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lechekaflan, do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital
@lechekaflan@lemmy.world avatar

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

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

When is Nexus Mods 2: Electric Boogaloo?

Lemminary,

You’re in luck, it’s already in the works.

chameleon, (edited ) do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital
@chameleon@fedia.io avatar

The new owners are so trustworthy that they weren't even transparent about who they are. In the comments of the original announcement they defend that with:

This post wasn’t about Chosen — it was about Robin and the legacy he built over 24 years. We’re the new owners and ultimate decision-makers at Nexus Mods. We’ll share more about ourselves when we’ve earned that right. For now, we’re focused on listening, learning, and making modding even easier, and yes, you’ll see us around in the community being active.

I can't say I find that statement to be particularly trustworthy given it's coming from an NFT bro.

Lemminary,

Yeah, you don’t start out as a folk hero by hiding behind a black screen and waiting for the right moment to pounce. Sorry NFT dude.

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

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

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

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

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Don’t they already do that?

SolidShake,

That’s the joke

mnemonicmonkeys,

Tbh, unless you’re downloading a DLC size mod or a big 4K textures pack the installs are nearly instant at the moment

Pika, do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital
@Pika@sh.itjust.works avatar

Nexus Mods is far too late on the monetization aspect. The restrictions placed on mod downloading sucks, and it hard pushes buying a membership. Not to mention they basically gave up on vortex and its a buggy mess even if you run it native.

GunValkyrie,

They gave up on vortex to make the nexus mods app. Which is pretty impressive so far. I would recommend reading the articles from the makers of it that discuss how they are making it and why. It’s really interesting.

I have been using the nexus mods app for cyberpunk and it’s really slick and easy.

Pika,
@Pika@sh.itjust.works avatar

I wasn’t aware there was a replacement that was suitable. I will have to look into that soley on the fact there seems to be a linux native release, thank you.

GunValkyrie,

Yeah I have my worries in the sale of nexusmods.com. But everything i have read about the new app is really promising and the people working on it have worked on other major mod managers in the past as well. So they seem to know what they are doing. It’s still in really early alpha so if you use it, make backups. Sometimes you have to completely uninstall and then reinstall to update which is annoying. But thats the cost of using alpha software.

LostWanderer, (edited ) do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

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.

catloaf,

Read the article. They are.

LostWanderer,

I did, and my worries were confirmed! I haven’t updated my comment.

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

Hahaha yea right… give it 6-12 months and that will change

narr1, do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital
@narr1@lemmy.ml avatar

sure buddy, unfortunately they done that already. I especially love the 3 mbps cap on downloads with free accounts.

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

I have a bridge to sell anyone who believes that.

Diplomjodler3, do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital
@Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world avatar

Narrator: they monetised the site to death.

Lembot_0003,

… and beyond!

supersquirrel, (edited ) do gaming w Minecraft is rolling out its first glow up in years tomorrow

Lame, play Luanti (free and open source)

www.luanti.org

The Voxelibre mod is probably what you want to start with if you want to have a Minecraft+ like survival experience.

Edit You can download Luanti from F-droid too… as in the Android store!!! The touch screen controlsk work great on a phone and I am pretty sure you can use a gamepad if you want too. Luanti/Voxelibre multiplayer servers thus are actually kind of awesome social hangout chatroom-esque spaces that are very chill and low pressure. Also… most of them that say they are family friendly are serious in their moderation around it (though of course, if you are a parent don’t count on it being 100% perfect at screening out annoying people).

Or Vintage Story

www.vintagestory.at

luciole,
@luciole@beehaw.org avatar

Vintage Story looks like a pretty cool survival! Do you have recommendations for games on Luanti?

supersquirrel,
BuboScandiacus,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

Are there texture packs to make the whole thing less “aliexpress minecraft”-y ?

supersquirrel,

Heck yes!

content.luanti.org/packages/Wuzzy/…/hub/

There is built in community mod and texture browser in Luanti as well so it couldn’t be easier!

BuboScandiacus,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

Nice ! Do you have a personal favorite ?

supersquirrel,

I don’t mind the vanilla texture pack, but I was starting to get bored of it I mean I won’t argue it is amazing compared to the obviously very mature world of minecraft texture packs.

I will switch between the ones I downloaded and edit with some recommendations if any stick out to me!

Also I like playing on the multiplayer servers, some of them are really chlll and I prefer to explore multiplayer servers with the vanilla texture pack (or whatever the server intends) and then switch to different ones after I see the landscape all the architects and artists intended in the right light first if that makes sense?

BuboScandiacus,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

Oh, ok 👍

Are there servers you would recommend ? (Chiller ones, with player interaction and trade preferably)

supersquirrel,

Blocky Survival, Your Land and Square One are all pretty chill, the nice thing is that they are all running collections of modpacks that create a minecraft+ experience, so it is a good intro to what Luanti and Voxelibre can be!

BuboScandiacus,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

Thank you !

CombatWombat1212,

Ur not gonna dethrone the king. Those sound cool but they’re clearly a totally different experience.

supersquirrel,

Watch us :)

lime,
@lime@feddit.nu avatar

when they fix the hardcoded craftmethod table so we can do data-driven craftmethods, maybe. i tried years ago and the code was so spaghettified that i gave up.

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

„Trust me, bro, we won‘t enshitify, please don‘t leave and make something new elsewhere that’s out of our control.“

cyberpunk007, do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

Obviously they will. Years down the road. 🤗

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

Oh so they’ll do it subtly enough to think people won’t notice.

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