

Should a buyer not be satisfied with a mod, they can request a refund within 24 hours of purchase. A creator can still leave their wares on the service as freebies, or they can choose either a static price or a "pay what you want" structure. What changed today is that those creators can now, after filling out a "tax interview" and providing a bank account that accepts US dollars, charge users whatever price they please for their new levels, their visual overhauls, and their flaming swords. Up until today, the Steam Workshop allowed fans to tinker with compatible games and upload their creations, additions, and updates for the sake of free downloads.

As of this morning, the game's Steam Workshop section, full of user-made content like mods, turned into a marketplace where creators and fans can assign prices to their creations and directly make cash-a first for the Steam service.

Launching in 2012, it now hosts mods for immensely popular PC games such as Skyrim, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2.Online game store Steam unlocked the hit game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as a temporary, weekend-long freebie for all its users on Thursday, and the reason was so that fans might put their cash elsewhere. Steam Workshop is a feature used by many games on the platform, which gives modders another way to share their creations, and makes downloading them much easier for newcomers. "So all these features, team workshop, and all that built-in support for mods will be there as well." "The version of Steam that runs on this is the same version of Steam just adapted with different UI and control", explains Griffais. When asked about modding specifically, both he and coder Pierre-Loup Griffais elaborated that as well as downloading mods in the way you would on a PC, there will also be built-in methods to modify games, such as through Valve's own Steam Workshop. When asked about what the Steam Deck will be capable of, Valve's Greg Coomer explained that it would be able to do "anything that you would expect a PC to be able to do" - modding included. Related: Gabe Newell Wants More Competition For Steam Deck, Sees "Long-Term" Growth For Handheld PCs
