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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

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Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

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Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital: 'The new owners are here… not sitting in a distant tower, remotely directing us all towards some nefarious goals'
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"We won’t compromise on what’s made Nexus Mods special."
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    Talk about putting part of your life’s work completely out to pasture.

    I give it a year. What a shame.

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      No kidding. And his post saying it was in good hands knowing full well it’s venture capitalists. Fuck him.

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    As if it wasn’t already.

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

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    Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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      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.

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    venture capital

    Aaaand it’s gone.

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    I’ll give it 8 months before it’s dead

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    They’re definitely gonna monetize it to death.

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

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

      /s

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        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…

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

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

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

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    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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    Won’t monetize it “to death”, just right up to the line of death.

    • UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Define “death.”

      • Some lawyer, probably.
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      It’ll always be at 1HP from now on.

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      'E’s only mostly dead.

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    Narrator: they monetised the site to death.

    • Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip
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      … and beyond!

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    Well they’ve promised so that’s that. No story here.

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      pinky-promise

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    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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      link for lazy folks like myself https://www.moddb.com/

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        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.

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          Up until now I thought moddb was all that existed.

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          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…

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          I had never heard of it! Thanks for sharing

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            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.

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