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.
I’ll give it 8 months before it’s dead
Thats what they all say when they get acquired. “Won’t change our creative direction” type bs.
Make it a legally binding contract, otherwise don’t bother promising.
I wish I could say this surprised me, but I’ve kind of been expecting this for awhile. They’ve been slowly getting worse for years, it went from just a hobby project to a corporation.
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.
Maybe this is what it will finally take to get some of the bigger game communities off Nexus. It’s a decade overdue.
Time to cancel the paid subscription for fast download i guess.
Obviously they will. Years down the road. 🤗
Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.
Seems like a good idea. I wonder if there’s anything already similar. It’d be a real treat to see a VC company get shafted.
Hit me up with an addy when you’re on it!
Ooh I’ll take some addy too. Been too long and I need to clean my fuckin house.
Would a federated discovery frontend work? Peertube’s back end of the service would probably work great as a starting point since it uses torrents to ease up on traffic for individual servers
Someone mentioned this in another thread and I found it interesting:
Ckan kerbal space program mods
Apparently its a frontend for mods that’s hosted on github
Github, that’s limiting API calls, hmm…
When is Nexus Mods 2: Electric Boogaloo?
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.
Read the article. They are.
I did, and my worries were confirmed! I haven’t updated my comment.
I have a bridge to sell anyone who believes that.
Translation: “Once all the hub-bub dies down we intend to as slowly as you’ll allow, slip in monetization.”
Shortly after we introduce monetisation so terrible, everyone hates it - just to test your pain threshold
Just the tip, you won’t even feel it.
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…
