#NexusMods

[pinkyjulien]

17.06 - "Should we expect any kind of change concerning content moderation?"

When asked about inclusive content and hateful/bigoted mods, Foldinho, one of Nexus' new owner, replied:

"[...] we fully intend to continue supporting moderation principles that make Nexus feel safe and inclusive. That foundation matters, and we won’t compromise on it."

Comment available on Dark0ne post

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17.06 - NexusMods' new owners, Marinus, Nikolai and Victor, posted a new pinned comment on Dark0ne's post to "clear the air on a few things"

Link to the post Full copy/pasted post and questions available in a reblog

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16.06 - Nexus Mods was acquired by Chosen, a company focused on growth and monetization of gaming startups.

Reddit thread

Dark0ne, creator and ex-owner of Nexus Mods, stepped down today in an update post:

NexusMods post

Users on Resetera were able to found out more about this sudden change of ownership:

Resetera thread

Victor Folmann, CEO of Chosen, published this "Gaming Startup Monetization Cheat Sheet" on his LinkedIn

Link to the post

Users are already sharing their fear of NexusMods allowing more bigoted mods in the future, and taking down inclusive ones to follow the current "anti-woke" trend in the gaming industry

Reseta threada bout their change in moderation concerning bigoted mods following Oblivion Remastered launch

Another User, this time on NexusMods forum, noticed queer and inclusive mods being removed following Dark0ne's post

Link to the forum post

It is also worth mentioning that Chosen and its CEO are seen using AI generated images on their website (including generated images depicting Tracer from Overwatch) hyping up ChatGPT on his Linkedin account, and are including "rewarding gamers with crypto money"

Users speculate that Chosen buying out NexusMods is to potentially train an AI model that generates mods

More about Nvidia's AI "RTX Remix" and future projects

[solomorne]

resetera thread / chosen’s website / cheat sheet / reddit thread

[katestardew]

working on my casual furniture mod ! here are some of the stuff i've made so far ⸜(ू˙꒳​˙ )

[gamingscreenshotsdump]

all creators here know Tumblr's likes to reblogs ratio sucks and is discouraging but god DAMN NexusMod downloads to endorsements ratio is soooo bad too 😐

ANYWAY is your reminder that if you like a creative work, be it art /writing / gifs / mods / whatver REBLOG TO SUPPORT IT

and ENDORSE mods you like on Nexus damn, it takes 3 seconds and shows the creator you like their work

[damnwyverngems]

MHWilds graphics mod for World by Akinusuka

Video by Canta Per Me

https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterworld/mods/7917

[valyrra]

MK4 Liu Kang mod by DazzyAllen on Nexusmods

Winter theme by SHAARYT on Nexusmods

[dwarf-vader-of-middle-earth]

Genuinely a HUGE shoutout to Nexusmods today!! /pos

So I didn't catch this, seeing as I hadn't gone on Nexusmods in the last 12 hours, but apparently today an author published a mod titled "Traditional Marriage", which took away the gay marriage options for players. But in the description, the author put TONS of homophobic bullshit and general bigotry.

And Nexusmods took it down almost IMMEDIATELY!!!

I only know of the mod's existence because of a thread I saw online where the person posting called out the mod maker's bigotry, but within around one hour of that posting, Nexusmods removed the mod completely.

Below is the screenshot of the description, which the thread copy-pasted from the mod page when it was up. But also, their commentary on the homophobic basis for this mod is GORGEOUS!!!

No, Karen, it's not a mod about "preference". It's about hating apples so much that you deleted them from your game so that you never have to see apples being sold at the general merchants or, Talos forbid, an apple pie on the table of some house you broke into in the middle of the night. Wanting to literally erase apples from existence so you never have to be confronted by the horror that other people out there prefer apples isn't "preference"; it's bigotry.

So shoutout to Nexusmods, seriously, for having deleted this mod so soon. Yes, people are and should be allowed to mod their games however they want! That's the whole point of modding! But when someone makes a mod for homophobic purposes and posts it to perpetuate homophobia, that is not ok, and that should not be permitted. Good on the site for understanding this.

And what's more is that TES, the game series for which the mod was made, has ALWAYS had LGBT+ rep in general. Hell, Vivec is gender fuckery incarnate. In ESO during the Vivec City questline, there's a woman who cries that her wife/girlfriend (don't remember which) is stuck in the rubble of the fallen temple. The Daedric Princes are all referred to as princes regardless of their gender presentation. Many of them are just... whatever the fuck eldritch horror they feel like being (looking at you, Mora and Hircine). The series is outright full of various representation for LGBT+ characters, and it always has been. One Skyrim dev even said something at one point regarding Nords which was along the lines of "The men are big, hairy and have beards. The women are big, hairy, and have beards."

TES is NOT the game to endorse bigotry in LGBT+ rep. And Nexusmods showed today that they don't endorse it anywhere on their site, either. I'm grateful for that.

[fashionablyfyrdraaca]

Merrill with Spidercat's Honor; a staff made by Ashtar01 in memorial of the modder Spidercat/Callista

[sheaymin]

' younger npcs, no wrinkles or freckles ' ' no spikes for tieflings or githyanki, smooths out their bodies to be more humanlike & ""anatomically correct"" ' ' removes karlach's scars ' ' good minthara w/ lighter skin to look more human ' ' whitewashed wyll '

[valeriesilverhand]

When we're together, I'm home.

[dah-fanblog]

Natalya Red Bikini Mod

Not a promotion, just saving and presenting.

[pinkyjulien]

Following the current wave of trolls and racism-defenders happening on Dark0ne's update post, I highly recommend making use of Nexus' revamped "ignore" system:

Go to someone's profile Press the "ignore" button underneath their Kudos count

Press "ignore" once more

Comments will be hidden on every public posts and in mods comment sections as well, with no "easy" way to un-hide the message directly, stopping you from getting unecessarly upset about a random stranger on the internet 👍

[solomorne]

i hope no one is panicking about nexusmods going under some paywall or something. if it’s any comfort modding tools very often have their own terms/agreement (ToS/EULA), and the creation kit, the modding tool for skyrim, oblivion, starfield, has its own EULA which strictly states you cannot use creations made in it commercially, you cannot create a new product, you can’t sell it. people do still sell mods for skyrim but they’re not promoted or hosted on nexus, they’re on peoples own social media’s with links to patreons.

skyrim would be the game to profit off of in terms of paywalls but it’s also a game that would get nexus into a lot of legal trouble if they tried. creations made in the creation kit must be free and easy to access. you can’t sneak around that on a big site like nexus.

yeah i am nervous about the sale, but i don’t think this is a particular worry you need to concern yourself with. what i do think you should be doing is archiving your mods if you create them, and archiving your favourite mods from other authors. get yourself an external hard drive and fill that baby up with an archive of mods. we don’t know what chosen (the new owners) will do, but we also don’t know what mod authors will do in response. be safe rather than sorry and hoard mods you don’t want to lose.

[katestardew]

˗ˏˋ Soft Craftables ˎˊ˗

─ soft and cute craftables mod (ˆ ̳ , ̫ , ̳ˆ)"੭

ੈ♡˳ about !

craftables mod that currently includes 19 soft and cute craftable items.

only available for Content Patcher (CP) and Alternative Textures (AT).

will try to update it time-to-time to add more stuff until i’m satisfied with the amount.

ੈ♡˳ notes !

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST NOR DOWNLOAD THIS MOD TO OTHER SITES. it’ll only be available for NexusMods at the moment.

SPOILER: i made designs for the new craftables as well!

leave a comment if you have any questions or errors to be fixed on the mod post at nexus!

➯ DOWNLOAD LINK

[bekahxgaming]

Um.. I need to download everything! Checkout: HimeTarts

[absentia-misere]

Uh hey so what the fuck happened to Nexus??

Why did it turn into mod.io overnight??

I was on this website six hours ago what the fuck