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

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.

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

I give it a year. What a shame.

Narrator: they monetised the site to death.

Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.

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

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.

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.

They're definitely gonna monetize it to death.

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

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.

I’ll give it 8 months before it’s dead

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.“

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

Well they've promised so that's that. No story here.

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.

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 coming from an NFT bro.

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.

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.

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?

Pinky promise?

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

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

As if it wasn't already.

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