04-25-2015, 10:22 PM
The final piece of the puzzle.
Skyrim, a game that is ages and ages old, its free play this weekend on steam. You can download and play it for free just in time to check out all these paid mods Bethesda thinks they will make a killing with.
gstandford,
Nexus is great and they have already spoken up about this. They dont agree with this at all. But there are huge problems with steam doing this. And if they do gain traction, it will spill over and spread to all the 4 corners.
I dont even care about mods for me. I barely have time to play games myself, much less beta test mods. But my son, which is probably like tens of millions of others, that is PC gaming for him. He doesnt play skyrim the game, he plays with all the skyrim mods through the workshop. I mean, most of that stuff is crap that only kids would enjoy. Stuff like captain america and freakn easter bunny costumes. He absolutely loves the workshop and it is a giant playground for him.
He mostly plays workshop games: gmod, L4D2, skyrm, etc
And that is the thing, I even read on the forum that you have to have your credit card setup just to download the free mods. If it is true then it is must be only for skyrim, (which i totally uninstalled after i heard about this crap). I tried the other games and they didnt ask for credit card info for workshop mods.
If skyrim really requires a credit card for anything on the workshop, even the free stuff, i see it as a huge scam attempt. The forum post i read said it requires a credit card setup even if you have money in your steam wallet. This is seriously effed up. Kids going wild with your credit card tab racking up. And with only a 24 hour return policy, you are screwed.
I have kids and know how they are. You dont leave credit card info on any account. Not their tablets, not steam, not even my phones.
Surely maybe when they get older, but my son racked up 550$ on TF 2 micro transactions on my debit when he just turned 6 and i didnt even notice for 2 months. He was buying 99$ packs and 19.99$ crap, hundreds of 1-5$ stuff. It was crazy. The 9yr old neighbors kid was over those days as well. 2 days they racked up on TF2 purchases and i didnt notice for 8 weeks when i just happened to look over an out of date bank statement (which i thought was current at the time, lol)
Fast forward 6 months later and my daughter spend $400 on my wife's phone. She was buying 99$ token packages for some crappy crush saga or something game.
Anyway, my wife caught that one the same day when she had 10billion coins and google refunded it no problem.
Skyrim, a game that is ages and ages old, its free play this weekend on steam. You can download and play it for free just in time to check out all these paid mods Bethesda thinks they will make a killing with.
gstandford,
Nexus is great and they have already spoken up about this. They dont agree with this at all. But there are huge problems with steam doing this. And if they do gain traction, it will spill over and spread to all the 4 corners.
I dont even care about mods for me. I barely have time to play games myself, much less beta test mods. But my son, which is probably like tens of millions of others, that is PC gaming for him. He doesnt play skyrim the game, he plays with all the skyrim mods through the workshop. I mean, most of that stuff is crap that only kids would enjoy. Stuff like captain america and freakn easter bunny costumes. He absolutely loves the workshop and it is a giant playground for him.
He mostly plays workshop games: gmod, L4D2, skyrm, etc
And that is the thing, I even read on the forum that you have to have your credit card setup just to download the free mods. If it is true then it is must be only for skyrim, (which i totally uninstalled after i heard about this crap). I tried the other games and they didnt ask for credit card info for workshop mods.
If skyrim really requires a credit card for anything on the workshop, even the free stuff, i see it as a huge scam attempt. The forum post i read said it requires a credit card setup even if you have money in your steam wallet. This is seriously effed up. Kids going wild with your credit card tab racking up. And with only a 24 hour return policy, you are screwed.
I have kids and know how they are. You dont leave credit card info on any account. Not their tablets, not steam, not even my phones.
Surely maybe when they get older, but my son racked up 550$ on TF 2 micro transactions on my debit when he just turned 6 and i didnt even notice for 2 months. He was buying 99$ packs and 19.99$ crap, hundreds of 1-5$ stuff. It was crazy. The 9yr old neighbors kid was over those days as well. 2 days they racked up on TF2 purchases and i didnt notice for 8 weeks when i just happened to look over an out of date bank statement (which i thought was current at the time, lol)
Fast forward 6 months later and my daughter spend $400 on my wife's phone. She was buying 99$ token packages for some crappy crush saga or something game.
Anyway, my wife caught that one the same day when she had 10billion coins and google refunded it no problem.