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Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/nexus-mods-new-owners-promise-they-wont-monetise-the-site-to-death-as-users-panic-at-the-whiff-of-venture-capital-the-new-owners-are-here-not-sitting-in-a-distant-tower-remotely-directing-us-all-towards-some-nefarious-goals/

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As if it wasn’t already.

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  • Toga65@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Talk about putting your part of your life’s work completely out to pasture.

    I give it a year. What a shame.

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    • goldenquetzal@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No kidding. And his post saying it was in good hands knowing full well it’s venture capitalists. Fuck him.

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  • Bieren@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll give it 8 months before it’s dead

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  • MetalMachine@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thats what they all say when they get acquired. “Won’t change our creative direction” type bs.

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  • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Make it a legally binding contract, otherwise don’t bother promising.

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  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wish I could say this surprised me, but I’ve kind of been expecting this for awhile. They’ve been slowly getting worse for years, it went from just a hobby project to a corporation.

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  • Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If there was one god damned example of any company saying this and sticking to it I might believe them. But I have yet to be proven wrong. Sucks too as they were my go to for mods.

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    • atticus88th@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All the examples I could think of have been recent acquisitions… which means they just haven’t soured… yet. Sadly its inevitable.

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  • sparr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe this is what it will finally take to get some of the bigger game communities off Nexus. It’s a decade overdue.

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  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re definitely gonna monetize it to death.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    venture capital

    Aaaand it’s gone.

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  • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is tragic. I have been on NexusMods since the 2000s. I learned how to mod games because of that site. I will be pouring one out for this landmark of a website after work today. Paid for Lifetime and everything, because the website made it easy to find, install, and update mods for any given game that supported mods. Damn, man. Damn.

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    • Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same… this is the swiftest of kicks to the nads…

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  • Buske@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.

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    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Easy to say, yet so far most of the other modding sites seem to be content sitting on their butts right now.

      Building an alternative would take time. And some money.

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  • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pinky promise?

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  • NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, just half to death then?

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    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just crippling pain.

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  • aaron@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well they’ve promised so that’s that. No story here.

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    • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      pinky-promise

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  • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok, so what is the current alternative nice option for SkyrimSE mods?

    Preferably one with a mod manager/download client. Vortex is kind of janky but it did the job. I’d prefer not to manage any of this stuff manually, like cavemen. it’s been decades you shouldn’t need to do that

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Preferably one with a mod manager/download client. Vortex is kind of janky but it did the job. I’d prefer not to manage any of this stuff manually, like cavemen. it’s been decades you shouldn’t need to do that

      MO2 can do anything Vortex can, and in fact, Stalker and Stalker 2 modders prefer it. The files just need to be hosted elsewhere. A lot of modmakers advise against using Vortex to begin with.

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      • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, thank you! MO2 seems a lot more clean and simple than Vortex.

        …and in related news, now that I’m redownloading everything for funsies anyway, I have graduated from trying to keep my mod lists on a website to scribbling a list down in Joplin. With links and everything. In case these mods I’m using decide to move from Nexus or something.

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not going to continue to invest my time into an inevitable wreck.

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    • forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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  • Gronk@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably a good time to start up a rival mod site that every one will flock too after these guys backpedal on their word.

    Something synonymous with Nexus… CapitalMods anyone?

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    • ijedi1234@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I miss Filefront.

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  • clif@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.

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    • Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let me just use this promise hand to send you a pic.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It should all be open source.

      First thing is mods should just exist on free hosting providers for source code like GitHub/Lab etc.

      Then an optional mod manager software that can import mods from these sources.

      Non of this really needs a centralised community, these places already exist thanks to other better suited services like social media

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      • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But social media is 95% turbocancer…

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    • hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here’s how it goes with half the games I mod these days.

      1. Game not manageable in Vortex out of the box 2. Find the extension that makes the game manageable 3. All popular mods are based on one single mod that acts as a framework or SDK for those other mods 4. That prerequisite mod isn’t well maintained on Nexus, and the author recommends using $otherModManager to manage this game
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      • pory@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The main problem in your setup is you installed Vortex. It and its prior incarnation Nexus Mod Manager have always been a thorn in actual mod developers’ sides. Mod devs can easily tell you where to extract the zip to, and what dependencies you need. Any load order manager type thing will always be better when designed specifically for the game you’re running. Having an “easy one click GUI!!!” doesn’t actually help anybody because modding different games isn’t a universally systematic process.

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      • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Funny how all of that is straight up solved with any package manager or even git itself (with submodules) for free and yet gaming community is protecting some proprietary burning heap of garbage.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Time to cancel the subscription for fast download i guess.

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No they will sell it to someone that will though

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    File a lawsuit. Paying customers are supposed to do that if they were given an explanation but in bad-faith language.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does anybody remember Cheat Planet or is that just me

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  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Won’t monetize to “to death”, just right up to the line of death.

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    • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’ll always be at 1HP from now on.

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    • Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      'E’s only mostly dead.

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    • UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Define "death."

      • Some lawyer, probably.
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  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maaaaaan. Fuck. I really like Nexus Mods. Get ready for another enshittifying ride to the bottom.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reminder that ModDB still exists, and works.

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    • Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      link for lazy folks like myself www.moddb.com

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sorry, I probably should have included that.

        I’ve been modding games and making mods for games since before Nexus or SteamWorkshop or anything even existed… I guess people just genuinely have never even heard of moddb these days, like how gamefaqs is an ‘ancient relic’ or w/e.

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  • DaedalousIlios@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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!”

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • DaedalousIlios@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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 anymore 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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  • Exusia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Currently downloading everything to MO2 huehuehue

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    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As an outsider to Bethesda modding, given how difficult it looks, I’m surprised to hear this isn’t already a thing.

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      • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Modding community will never allow it, when Nexus allowed people to keep downloading old mods a bunch of authors decried it since they wanted the ability to remove a mod from the internet forever. It was ‘theirs’ (even though it’s just modified Bethesda data)

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It really depends on how one is modding. 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.

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      • Exusia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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

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      • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        well wabbajack works with nexus (You just buy one month for free autodownloads) but I guess that’ll have to change

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