Why Leaking Paid Mods Is Idiotic.

You get the point,

Alot of modders like LucasBE and LJ74 and many great modders have made good mods and some were free and some where paid, Now i do dislike the concept of paid mods because its just nonsense to pay a mod that if it ends up breaking in a game update or whatever, But since mods like the Cherrier Picnic and the Ibishu Signia have been released, They will get updates on them.

Now i know some people have been saying that paid mods are just an act of stupidity but sometimes there is good ones that are worth the buy.

But then there are the idiots that just leak those paid mods on websites on Modland and whatever bootleg website they have.

its complete stupidity to leak someones hard work and make it for free, The only way to officially get a paid mod like those are just going to their Patreon, Ko-Fi and Gumroad, not anywhere else.

"Don't get paid mods for free on bootleg websites, Get them officially by paying them with money."

 

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Oh, this is supposed to be a rant about leaked mods

 

this is straight up theft

 

Well, the fact that everything is becoming monetized is frustrating more and more people. I find it hard to be angry at someone who wants a mod for a 19-dollar game but doesn't want to spend 150% of the game's value just for one extra vehicle. Moreso if the mod in question receives little update from the developer(s). Personally, I can understand the importance of money to a lot of people, but making mods on BeamNG should NOT be the way to try and make income. I can reason with requesting donations, but it feels very off seeing mods on the official BeamNG site that you can only download if you make a payment of x amount of dollars to a third party. It is really unfortunate to see mods that clearly were only made because some developer wants to make a quick buck. I believe BeamNG genuinely needs to enforce paywalled content. There is too much that can go wrong, especially when you remember that BeamNG does not stand behind money transferred between users. I am thinking and kinda hoping that really soon someone steps in and makes an alternative place for paid mods. Seeing what looks like a cool mod only to be incredulously disappointed because of the $10 paywall is becoming annoying. If I wanted to support the developers, I would, but in all honesty, when is it going to stop?

Also, I'm not going to be replying to comments telling me that people quote "need to eat."
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How so? The original poster is just saying they don't like leaked mods. Has your faith in the community exhausted itself?

 

I'm not Agent_Y, but this is the third paid mods rant thread this year. And it's only January 3rd.

I highly doubt that a $5 mod counts as income. $5 is below the minimum wage in the US or Germany per hour. And so, over 1200 people would have to buy it to make a living for a month, let alone a few months or even a year some mods take. Sure, if you live somewhere with weaker currency this becomes more, but still not as much as you'd expect for the time spent.

 

it's okay, BeamMP gives it to me for free

 

How so? The original poster is just saying they don't like leaked mods. Has your faith in the community

This is the third rant? Forgive me, the last time I even participated in these forums was like 4 months ago.
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Also, that was not my point, but alright. Also, even 1 cent is considered income. The fact of the matter is its third-party payments are being made to individuals who are in no way affiliated with BeamNG. What is preventing me at this very moment from making a mod that's paid and running away with all the money? Absolutely nothing, as much as I hate to say it. My point was not only is everything going to shit with mods cropping up that are entirely paid access only, as opposed to the normal way mods were, where you could spot a mod you liked and download it right then and there without sending .03 Ethereum to a 17-year-old, but there's not much-preventing someone from scamming. I've got money. Not Jeff Bezos money but a fair bit. My salary allows for the purchase of many $5 mods, but I'm not going to risk a lot for one crappy config of a real car, which is another issue in it itself, (with licensing and all that)

 

Indeed, Just pure theft, Idiots just put the paid mods on ModLand for no reason.

 

so, why pay if they're on there anyway?

 

wha really
3rd rant
my god the forums are worse than i thought
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the thing is that trusted/proper/respected modders that make paid mods dont like those 20+ patreons with stolen assets and bad quality overall
in the forums we are talking about mods that are cheap like the picnic, mondello, signia... those that arent a extremly overpriced monthly subscription
im against those 20€ subscription thingis

 

beamng forums spending the new year well i see

 

Because I'm not delusional enough to think I'm entitled to months of someone's hard work for free?

 

because if someone gets it from modland, its most likely they wouldnt have bought the paid one anyway

 

*realizes*

 

This is why I believe piracy is a victimless crime, this is why people need to get over reuploads. People who downloaded a leak were never going to buy it in the first place

 

Humor

 

So you’re saying that if I’m selling a car, and you decide that you weren’t going to buy it but instead steal it because that’s the only way you would get it, there are no victims and, instead, I just happen to have a (insert vehicle value) sized hole in my pocket and I have to be happy about it? How does that not make me the victim here? If you decided NOT to steal the car, then there would be no victims.
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If you didn’t pay for it or it wasn’t paid for on your individual behalf, then you shouldn’t have it.

 

Re-Uploading content without the creator's permission is in violation of the DMCA act which is enforced in around 95% of the world. Not to mention that it is theft of that creator's Intelectual Property. So with all due respect, some creators will only be offering paid content simply because it gives them even more protection against piracy. Paid mods are something that has happened for over a decade in the communities of Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator and people don't generally care. With all due respect, the only reason why I think that the BeamNG community gets pissed over it every time is that 75% of the community are little kids who have to ask their parents for the mod and then don't get what they want. Feel free to ban me over this, means no more free content from us for the remainder of our existence.