On recent controversy

I've seen controversy about my mods, so here's my comment.

I don't force anyone to pay for my mods, I give them away for a FREE subscription on Patreon. All of my mods are free, and they always will be. If you don't want to sign up on Patreon, that's your choice. However, I can also choose how and on what platform to publish free content. And I would gladly publish my free content on other platforms, if they actually provided me with the tools necessary for my work. By the way, I have open statistics on Patreon, and you can see that with 26k subscribers, I earn $241 per month. If you think my main goal is to earn money through engagement, then I'm very clearly unsuccessful lol.

All I'm getting from my free mods are recognition and donations. There's no other community platform that supports donations, or normalizes them. And the reason the mods are behind a free subscription is PRECISELY because unless I do that, there's no community, no discussion, no involvement - people just download the mod and forget about it. Writing mods when no one will even bother to comment on the best of your creations is a thoroughly miserable experience.

If you think you can do without feedback and just enjoy the process itself, I believed that as well. How did that turn out? I burned out for several months and couldn't bring myself to do anything. If you still insist that this is how I should working on my mods, then there is an easy way to experience it – just delete all of my mods and never install them again. This will help you understand how it was for everyone a few months ago.

The only kind of monetization I have, besides donations, is early access. This is a commonplace and allowed by EA rules kind of monetization. All of my mods that have ever been on the Early Access had to be tested on a small group of people - because no one would ever want a broken, buggy mod.

And stop calling my modification an "edit." That is factually wrong. I would never publish another modder's creation with my changes. I write my own code to create add-ons that extend or change the original mod's behavior. There's no work being stolen or appropriated, because I deeply respect the time and effort of my fellow mod creators, I respect their terms of use, and I always preserve all authorship and credits. Nevertheless, if they are not comfortable with my add-ons, they can reach me via DM to discuss things. Of course, I will comply with their wishes.

I hope that clears things up. Of course, you can share the direct SFS links to my mods on the Reddit or any other plarform, or use them – in case you don't want me to work on my mods anymore. But then you don't really get to complain.