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Originally Posted by MPDev

Except that many can - obviously they paid for vB in the first place. Just because some cannot afford to pay for a mod with support shouldn't preclude them from being offered - it's still offers people a choice and they can look for similiar mods which do not have a fee. Gearing the site to those who cannot afford anything beyond their vB license seems very limiting, IMO.

Since the mods require vB to begin with, I'm not sure I see how selling add-ons would canabilize Jelsoft's business. Would it not potentially lead to better mods as people could charge for their efforts and customers could get better support?

na u don't get it
a lot of people just about scrape the money to get vbulletin in the first place
the last thing they would want it to pay for more stuff
i mean if money didn't matter
the debate about 'why should i pay for vbulletin when x forum is free'
wouldn't exist
i mean if i had to pay for every mod for my site
i would have stuck to a basic forum and only template mods
i mean the discussion of paid mods only seems to be an issue on
vbulletin
you never see anyone saying am gonna make x mod a paid service on other forums that run free
so i dont get why is it here

the way i look at it if you don't want to share then don't
but leave the free communities to it
and make ur own site for paid software
reason why i say that is because others have done just that

also the fact that you can't advertise Paid scripts here doesn't neccessarily
take away their popularity
especially in the case of Photopost , while not fully a mod for this forum
it does intergrate with it

i feel that a lot of people want to make a buck on Vbulletins success
and its probably one of the reasons why people tend to make mods and later decide to make em paid.
Fair dues to that but why complain about it
if its paid its paid and if its not its not

i would say vbulletin.org would not exist with the amount of mods as it does not
and the community would not be as big if paid hacks were allowed
coz then every single mod wether big or small would probably cost 5 bucks
for example even simple template mods
Filbert has turned into 5 dollars / 10 dollar installations
which is not a complaint but to be honest how is it justifiable

i can understand for large large modifications but small ones .

If i had to pay for hundreds of mods which is eventually what this community could become if paid hacks were allowed
i think a lot of customers would either have a lot of standard vbulletin forums out there

and personally i don't think i'd stay a customer with vbulletin too long
coz the biggest attraction to me is its hacks

i have already 100+ mods on my forum
if i had to pay for each one i'd be very poor right now
or they would simply not be there

or maybe i'd be learning web design a whole lot faster