Good day everyone!
I am active in modding more then 10 years and last 8 i am making overhauls for every TW game since Shogun 2. These are usually most played, subscribed and popular mods on steam workshop. All these mods and tons of submods to them always been, are and always will be entirely free. Same as all our tutorials, support to all those mods over the years and much more we did for official patch/dlc testing, bug hunting and various other tw and commnuity projects. Nothing ever changed on that. Patreon is popular feature for us content creators, every youtuber has it even when they "just making videos and playing", not creating anything, same as pretty much every modder in Wh1 and Wh2 has patreon link or paypall link. For large projects like our overhauls are it helps our small team to go on and continue working on new TW games every year. Support is entirely optional, nobody is forced to do it, but our mods take thousands hours to do. As much as hobby it is, we have all regular jobs, families and duties to take care. Supporting our work financially helps us to continue and make more and better content. If there wont be interest in our mods then we wont be making them and nobody has to support us, but all we release is always free for everyone. Patreon allows us to dedicate that time on these overhauls. Yes without it it would be no longer possible to create every year one of the largest overhauls for every new TW game since Shogun 2.
But since we are 2 simple mortals who are now fully involved in newer TW games - Attila, WH1 and WH2 and preparing to go for Thrones of Britannia we simply dont have resources and time to go back to Rome 2 which as was said is considered as finished more then 3 years. I closely looked on largest changes and fixing our Rome 2 work to make it playable again for latest patch/dlc would take dozens of hours of working on all of them and fixing them. With 2 people right now involved fully in TR that is not possible, noone will put all that time into this game which we take as a bad TW game (Attila superior) and where is real no interest from our playerbase to support our work (not pay for mods).
There is no other modder or modding team who would do that, none, usually they stick with 1 or max 2 TW games and thats it for years. We dont, we work on much bigger scale due to development process we created for ourselves but that is not free for us.
So yes, mods are free and always will be free, but our work is not. We are not charity and if we are suppose to continue on making TW mods we ask our fans to support us, if they wont then simply new TW games will be without Radious mods, nothing else will change. We create optional content for these games for more then 8 years. And with your support we will like to continue, without we will have to stop cause we cant really afford anymore to spend thousands hours on mods.
We are known, people know what they can expect from us and all is very clear and transparent. Its now totaly up to everyone to decide if our work and mods is worth few dollars per month or not. Like our article what we all did in 2017 -
https://www.patreon.com/posts/team-radious-and-15654540
Our Team loves TW games, we work on them many many years and our mods are simply an option of how to play them! Not the only way!
Think about it.
Team Radious