They’re definitely gonna monetize it to death.
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.
All the examples I could think of have been recent acquisitions… which means they just haven’t soured… yet. Sadly its inevitable.
Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.
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Reminder that ModDB still exists, and works.
EDIT:
Seeing as this is fairly decently upvoted now:
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.
link for lazy folks like myself https://www.moddb.com/
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.
I had never heard of it! Thanks for sharing
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.
Fuck Nexus Mods. You already need an account to download anything.
A free account.
It’s still an extra barrier. There’s zero point other than tracking what people do.
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.
But somehow eg. rdr2mods.com is free, and without account. Oh wonder.
Yes I know.
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.
We’re talking about for downloading not uploading.
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.
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.
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.
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
But social media is 95% turbocancer…
I mean things like Discord and Revolt, even Reddit is better for communities to discuss things about mods than the Nexus site
I didn’t down vote you, but Discord is a huge offender regarding enshittification of the internet. Reddit might even be worse.
