Paid mods incoming..

[Devil]

Just giving the community a heads up. Paid mods are coming. NeddyTheNoodle did a video about it about 7 months ago. Paid Mods. That was the whole plan by Snail Games all along. It's the reason they cut out Steam Workshop and went with CurseForge. It's Skyrim all over again. I hope there are mod creators out there that plan on making a Mod manager that goes around this. And in turn making the best mods available, free. Like all mods should be.. This will set a new standard and other companies will see it and follow suit. The same people that say "no it won't" are the same people that by COD year after year while it gets worse and worse.. I'm 46. I've seen the gaming industry get worse and worse every year. This new generation of gamers doesn't know what good PC gaming is, because they have never experienced it before. All the crap that happens now wouldn't fly back then. Unfinished, buggy, unoptimized and over priced. That is what gaming is today.

[Bravo]

So? Free mods will still exist. I doubt their quality would decline with the existence of premium mods.

[Devil]

Originally posted by Bravo:

So? Free mods will still exist. I doubt their quality would decline with the existence of premium mods.

Where are you going to get them from? CurseForge? The same place the paid mods are going to be? They can monetize any mod they feel like on their platform. And if you don't like it, you won't be on the platform. I feel like we will have to fight for good mods. I don't trust them. They are making it so that you will only be able to run "Curse mods" on your server. That is their system. The only way to get good free mods is for it to come from a third party. Look at Skyrim for your example. They have paid mods but the best ones come from Nexus. Time will tell but we shouldn't let our guard down. Snail has been screwing us left and right.

[margalus]

The reason they went with curseforge is so that all versions of the game can get the same mods.

[margalus]

Originally posted by Devil:

Originally posted by Bravo:

So? Free mods will still exist. I doubt their quality would decline with the existence of premium mods.

Where are you going to get them from? CurseForge? The same place the paid mods are going to be? They can monetize any mod they feel like on their platform. And if you don't like it, you won't be on the platform. I feel like we will have to fight for good mods. I don't trust them. They are making it so that you will only be able to run "Curse mods" on your server. That is their system. The only way to get good free mods is for it to come from a third party. Look at Skyrim for your example. They have paid mods but the best ones come from Nexus. Time will tell but we shouldn't let our guard down. Snail has been screwing us left and right.

No they can't monetize any mod. Only the mod creator can do that

[Devil]

Originally posted by margalus:

Originally posted by Devil:

Where are you going to get them from? CurseForge? The same place the paid mods are going to be? They can monetize any mod they feel like on their platform. And if you don't like it, you won't be on the platform. I feel like we will have to fight for good mods. I don't trust them. They are making it so that you will only be able to run "Curse mods" on your server. That is their system. The only way to get good free mods is for it to come from a third party. Look at Skyrim for your example. They have paid mods but the best ones come from Nexus. Time will tell but we shouldn't let our guard down. Snail has been screwing us left and right.

No they can't monetize any mod. Only the mod creator can do that

Why can't they? They own the platform and have say on who has mods on it and who don't. They have a monopoly. And some well known mod creators, not saying any names, have already said they will have paid mods on the Curse platform. I feel like the mods we all love to use will be monetized. Paid mods should not exist. I don't mind donations but forcing people to pay is wrong. It kills the community. If you want to monetize it make it supported DLC. But as it stands to many greedy companies have their hands on Ark Ascended. This is not a good thing. I hope I'm wrong but other Ark community members see it coming too. What has history showed us so far about trusting people to do the right thing when they have all the power? That they always misuse and exploit it.. I don't know if you're paying attention but WC and Snail don't really have a good track record for doing the right thing for the community.

[Innominatam]

pure click bait post, the devs cannot set the price for mods as that's not their work.

only the mods creators can set prices.

What we have here is someone being mad at WC and making up blatant information for a quick verbal hitjob that is easily seen as false.

if mods have prices on them then its the mod creators not WC or Snail forcing them to charge for it.

[margalus]

Originally posted by E.:

pure click bait post, the devs cannot set the price for mods as that's not their work.

only the mods creators can set prices.

What we have here is someone being mad at WC and making up blatant information for a quick verbal hitjob that is easily seen as false.

if mods have prices on them then its the mod creators not WC or Snail forcing them to charge for it.

Exactly. The op is just making up bs because they are mad about something

[Devil]

Originally posted by E.:

pure click bait post, the devs cannot set the price for mods as that's not their work.

only the mods creators can set prices.

What we have here is someone being mad at WC and making up blatant information for a quick verbal hitjob that is easily seen as false.

if mods have prices on them then its the mod creators not WC or Snail forcing them to charge for it.

Click bait huh? Then don't click. What is with you people? You like to bend over and take it. And you do it willingly. I was around when Bethesda decided to do the same thing that WC and Snail are doing to you now. We all know what happened. There was a split between the modding community and the developers. It was a ♥♥♥♥ show. But the only reason the mod creators won is because we had free third party mod websites and managers. We could ignore the paid mods and their sites and applications entirely. You wont be able to do that here. And it wasn't hard coded into the game by the devs and gated by server hosting companies. That's the reason Steam Workshop is good, it's not the greatest but it's not monetized. Do you seriously think they will let you use mods on Nitrado servers that don't come from CurseForge?

[Devil]

Originally posted by margalus:

Originally posted by E.:

pure click bait post, the devs cannot set the price for mods as that's not their work.

only the mods creators can set prices.

What we have here is someone being mad at WC and making up blatant information for a quick verbal hitjob that is easily seen as false.

if mods have prices on them then its the mod creators not WC or Snail forcing them to charge for it.

Exactly. The op is just making up bs because they are mad about something

People like you ruin gaming. You like everything to cost extra money when you could have that same quality for free. And free is the standard for modding. But you want to change that. You like paying extra for something we already had. I can understand the engine update and remaster. But now they want to monetize mods. Oh, and you're going to pay them. There's no doubt in my mind.

[Sperber]

Originally posted by Devil:

You like everything to cost extra money when you could have that same quality for free. And free is the standard for modding.

You keep forgetting though that creating and maintaining a mod is still costing someone's valuable lifetime. As a gamer, you're not "entitled" to that lifetime. It's ultimately their choice if they want to make it for free out of the good of their heart or to actually earn some cash.

[Innominatam]

Originally posted by Devil:

Originally posted by E.:

pure click bait post, the devs cannot set the price for mods as that's not their work.

only the mods creators can set prices.

What we have here is someone being mad at WC and making up blatant information for a quick verbal hitjob that is easily seen as false.

if mods have prices on them then its the mod creators not WC or Snail forcing them to charge for it.

Click bait huh? Then don't click. What is with you people? You like to bend over and take it. And you do it willingly. I was around when Bethesda decided to do the same thing that WC and Snail are doing to you now. We all know what happened. There was a split between the modding community and the developers. It was a ♥♥♥♥ show. But the only reason the mod creators won is because we had free third party mod websites and managers. We could ignore the paid mods and their sites and applications entirely. You wont be able to do that here. And it wasn't hard coded into the game by the devs and gated by server hosting companies. That's the reason Steam Workshop is good, it's not the greatest but it's not monetized. Do you seriously think they will let you use mods on Nitrado servers that don't come from CurseForge?

Yeah clickbait and your now acting like a child. I am not bending over and taking anything.

Let us review, you claimed that Snail is going to force modders to charge for their mods. Something they literally cannot do.

It is TRUE that you might find paid mods in the future BUT it is the Modders who will decide that, Snail or WC has no control over it. This has been known for MONTHS.

So you BLATANTLY LIED and once you got called out, you resorted to child like name calling.

Now you are making up more blatant BS claiming once more WC is going to force people to pay for the mods.....

Dude you a liar 1000000000000 percent.

Needy was wrong when he made that video, but at least he was smart enough to drop it once he saw he was wrong.

You on the other hand are a toxic man child, who is mad he cannot have the game for free and are in steam forums making up lies etc.

Lets get this straight, anyone can easily look up how all of your claims ae 100000 percent bogus and malicious lies solely for the intent to bash on WC.

Get a life

[Innominatam]

Originally posted by Devil:

Originally posted by margalus:

Exactly. The op is just making up bs because they are mad about something

People like you ruin gaming. You like everything to cost extra money when you could have that same quality for free. And free is the standard for modding. But you want to change that. You like paying extra for something we already had. I can understand the engine update and remaster. But now they want to monetize mods. Oh, and you're going to pay them. There's no doubt in my mind.

Modders are under no obligation to give you their work for free, if they want to charge for their time and effort that is entirely their right.

Understand kid in this world, no one owes you ANYTHING for FREE. You are NOT ENTITLED TO FREE THINGS like Mods. If people do it out of the kindness of their heart that is their choice but if they want to charge you for their time and effort that is also their right

Just like its your right no to purchase it. You acting like an entitled child

However this has nothing to do with WC or Snail, if the modders decide to charge thats their choice and Snail/WC have no say over that.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by E.:

pure click bait post, the devs cannot set the price for mods as that's not their work.

only the mods creators can set prices.

What we have here is someone being mad at WC and making up blatant information for a quick verbal hitjob that is easily seen as false.

if mods have prices on them then its the mod creators not WC or Snail forcing them to charge for it.

Snail-Wildcard have to approve the selling of the mods in the premium program and they and curse will split 50% with the other 50% going to the mod maker. This has been discussed for months now.

[Innominatam]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by E.:

pure click bait post, the devs cannot set the price for mods as that's not their work.

only the mods creators can set prices.

What we have here is someone being mad at WC and making up blatant information for a quick verbal hitjob that is easily seen as false.

if mods have prices on them then its the mod creators not WC or Snail forcing them to charge for it.

Snail-Wildcard have to approve the selling of the mods in the premium program and they and curse will split 50% with the other 50% going to the mod maker. This has been discussed for months now.

Yes that is IF the Mod creator decides to charge for the mod, you clearly did not read what I typed.

I said Snail or WC cannot make Modders charge for their mods, the CREATOR OF THE MOD HAS TO SET THE PRICE and cannot be forced to. So whining that snail is evil when all they would do is give the Mod Creator the choice is pure grade school level cry babying (referring to the other guy)

I fail to see how this is some hard concept to grasp.

[ChrisTM]

Wildcard has done the minimum , if someone completes the game with more items, better textures (e.x. volcano, Dino etc.) adds more features, objectives, quests to do etc. .I am ready to pay again to have this mod.