I feel that mod authors, such as myself, should be compensated for contributing publicly available mods, through in-game purchases (such as memberships or coins), or direct financial compensation.

Warzone requires membership for game creators to use mods, but none of the money/coins are ever given to mod authors. Mods are essentially limited to use the MIT license (due to TOS, which I find unacceptable - mods should be able to use any license that is compatible with proprietary software, such as Warzone - https://www.warzone.com/Forum/810464-explicitlyallow-mods-use-nonmit-license-tos).

I'm interested to see if there is any interest for supporting mod creators for making publicly available mods.

Making mods is not something Fizzer has asked you to do. You create them out of love for the game. As Fizzer has explained, the reason that membership is required for mods is that those are more expensive to run. Asking compensation for voluntary contribution sounds like a stretch to me.

Map creators have had sponsored development before. Maps aren't behind any kind of paywall.

People likely buy memberships to create game with mods. More mods give players more incentive to buy membership. That is free labour, which I feel is exploitive.

All I'm asking now is if there is interest for sponsoring mod development.

create a mod so good that people pay you for it, dont ask for handouts

^No one does that though.

If there's an idea you want someone to implement but don't want to make it yourself, you should pay for it to be created imo.

yea you should, just contact someone who makes them and ask them if you can pay, or maybe make a post offering incentives for something, which noone objects to rn?

The point of this thread is literally asking if anyone wants to support mod development (in a way which gives back to mod authors).

How you feel that you should be able to use anything for free is false.

How many websites and apps, including Warzone, are provided "for free" is because of targeted ad models. You are the product (as a subscription), not the customer. I have made a feature request that addresses this: https://www.warzone.com/Forum/813789-switch-admodel-more-privacy-preserving .

I refuse to take any earnings that depend on invasive data collection. This is where donations come into play.

The map creator were sponsorized ?

Some have been in the past

really dan? you know better than most fizzer-nomics.

mods and mappers do it to create things they want non of which are integral to the game. it user generated flavour.
heck, admin don’t get compensated and that’s something fizzer actually needs.

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Map creators have had sponsored development before. Maps aren't behind any kind of paywall.

Yeah. If someone wants to pay you money to develop a specific mod, you would be stupid not to take it :)

But asking for payment for people using mods you have made for fun is vastly different than being hired by someone for a specific project i.m.o.

@old yeller
So you want to deny the possibility of even having sponsored development for anything on Warzone?

If you don't want to do something yourself, you could sponsor someone to do it on your behalf. There is lots of skill, time and effort involved. That's something you should know if you've tried.

If someone else wants to do it for you for free, that's also fine.