We all know how these things go, so I understand everybody’s fears but please wait to react until they make actual moves toward crossing the line. I remain optimistic about the site’s future, and the recent ways they handled user feedback as it has been changing in the last few years is evidence I should be
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I won't stop using them because I (seemingly now foolishly) bought the lifetime membership, but I'll be continuing to look for alternatives.
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Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.
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As a software engineer i always found nexus simply archaic. Hot take but the molding industry might be better off with a new mod index.
Here's how it goes with half the games I mod these days.
- Game not manageable in Vortex out of the box
- Find the extension that makes the game manageable
- All popular mods are based on one single mod that acts as a framework or SDK for those other mods
- That prerequisite mod isn't well maintained on Nexus, and the author recommends using $otherModManager to manage this game
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Time to cancel the paid subscription for fast download i guess.
File a lawsuit. Paying customers are supposed to do that if they were given an explanation but in bad-faith language.
I miss FilePlanet. That's where I got my first Morrowind mods many years ago
At least GameBanana still exists, though there aren't as many uploads there as Nexus. Still good that there's an alternative
Does anybody remember Cheat Planet or is that just me
Fileplanet content is back but not how it looks right now.
Won't monetize it "to death", just right up to the line of death.
It'll always be at 1HP from now on.
'E's only mostly dead.
Define "death."
- Some lawyer, probably.
Maaaaaan. Fuck. I really like Nexus Mods. Get ready for another enshittifying ride to the bottom.
Reminder that ModDB still exists, and works.
EDIT:
Seeing as this is fairly decently upvoted now:
and also, I found this
https://github.com/loicreynier/awesome-modding
absolutely gigantic compendium of tons of mods, websites that have tons of mods for various games that are not nexusmods.
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Jesus fucking Christ, they didn't sell out to a fucking company! He transferred ownership to two long-time users of the site! There wasn't even a deal struck, he just said "you're the owners now!"
how do we know no money was involved? both the new owners apparently work at the same company, which was recently created and is a subsidiary of a vc firm.
How do we know there was? How, exactly is one to prove that a transaction didn't take place? Sure, he, the former owner, could say there wasn't, but that doesn't mean any more or less than what he already has, which is that he believes the new owners share his vision for the site! And at least he picked two people who, to my understanding, have been around Nexus for awhile!
I'm not saying it's impossible that Nexus enshittifies, and I understand that it's been a trend lately, but this, as of this moment right now, feels like senseless panic that ought to be saved for when they actually do something wrong! I'll join the hate wagon when they start brutally monatizing the site or taking IPOs.
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Currently downloading everything to MO2 and setting to not check for updates huehuehue
People gonna see torrents for a "preset packages" of Skyrim mods
As an outsider to Bethesda modding, given how difficult it looks, I'm surprised to hear this isn't already a thing.
It really depends on how one is applyng mods. Bethesda does have their own mod site and in-game support for modding, and that's pretty straightforward (and the only option on consoles). That will limit what mods are available.
I do kind of wish that there were one cross-platform open-source universal "game mod" program that could support multiple online services. Would like to have Wabbajack-like functionality (apply a whole set of curated, tested-together mods) as a base too, as that'd lower the bar.
I found a couple recommendation lists to "make the game look good" because I dont need all the fancy extras like body mods and weapons and grouped them together in load order, because I knew at some stage I could just package them nicely into a ZIP if I need to uninstall Skyrim for some reason. Glad to see I was ahead of the game
well wabbajack works with nexus (You just buy one month for autodownloads) but I guess that'll have to change
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See all these free mods!? They're just for you to use however you want to!! Pretty awesome right. Just enjoy this .5mbs download. Oh you want faster download speeds? Well... Sir. That will be $12 a month. Evil laugh
Don't they already do that?
Tbh, unless you're downloading a DLC size mod or a big 4K textures pack the installs are nearly instant at the moment
That's the joke
Nexus Mods is far too late on the monetization aspect. The restrictions placed on mod downloading sucks, and it hard pushes buying a membership. Not to mention they basically gave up on vortex and its a buggy mess even if you run it native.
They gave up on vortex to make the nexus mods app. Which is pretty impressive so far. I would recommend reading the articles from the makers of it that discuss how they are making it and why. It's really interesting.
I have been using the nexus mods app for cyberpunk and it's really slick and easy.
I wasn't aware there was a replacement that was suitable. I will have to look into that soley on the fact there seems to be a linux native release, thank you.
Yeah I have my worries in the sale of nexusmods.com. But everything i have read about the new app is really promising and the people working on it have worked on other major mod managers in the past as well. So they seem to know what they are doing. It's still in really early alpha so if you use it, make backups. Sometimes you have to completely uninstall and then reinstall to update which is annoying. But thats the cost of using alpha software.
Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.
Someone mentioned this in another thread and I found it interesting:
Ckan kerbal space program mods
Apparently its a frontend for mods that's hosted on github
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Seems like a good idea. I wonder if there's anything already similar. It'd be a real treat to see a VC company get shafted.
Would a federated discovery frontend work? Peertube's back end of the service would probably work great as a starting point since it uses torrents to ease up on traffic for individual servers
Hit me up with an addy when you're on it!
Ooh I'll take some addy too. Been too long and I need to clean my fuckin house.
I have a bridge to sell anyone who believes that.