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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.“

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.

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!

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. 🤗

30p87, 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
@30p87@feddit.org avatar

Fuck Nexus Mods. You already need an account to download anything.

Forester,

A free account.

cyberpunk007,

It’s still an extra barrier. There’s zero point other than tracking what people do.

Forester,

News flash running the servers isn’t free.

Yes they are tracking us. That’s how they pay to keep the servers running.

If your not paying you are the product.

malwieder,
@malwieder@feddit.org avatar

If you’re paying they’re also tracking you.

30p87,
@30p87@feddit.org avatar

But somehow eg. rdr2mods.com is free, and without account. Oh wonder.

Forester,

Cool hope they do a decent job moderating the servers they run and limiting malware exposure. I also hope they’ve taken steps to prevent themselves being used as a host for malicious entities to distribute malware to third parties

psychadlligoat,

Mods for one game vs basically every game

I could probably host the entirety of the mods on that site on my homelab, Nexus is exponentially larger and more complex

30p87,
@30p87@feddit.org avatar

Mods for one game vs basically every game

As it should be. Or are we pretending that centralization is suddenly good now?

JigglySackles,

It has always had its perks.

30p87,
@30p87@feddit.org avatar

You mean cash for shareholders/owners? And a hassle to move to the next platform once it destroys itself?

JigglySackles,

Do you consider those perks? I certainly don’t.

cyberpunk007,

Ah, like the sites of the 90s.

cyberpunk007,

Yes I know.

Forester,

Since we’re necrosing the thread

The reason that they require an account is because if they did not require user side authentication then it would be trivial to upload obfuscated malware and then use Nexus as a host to distribute it. If someone uploads malware to a random S3 bucket or random VPS or random shared server and tries to use it as a malicious host, the owner and operator will notice a massive bandwidth spike Nexus won’t notice 30,000 downloads.

cyberpunk007,

We’re talking about for downloading not uploading.

wizardbeard,

It also tracks what you’ve downloaded to provide update notifications and encourage you to participate in the mod quality ratings system.

It’s not 100% without reason beyond tracking users.

catloaf,

And to limit scrapers.

tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Well, unless someone makes an alternative, people are going to use it.

They do need to provide a lot of bandwidth, which isn’t free, though I wonder how viable it’d be for someone to create a Nexus-like Website using magnet URLs and BitTorrent as a backend.

Maybe too much of a technical bar to attract users.

Dran_Arcana,

There are JS based torrent downloaders. That would work for the normies to get files, but you’d still have to find a way to convince people to host files on the backend. It’d probably take a full-on desktop client wrapper with an embedded torrent client but that’s a pretty hard sell for the average nerd if you’re upfront, and probably a harder sell if you’re dishonest about it.

Sonotsugipaa,

Wouldn’t the average nerd only need a good ol’ regular torrent client?
The slightly-more-than-average nerd could be incentivized through a specialized client that also acts as a mod manager (iirc Nexus Mods does this, minus the torrent protocol), and the bigger nerd would write themselves a Linux client without using glib nor GTK while evading bioluminescent three-letter org agents of specific ethnicity and sexual orientation.

wizardbeard,

The issue with using torrents is longevity. You’d still want/need traditional storage backing it all. Don’t want some mod to become lost media because nobody is actively seeding it.

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.

MyDarkestTimeline01, 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

Translation: “Once all the hub-bub dies down we intend to as slowly as you’ll allow, slip in monetization.”

cyberpunk007,

Yup we’ve never seen this happen before, not ever. Not once!

/s

MyDarkestTimeline01,

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…

einlander,

Just the tip, you won’t even feel it.

LunarLoony,
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Shortly after we introduce monetisation so terrible, everyone hates it - just to test your pain threshold

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.

wetbeardhairs, do gaming w Minecraft is rolling out its first glow up in years tomorrow

Sounds like the bedrock-only part is just a visual update. If you’re on Java you already have access to shaders.

But still - fuck MS for making bedrock a totally separate game so they could avoid giving alpha buyers free in app purchases.

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

I for one am happy they didn’t twist the original game into the bullshit that bedrock edition has become.

RandomVideos,

But they gave all bedrock players who bought it from minecraft.net java edition for free and are now selling both games

Also, bedrock edition was created years before microsoft bought mojang

The in-app purchases are obviously bad and mojang tried making bedrock edition the “official” version, but there were reasons other than money that the 2 versions were separated

Eggyhead, do gaming w Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven

Conservatives should be banning mods if they’re banning books. Games are for children, right? Right???

rabber, do games w 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events

Yeah people don’t want politics in their escapism. Makes sense to me

tonytins,
@tonytins@pawb.social avatar

Fantasy is filled to the brim with politics.

JackbyDev,

Refusing to acknowledge that queer people exist is “political” and queer people engaging in escapism deserve to feel seem and included.

rabber,

You shouldn’t have to do the event to get the special item and emote then

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