Most groups had their own modlist for how they liked to play so it made it super convenient vs having to manually install everything and make sure you didn't miss any. I used to play ARMA III which used SW heavily, you could just plug a list into the launcher and it would automatically grab all the needed mods, install, and configure them. The whole point of SW as I understood it (I've barely used it because it quickly became clear all the good stuff for Skyrim and other heavily modded games was still going to be on NexusMods) was that it would automatically and seamlessly install the mod on a game you own on Steam. Now, I haven't downloaded any mods through Steam but it kinda makes sense that they'd lock you out of downloading mods for games you haven't purchased on *their* platform, from their POV people downloading mods for free for games they haven't purchased must be piracy so yeah makes sense. Other than the few good games the community is extremely toxic and discouraging so it's better to avoid everything related to it, basically the norm when it comes to dealing with anything where gamers are. There are a few good ones though, like one called '死寂（DeathlyStillness)' where you fight off zombies as a thicc girl dressed in a bunny suit, I found that amusing tbh oh boy, the games there, I've tried a few except for the multiplayer ones cause I'm not masochistic enough to play one.

Not like I can *buy* any games because anything involving the use of foreign currency is practically worse than commiting a war crime in my country so I went for the free section. I honestly thought coming from Valve it was gonna be something better but it's plain terrible. The launcher uses a ridiculous amount of resources for apparently no reason because the UI isn't *that* complex to justify almost 1GB memory usage, every and I mean EVERY game you download gets you thru DirectX and vcredist installations even if you already have them installed, and the best: you have to PAY to be able to add friends?! LOL. I tried this platform and I can only say it SUCKS.

Steam workshop wont download a mod