Fallout TV show popularity prompts NexusMods to issue traffic warning
Fallout TV show popularity prompts NexusMods to issue traffic warning
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Fallout TV show popularity prompts NexusMods to issue traffic warning
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I wish NexusMods didn't have a near monopoly on mod distribution.
I mean, it's not hard to start a mod site.
I think what's harder is to figure out a commercial model where you can manage to pay for the infrastructure and resource usage and write the associated client software.
The client software is the big one. ModDB has the others but is all but dead save for a few old titles. Vortex really did Nexus a lot of favours; it's turned into a great program, making modding easy for non-techie users.
Minecraft is pretty much the only game with a large enough modding scene to support multiple platforms
What's wrong with nexus mods?
Well for starters they keep making it harder to actually delete any mods you uploaded there.
I don't want to use their bloatware launcher. Games already have enough bloatware launcers as it is, I am not willfully adding another one. Fortunately I can still directly download from the site, but I have to log into an account and I hate having like a hundred accounts.
Also, I just don't like the idea of one website having a near monopoly on mod hosting. I would prefer multiple places, ideally ones without requiring an account or pushing bloatware.
I wish there was a git-based mod distributor.
It doesn't though? There many games for which I use ModDB and many games have modding communities on dedicated websites.
Some of the biggest modding communities (GTA, Minecraft) don't really use it at all. It's very popular with TES and Fallout (not surprising considering the original name was TESNexus), but as someone who has spent a very large amount of time modding Bethesda RPGs, many good mods aren't found on Nexus, even for those games.
I love Nexus. I uploaded 3 mods over the years, and with their donation point system (you get points each month based on unique downloads), I got like 15 free games from their store by this point.