Explain Why Mods Should Be Free

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Mods Should Be Free
Mods are user created modifications for games that make video games more fun or prettier. In 2015, paying for the mods became a topic of controversy. Paid mods were a problem for a few weeks. It affected all PC gamers that like installing mods. This problem began when Gaben Newell (Ceo and founder of Valve Corporation) made mods paid for a short amount of time. Gamers were outraged.

Mods should be free for several reasons. For instance, the modding community would not be a community one would like anymore and they would not give one what one wants if people charged for mods because it would bring greedy modders.“It will create a flood of modders who aren’t the type of passionate players doing it “for the love of the game,” but rather people trying to reskin a sword and sell it for $5. The game could be overloaded with this kind of [stuff], and even if it’s all “optional,”” (Tassi) It explains that paid mods could lead to a bad crowd. The people that sell mods would a lot of the time be greedy.They would just be selling useless stuff that doesn’t make the game any more fun. …show more content…

There are no other reasons for having mods other than they benefit the player by making the game more fun. Some mods change the art. Some make things explode. And some let you shoot cars I don’t mean shoot at cars I mean shoot cars out of a gun.This specific mod is a Grand Theft Auto V mod. People mod games because it isn't that hard to do most of the time. It can add a lot to the game that you can’t get in the base game. The modders do it in their free time not as a job. A lot of the time they have a good job and they just do this as a