(03-22-2020, 06:59 PM)PrimeTF Wrote: I'm serious, like 90% of the mods on DeviantArt are from Patreon modders, especially from TiggieWhite. Dude's got tons of awesome mods that are locked behind Patreon paywalls. And he's the only one doing mods of Ibuki that are actually of quality, but I can't get them because he's being greedy about it. I just wanted a Momiji cosplay for Ibuki...
@"PrimeTF"
So you thought this would go over well here of all places.
I can' t speak for other people but I know the time I personally have spent working on mods, I've lost a lot of sleep and a lot of weekends trying to figure this shit out, and I'm still not that good, so if a modder who's put in the time to actually learn and hone their craft wants to charge for the work, I personally respect the choice.
If it was easy or not time consuming you would've learned to make it yourself.
It's interesting that segaplayer-whoever is talking about "using SFV to make a profit off of the game". Lots of people do that, youtubers and casters and bloggers all trying to sell SF5 like it's the greatest thing ever so that they can get their money. And some of them use mods to do it! I don't see why modders are the only people that have to take shit over this.
I have issues with paid modding I am still working through honestly. People use free assets made by other people (and then ported to Xnalara) and free tutorials to learn. If the assets and tutorials also disappeared behind paywalls, there probably wouldn't be that many mods at all. But labor is still labor, you don't expect a mechanic to work on your car for days and then not pay them because they didn't invent the brakes or whatever.
What I do know is that reporting people to Capcom to try to mess up their income is just bitter and petty. Being an asshole to people will not just magically make the mods free, they will just go away and you will still have nothing, and then everyone is unhappy.
Make your own stuff if you really want it. That's sort of the point of this whole place. At least to me, anyway.