Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community
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Oh no, this is never good. How long before they implement a required pay system?
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No mention of who it is even being sold to, so bizarre.
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Oh no, this is never good. How long before they implement a required pay system?
Instant death of nexus if that happens
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God damnit we just can't have nice things.
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Fuck em nexus has sucked for a while anyway, they started enshittification years ago.
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God damnit we just can't have nice things.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]And I literately just started using them for Daggerfall. Really frustrating.
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Oh this is sad news.
Let the enshitification begin.
sigh.
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Sounds like people need to start taking their mods off of there quick.
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They had a good run. It was fun while it lasted.
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Sounds like people need to start taking their mods off of there quick.
Might be too late. They changed the policy a few years ago when they introduced mod packs. They didn't want entire packs to fail if one person pulled their mod, so total deletion was disabled.
Folks can still hide their mods and make new individual downloads impossible, but it's still there in the background.
(All this is from memory. I hope I'm wrong)
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God damnit we just can't have nice things.
Guy worked on the site for 24 years. Think he deserves some nice things himself (like reclaiming his life)
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Guy worked on the site for 24 years. Think he deserves some nice things himself (like reclaiming his life)
He does deserve that, but I wish the single biggest modding hub on the internet and a load bearing pillar of an entire gaming culture wasn't sold off to an unnamed party with no transparency and only vague reassurances that "nothing will change".
What with the late stage capitalist society we're living in, I've been conditioned to think that good things being sold off rarely amounts to good things.
Let's hope this is one of the few exceptions.
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He does deserve that, but I wish the single biggest modding hub on the internet and a load bearing pillar of an entire gaming culture wasn't sold off to an unnamed party with no transparency and only vague reassurances that "nothing will change".
What with the late stage capitalist society we're living in, I've been conditioned to think that good things being sold off rarely amounts to good things.
Let's hope this is one of the few exceptions.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Narrator: It wasn't.
At the very least the entity that bought it will not rely on donations and revenue from upgraded download speeds, so it will definitely enshittify further to some degree.
The problem is not capitalism, it's really us expecting shit to be free and rewarding good development and maintenance effort with thoughts and prayers.
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I’ll probably keep using it and see what happens. To be honest I’ll just go where the content is, and if the new people fuck it up it’ll likely go elsewhere.
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Sounds like people need to start taking their mods off of there quick.
I wouldn't advocate removing mods. Definitely put them on another site though.
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Fuck em nexus has sucked for a while anyway, they started enshittification years ago.
Care to explain in what way?
I've been a casual user of the side for a few years now and except the short waiting times for downloads and endorsement reminders there has been nothing to really frustrate me. -
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This is shit but... if people weren't already concerned over the massive monopoly that Nexus had then they weren't paying attention.
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Care to explain in what way?
I've been a casual user of the side for a few years now and except the short waiting times for downloads and endorsement reminders there has been nothing to really frustrate me.wrote on last edited by [email protected]The constant pushes for their premium model, while understandable, sucked as a user. Same with the increasing push to do EVERYTHING through their mod managers which actually had a tendency to conflict with the community made installers for a lot of older games.
They also had weird stances as to what triggered a mod as NSFW. Nobody (sane) would complain about the straight up sex mods but it had the same youtube problem where mature/"mature" content would get age gated. Same with their very hit or miss rules on "politics". The reality being that it was just a way to blanket ban content for the moderators but it led to hilarity when Skyrim (the game that site basically was built on) has white supremacists in-game but you can't even acknowledge that because it would make the chuds angry out of game.
For what it was? I liked it. But it has been on the decline for... probably about half the time it has existed.
I'll also add on that there is a tin foil (but not THAT much) conspiracy that a lot of the pushback against Bethesda's premium mods came from the Nexus mods staff/team since it was a direct competition to them and they realized no modder would risk that smoke from... asking to get paid for their hard work.
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I wonder if someone could upload a snapshot of it to the Internet Archive.
