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

Narrator: they monetised the site to death.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.

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

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

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.

venture capital

Aaaand it's gone.

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

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

asdf

They're definitely gonna monetize it to death.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Obviously they will. Years down the road. 🤗

I have a bridge to sell anyone who believes that.

Talk about putting part of your life's work completely out to pasture.

I give it a year. What a shame.

Nexus Mods is far too late on the monetization aspect. The restrictions placed on mod downloading sucks, and it hard pushes buying a membership. Not to mention they basically gave up on vortex and its a buggy mess even if you run it native.

So, just half to death then?

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.

Thats what they all say when they get acquired. "Won't change our creative direction" type bs.

sure buddy, unfortunately they done that already. I especially love the 3 mbps cap on downloads with free accounts.

Time to cancel the paid subscription for fast download i guess.

Maybe this is what it will finally take to get some of the bigger game communities off Nexus. It's a decade overdue.

File a lawsuit. Paying customers are supposed to do that if they were given an explanation but in bad-faith language.

Hahaha yea right… give it 6-12 months and that will change

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

When is Nexus Mods 2: Electric Boogaloo?

No they will sell it to someone that will though

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

Jesus fucking Christ, they didn't sell out to a fucking company! He transferred ownership to two long-time users of the site! There wasn't even a deal struck, he just said "you're the owners now!"