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."
  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    243·
    19 hours ago

    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.

    • Blaiz0r@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      11 hours ago

      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

        • Blaiz0r@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          2 hours ago

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

    • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      12 hours ago

      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
      • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        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.

      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        12 hours ago

        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.