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

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

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

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    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

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

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    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!”

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      how do we know no money was involved? both the new owners apparently work at the same company, which was recently created and is a subsidiary of a vc firm.

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        How do we know there was? How, exactly is one to prove that a transaction didn’t take place? Sure, he, the former owner, could say there wasn’t, but that doesn’t mean any more or less than what he already has, which is that he believes the new owners share his vision for the site! And at least he picked two people who, to my understanding, have been around Nexus for awhile!

        I’m not saying it’s impossible that Nexus enshittifies, and I understand that it’s been a trend lately, but this, as of this moment right now, feels like senseless panic that ought to be saved for when they actually do something wrong! I’ll join the hate wagon when they start brutally monatizing the site or taking IPOs.

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          Do you know how easy it would be, if money was not transferred, for the new and old owners to both outright say so? Yes they could also lie but that’s irrelevant. if this wasn’t a capital driven transaction, they’d assuage many fears by telling us it wasn’t. They haven’t done that.

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    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.

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      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

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

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

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

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      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
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        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.

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        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.