Any mods I make will be fully funded by tip jars. I hate adf.ly and it’s ilk, and while some mods are painstaking, you are always going to have one customer who won’t pay, will demand it’s finished, will bitch about bugs, and who will generally be a pain in your arse.
That customer? Yourself.
Because of that the mod would exist regardless. all you are doing is sharing it with the world. Voluntary forms of payment are just icing on the awesomecake.
Charging for the mod outright, that leads to problems with IP, with theft, bittorrent etc. and we don’t need angsty ‘artistes’ who care more about the money than the game suing other players or putting DRM in mods (I’m looking at you, Forge).
Anyhow. Becomes a pancake.
-Bits