Steam introduces a way for you to buy mods for games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

People should get paid for their work. Yes, that even includes people making mods for PC games.

Today, Valve — the company that owns and operates the Steam digital-distribution service — announced that it will enable mod creators to charge money for their creations. Modders can list their add-ons, expansions, and items on the Steam Workshop and set a price for their content, and then they’ll get a cut of that money (the rest goes to Steam and the publisher). Valve says this is a way for players to support these creators and to ensure a healthy community that will keep making more. This program begins today with the Steam Workshop for publisher Bethesda’s open-world role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. PC gaming will make around $33 billion this year, and Steam is the biggest store for games on the platform.