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Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community (comicbook.com)
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[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

80lv (3D industry news media) reports some digging on the company bought Nexus Mod. https://80.lv/articles/exclusive-nexus-mods-was-apparently-bought-by-a-shady-corporate-entity

Not exaxtly noteworthy info there though, it's just some no name, 6 month old, likely VC-funded company with zero transparency.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Welp. Almost all of the conversations I've read about this change have devolved into "hopefully the new owners don't enforce their political views."

They always say shit like "if you don't like a mod, don't use it," but they can't wrap their heads around the idea that if they can't tolerate the (ex-)site owner exercising his own moral beliefs, they can find a different platform.

Fun.

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

Pretty much all platforms do this. It’s not a bad thing to want a big and established uncensored platform

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Nobody should be obliged to host bigotry. That's not "censorship" in a way that matters.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago

To add to the conversation, one of the two new owners has replied to some questions: https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15301?comment_id=155643499

[-] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago

Ooof. We need a new place now.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

A new website will suffer the same fate eventually. The best solution I've seen is CKAN for kerbal space program mods. Each mod just hosts its own releases for free on github or wherever they like, and the whole mod index is just another github repo.

https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN?tab=readme-ov-file#whats-the-ckan

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

The problem with that it's not "wherever they like", it is github 99% of the time. It is easier to fix when github enshitifies completely, but it will still require fixing

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

If it works with any git platform, you have several alternatives + self hosting.

The chokepoint is the index, but if the mod repo is up and you have the url by some other way, it should work

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

It does but it does so far as someone updates indices. It's easier with git, but someone still needs to do all of it.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1lcyzxz/nexus_mods_was_acquired_by_chosen_a_company/

F U C K

Q&A here: https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15301

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Yeah that's about what I expected. Fucking hell.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

Ouch. Even selling it to Fandom would have been better than this.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago

Can't even view r*ddit links anymore because they hate VPNs..

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Really? I onyl use VPN for reddit and don't have an issue. But then again there is a lot of VPN's out there, they would have to find each endpoint to block.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Content of the Reddit post follows:

See the original post here. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1lcyjl6/nexus_mods_was_acquired_by_chosen_a_company/

People on Restera did some digging: https://www.resetera.com/threads/nexus-mods-site-has-been-sold.1219452/post-141554013

Site of the company itself: https://wearechosen.io/

Here is a monetization "cheat sheet" that the CEO posted on LinkedIn which is linked on Chosen's main page if you scroll down: https://i.imgur.com/ztjS4K7.jpeg

In the CEO's LinkedIn profile it says this:

Working closely with teams at NexusMods and beyond to build meaningful, sustainable experiences

If I had to guess the acquisition details are under some sort of NDA right now

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[-] [email protected] 144 points 1 day ago

God damnit we just can't have nice things.

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[-] [email protected] 122 points 1 day ago

GOG's move into mod support seems pretty prescient now.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours 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 7 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 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 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 55 minutes 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 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 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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