


After receiving 3,500 messages about the change over the course of a flight up the coast, Valve CEO and cofounder Gabe Newell had one thought: "Looks like we did something to piss off the Internet." This weekend, Newell addressed the community concerns in a Reddit Ask Me Anything thread, "to make sure that if people are pissed off, they are at least pissed off for the right reasons," as he put it. When Valve introduced the ability for developers to offer paid mods through Steam last week (with Skyrim as the guinea pig), the fan reaction was swift and overwhelmingly negative.
