WOW I JUST NOTICIED WHY THEY MADE ALL THIS! Looking around, one of the "modders" for the paid mods is a guy that makes Dota stuff, literally all 3 'mods' he put there are Dota skins. Skyrim is one of the most played games on Steam, so Valve wanted to profit out of this, but they couldnt add microtransactions to it like on Dota/TF2/CSGO. Since Skyrim wasnt built to support microtransactions, the only thing Valve could somehow profit from were the mods! This is why you can 'trade' the mods and store them on your Steam inventory! IT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO ADD MICROTRANSACTIONS! I fear other highly played games will also get affected by this in the future. GTA V, Civ V, Garry's Mod, maybe even Payday and Dont Starve. I know Valve wont go back, since they are doing all this damage control so people pay for the mods (hiding rating, blocking discussions and comments, banning users from community)