Bethesda Rolls the Dice on Paid Mods in Skyrim Again
Get back up on the horse.
If you play video games, chances are you've dabbled in Skyrim, Bethesda's benchmark-setting open world RPG that's now over a decade old. It's been released and re-released ad infinitum, so much so that it has become an established meme. Now, the company wants to have another crack at hawking paid, player-created mods, apparently not getting the message from players the last time around.
In 2015, Bethesda trialled selling mods for Skyrim on Steam, generously offering the modder a 25% cut of the proceeds for doing the actual work. Steam would take its standard 30% platform fee, and the remaining 45% would go to Bethesda, which it claimed was the "current industry standard". Bethesda would ultimately remove paid mods following fan backlash, and Steam refunded all purchases.
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