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Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community (comicbook.com)
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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

They'll probably implement a daily/hourly download limit like MEGA does. So, for example, you can download 1000000000 small mods of some kbs, but the limit is 5 GB, so the mod bundle for big games is virtually limited to premium users.

They'll probably try to change the lifetime subscription(the biggest sin in capitalism, how do you make infinite money without doing nothing if people can buy subscription once?), making it useless compared to the premium premium subscription.

Paid mods I think are unlikely, why bother to make a change so unpopular? Milk this shit for a decade and press this button only when shit hits the fan.

Is a enshification process not so painful so the vast majority will not bother to look for alternatives.

In other words: We're doomed.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

People make mods to be played surely, why bother using a platform if no one can play your mod from it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

? Same reason people use shit platforms? I can't barely watch Twitch with 3 ads in a row every 30min and they still are the biggest streaming platform even when is shitty to the users and streamers. It's a community based platform unless the community move to other place they still be big because people is there.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

I was going to ask if twitch was still relevant but then realised I genuinely don't give a shit.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Paid mods I think are unlikely, why bother to make a change so unpopular? Milk this shit for a decade and press this button only when shit hits the fan.

Unfortunately, I think this will be likely because Nexus has almost entirely cornered the market on mods. It is the place people get their mods from if not the Steam Workshop.

People would have to actually abandon the convenience and go back to scrolling a bunch of games specific forums for their mods. I don't see that happening unfortunately and I'm pretty sure the executives at the new company know this. It's a common marketing tactic to exploit the sunk cost fallacy.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Nah there's some games that still only have stuff on moddb, thunderstore is the main place for v rising and a few other popular titles, and for Minecraft there's curseforge and modrinth, and GOG is adding mods now too. The community is more fragmented than you'd think

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