The potential for the modding community to make money on Steam has increased with Valve’s recent addition of new curated Workshops for various non-Valve titles.
Beginning with Dungeon Defenders: Eternity and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, players will be able to create, vote for, and buy new in-game content.
“The limitation of paid, revenue-generating Workshops to Valve content has been an unfortunate consequence of the sheer number of challenges required in order to scale to a global audience of creators and players,” explains Valve in an announcement post. “Today we’re happy to announce that after a ton of work, the first curated Workshops for non-Valve games have opened: Dungeon Defenders: Eternity and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare.”
The big deal here is that those games aren’t owned by Valve. Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike modders have as a group earned millions of dollars over the last few years, and these new curated Workshops should pour even more money into the modding community.
“We expect more curated Workshops to become available for creators and players in various games over the coming weeks and months,” says Valve. The company has even introduced revenue tools to that creators can keep track of the money they earn.
