"Hello Dave, you're looking well today"

Welcome to GOG :)

Yeah, I find internet overreacted on the mods&valve thing, but I do agree it could have been done much better.

I would also prefer if there was a truely free scale on donating (i.e. modder could put it as free download with donate button next to it).

I'm also extremely suspicious of valve doing any control about people stealing mods from other people that are uploaded elsewhere, they got a terrible track record of QA regarding their store.

If a modder has done a really great job and has created, for example, a well designed 30 hour campaign with good quality voice acting, I don't see why they can't have the choice of selling their "mod"... which would sound in this case more like an unofficial expansion.

But ideally the share of profits with the developers/publishers should be based on what the mod maker earns after they've recovered all their costs incurred (including tax on earnings), which would complicate the whole system and require humans to get involved to audit everything.

So it's probably better to just go with something like a 80/20 split (80% for the mod maker, 20% for the rest). After all, if the modder is good, he's effectively increasing the demand for the base game and thus increasing their sales, as well as bringing more traffic (AKA potential customers) to the site that hosts the mod.

Cool, a ton of new people is joining here after Steam's payed mod fiasco.
Well done Valve XD

Oh and welcome to GOG, Dave!

Oh that was cute. XD

Yes, it was too easy, I feel all cheap and dirty now :(

:)

Hooray! The defeat of paid mods: http://steamcommunity.com/games/SteamWorkshop/announcements/detail/208632365253244218

but for how long?

I have donated to exactly one mod and it's one probably MANY people here played at one point or another: the HL1 mod svencoop. I donated after playing it for so long because I had the cash now and felt IMHO they deserve it. I also donated before all the hubub about Skyrim mods blew up. Outside of that mod, I donated for lifetime VIP on a particular server ($30 ish or 15 GBP) and another server during a limited time thing ($10 USD). The former I don't have my VIP anymore. The latter I do.