Im guessing alot of people, as myself also - lost hope a while there because of the way Rockstar treated the Modders in GTAV. People getting banned for using mods ingame (mostly due to being unlucky enough to start the launcher and not the Rage hook!... been there, done that.. )
But still. It's a bit modding scene, and with all these serious devs and scriptwizards... Oh my, it's never going away 🙂
And it must never be forgotten.. This is the best Grand Theft Auto community out there. I don't think there are many issues that cannot be resolved in here.
* And of course... Some modders are leaving, because as Giordano says - they want to move to a platform where they can earn some cash on their mods. Which in my opinion is not a good trend. But for example Zmodeler costs money... Adobe Photoshop cost money. And surely OpenIV can in the future cost money. So it's not free to mod these days.
I like that there is the Paypal Donate option here on LCPDFR. And i really hope that users in the future uses it sometimes - if they want modders to stay in here, and dedicate hundreds of hours to this game.