User-generated content blocking motivates people to buy games on the Steam platform.
There are probably many reasons, but we believe some of them are: Continuing to ignore this reality will be relentless. But these are terms that we all agree to every time we check the box or use any of their software. Our site has inadvertently grown as a tool to solve this problem. People will forever have to go directly through Steam to get it.Įffectively this means that Valve can stymie a lot of user-generated content (mods/saves/tools/missions/etc) on their platform because users don't (or can't or don't know how to upload) their content where or else. This means that if you upload an item to the Steam Workshop (and not elsewhere), people will never be able to freely share that item with each other again. The Steam Subscriber Agreement states that any file uploaded to the Workshop becomes a licensed item. Why can't you share mods that people have made and downloaded for free!? At this point, the site is no longer a creative outlet, but a legal obligation. We contacted Steam Support and they told us to stop distributing the content. However, after the events of last week, we realized that all this time we did not properly consider the legal consequences. Some people own the game on another platform and want mods, some want to check mods, some want to control when their mods are updated, some want to change their mods, and so on. It was fun for a while because it was a new tech challenge to solve and we could help more people. The site has grown in popularity over the past year. We tried to satisfy every feature request we received. That's why the site worked so well, we were kind of obsessed with all the little technical details. People accidentally discovered that this worked to some extent for other games and asked for improvements in this direction, which we eventually made as a side project, because it gave us an excuse to rewrite the site using new technologies and learn from it in process. This site is run by amateurs and legal matters are not part of the hobby.įor years, the site was just a simple tool for server owners to easily extract workshop mods for 1 game to check for malware and manage them manually on their server. We are not interested in the consequences of non-compliance. Valve has requested that we stop extracting and distributing content. We will no longer be transferring files over our network.
At the moment the site has become insolvent.
Unfortunately, its status as a small niche tool faded in the process. The site has gained a lot of popularity over the past year. We no longer serve files over our network.
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