As if it wasn’t already.
Talk about putting part of your life’s work completely out to pasture.
I give it a year. What a shame.
No kidding. And his post saying it was in good hands knowing full well it’s venture capitalists. Fuck him.
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.
All the examples I could think of have been recent acquisitions… which means they just haven’t soured… yet. Sadly its inevitable.
I’ll give it 8 months before it’s dead
Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.
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.
venture capital
Aaaand it’s gone.
Make it a legally binding contract, otherwise don’t bother promising.
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.
Same… this is the swiftest of kicks to the nads…
I think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.
Thats what they all say when they get acquired. “Won’t change our creative direction” type bs.
Maybe this is what it will finally take to get some of the bigger game communities off Nexus. It’s a decade overdue.
Pinky promise?
Well they’ve promised so that’s that. No story here.
pinky-promise
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.
