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Passerine
Passerine @ Introducing mod.io

An additional benefit that mod.io has over the Steam Workshop is that it gives developers the option to offer paid mods to their players (with a cut given to the mod.io developers - paid modding can be expected to be a key part if not the key part of mod.io's overall business model), whereas the Steam Workshop has had its paid mod functionality scrapped.

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Passerine @ Launching a new product

"I didn't want to change this amazing community by making radical changes, but at the same time I felt there are many gaming companies which cannot use Steam Workshop for various reasons"

What a non-sequitur.
p.s. people aren't using mod.io because they recognise it for the walled garden of a paid mods scheme that it is. Valve got away with it because they already had total control over their customers as well as a cult of personality to misdirect the broader consumer base with, but to extend the comparison to Valve further - the Steam Workshop stands out very clearly as being very, very suspicious when taken on its own, and then with mod.io you've got none of what Valve had to prevent the Steam Workshop from being taken on its own. Without any of the pre-existing structure that Valve had to control or to misdirect people with, the best you can do is give the most damning parts of your business plan a smaller font size, or to do your best to not answer or even mention the most damning questions anyone's going to be left with having read over your website, and that's obviously not going to cut it for you.

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Passerine @ New Statement and Information package.

(buried)

"We're holding the server software away from you-" *puts finishing touches on Patreon page* "- I mean, until we decide otherwise. We totally might stop holding it away from you eventually. Promise. Guys, don't leave us. We really will maybe eventually stop holding the server software away from you. By the way, could you give us your money? Wait, no, don't go away. Listen, l-let's change the topic from how we're holding the server software away from you - l-let's talk about this other stuff that doesn't relate to what we're holding away from you instead; that won't scare you off, will it? Just please give us your money. Y-you can trust us, guys."
Christ.

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Passerine @ Streaming session finished, changes in CooP statement.

There goes all of my interest in Ray of Hope.

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Passerine @ Deus Ex: Revision Patch 1.6.3 (cumulative)

Following those steps to bypass having to be connected to a Steam account with a legitimate Steam-licensed copy of the game likely constitutes copyright infringement, however.

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Passerine @ The Dark Mod 2.03-2.04 Update Package (Windows)

Oh, hey, thanks. I couldn't be bothered working my way around the horrible no-browsers-allowed download servers again for this update, so thanks for stepping up for me.

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Passerine @ #MAKEITSUPERHOT Competition

Christ, Superhot was such a cynical cashgrab. I like how you chose a game that doesn't actually have mod support for this competition.

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Passerine @ The Dark Mod 2.04 is out!

I take it that to expect a maintainer upload of the update package to ModDB (or simply to be allowed to access maintainer download servers by browser) would still be to represent the worst of gamer entitlement as it was when I was uploading update packages last year?

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Passerine @ O.G.S.E. 0.6.9.3 Final 2.0 Standalone Patch 2.09

"* disabled waypoint anomaly evading for companions"

for what purpose

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Passerine @ Now These Points of Data Make a Beautiful Line...

Well, there's always /r/modpiracy.

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Passerine @ FAQ

Well, I do very dearly hope for an open source release.

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