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ICastFist, 16 dni temu 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 miss FilePlanet. That’s where I got my first Morrowind mods many years ago

At least GameBanana still exists, though there aren’t as many uploads there as Nexus. Still good that there’s an alternative

lechekaflan, 16 dni temu

Fileplanet content is back but not how it looks right now.

CalipherJones, 16 dni temu

Does anybody remember Cheat Planet or is that just me

lechekaflan, 16 dni temu 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

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

TheReturnOfPEB, 16 dni temu 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

No they will sell it to someone that will though

MonkderVierte, 16 dni temu (edited 16 dni temu) 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

Time to cancel the paid subscription for fast download i guess.

drmoose, 16 dni temu 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

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.

hazl, 16 dni temu

Here’s how it goes with half the games I mod these days.

1. Game not manageable in Vortex out of the box
2. Find the extension that makes the game manageable
3. All popular mods are based on one single mod that acts as a framework or SDK for those other mods
4. That prerequisite mod isn’t well maintained on Nexus, and the author recommends using $otherModManager to manage this game

drmoose, 16 dni temu

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.

pory, 15 dni temu

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.

Blaiz0r, 16 dni temu

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

Ibuthyr, 15 dni temu

But social media is 95% turbocancer…

Blaiz0r, 15 dni temu

I mean things like Discord and Revolt, even Reddit is better for communities to discuss things about mods than the Nexus site

Ibuthyr, 14 dni temu

I didn’t down vote you, but Discord is a huge offender regarding enshittification of the internet. Reddit might even be worse.

Blaiz0r, 13 dni temu

That’s not my point though, they’re much better at holding discussion and keeping people updated than the Nexus mods site was

clif, 16 dni temu 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

Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.

Buffalobuffalo, 15 dni temu

Let me just use this promise hand to send you a pic.

Gronk, 16 dni temu 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

Probably a good time to start up a rival mod site that every one will flock too after these guys backpedal on their word.

Something synonymous with Nexus… CapitalMods anyone?

ijedi1234, 16 dni temu

I miss Filefront.

Arcane2077, 16 dni temu 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

We all know how these things go, so I understand everybody’s fears but please wait to react until they make actual moves toward crossing the line. I remain optimistic about the site’s future, and the recent ways they handled user feedback as it has been changing in the last few years is evidence I should be

forgotaboutlaye, 16 dni temu

I won’t stop using them because I (seemingly now foolishly) bought the lifetime membership, but I’ll be continuing to look for alternatives.

fyzzlefry, 16 dni temu

I’m not going to continue to invest my time into an inevitable wreck.

umbraroze, 16 dni temu 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

Ok, so what is the current alternative nice option for SkyrimSE mods?

Preferably one with a mod manager/download client. Vortex is kind of janky but it did the job. I’d prefer not to manage any of this stuff manually, like cavemen. it’s been decades you shouldn’t need to do that

Vanilla_PuddinFudge, 16 dni temu

Preferably one with a mod manager/download client. Vortex is kind of janky but it did the job. I’d prefer not to manage any of this stuff manually, like cavemen. it’s been decades you shouldn’t need to do that

MO2 can do anything Vortex can, and in fact, Stalker and Stalker 2 modders prefer it. The files just need to be hosted elsewhere. A lot of modmakers advise against using Vortex to begin with.

umbraroze, 16 dni temu

Oh, thank you! MO2 seems a lot more clean and simple than Vortex.

…and in related news, now that I’m redownloading everything for funsies anyway, I have graduated from trying to keep my mod lists on a website to scribbling a list down in Joplin. With links and everything. In case these mods I’m using decide to move from Nexus or something.

aaron, 16 dni temu (edited 3 dni temu) 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

asdf

xavier666, 16 dni temu

pinky-promise

MacNCheezus, 16 dni temu 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

So, just half to death then?

slaneesh_is_right, 16 dni temu

Just crippling pain.

NutWrench, 16 dni temu 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 think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.

ddash, 16 dni temu 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

Pinky promise?

Buske, 16 dni temu 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

Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.

lechekaflan, 15 dni temu

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.

LucidNightmare, 16 dni temu 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

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.

Big_Boss_77, 15 dni temu

Same… this is the swiftest of kicks to the nads…