I'm yelling at the guy loitering outside the bakery trying to get me to buy a little cup of his special indie craft butter.
you think I carry around pennies? or you think I want to deal with him giving change? the bakery already gave me butter with my purchase! he's given me no reason to waste my time with him, I can already enjoy my bread and butter combo deal as it is. what makes him think his is so great I should go out of my way to pay for it, and in such an obnoxious denomination as well?! Time and effort went into it, sure, but what makes this guy think it's worth ten percent of the cost of the epic bread and butter combo deal the bakery made? I've got rice and beans and pizza and shrimp scaloppini to eat too! Why should I go out of my way to make room for his little bit of butter?! I really don't care what developers think of it. The success rate is low, and that's a good thing. Just waiting for somebody to try implementing a mods as NFTS system in something established, that'll really get those gamers going.
This thread went from a suggestion then to arguing then to a war then to a discussion about world rules and now someone quits a “job” 2022 for you everyone lmao
Alot of people treat beamNG mods as a SIDE PROJECT, not a job, which is fine, but it means that they rarely get updated, because each time they break they need alot of work to get working again. It's not like modmakers like Felis for X-Plane 11, where when a bug comes along, him and his team can fix it No, but then the chances are, free mods will drop significantly in quality, and enjoying new vehicles would constantly require shelling out money, which would suck
paid mods dont work, if they're good enough to be worth paying someone's gon leak them, no matter how hard u try
I've been working full time on Realistic Derby Project for almost 2 years now. Seems to be working fine for me. Nobody is entitled to 40+ hours a week of my time for free.
Guys, the theory of around $1 per mod, seem pretty nice and all, but we need to consider the sheer amount of people that play the game, like, the most popular mod has over 1.6 MILLION downloads, this would reduce drastically the amount of downloads per mod, specially for people in other countries such as myself, here in Brazil I paid around 40 BRL for the game, which is around like 5-6 $, if the mods are $1 dollar, or a nice new car is like $15, it escalates quickly, people here have around 100 mods installed, this would be a thing maybe for the final iteration of the game or something like that, then there is the issues of retro compatibility and everything, it'd be needed some sort of free sample of the mod to see if it is worth it at all, I dont think the game is at this point right now, but I agree the modders should be rewarded, because there has been some awesome creations.
My thing is, high quality mods that are payware should be on separate sites. The game wasn't particularly designed with payware in mind in the first place
Another thing people are seriously overlooking is the fact that Beam is still in early access. Mods will still break with updates, and sometimes beyond repair. If people pay for mods, they're going to expect them to keep working in future versions, and thus the mod creator would basically be required to keep said mods updated, even if they don't want to or it's simply not possible, or else the customers are going to be pissed. If Beam was a released, stable game without the possibility of major updates taking a sledgehammer to mods, it would be a different story but I feel like people are really overlooking this issue.
For compatibility, most downloaded mods for the game seem to still be compatible with current versions. While I don't expect forever compatibility, when the modders of an outdated mod stop updating it, other modders start work and make remasters. The only thing needed would be permission. Full release is 2 decades or more away. And those sites don't really have that many users. Advertisement can't come from the beamng website because of EULA. Paying youtubers to use the mod would be costly and their viewers might not be interested. Can't really think of any other ways to reward modders, 5 stars? Still doesn't compensate. Nice messages would be appreciated, but the mod creator would still not be compensated for hours of the work on the mod. And remember: free mods stay free, it's a tick box and number input that decides pay for or free. --- Post updated --- Suing for DMCA? Copyright? Depends on whether there's a copyright symbol or trademark symbol.
just so you know, paid mods would still get 'pirated' (reposted to other sites for free). it happens mostly to assetto corsa's paid mods and it would probably happen here. just saying.
