You yourself said in your last message that you are uncertain of how you’ll move forward. Which suggests that, moving forward, there is a chance all new JaySerpa mods will cost money. How many mods have you released over these 4 years? If you continue at the rate you have been over the next 4 years and I wanted to curate a mod list with all of those mods at $5 each, do you think that’s fair on the user end? At $5/ea if you make 15 more mods that’s close to the cost of a brand new AAA title, do you think 15 of your mods are worth a AAA title? You’ve made close to 100 mods on nexus if you make 100 more mods at $5 a piece that’s $500 on the users end, how is that helping the community when we gate keep shit like that? So you can only play high quality modded Skyrim if you’ve got $1000 to spend on a good mod list?

Look I also don’t think you’re an ass hole, I think you saw an opportunity and you took it. But if what we believe to be the cut is true, it’s like 25% of the profit for 100% of the work. You get no employee benefits, you’re not a BGS employee and they are raking you over the coals with that cut and you’re helping build a future where people can’t afford to mod these games. I’m not looking at it the wrong way my friend, I’ve spent a lot of time discussing and looking into this program and this just isn’t it. It’s got some minor benefits like being able to have the guild let you use real voice actors and such, but in the long run, this has a real chance at actually ruining the modding community. If you stick to just charging for PlayStation mods so you can sell content to people who would normally not have access to them because of the restrictions…. Then sure, I’m a little less against that and that’s on Sony and not on you, because they implemented those restrictions unnecessarily and that punishes people in the community for no good reason. Outside of that though, it’s a slap in the face to the community and you’re taking advantage of peoples good will and allowing for BGS to take advantage of everyone. BGS built a shitty paid mods system and put people like you as the face of it to guilt their fans into supporting you because it supports them, it’s greedy and it was never about you and if it was you’d get 80-100% of the profit for the product you put 100% of the work into. When I paint paintings, I don’t pay the arts and craft suppliers 75% of what I make on every painting, you buying the game to get access to the tools is all they should be collecting from mod authors who use their tools to make new content.

So unless you can tell me that BGS is giving you over 80% of the profit (better if it’s 100%) and you can convince me that it’s actually a good thing that people will eventually have to pay hundreds of dollars to get a quality mod list in the future. (Which you can’t convince me of) then we’re just on opposite sides of this because I’m not thinking about myself. I make mods, I’ve got a few up for Xbox players, a few up on Nexus and I make plenty for personal use, I also support mod authors where I can, I’ve spent hundreds of dollars supporting mod authors across Patreon and Kofi because I know mod authors deserve to get something for their work, so I’m someone who can afford to pay for mods. However not everyone can and those are the people in the community that I’m arguing for. I also can’t stomach the argument “There will always be free mods, it will never be all paid mods” because that’s so aggressively against the point especially coming from the mod authors who made quality free mods and are switching to being a paid mods creator? Like you’re basically saying “ other people … not me though “ which like, eventually if everyone else is doing it with that mentality you’d be stupid to not be doing it yourself. This platform also dissuades people from making mods like Xedit or mods with assets for other people to use because they can’t be put up for sale and if everyone else is selling mods, why bother making things no one can use or making things you can’t sell?

I just don’t think there’s anything you can say to convince me that this is a good thing for the community and isn’t just sort of selfish and short sighted, but again, I don’t think you’re a shitty person. You do what you gotta do but I’m not about to have your back on this, I’m not going to support anyone on this venture and a lot of the community is of the same opinion. You’re trading good will for money.

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