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You're conflating two different things.
There's modders who whine about working for free. And yes, modding is a choice.
Where in this incident is stolen work.
It's not work . I'm currently modding a game, it's a hobby. And I'd be entitled as hell to think I should be paid for it.
This "pay the modders" thing will just lead to more micro transactions. You want to download that created wrestler in the new game? It was made by so and so, you now owe. $9.99. fuck that
If you make something and give it away for free, that's fine.
If you make something and I sell it to the masses for a profit without your permission that's theft.
It’s not about pay the modders so much as if the developer of the game took your mod, put it in the game proper, claimed it was their work, and charged people for it.
Can you link your mod files so I can sell them without your knowledge or consent please? Seeing as you have no problem with it…
Yeah they're up on the games site for free
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/work
I found several definitions where this meets the definition of "work", but I'm interested to hear your argument about how "time and effort spent doing a task" is not work.
Nobody hired you to mod someone else's art. It's a hobby. I can't put brush to someone else's painting and demand payment
This is the wrong comparison. If you painted a modified version of an existing painting, the original painter can't take your work and sell it against your will.
Actually it's more like you modifying someone else's video game and then selling it as your own
No it's not. The modder didn't sell anything. Wanting to be compensated if somebody else makes a profit from your work that you put out for free is not the same thing as selling it.
Wanting money for your work isn't selling?
No, because they weren't even offering it for sale. But they also weren't offering it to be taken to be sold by somebody else for a profit. Which is what the studio did anyway. So now, after the fact, they can either pay a compensation and credit the modder, or they can remove their stuff from the game.