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.
Time to cancel the subscription for fast download i guess.
Won’t monetize to “to death”, just right up to the line of death.
'E’s only mostly dead.
Define “death.”
- Some lawyer, probably.
No they will sell it to someone that will though
File a lawsuit. Paying customers are supposed to do that if they were given an explanation but in bad-faith language.
Maaaaaan. Fuck. I really like Nexus Mods. Get ready for another enshittifying ride to the bottom.
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
Fileplanet content is back but not how it looks right now.
Reminder that ModDB still exists, and works.
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
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
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.
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.
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
Translation: “Once all the hub-bub dies down we intend to as slowly as you’ll allow, slip in monetization.”
Yup we’ve never seen this happen before, not ever. Not once!
/s
Exactly! No venture capitalist has ever taken something that could be monetized but wasn’t, bought it out, and then proceeded to monetize it into irrelevancy before…
Just the tip, you won’t even feel it.
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.
well wabbajack works with nexus (You just buy one month for autodownloads) but I guess that’ll have to change
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
Narrator: they monetised the site to death.
… and beyond!
Ah, so basically Nexus Mods is dead to me now. Whenever venture capital is injected to anything, it’s a bad sign. Ugh, great these particular Capitalists are from the crypto community…
They’ve been souring a lot of potentially cool projects with blockchain/web3 nonsense, like Playtron, for example. Lutris is now dead in the water and hasn’t been updated for months now; the former dev is working on Playtron. There is a huge issue log that doesn’t seem to be addressed at the moment.
Read the article. They are.
I did, and my worries were confirmed! I haven’t updated my comment.
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