Then they should be better. Nexus’ monopoly is like steam’s. They got it by just making a product that isn’t a major pain to work with. (Okay all Bethesda modding is always a major pain but nexus has made it as tolerqble as it has been so far)
Moddb was mentioned. Another good one is thunderstore. It all depends on the game though. Valheim (and several other units based games) is very active on both Nexus and thunderstore, stalker games tend to be moddb, &c. Nexus tends to be the main one for most games though.
I mostly like Nexus (paid member), but I share the concern about it being the only game in town for most games. Nexus is heaps better as a site than both moddb and thunderstore ime, but the lack of real alternatives is putting way too many eggs in the same basket.
Because it’s nice to have options, and as we’ve seen time and time again, once a certain site/service becomes the de facto for that niche, it’s all too easy for them to start squeezing their userbase for more money.
If you think Nexus won’t go down that route (they have overall been pretty good to their users so far), there are still other concerns, like imposing restrictive rules, services going down, the site being sold, etc.
Yeah all of that is valid, but it doesn’t really justify putting a mod on a platform that’s objectively worse for modding and making a large portion of your users have an objectively worse time installing and managing all their mods. I would love for gog to step up and make a modding platform (and specifically mod manager) even close to the quality of nexus’ but they haven’t yet.
Why? Installing mods is so much easier and less annoying with the nexus launcher. It’s the gold standard for Bethesda mod managers.
Edit: if I use other mods too, this means I will use gog to get it, then nexus to manage it.
I just don’t like Nexus having basically a monopoly on mod hosting. I wish there were more mod hosting sites like Nexus, but not only Nexus.
Then they should be better. Nexus’ monopoly is like steam’s. They got it by just making a product that isn’t a major pain to work with. (Okay all Bethesda modding is always a major pain but nexus has made it as tolerqble as it has been so far)
you are wrong, ateam doesnmt have a “steam premium” and also doesn’t cap the download speeds…
Moddb?
Another good option, but more than two is better than just two giant ones.
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Moddb was mentioned. Another good one is thunderstore. It all depends on the game though. Valheim (and several other units based games) is very active on both Nexus and thunderstore, stalker games tend to be moddb, &c. Nexus tends to be the main one for most games though.
I mostly like Nexus (paid member), but I share the concern about it being the only game in town for most games. Nexus is heaps better as a site than both moddb and thunderstore ime, but the lack of real alternatives is putting way too many eggs in the same basket.
They are also known to ban mods they don’t like.
Because it’s nice to have options, and as we’ve seen time and time again, once a certain site/service becomes the de facto for that niche, it’s all too easy for them to start squeezing their userbase for more money.
If you think Nexus won’t go down that route (they have overall been pretty good to their users so far), there are still other concerns, like imposing restrictive rules, services going down, the site being sold, etc.
Yeah all of that is valid, but it doesn’t really justify putting a mod on a platform that’s objectively worse for modding and making a large portion of your users have an objectively worse time installing and managing all their mods. I would love for gog to step up and make a modding platform (and specifically mod manager) even close to the quality of nexus’ but they haven’t yet.
Nexus doesn’t work with Linux… Gog doesn’t either…
Give me a shitty HTML page with a download button.
Either that or Steam Workshop. It’s the only mod manager that has worked flawlessly for me on Linux.
Yeah that as well.
Speed cap makes it annoying. And I don’t do subscriptions.