking a wildly divergent step from how their other games have been, a new Fallout should be easy to mod, so there should be plenty of quality, free mods as well.
I mean, who would begrudge a guy a few bucks for
Falskaar?