Valve on paid mods: ‘We didn’t understand exactly what we were doing’

Talk about a quick turnaround.

Five days after Valve set up its paid — and to some, controversial — mod system, the company and Bethesda have canceled it. In the past few days, the PC gaming community made it clear that it didn’t like the idea of creators being able to charge for their work on game modifications on the Steam digital store. So Valve has reversed its position as of this afternoon for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim workshop.