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Monoman1

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30 minutes ago, Psalam said:

Here's the skinny:

Platitudes from an ex-owner mean very little. 
All I know is that if one invests in something one expects a solid return on said investment. Now, maybe nexus's balance sheets are perfectly healthy. Maybe they're not. Who knows. 

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Count Chocula

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1 hour ago, tejano2828 said:

Im not very happy about this.  folks you better start downloading your favorite mods.

Ouch, I think a piece of the sky just fell on me. Not gonna say I saw this coming. I'm not tuned into the game modding scene to have seen it coming. But no doubt this has been on the horizon for a long time and is the reason Nexusmods implemented their "all your mod are belong to us" policy. No one would want to buy it if they knew there was the possibility of mod authors yanking their stuff.

 

Fan bois are singing the praises of the seller as if he was all about gaming, and the buyers are all about money. The seller is all about money just as much as the buyers are.

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Rayblue

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The question now is whether Loverslab is prepared for a bigger number of people angry at the Nexus betrayal, seeing this website as their savior, wanting to get in and upload their mods, and have people download that content.

 

We need more servers and bandwidth.

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steelpanther24

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1 hour ago, Cookiemonsta234 said:

So what are the worse case scenarios?

Change.

 

People don't like change, because it means resetting/relearning expectations.  

 

The new owners are not brave, nor pioneers themselves.  As mentioned above, they will look to get a return on their money first, then look to how to grow, to  improve value in hopes to sell it to Microsoft.  

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27X

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paid mods
limited time mods
even more politics
correct think
"sponsored" mods and modders
even more dataguard encrypted horseshit
even more thieving/paywall cliques
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Rayblue

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^

What Bethnet is right now. But mainly for the consoles. 

 

Loverslab will have to get ready to have some changes as people are thinking it's gonna save modding from enshittification.

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Count Chocula

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59 minutes ago, Cookiemonsta234 said:

What about game companies reaching out and ask to ban certain or all mods for a particular game?

Game modding exists at the suffrance of the game makers. They could have done so long before (which of course does not mean they won't decide to do it in the future). The point is I don't see why a change in ownership of Nexusmods would prompt them to do so.

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belegost

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I would like to point out that we're on a different site, which also happens to have one individual owner who built it themselves and runs it with even less staff and less money.

 

Ashal is not going to do this forever as well folks. People are not eternal.

 

Appreciate what you have here and maybe consider showing it in more material way than proverbial "thoughts and prayers". You can't eat a thought and the servers do not run on "God(s) bless you".

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Silvist

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Yea its not looking good.  With a quick googlefu you can see the company he sold it to named "Chosen", some kind of Private Equity firm.  I feel like massive monetization will be en-route and probably removal of all NSFW mods.  Dark0ne was really never a competent guy, which is half the reason most of us have been on LL for a long long time lol.

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Count Chocula

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6 minutes ago, Silvist said:

Yea its not looking good.  With a quick googlefu you can see the company he sold it to named "Chosen", some kind of Private Equity firm.  I feel like massive monetization will be en-route and probably removal of all NSFW mods.  Dark0ne was really never a competent guy, which is half the reason most of us have been on LL for a long long time lol.

Nexusmods was always about monetization (it had ads long ago, didn't it?). The guy didn't start it for the purpose of making his electricity bill bigger. And Collections were started to drive more people to pay for premium service since you can one-click install a Collection if you have premium. 

 

People said the same thing (i.e. "The original owners were all about gaming and the gaming community and the new owners are just out for a cash grab") when BioWare got bought by EA and when Turbine got bought by Warner Bros. And no doubt many other examples I don't know about. People start businesses to make money. That's was true of BioWare, true of Turbine and true Nexusmods.

 

As for removing nudie mods, if they bring in revenue, why would the new owners ban them? Particularly if they are about "massive monetization?"

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Silvist

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4 minutes ago, chocula said:

Nexusmods was always about monetization (it had ads long ago, didn't it?). The guy didn't start it for the purpose of making his electricity bill bigger. And Collections were started to drive more people to pay for premium service since you can one-click install a Collection if you have premium. 

 

People said the same thing (i.e. "The original owners were all about gaming and the gaming community and the new owners are just out for a cash grab") when BioWare got bought by EA and when Turbine got bought by Warner Bros. And no doubt many other examples I don't know about. People start businesses to make money. That's was true of BioWare, true of Turbine and true Nexusmods.

 

As for removing nudie mods, if they bring in revenue, why would the new owners ban them? Particularly if they are about "massive monetization?"

Yea I'm in total agreement.  Not only ads, but video ads when they first started to rear their ugly heads lol.  Dark0ne from the beginning was always about monetization.  I agree that sex sells, but that would entirely depend on the views of those who now own it.  From the digging I saw some people do this was some of the conclusions they drew.  Only time will tell. 

belegost

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Nexus had monetization back when it was still TESNexus, used a completely different domain and only had Morrowind and Oblivion under its belt. It ain't new.

 

How do I know?

I was there, 3 thousand years ago...

 

You people are overblowing this shit. Wait, see what happens, then comment. Right now it's only speculation.

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Grey Cloud

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27 minutes ago, belegost said:

You people are overblowing this shit. Wait, see what happens, then comment. Right now it's only speculation.

But . . . drama!

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Count Chocula

Count Chocula

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42 minutes ago, Silvist said:

Yea I'm in total agreement.  Not only ads, but video ads when they first started to rear their ugly heads lol.  Dark0ne from the beginning was always about monetization.  I agree that sex sells, but that would entirely depend on the views of those who now own it.  From the digging I saw some people do this was some of the conclusions they drew.  Only time will tell. 

I certainly agree with those who assert that there will be changes. New owners always make changes. And sometimes they are really stupid changes. Years ago my favorite local pizza joint changed ownership and the new owners changed the pizza recipe. The place went out of business in a few months. Similarly, I can see it happening that the new owners make wholesale changes to Nexusmods and usage drops off significantly then they scramble to fix things by making even more drastic changes (such as the ones you mention), making things even worse. As I say I can see it happening, but I'm not predicting it.

 

The law of unintended consequences is a harsh mistress.

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plutocene

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Holy shit, this is an earthquake of magnitude 9 in regards to modding. This reeks of monetization and content sterilization according to "corporate and legal guidelines". 

Count Chocula

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What this smacks of is a gigantic first world problem. If Nexusmods vanished from the face of the Earth tomorrow, I'd muddle through somehow. Without resorting to alcohol, even.

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