I feel that mod authors, such as myself, should be compensated for contributing publicly available mods, through in-game purchases (such as memberships or coins), or direct financial compensation.

Warzone requires membership for game creators to use mods, but none of the money/coins are ever given to mod authors. Mods are essentially limited to use the MIT license (due to TOS, which I find unacceptable - mods should be able to use any license that is compatible with proprietary software, such as Warzone - https://www.warzone.com/Forum/810464-explicitlyallow-mods-use-nonmit-license-tos).

I'm interested to see if there is any interest for supporting mod creators for making publicly available mods.

Making mods is not something Fizzer has asked you to do. You create them out of love for the game. As Fizzer has explained, the reason that membership is required for mods is that those are more expensive to run. Asking compensation for voluntary contribution sounds like a stretch to me.

Map creators have had sponsored development before. Maps aren't behind any kind of paywall.

People likely buy memberships to create game with mods. More mods give players more incentive to buy membership. That is free labour, which I feel is exploitive.

All I'm asking now is if there is interest for sponsoring mod development.

create a mod so good that people pay you for it, dont ask for handouts

^No one does that though.

If there's an idea you want someone to implement but don't want to make it yourself, you should pay for it to be created imo.

yea you should, just contact someone who makes them and ask them if you can pay, or maybe make a post offering incentives for something, which noone objects to rn?

The point of this thread is literally asking if anyone wants to support mod development (in a way which gives back to mod authors).