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If they won't do it for the love of the game, then they aren't part of the community.
How is wanting to get paid and loving the game mutual exclusive. They are more part of the community than 99% of the community, you make it sound like it's easy, they have invested their own time and skills to make mods that people are willing to pay for.
Stop being so judgemental, you don't know them or why they are developing mods. Maybe they want to make a living or extra money by working on something they like. You don't have to buy the mods they develop if you don't like paying for mods or if it goes against your own principals. They aren't trying to force you to buy their mods. I myself never play games with mods, because it's a hassle and doesn't make my gaming experience any better.
Exactly the problem. I don't want my hobby spaces to be filled with entrepreneurs looking for a revenue stream, I want them filled with people who love the hobby enough to sacrifice for it. And when those spaces do get filled with money-makers, it pushes the people with the actual passion out because they aren't interested in competing in another fucking competitive capitalist space.
You want everyone else to make sacrifices but not you, you just want shit for free. What competition exists in the modding community? No one is stopping you from or anyone else from making a VR mod for cyberpunk for free. Surely it would be more popular than the paid version, but why doesn't it exist? Because it requires maintenance and active development and knowledge about how VR works, and no one is interested in spending that time making a free VR mod for cyberpunk, you would have to be an autists to feel it's time worth spending.
If you can't see how paid mods have already enormously increased toxicity in the modding scene, you're either blind or ignorant. And people will always make things they love for free. Graffiti will always exist. There's no reason to pretend art will only exist for the profit motive, or that it is better for it.
Yes and so what, toxicity exists in any community you goof, I don't know what your point is. That paying for stuff is bad, or asking to be paid for your work is bad, or wanting money is bad.
You lack empathy towards people who make mods, what if it's their only source of income, what if they spend a lot of time making the mod as good as possible so you will want to pay for it. Jesus Christ you're some kind of idealist there's no grayzone everything is the extreme with you