Skyrim Workshop paid mod event

[Psychospacecow]

Alrighty folks, I asked Dazz, and he figures the events that transpired over the Skyrim steam workshop would make good trivia. I intend on making this extensive and well covered. If you have any contributions, awesome.

http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comme..._from_the/

http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comme...tial_mods/

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/petition...es-one-day
http://kotaku.com/the-most-ridiculous-sk...1700002072
https://www.change.org/p/valve-remove-th...m-workshop

Reaching 45000 signatures in one day, the petition to stop the sale of paid mods in the steam workshop capped off at 133,006.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2...-disaster/


Forbes jumped on this as well. Also, here is the sister thread from Resource.
http://www.vg-resource.com/thread-27037-...#pid588135

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http://imgur.com/gallery/nn47B



http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/...and_steam/

Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve went onto Reddit to try a press event AMA style. He was vote bombed.


http://kotaku.com/valve-cancels-paid-mod...1700526130
https://steamcommunity.com/games/SteamWo...5253244218

Then it was killed.

I'm gonna work on this a bit more later. I can't even open all those links where I am.