Incline Nexus Now Disallowing Creators To Delete Their Mods (Aug 5 Cutoff Date Passed)

[ADL]

Final day for deletion so I look forward to these morons having no recourse but submitting illegitimate DMCA requests going forward.
Why does Skyrim in particular attract the worst parlor modders imaginable?

Due to the recent policy changes Nexus has instituted, I have put in the request for deletion of most of my files here. Not to worry, everything I have done over the last 15 years has been on AFK Mods for several years now for all of the BGS games I've modded. The files for Skyrim Special Edition and Fallout 4 are also available through the bethesda.net website.

Ya'll can go ahead and get the accusations of hypocrisy over with for the work I will be leaving here since I am in a position at the moment where the income generated through DPs is providing enough to keep me from starving to death (but not much more).

As of this notice, no more updates or new material will be uploaded by myself.

Per the standing agreements with the unofficial patch team members, the unofficial patches for SSE and Fallout 4 will continue to receive all regularly scheduled updates, but these will be the ONLY packages in my account that will be.

Here's to hoping that current efforts by several parties to launch sites that honor a mod author's legal right to delete their content take hold and provide some badly needed competition in this space.

I also want to make one thing crystal clear: No permission will be granted to anyone to upload any of my work that is deleted to Nexus or any other website. So don't ask.
https://www.nexusmods.com/users/684492?tab=about+me

 

[d1r]

Here is an ongoing list of mods already deleted: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Im5Mg-l2btRsYVOjaJa0slrjDcXNvi41J5pHw_Zuwqw/edit

Literally nothing on that list is a loss.

Yeah, I mean, it's for Fallout 4 after all.

 

[Alienman]

Final day for deletion so I look forward to these morons having no recourse but submitting illegitimate DMCA requests going forward.
Why does Skyrim in particular attract the worst parlor modders imaginable?

Due to the recent policy changes Nexus has instituted, I have put in the request for deletion of most of my files here. Not to worry, everything I have done over the last 15 years has been on AFK Mods for several years now for all of the BGS games I've modded. The files for Skyrim Special Edition and Fallout 4 are also available through the bethesda.net website.

Ya'll can go ahead and get the accusations of hypocrisy over with for the work I will be leaving here since I am in a position at the moment where the income generated through DPs is providing enough to keep me from starving to death (but not much more).

As of this notice, no more updates or new material will be uploaded by myself.

Per the standing agreements with the unofficial patch team members, the unofficial patches for SSE and Fallout 4 will continue to receive all regularly scheduled updates, but these will be the ONLY packages in my account that will be.

Here's to hoping that current efforts by several parties to launch sites that honor a mod author's legal right to delete their content take hold and provide some badly needed competition in this space.

I also want to make one thing crystal clear: No permission will be granted to anyone to upload any of my work that is deleted to Nexus or any other website. So don't ask.
https://www.nexusmods.com/users/684492?tab=about+me

Most assholes doing this has been minor modders, but this guy actually have a lot of good content for Skyrim, so that sucks I guess. But let the culling continue I presume, someone else will step up.

You can see his stuff here:

https://www.nexusmods.com/users/684492?tab=user+files&BH=1

Just sort by unique downloads.

 

[Irata]

Final day for deletion

That means it won't be long before the police bust down the doors of Nexus HQ!

The truth is by doing this, Nexus is committing a series of serious crimes, which can absolutely lead to legal actions taken against the Nexus, said legal action can and will lead to the people responsible for Nexus to be personally sued in the matter, and if culpability was to be pronounced, which, with everything I already laid down, is more than probable, means there is potentially several years of jail for everyone involved.

 

[Tacgnol]

It'll be interesting to see how long Arthmoor's ego can take not getting all the attention and downloads he gets at the Nexus.

I predict a humiliating 180 within the near future.

 

[Grunker]

It'll be interesting to see how long Arthmoor's ego can take not getting all the attention and downloads he gets at the Nexus.

I predict a humiliating 180 within the near future.

That's gonna happen to most of them. Much like people who boycot Facebook for short bursts of time, what these modders don't realise is that the Nexus is more important to them than they are to the Nexus

 

[Alienman]

Was surprised reading about his departure since I expected people to feel sad, or maybe mad over him pulling his mods, but it seems the majority are just glad he is going. Seems he has been a pain in the butt of the Skyrim modding community for a long while while still being big. But maybe that was the problem.

At least that is the impression I'm getting reading here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/oy4ft5/arthmoor_removing_most_of_his_mods_from_nexus/

 

[Grunker]

Was surprised reading about his departure since I expected people to feel sad, or maybe mad over him pulling his mods, but it seems the majority are just glad he is going. Seems he has been a pain in the butt of the Skyrim modding community for a long while while still being big. But maybe that was the problem.

At least that is the impression I'm getting reading here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/oy4ft5/arthmoor_removing_most_of_his_mods_from_nexus/

I was so certain Retardo Reddit and the public at large would create some sort of evil-money-grubbing-nexus-innocent-working-modders narrative, but it seems everyone is just about equally tired of modder bullshit and can see the obvious logic in Nexus' decision

 

[Van-d-all]

modders don't realise is that the Nexus is more important to them than they are to the Nexus

That's genuinely sad. The pitiful social mentality used by sites like Facebook applied to mods I mean. I can see it being true for all those bethesdard mods putting shitty large boob characters into the game, because certainly it's more about their visibility than actual content, but thankfully there are games thriving with mods like Rimworld that get along just fine without them. Nexus is the Walmart of mods. Fuck them sincerely. A good mod will find it's way towards the players one way or another.

 

[Grunker]

but thankfully there are games thriving with mods like Rimworld that get along just fine without them

ehm. you realise that's just because they use the workshop instead, right?

 

[Tacgnol]

Was surprised reading about his departure since I expected people to feel sad, or maybe mad over him pulling his mods, but it seems the majority are just glad he is going. Seems he has been a pain in the butt of the Skyrim modding community for a long while while still being big. But maybe that was the problem.

At least that is the impression I'm getting reading here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/oy4ft5/arthmoor_removing_most_of_his_mods_from_nexus/

I was so certain Retardo Reddit and the public at large would create some sort of evil-money-grubbing-nexus-innocent-working-modders narrative, but it seems everyone is just about equally tired of modder bullshit and can see the obvious logic in Nexus' decision

A lot of them like Arthmoor were merely tolerated because they released good content. People were always able to recognise that many of the modders themselves were cunts.

I've said before and still stand by the fact that there are plenty of well adjusted modders, but as content creation goes, modding does seem to attract an inordinate amount of entitled cunts.

 

[Van-d-all]

but thankfully there are games thriving with mods like Rimworld that get along just fine without them

ehm. you realise that's just because they use the workshop, right?

I realise it's not. Been modding it since A10. Both their forums and reddit heavily supplement it. Workshop adds ease of use, but then, nobody takes money for it or dictates some bullshit ownership over them, which is kind of the point when it comes to fan made free content. Nexus is the typical consumerist leech - buy or be unhappy. Having transfer caps in 2021 like some fucking Comcast makes me want to puke.

 

[Tacgnol]

but thankfully there are games thriving with mods like Rimworld that get along just fine without them

ehm. you realise that's just because they use the workshop, right?

I realise it's not. Been modding it since A10. Both their forums and reddit heavily supplement it. Workshop adds ease of use, but then, nobody takes money for it or dictates some bullshit ownership over them, which is kind of the point when it comes to fan made free content.

I don't know what the rimworld modding community is like, but it's possible there aren't so many egotists and prima donnas as many of the nexus hubs.

If the modders in those hubs weren't such fuckwits then rules about deletion wouldn't be required, but the fact they throw hissy fits whenever their authoritah is challenged makes those rules necessary.

Imagine if authors had the ability to completely remove their books from the world because they got one bad review on goodreads.

 

[Grunker]

Workshop adds ease of us

you are deluded if you think the community would have even a tenth of its audience or active modders without the workshop, lol

 

[Van-d-all]

Workshop adds ease of us

you are deluded if you think the community would have even a tenth of its audience or active modders without the workshop, lol

Never said that. You are deluded it you think quality of anything is represented by number of it's users. Especially since there's no monetary gain for anyone involved. The mods are there, I can get them. I don't give a flying fuck about how many other people will, that's that.

I don't know what the rimworld modding community is like, but it's possible there aren't so many egotists and prima donnas as many of the nexus hubs

It's about doing something creative for free, of course it involves a certain degree of pride, so as is the way with people the primadonnas and dramas are all there all right. Thing is, why do anything about it? Anyone has the right to do anything he wants with his own creations, and effectively be judged for it. If someone is a whiny bitch deleting popular mods over some nonsense I say - let him, "give enough rope" and all that.

Where there's need there's way. There are games (well, mostly porn) with gigabytes of mods distributed all over the web on github, private hosting and other places with dedicated downloaders and all the infrastructure available without limits or money. Nexus is just the big lie it has to be done that way, and a bunch of fuckers capitalizing on someone else's work. Imagine paid linux distros LOL.

 

[Grunker]

Who is talking about quality?

 

[Orud]

It's about doing something creative for free, so of course it involves a certain degree of pride, so as is the way with people the primadonnas and dramas are all there all right. Where there's need there's way. There are games (well, mostly porn) with gigabytes of mods distributed all over the web on github, private hosting and other places with dedicated downloaders and all the infrastructure available without limits or money. Nexus is just the big lie it has to be done that way, and a bunch of fuckers capitalizing on someone else's work. Imagine paid linux distros LOL.

Steam is a platform that, in order to serve you these mods, takes a 30% cut of anything you buy from their platform. Nexus is a modding platform that, in order to serve you these mods, allows users to buy premium accounts to speed thing up. You do realize that both these platforms can't survive without money to provide the hosting, right?

You also do realize that the main difference between the two is that the Nexus allows their users to also make use of their platform for free, be it at a lower speed, and gives part of the money back to modders, right? And that steam doesn't do any of these?

 

[Grunker]

I realize your questions are hypothetical, but no, I don't think he realizes any of that.

 

[Grunker]

(As a side note, Steam only gave up monetizing mods because it was too much of a legal hassle - and when they attempted it, the goal was to pocket more than half of the profits)

 

[Van-d-all]

You also do realize that the main difference between the two is that the Nexus allows their users to also make use of their platform for free, be it at a lower speed, and gives part of the money back to modders, right? And that steam doesn't do any of these?

I do of course, and I don't care. Modders doing it for money are cunts anyway. I'm fully aware that given popularity of modding a dedicated hosting service was inevitable, and as such it requires a source of income. I simply despise their way of doing business, even though, l also realize, it's made possible by gullibility of their users. Choices exist, and I find Nexus a lousy one, not that hard to understand is it?

 

[Alienman]

(As a side note, Steam only gave up monetizing mods because it was too much of a legal hassle - and when they attempted it, the goal was to pocket more than half of the profits)

I'm still mad over that.

 

[Orud]

Each to his own. I think Steam's marketplace generally only offers a handful options compared to what the Nexus offers, along with having a terrible way to search or discover mods compared to the Nexus. Steam also doesn't have additional install tools, so you sometimes needs to combine it with an external load tool anyway.

 

[Van-d-all]

(As a side note, Steam only gave up monetizing mods because it was too much of a legal hassle - and when they attempted it, the goal was to pocket more than half of the profits)

I'm still mad over that.

I'm glad that there was a major pushback against paid mods in general. People are retarded consumers, and they are slowly made to believe everything needs a price tag...

Each to his own. I think Steam's marketplace generally only offers a handful options compared to what the Nexus offers, along with having a terrible way to search or discover mods compared to the Nexus. Steam also doesn't have additional install tools, so you sometimes needs to combine it with an external load tool anyway.

I have no idea how did you come to this bilateral way of thinking I must choose either Workshop or Nexus, must be something about realizations. I look for mods when I see something I'd like to change in a game to tailor it more to my liking, not to install some rando shit which got to top 3 of some site's beauty pageant. Workshop is just a convenience, I'd download them off Chinese BBS or a Russian forum if I had to (which I sometimes did). And given the number of mods I run per game, external tools are a must anyways, in fact I'm happy if there's a single one able to handle everything. Apparently we're just different kinds of mod users.

 

[Grunker]

Steam didn't drop it because of the pushback. They dropped it because the legal issues over which modders had the right to what assets was every bit the hellscape that every single one of their lawyers had warned them about.

 

[Van-d-all]

Steam didn't drop it because of the pushback. They dropped it because the legal issues over which modders had the right to what assets was every bit the hellscape that every single one of their lawyers had warned them about.

And? I explicitly wrote I'm happy about the pushback itself. The fact players still give a fuck. Bitching about Steam to make Nexus look better is blatant whataboutism.