This cannot be repeated enough, THANK YOU, and everyone else that makes this happen and helps keep alive the true spirit of modding....the art or fixing broken items unaddressed by the corporation that has already profited, as well as using talent, teamwork, and sharing knowledge to create more replay-ability and increased fun by a large amount of gamers. The fixing and the new creations are well worth monetary compensation for it. But the true mod developers understand that the root problem with broken items and the lackluster dlc is directly related to money and selling as little as possible for as much as people will tolerate. Greed is the plant spawning from the seed of money when grown in a toxic environment. Patreon is a potentially toxic environment and wants to grab some cash in the short term with no disregard for it's potential to break apart what has been one of the best aspects of gaming. Keep fighting the good fight. It's interesting how The Sims is effected by this and it's hasn't sunk into the other highly modded games. But if this continued it would spread eventually. Apologies for the rant but it really is a big thing you guys are doing. It's not just about people getting sex in a video game.....even when some people think that is the issue and the hole idea is ridiculous.....no...it's stopping an opportunistic company attemping to profit by wedging itself in between a product they didn't create and those who selflessly use their talents to add to that product. Fuck Patreon
I don't have a issue with the fundamental idea of charging for your own work as these skills to create certain mods which require coding knowledge in different languages should be rewarded in some way.
I do have an issue with 2 categories though,
1. Charging for a collection of different mods most of which are other peoples work as this is just the same as steam asset flipping for me (IE Houses, sims etc)
2 Locking latest versions of script mods behind a paywall when the original version which is being patched was fundamentally malfunctioning to begin with, even AAA companies don't lock away patches.....yet.
The rest is all grey areas where i judge on a case by case basis. When it comes down to it though, EVERYTHING gets leaked eventually so i believe having a donation page is better than the alternative of a paywall as if you treat the community right, they will treat you right in return. Might not earn as much but you aren't burning as many bridges and that goodwill builds up over time.