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[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 277 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 88 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

/s

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 38 points 2 weeks ago

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@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Just the tip, you won't even feel it.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 131 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Narrator: they monetised the site to death.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 80 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Won't monetize it "to death", just right up to the line of death.

Define "death."

  • Some lawyer, probably.
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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.

[–] punkibas@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone mentioned this in another thread and I found it interesting:

Ckan kerbal space program mods

Apparently its a frontend for mods that's hosted on github

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Would a federated discovery frontend work? Peertube's back end of the service would probably work great as a starting point since it uses torrents to ease up on traffic for individual servers

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[–] SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 52 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Reminder that ModDB still exists, and works.

EDIT:

Seeing as this is fairly decently upvoted now:

https://www.moddb.com/

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.

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[–] chameleon@fedia.io 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 45 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Buske@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] clif@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago

venture capital

Aaaand it's gone.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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
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[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

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[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't they already do that?

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

That's the joke

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] aaron@infosec.pub 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

pinky-promise

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

I think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

They're definitely gonna monetize it to death.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Make it a legally binding contract, otherwise don't bother promising.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Currently downloading everything to MO2 and setting to not check for updates huehuehue

People gonna see torrents for a "preset packages" of Skyrim mods

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[–] Forester@pawb.social 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Forester@pawb.social 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

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@feddit.org 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago

And to limit scrapers.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I have a bridge to sell anyone who believes that.

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago

Pinky promise?

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