Who says most modders are modding for free?
Most importantly youre building a portfolio of your work for future employment, or to show clients, or for donations, to get stream viewers, or blog readers, etc. Very few people are doing it entirely for free out of the kindness of their hearts.
Your arrogance and jumping to conclusions about how modders handle it, are getting annoying.
Go ahead and show me the modder working 24/7 and able to provide the same expertise that a game developing company with professional competency will.
Admit it, you've lost this, your arguments are terrible and I don't even see your relevance to the Paradox modding scene in the first place (you have a single title registered to your account, a title that hasn't even come out yet). Have you gone around interviewing every modder that you would now have all this knowledge (most of which, by the way, is incorrect and just your baseless fantasies)?
There's a few major mods for every Paradox title that would classify as a major project that could be even worth considering adding on a resume, and these projects have the involvement of a relatively very low number of modders compared to the general population (not to mention that anyone can be a modder in Paradox titles, it's so easy to get into it, I've been modding all my PI games for years, adding new events, decisions, modifying game parameters etc. in order to make my experience more personalized & more enjoyable, even worked on 2 projects (I would say they're major, invested at least a dozen hours in each, everything from major event chains to adding simple mechanics/flavor etc. based from the systems that are softcoded/accessible through game files) that I later abandoned because I couldn't be arsed finishing them & doing maintenance, plus one of them was for EU III which mostly died with EU IV).
Not even a gaming company is going to care much for the experience of "creating a small historical events package for my native country in a game using such a simple scripting language that anyone who knows English can get the basics" (OK, this seems like an a-hole statement and I apologize, you know I don't mean it in an offensive way, it's actually a compliment to Paradox titles for how easy they make modding, advanced modding is much more complicated, but making events is not advanced modding). Maybe if you knew anything about modding Paradox games you would know the simple fact that most people just do it for themselves and others, and have no higher interest in it besides having a more enjoyable, modded game experience.
Seriously, who do you think you are? Your arrogance is showing in every single sentence you post on these forums. You seem like a bad human being, thinking that people only mod for some selfish gain, especially even mentioning the donations part. I would be a hypocrite if I went more on about your cynicism since I have a bit of it myself, but this is just uncalled for.
