• MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.socialEnglish
    10 months

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

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
      10 months

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

      /s

      • MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.socialEnglish
        10 months

        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…

    • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      10 months

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

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10 months

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

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10 months

      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

    • d00ery@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      Seems like a good idea. I wonder if there’s anything already similar. It’d be a real treat to see a VC company get shafted.

  • caut_R@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    „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.comEnglish
        10 months

        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.

        • Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10 months

          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…

          • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            10 months

            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.

  • chameleon@fedia.io
    10 months

    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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      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.

  • LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    10 months

    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.

  • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    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.

    • atticus88th@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      All the examples I could think of have been recent acquisitions… which means they just haven’t soured… yet. Sadly its inevitable.

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      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.

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

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

  • clif@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

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

  • SolidShake@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    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

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    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.

    • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10 months

      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
      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10 months

        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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10 months

        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@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10 months

      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

        • Blaiz0r@lemmy.mlEnglish
          10 months

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

          • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish
            10 months

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

            • Blaiz0r@lemmy.mlEnglish
              10 months

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