Valve canceled the sale of mods in Steam Workshop

Yesterday, a big boss Valve Gabe Newell (Gabe NEWELL) confidently urged the public in that the opportunity to sell modifications through Steam Workshop is an unconditional benefit from which everyone will win. But today all the enthusiasm has the company somewhere. She recognized this innovation unsuccessful and by mutual agreement with Bethesda suspended the sale of self-made content through the workshop The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. Users who have already managed to buy something there, money is guaranteed to return.

“We expected that this would lead to the appearance of better modes – both paid and free. We wanted to see more interesting projects that grew up from user modifications as Dota, Counter-Strike, Dayz, And Killing Floor, – noted in the official statement Valve. – However, we did not take into account that our previous business models that have understood success, differed significantly from what we did in the case of Skyrim. We studied our users well enough, but an attempt to enter the territory Skyrim unprepared where the modder community was formed over the years, did not led to anything good. “.