I think we can talk nicely enough
I was talking to a lot of people I know who are into games etc about this new development. And some of them do use pirated copies except for games like these, or NWN etc. They actually buy those, from what I gather they feel the work is well worth the price. Let's face it through, a decent net connection and no price at all so it is good to see that the games are actually being bought.
And of course no suprise there, most of them are rather miffed by this move. Guess what the reaction is? There's always torrents. I think Bethy is really doing itself a huge disservice by asking for money for these mods so soon after release, it is turning away it's rather faithful fans.