ModDB Announces PC Digital Distribution Service 'Desura' for Games and Mods

It's only a matter of time before a major hit takes off with the help of this service. Tempting buyout target here so long as their cash burn isn't too high.

..And pirates continue to complain about their not being enough legal digital distrobution? Chalk up another one here I guess.

Still... They are going to have a hard time time competing with Steam..

Allow me to address some of the issues you guys have brought up in this news post (thanks Shacknews for the article as well). Just before anyone implies that I dont know what I'm talking about my name is Dave Traeger and I'm the Executive Editor over at ModDB and now Desura.

3dchipset:
Another client needed to be loaded for playing games? No thanks...

As it stands now you do not need to have Desura running to access the mods you have downloaded through the service for example if you download a Source mod through Desura you can still find it mounted within Steam, but unlike Steam any mod for any game will automaticly have shortcuts to exe's generated within the Desura app so wave goodbye to editing UT3 mod exe's.

Schnapple:
Are they talking about people being able to charge for mods? What games are there that allow that? Or are they more talking about being an indie game platform.

When we talk about charging for content it will be for independent games and other games that wish to use our service, you should never ever pay for mods. The idea behind Desura for game developers is so they can use our large mod database and community to extend the life of their title without needing to create any backend themselves (or community for that fact).

Johnny Law:
Easy mod install/manage/configure/uninstall would be great. Put search & rating in there too and I'll be on the bandwagon.

One idea that the staff have had for the Desura app was to support addon content, like maps, models, sound packs etc and allow you to "mount" or "run" them on top of the vanilla title. So you wont have to remove original files just to use custom content this would be great for games like Stalker where having two mod packs sometimes is very difficult and oftern do not work well with each other. It is not supported at the moment but look for it in the near future. As for searching Desura already has a very powerful search tool built into the website that uses our pre-existing mod and game database to the fullest.

I guess that is it for now we do have a FAQ of sorts on ModDB dealing with the most common questions since the release of this news if you want you can find it here: http://www.moddb.com/groups/desura/news/desura-facts-questions-and-answers thanks again Shacknews for the post.

finally some good news.
I would back theses guys before G4WL any day ,

Easy mod install/manage/configure/uninstall would be great. Put search & rating in there too and I'll be on the bandwagon even if it means installing yet another Digital Distribution Doohickey.

People people, please read before you comment.

And learn to read before you read.

Another client needed to be loaded for playing games? No thanks... Give me a GOG based system then I'll think about it. Not liking the idea you need an app running to play a game I bought legally...

geeze, and another another one! How many will there be?

Are they talking about people being able to charge for mods? What games are there that allow that?

Or are they more talking about being an indie game platform.

About time ModDB tried to mix things up and make mods easier to get to.

did they forget windows live or whatever? doesnt that sell games?

And there goes the digital distribution boom...