Valve’s new Steam feature may have killed the modding community

The introduction of the Steam Workshop was one of the greatest things to ever happen to the modding community as it not only made modding more accessible to inexperienced gamers, it helped modders bring their content to a larger audience. These mods have always been free, however, which means the modders get nothing aside from recognition and thanks for their work, but Valve wants to change that with the introduction of paid mods. While this seems like a good idea at first, many have expressed their concern, or even outright fear, that this could do irreparable damage to the modding community.