Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community

• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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  • absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Narrator: It wasn’t.

    At the very least the entity that bought it will not rely on donations and revenue from upgraded downoad speeds, so it will definitely enshittify 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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    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The problem is not capitalism […] it’s really us expecting shit to be free

      No, “we” are not the problem. “We” donated and participated (by making mods) and “we” are responsible for giving the site what value it had. If it had no value, then it couldn’t have been sold.

      Quit trying to blame the users for fuck’s sake.

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The problem is capitalism, plain and simple.

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      • MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        How would this specific problem be better under another system?

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    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Capitalism created this expectation. That’s how corpos operate. Capture the market then bleed it.

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    • Xenny@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dude I’ve been premium for years. First sign of betrayal that will change though

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    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How them boots taste?

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• Walican132@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah he could have reached out to the community to find someone to run it who would act ethically.

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  • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You make it sound like the site has been destroyed and enshitefied. Do we have any proof of such so far? Or can we put our trust in the guy who made it to hand it off to someone he trusts to do good by it? Everyone is freaking out about a possibility, which isn’t without cause since we’ve seen what can happen with other companies, but so far there is no need to pull out pitchforks.

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    • 0xD@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Corporations and companies parasitically destroy everything human in the name of money. If it’s not a non-profit dedicated to the purpose of providing access to mods, it’s just a question of time. Best to just get a new thing started.

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    • Walican132@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh I agree. I’m just bitching that it was all done secretly.

      The fact that it’s secret implies to me the community won’t be happy. Idk.

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      • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, the doing it in secret can definitely be worrying and flame rumors, I agree. I’m being optimistic that the new owner is someone close to them and they’re still working out details before announcing who they are

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