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Blockland mod market system?
Mounds Bar:
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elm:
PM me when this comes true, I'll make you a great mod for some money! :cookieMonster:
The Resonte!:
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DontCare4Free:
It's actually really funny how the same people arguing against this are also against pirating the base game. Are you also saying "nobody should do a HIB because everyone would just pirate it."? At least be consistent.
While I personally probably wouldn't either buy anything (since paying for stuff online is a quite big hassle for me, regardless of cost), and I probably wouldn't charge for any of my mods either (since they're either really small, or framework mods where adoption (and the network effect) would create a chicken-and-egg problem), I'm not saying that nobody should be able to do this.
Also, to the people saying they would pay for RTB, no, you probably wouldn't. Why? I suspect tons of people (including me) would pull their add-ons from there the instant Ephi announced something like that, because they're not fine with other people (Ephi) making money from their non-commercial work, leading to an (almost) empty mod manager. Since RTB prefs would no longer be a reliable way to expose settings to people, expect that to be far less used, too. Oh, and RTBC? For it to be worth it, people have to be using it. Considering the almost 100% overlap, who would pay for that instead of just using Steam?
Nitramtj:
Theres nothing wrong with the idea that mod makers should be able to make money off of their mods. Some have spent an enormous amount of time into them, me being one. However, Blockland just doesn't have the right setup for that.
If you're going to charge for an add-on, it needs to be a small price. Also, it needs to only be for people who want to host with it. Now the problem is, the Blockland hoster community isn't large enough to support a small fee. You also need to acknowledge that most people will not want to pay. For those who have jobs, it won't be a problem, but most people here don't. Their parents also aren't going to just dump money on the game they already purchased.
If the game was large enough, even if you still had these issues, you might get enough people to buy your mod so that it's worth it. Otherwise, the revenue you make wouldn't be worth the time that needs to be invested to actually make a good mod. Once you're working professionally, you get paid at least $20 an hour. To make a good mod on here you need to put in several days worth of work. Just one day of concentrated work would be over $100. The mods I'd pay for probably have months of work put into them (I'm not paying for a weapon or vehicle.)