Zetlian

Hello.

as the title says, this is about the decline of the source modding community and why we are going to have a sudden spike in:
Bad mods
Bad content

as well as

Good mods
Good content.
now, as most of you know, the Source engine is free. with the announcement of free TF2, the SDKS are now free. you might say this is a good thing, but i disagree. (Note i am talking about the ability to develop, not the ability to play the mods) because newbs will flood in, making bad mods and bad content. of course, every modder started out as a newb, i'm not denying that but the kind of people that will flood into this website eventually are people that start a mod, maybe support it for a week or so and then just leave it.

To rot.

now, the reason that valve has done this is simple. one word: UDK.
Unreal as got so many ex-source map makers because it is so easy and simplistic to use (Not my words)
valve want to counteract this by making Source free, and this decision came along with the team fortress 2 free to play announcement.

Feel free to post a comment and rant at me about how wrong i am.