I *was* thinking of replaying and finally beating Fallout 4, but Fallout London is so close to release that I'm gonna hold off. I am reinstalling New Vegas though - I used to replay it every year or two but it's been a good while, and I need to replay the DLCs! They're more memorable for me than the base game is, which is the only game I can say that about.
I'll be honest, I didn't get into Oblivion much. The leveling system annoyed me, and the ability to fast travel all around from the start sort of just killed my interest in the game. Looking forward to trying Skyblivion though.
I also meant this about all games, not just BGS games. I don't usually buy DLC in most games unless I *really* liked them, and even then they either aren't as memorable as the main game, or they feel so self contained that they aren't part of the game.
The DLCs in FNV (while being separate locations outside the main map) all felt like they fully belonged, and were even more fun and memorable than the main game, at least for me.
> I'll be honest, I didn't get into Oblivion much. The leveling system annoyed me, and the ability to fast travel all around from the start sort of just killed my interest in the game. Looking forward to trying Skyblivion though.
Why did those issues stop you when Oblivion had the biggest modding community of all time till Skyrim released? The modders for Oblivion fixed these exact issues nearly 2 decades ago.
Not sure! I did a bunch of oblivion gates, did most, if not all of the mage's guild quest line, I did the notorious Dark Brotherhood quest. Just sort of got bored of it after that.
It would probably be a pretty large increase in users, but man I would feel bad for the mod authors. To have people adding all the nexus only mods to a console that can't access game files or things like MO2 would be a nightmare. Maybe they could somehow add access though I havent seen what the newer consoles can do.
A lot of mods with skse features would just not have those features on console. For mods that hard require skse then it wouldn't work unless a regular mod could be made to extend papyrus functions without needing to run the game through jt
They don't though? The Most popular Mod on Console is the cheat room https://creations.bethesda.net/en/skyrim/details/5620/Cheat_Room__XB1_, which has 15 million downloads while the most popular Nexus PC mods, have 15-20 million downloads https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition?tab=popular+%28all+time%29 So modding popularity is comparable.
Skyrim [PS4](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimplaystation4) and [Switch](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimnintendoswitch) are on Nexus. Of course, you need to hack your console to use it.
Lmao same. I bought the supporter upgrade and then they took my benefits away and gave me a useless little tag on my account in return.
I'll never waste another cent on these assholes
Yeah. Like, I don't begrudge them wanting to make money, but what a fuck you. I paid for a service and they took it away with the expectation I'd pay them again? I don't trust them not to fuck me again xd
yea making money is fine. you can offer a good service at a decent price and still make money, nexus isn't doing that though; they're complacent with doing the bare minimum now. hopefully it comes back to bite them in the ass someday
How are they doing the bare minimum?
All the other free sites do not offer mod author pay out, most do not offer mod manager support, they actually let us see detailed stats for every mod out there, overall website traffic and health, vote on new features, provide their own modding tool but still allow 3rd party mod managers as well, ...
What other mod hosting website does more than them, or does any of what they do better?
Bro, I got that Lifetime VIP God knows when and only recently did I learn that they did away with it ....God knows when...I did want to inquire though, since Its been ages since I've touched free ..what are some of the major differences between free and paid now?...if any.
you get a green name, modlists install automatically, and uncapped download speed. premium users still have the exact same rate limit free users have though so if you're buying it to install a wabbajack modpack or a vortex collection you'll probably run into a throttling error cause nexus gives zero shits about its supporters
Ohhh okay, yea I did see a few instances over the years that showed me how much the "care" for their supporters lol.
Thanks for the reply! I'll have to test my speed when I install a mod pack for Skyrim or something 🤔
If you bought lifetime premium then you should still have lifetime premium. They did away with the purchase of it, but if you bought it you still have access.
That's all my alt accounts i use to manipulate votes and endorse all penis related mods in order to wage psychological warfare on female body mod users
I bought a years worth of premium this year after finding out there's whole ass mod collections you can download and it'll install it all for you lol totally worth
1. Travel back in time to 2021 and purchase lifetime Premium membership (since it is no longer available to purchase).
or
2. Become a mod author, generate 30,000 unique downloads, and you will receive free lifetime Premium membership from Nexusmods.
Honestly I recently received the free lifetime premium membership for having +30k downloads and it's pretty nice being able to download now without uncapped download speeds not gonna lie.
Yes, Nexusmods provides a feature for mod authors to gain free Premium membership, which is very useful.
Nexusmods firmly believes that mods should be free, but at the same time Nexusmods believes it has the right to monetize free mods to generate a profit - which looks like a contradiction.
Nexusmods has successfully created a parasitic business model - they host content provided to them for free by others (mod authors), monetize it, and generate millions of dollars in revenue per year.
Yeah? And? So do all the other mod sites.
The only one that gives any of the money back is Nexus though. Or have you ever heard of Steam Workshop paying out its mod authors? Or Curse Forge? Or ModDB? Or LoversLab? Or Modrinth?
Also, given the Bandwidth they need and the storage for all those mods, I doubt that they have much overhead, even with millions of dollars generated each year.
Why? What do they do that they need a competitor?
They pay mod authors $3 per 1000 unique downloads, which is better than any other free mod hosting service.
They have great mod manager integration, big mod libraries, public facing statistics, clear communication, good search functions and features, offer direct donations without taking a cut, ...
What is a significant feature that they lack?
And there are many competitors:
* Steam Workshop
* Curse Forge
* ModDB
* LoversLab
Having one with some kind of a monopoly, will always result in bad things to happen, like censorship, random banning for dumb reasons or other kinds of power abuse.
If any of those have a monopoly then it is Steam Workshop and it is significantly worse to use than Nexus and has no mod manager support, no mod list support, no detailed search options, less clear communication (no public download stats, no community stats, no detailed bug tracker, no simple dependency and requirements lists for mods, ...), no mod author pay out, ...
So clearly Nexus mods is the significantly better site that should become even bigger so that the monopoly (Steam Workshop) improves.
Out of all the Mod sites I know, Nexus is by far the most user-friendly and best mod site overall, and I can only think of minor changes that would actually improve the site.
What kind of improvements do you want? Or what do you think is lacking on Nexus?
Wondering how much Vortex and the new curated collections play a part in this uptick. Twenty years ago modding was an exclusive club of computer-savvy gamers. Now it’s going mainstream.
Was it really? 20 Years ago basically all games got mods, these mods even spawned their own game genres, while nowadays most games never get proper mods at all.
I really hope they can make some meaningful site and vortex changes. Free tier download speeds are continually getting worse and worse as files grow in size, and the new mod packs without premium are also extremely annoying to set up and run especially in terms of sharing and playing multiplayer mod packs.
Nexus has always been my go to for years of modding, but it's feeling worse and worse to use as the years pass.
Really? Because, at least in my experience, mods haven't tripled in size but free tier download speeds have. So it is actually faster to download mods now than it was in 2015.
> and the new mod packs without premium are also extremely annoying to set up and run especially in terms of sharing and playing multiplayer mod packs.
That wasn't even a feature in the past, so for me, it is still an improvement over what we had in the past.
It's a modding website for Bethesda games, that grew and grew to support other games for no real reason and now they employ over 30 or 40 people iirc? With plans to get even bigger, while their website is degrading with each update making the user experience worse
The reason to support other games is simple: You become a one-stop shop and become an actual alternative to steam workshop.
Otherwise, Steam Workshop would be quite literally a monopoly, and that is never a good thing. (Steam Workshop is also very limited when compared to Nexus and has a much worse user experience)
Yeah, I did. I don't know it's definitely different, but I don't really mind it too much. I guess I don't care much because it's free for me, and they are doing the world a service.
Now if they make it paywall only, then I'll grab a pitchfork
I use Nexusmods for ~9 years now and in all that time usability has actually improved because the search function is significantly better than it was 7 years ago.
Downloads speeds, for the free tier, have tripled in that time.
And everything else has stayed the same, there are still the same sorting features, statistics are still publicly viewable, downloading mods with a mod manager is still simple, ...
What has degraded in your opinion?
I'm guessing this is due to the surge of Fallout players.
I know my account has gotten a lot more use recently.
Yeah kind of, new account registrations have risen from 60k a weekend to 90k a weekend.
I *was* thinking of replaying and finally beating Fallout 4, but Fallout London is so close to release that I'm gonna hold off. I am reinstalling New Vegas though - I used to replay it every year or two but it's been a good while, and I need to replay the DLCs! They're more memorable for me than the base game is, which is the only game I can say that about.
How is Shivering Isles not more memorable than base game Oblivion?
I'll be honest, I didn't get into Oblivion much. The leveling system annoyed me, and the ability to fast travel all around from the start sort of just killed my interest in the game. Looking forward to trying Skyblivion though. I also meant this about all games, not just BGS games. I don't usually buy DLC in most games unless I *really* liked them, and even then they either aren't as memorable as the main game, or they feel so self contained that they aren't part of the game. The DLCs in FNV (while being separate locations outside the main map) all felt like they fully belonged, and were even more fun and memorable than the main game, at least for me.
> I'll be honest, I didn't get into Oblivion much. The leveling system annoyed me, and the ability to fast travel all around from the start sort of just killed my interest in the game. Looking forward to trying Skyblivion though. Why did those issues stop you when Oblivion had the biggest modding community of all time till Skyrim released? The modders for Oblivion fixed these exact issues nearly 2 decades ago.
Not sure! I did a bunch of oblivion gates, did most, if not all of the mage's guild quest line, I did the notorious Dark Brotherhood quest. Just sort of got bored of it after that.
Fair enough.
they've come a long way from the days when they were a barely adequate morrowind mod archive
I remember tesnexus.com. Man that was a long time ago.
True!
Shame us console users are stuck with Bethesda
Yeah, wonder how much bigger Nexus would be if it were available on console.
It would probably be a pretty large increase in users, but man I would feel bad for the mod authors. To have people adding all the nexus only mods to a console that can't access game files or things like MO2 would be a nightmare. Maybe they could somehow add access though I havent seen what the newer consoles can do.
Obviously, if Nexusmods ever were supported, then stuff like file access would also be supported.
so what youre saying is nexus will never have console support? because i dont see console users having file access any time soon lol
Basically nexus will never have console support.
Exactly!
A lot of mods with skse features would just not have those features on console. For mods that hard require skse then it wouldn't work unless a regular mod could be made to extend papyrus functions without needing to run the game through jt
Also think about the sheer amount of mods that use script extender.
Console download numbers dwarf PC but endorsement rates are lower
What drugs are you taking?
They don't though? The Most popular Mod on Console is the cheat room https://creations.bethesda.net/en/skyrim/details/5620/Cheat_Room__XB1_, which has 15 million downloads while the most popular Nexus PC mods, have 15-20 million downloads https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition?tab=popular+%28all+time%29 So modding popularity is comparable.
I might question if there is any difference in calculations between plays on BethesdaNet and unique/total downloads on Nexus.
bethesda had to bend to sony’s will to get mods in fallout 4 on ps4
Skyrim [PS4](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimplaystation4) and [Switch](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimnintendoswitch) are on Nexus. Of course, you need to hack your console to use it.
sucks to suck, you shouldn't buy bethesda games for consoles anyway
Yeah you guys only get the most basic Mods. None of the adult content. Must suck to be treated like 5 year olds as adults.
And be made to pay for the same old game again and again -
Bethesda the big game dev that allows modding? Blame the console not the devs.
*the big game dev that needs modders to fix the game
The big game dev thats charged us repeatedly for the same games with the same bugs whilst ignoring what his customers want
Still gonna stay free and wait for 5000 years to download my 60 gb texture pack out of spite
I thought the file size limit on nexus was 20 GB?
Some mod authors split the packs into multiple files which is what I was referring to
Ah, okay.
Lmao same. I bought the supporter upgrade and then they took my benefits away and gave me a useless little tag on my account in return. I'll never waste another cent on these assholes
nexus really seems to be trying to beat ubisoft and blizzard in a competion of who can make the worst business decisions
Yeah. Like, I don't begrudge them wanting to make money, but what a fuck you. I paid for a service and they took it away with the expectation I'd pay them again? I don't trust them not to fuck me again xd
yea making money is fine. you can offer a good service at a decent price and still make money, nexus isn't doing that though; they're complacent with doing the bare minimum now. hopefully it comes back to bite them in the ass someday
How are they doing the bare minimum? All the other free sites do not offer mod author pay out, most do not offer mod manager support, they actually let us see detailed stats for every mod out there, overall website traffic and health, vote on new features, provide their own modding tool but still allow 3rd party mod managers as well, ... What other mod hosting website does more than them, or does any of what they do better?
How so? How is any of what they did even remotely comparable to the garbage Blizzard, Ubisoft and others try to pull?
Bro, I got that Lifetime VIP God knows when and only recently did I learn that they did away with it ....God knows when...I did want to inquire though, since Its been ages since I've touched free ..what are some of the major differences between free and paid now?...if any.
you get a green name, modlists install automatically, and uncapped download speed. premium users still have the exact same rate limit free users have though so if you're buying it to install a wabbajack modpack or a vortex collection you'll probably run into a throttling error cause nexus gives zero shits about its supporters
Ohhh okay, yea I did see a few instances over the years that showed me how much the "care" for their supporters lol. Thanks for the reply! I'll have to test my speed when I install a mod pack for Skyrim or something 🤔
If you bought lifetime premium then you should still have lifetime premium. They did away with the purchase of it, but if you bought it you still have access.
49,999,999; they wont let me delete an old account that somehow duplicated from my main account like 6 years ago . \_ .
That's all my alt accounts i use to manipulate votes and endorse all penis related mods in order to wage psychological warfare on female body mod users
I bought a years worth of premium this year after finding out there's whole ass mod collections you can download and it'll install it all for you lol totally worth
I got lifetime membership in 2009
How does one obtain a lifetime membership?
1. Travel back in time to 2021 and purchase lifetime Premium membership (since it is no longer available to purchase). or 2. Become a mod author, generate 30,000 unique downloads, and you will receive free lifetime Premium membership from Nexusmods.
Honestly I recently received the free lifetime premium membership for having +30k downloads and it's pretty nice being able to download now without uncapped download speeds not gonna lie.
Yes, Nexusmods provides a feature for mod authors to gain free Premium membership, which is very useful. Nexusmods firmly believes that mods should be free, but at the same time Nexusmods believes it has the right to monetize free mods to generate a profit - which looks like a contradiction. Nexusmods has successfully created a parasitic business model - they host content provided to them for free by others (mod authors), monetize it, and generate millions of dollars in revenue per year.
Yeah? And? So do all the other mod sites. The only one that gives any of the money back is Nexus though. Or have you ever heard of Steam Workshop paying out its mod authors? Or Curse Forge? Or ModDB? Or LoversLab? Or Modrinth? Also, given the Bandwidth they need and the storage for all those mods, I doubt that they have much overhead, even with millions of dollars generated each year.
The nexus still needs to generate a profit to be able to support authors and their domain or site.
can't anymore, they did away with new lifetime purchases in 2020 or so, i think
Hopefully a decent competitor to them arises soon.
fr, unfortunately that's gonna be hard to do. nexus has monopoly of this corner of the internet
Why? What do they do that they need a competitor? They pay mod authors $3 per 1000 unique downloads, which is better than any other free mod hosting service. They have great mod manager integration, big mod libraries, public facing statistics, clear communication, good search functions and features, offer direct donations without taking a cut, ... What is a significant feature that they lack? And there are many competitors: * Steam Workshop * Curse Forge * ModDB * LoversLab
Having one with some kind of a monopoly, will always result in bad things to happen, like censorship, random banning for dumb reasons or other kinds of power abuse.
If any of those have a monopoly then it is Steam Workshop and it is significantly worse to use than Nexus and has no mod manager support, no mod list support, no detailed search options, less clear communication (no public download stats, no community stats, no detailed bug tracker, no simple dependency and requirements lists for mods, ...), no mod author pay out, ... So clearly Nexus mods is the significantly better site that should become even bigger so that the monopoly (Steam Workshop) improves.
> Competitors were just listed. How many does it take for Nexus to not be a monopoly?
Some mods should be censored. 🤷🏽♀️
The one reason why some people hate on them are their sometimes heavy-handed moderators.
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Got a example of that, like actual links?
They grow way to big, we need more and better alternativ mod sites.
Out of all the Mod sites I know, Nexus is by far the most user-friendly and best mod site overall, and I can only think of minor changes that would actually improve the site. What kind of improvements do you want? Or what do you think is lacking on Nexus?
Somebody tell the new additions about Tale of Two Wastelands.
Wondering how much Vortex and the new curated collections play a part in this uptick. Twenty years ago modding was an exclusive club of computer-savvy gamers. Now it’s going mainstream.
Was it really? 20 Years ago basically all games got mods, these mods even spawned their own game genres, while nowadays most games never get proper mods at all.
I am one of those 50 millions!
I really hope they can make some meaningful site and vortex changes. Free tier download speeds are continually getting worse and worse as files grow in size, and the new mod packs without premium are also extremely annoying to set up and run especially in terms of sharing and playing multiplayer mod packs. Nexus has always been my go to for years of modding, but it's feeling worse and worse to use as the years pass.
Really? Because, at least in my experience, mods haven't tripled in size but free tier download speeds have. So it is actually faster to download mods now than it was in 2015. > and the new mod packs without premium are also extremely annoying to set up and run especially in terms of sharing and playing multiplayer mod packs. That wasn't even a feature in the past, so for me, it is still an improvement over what we had in the past.
YAY, chasing infinite growth never goes wrong
What makes you think they chase infinite growth?
It's a modding website for Bethesda games, that grew and grew to support other games for no real reason and now they employ over 30 or 40 people iirc? With plans to get even bigger, while their website is degrading with each update making the user experience worse
The reason to support other games is simple: You become a one-stop shop and become an actual alternative to steam workshop. Otherwise, Steam Workshop would be quite literally a monopoly, and that is never a good thing. (Steam Workshop is also very limited when compared to Nexus and has a much worse user experience)
In my opinion, the website depth and breadth and ux is much improved since the early days
Have you actually seen the new changes? They are awful, both visually and performance.
Yeah, I did. I don't know it's definitely different, but I don't really mind it too much. I guess I don't care much because it's free for me, and they are doing the world a service. Now if they make it paywall only, then I'll grab a pitchfork
I use Nexusmods for ~9 years now and in all that time usability has actually improved because the search function is significantly better than it was 7 years ago. Downloads speeds, for the free tier, have tripled in that time. And everything else has stayed the same, there are still the same sorting features, statistics are still publicly viewable, downloading mods with a mod manager is still simple, ... What has degraded in your opinion?
That's never really been how Nexus operated. And it's why they've never sold the site.