Crowd-sourcing cosmetic skins.
I don’t know why everybody not affiliated with Valve’s workshop does this tbh it’s great! it’s community made content and it’s new free content made for anet which they can sell i think valve’s workshop takes 70% if im not mistaken and the creator gets 30% of the profits from the new items.
but I can see the problem would be all this items have to be for the gem store unless people agree to just make content and not get paid
I think it boils down to the legal issues and how to handle them appropriately and of course providing compensation to content creators which is most likely to much of a hassle to bother with in the eyes of certain publishers/developers.
“Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet