So, just half to death then?
Just crippling pain.
Well they’ve promised so that’s that. No story here.
pinky-promise
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
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.
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.
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?
I miss Filefront.
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
I won’t stop using them because I (seemingly now foolishly) bought the lifetime membership, but I’ll be continuing to look for alternatives.
Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.
Won’t monetize to “to death”, just right up to the line of death.
It’ll always be at 1HP from now on.
Define “death.”
- Some lawyer, probably.
'E’s only mostly dead.
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.
Here’s how it goes with half the games I mod these days.
- Game not manageable in Vortex out of the box
- Find the extension that makes the game manageable
- All popular mods are based on one single mod that acts as a framework or SDK for those other mods
- That prerequisite mod isn’t well maintained on Nexus, and the author recommends using $otherModManager to manage this game
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.
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
Reminder that ModDB still exists, and works.
Maaaaaan. Fuck. I really like Nexus Mods. Get ready for another enshittifying ride to the bottom.
Translation: “Once all the hub-bub dies down we intend to as slowly as you’ll allow, slip in monetization.”
Yup we’ve never seen this happen before, not ever. Not once!
/s
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…
Just the tip, you won’t even feel it.
Time to cancel the paid subscription for fast download i guess.
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
Does anybody remember Cheat Planet or is that just me
Fileplanet content is back but not how it looks right now.
Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.
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
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
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.
Hit me up with an addy when you’re on it!
Ooh I’ll take some addy too. Been too long and I need to clean my fuckin house.
Narrator: they monetised the site to death.
… and beyond!
