Quote Originally Posted by tommh
Proletariat, I'm afraid your logic is flawed. Saying someone has no responsibility does not make them immune from critique nor does it mean anything about the satisfaction level of the user. It is simly refering to what is the personal responsbility of the modder involved. The original posters argument is that since the modder recieves next to no benefit and to the extent that his mod is enjoyable at all, the reciever does, the modder owes the reciever nothing.
This implies someone complained, "Arg, you owe us better, Gaius!" or that any of the protests discussed were out of a sense of dissatisfied entitlement. AFAIK, noone argued from such a position and if they did, I apologize.

I don't understand the line;
Quote Originally Posted by tommh
The original posters argument is that since the modder recieves next to no benefit and to the extent that his mod is enjoyable at all, the reciever does, the modder owes the reciever nothing.
Are you saying that if the downloadee finds the mod enjoyable at all then the modder owes the receiver nothing?

The concept of responsibility and owing someone something is completely irrelevant here.

Anything you can download for free on the internet (and especially on a forum) is by nature self-correcting. If this process is happening to a particular mod (if people don't like it, interest will wane and the product weeds itself out), it's immature of the author to take a position of "Well, I worked on it for free so you all can go screw."

From what I know, this mod wasn't ever presented in the manner lt1956 presented his (ie, 'hey, I made a few changes to this that I find enjoyable so I'm going to throw it out here for anyone that may be like minded.)