Steam Adds More Ways for Workshop Creators to Earn Money

Steam now offers new functionality in the Steam Workshop, allowing community mod makers the opportunity to earn money doing what they love. With this update, community-made Workshop content such as mods, items, or maps can now be made available for sale directly via the Steam Workshop for titles that have enabled this feature.

Workshop is now putting mod authors in business via a new streamlined process for listing, selling and managing their creations. Creators contributing to the Steam Workshop have the choice of listing their new creations for sale at a price of their choosing, or to continue to make their work available to players for free. Mods purchased from the Steam Workshop are available immediately for play.

Direct mod sales via the Steam Workshop debuts with Bethesda Softworks’ title, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and additional titles will become available across the Steam Workshop in the coming weeks.

Mods on the Skryim Workshop have received more than 170 million downloads to date. The thousands of free mods, items, weapons, and quests will continue to be available at the discretion of the players who made them.