That statement sounds like a PR-friendly way to justify illegally pirating mods off of Steam Workshop, while pretending like that is not what is going on, even though it is.

If any way to do that does actually exist, then surely it's illegal on the basis of being copyright infringement, and also because it would be reverse-engineering Steam's mechanisms in order to facilitate the piracy of their mods, and no doubt that would also be a major violation of Steam's TOS too.

Whenever I read such questions, I wonder why the person asking isn't simply trying for themself?

What...like steam allowing non steam users to do it with cmd and providing ways to download free mods from their site? Imagine that. Im asking if there are sites that provide the same service, without installing a program.

Since steam provides ways to do this with select games, its not piracy. ...or just ask me?

If someone creates a game mod and uploads it to the Steam Workshop, they retain their copyright to it and not prohibited from uploading it themselves to anther site (like Nexus), distribute it through Discord, or share it by other means. This is why Enderal: Forgotten Stories (which is technically a Skyrim mod) is able to be on GOG.

However if the content creator doesn't exercise their right to distribute it anywhere else, then you're supposed to suck it up and feel like a crappy looser for not purchasing the Steam version... or at least, that is what Steam wants. Nevermind that the vast majority of games are perfectly fine and doesn't need Steam Workshop content.

Havent looked in at least a year for mods. So I thought I would ask if anything new popped up. Maybe a wrapper or something to use their program in a browser for convenience, getting mods. Steam is not exactly screaming to the heavens about all their options. Because its meant more for developers.

Similar to linux using windows content in Wine...but for a browser.

Thinking as I write this, a browser addon would be awesome for modders on any mod site. Be it for Nexus, Workshop etc..

I still remember the outcry, when Mod-creators made use of THEIR RIGHT to ask for money for their mods on the SW.

Out of a sudden, these "gods among us mere mortals" became pariahs, traitors and "greedy bastards".

Funny, huh?
How people, who see an opportunity, to earn some money with their work, are attacked by the same "community" that gave them the highest praise prior to that step.

Btw: greed has two sides.
Asking for money for one's creation (into which one put a lot of time and work) is not the only form of "greed" - if we want to call it greed, "to ask for a small fee for your work".

No - not wanting to spend money on something, which one wants to use, is also greed.

A little fun fact, that many people don't (want to) get.

As explained before, those who upload their mods to Steam Workshop agrees that their mod is not theirs anymore, but Steams.

Now, yes, you can download and use Steam Workshop mods in GOG games with same versions.

How can you do that?

- Using Steam client to download workshop items for games you own both on GOG and on Steam, then navigating to Steam's workshop folder and getting the mod files

- Using SteamCMD to download workshop items

- Using Steam Workshop Downloader (site) to download Steam workshop items. (This is the same as above, because the site uses the SteamCMD command to download such mod files from your browser.

» My recommendation and preferred method is to learn to use SteamCMD and download Steam Workshop mods yourself through its powerful command line.

Some advantages to that:

- You can 'login in anonymously' (its a function of SteamCMD) and download workshop items without owning games on Steam, as many Workshop mod owners set their mods to be able to be downloaded without owning the game on Steam apparently
- You can login in with your account and download mods for your games for easy offline backup
- You can do all this without the Steam Client bloat.

I've done it before to backup many mods offline (Mainly for Left 4 Dead 2 and Terraria) and it works flawlessly. Try it yourself!

If you need any help, I can give you examples later. (Although you can search about this online as there are many guides too.)

Problem is, for many mods Steam requires ownership of the game from you.
I think it is now the overwhelming majority.

The modders can turn it off, many don't do.

Seems to be true, unfortunately.
I only tested it with games I own on Steam, so I can only confirm it with games I own. (L4D2, Terraria, Insurgency...).

Do you know if there are any lists anywhere about this?

A "List of DRM-Free SteamWorkshop mods" or something.

RimWorld is a major one. Which is why I was bringing up this topic for researching what I could find before buying.

The Rim dev guy leaves the workshop open and designs his game, so mods from anywhere will plug and play.

The real problem is more mods more problems getting them all to work together, across different game versions.

That's not actually Rimworld modding problem...

That's a modding challenge. :P

When many mods change many game files and actually change same files, the only way to make them work together is manually merge lines of data inside such files. Something not everyone can do and are most of the times impossible to do because mods may change the way files work in the first place.

^^^

Sounds like a semantics problem.

Humor intended.

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At the moment can't even access it via Steam, let alone third-party tools!

Seems a few reddit users show the communtiy service is offline. Wonder why.