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.
All the examples I could think of have been recent acquisitions… which means they just haven’t soured… yet. Sadly its inevitable.
Won’t monetize it “to death”, just right up to the line of death.
Define “death.”
- Some lawyer, probably.
'E’s only mostly dead.
It’ll always be at 1HP from now on.
Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.
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.
Reminder that ModDB still exists, and works.
EDIT:
Seeing as this is fairly decently upvoted now:
and also, I found this
https://github.com/loicreynier/awesome-modding
absolutely gigantic compendium of tons of mods, websites that have tons of mods for various games that are not nexusmods.
link for lazy folks like myself https://www.moddb.com/
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.
Up until now I thought moddb was all that existed.
you belong in a museum!
Wait, that site isn’t that old right? I used to use it for the battle of middle-earth mods.
Maybe I belong in a museum…
I had never heard of it! Thanks for sharing
I also just found this:
https://github.com/loicreynier/awesome-modding
basically just a huge compendium of everywhere all kinds of mods for anything are hosted, that’ll give you an idea of how the game modding scene is actually rather dispersed, not only monopolized by nexusmods.
not sure if its in this huge list but:
fpsbanana
is another one i am quite familiar with, been going strong with mostly source mods… possibly since the late 90s, at the least the early 2000’s.
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venture capital
Aaaand it’s gone.
Talk about putting part of your life’s work completely out to pasture.
I give it a year. What a shame.
No kidding. And his post saying it was in good hands knowing full well it’s venture capitalists. Fuck him.
They’re definitely gonna monetize it to death.
I think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.
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.
Same… this is the swiftest of kicks to the nads…
Maaaaaan. Fuck. I really like Nexus Mods. Get ready for another enshittifying ride to the bottom.
Well they’ve promised so that’s that. No story here.
pinky-promise
Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.
Let me just use this promise hand to send you a pic.
Make it a legally binding contract, otherwise don’t bother promising.
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.
Here’s how it goes with half the games I mod these days.
- Game not manageable in Vortex out of the box
- Find the extension that makes the game manageable
- All popular mods are based on one single mod that acts as a framework or SDK for those other mods
- That prerequisite mod isn’t well maintained on Nexus, and the author recommends using $otherModManager to manage this game
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.
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.
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
But social media is 95% turbocancer…
I mean things like Discord and Revolt, even Reddit is better for communities to discuss things about mods than the Nexus site
I didn’t down vote you, but Discord is a huge offender regarding enshittification of the internet. Reddit might even be worse.
That’s not my point though, they’re much better at holding discussion and keeping people updated than the Nexus mods site was
I’ll give it 8 months before it’s dead
