A topic came up the other day about [user-created] content: [will players who create content get a share of the profits]?asked by Farnan
TL;DRProfit-sharing for player-made content is undecided and subject to change; a post-launch mod program is planned, possibly with profit sharing, but legal questions remain and the base game likely won't have it.
That's still up in the air for how we're going to handle that. I know we've got a mod program that's going to be put in place after we've shipped, where users can create mods and submit them to us. Then if it's good enough, we run it through tests. Say people can make systems. Then we plan to have exactly what you're talking about, which is a profit-sharing deal, what that's going to be. We have to figure that out and find out the legalities of it, because we could have people in Japan creating them, in Germany, Russia, U.S. We've got to figure out how we handle that. I think in the original game, though, I don't believe there's going to be anything like that in the regular one, but I believe in the mod versions after there will be. At least that's my understanding, but that's all subject to change. I wish I had a firm answer. I just don't.