Major Modding Site Pisses Off Tons of Users, Sparking Revolt(kotaku.com)
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Major Modding Site Pisses Off Tons of Users, Sparking Revolt
https://kotaku.com/major-modding-site-pisses-off-tons-of-users-sparking-r-1847221380
https://kotaku.com/major-modding-site-pisses-off-tons-of-users-sparking-r-1847221380
Years back, there existed a simple Nexus Mod Manager for well... managing your mods for installed games. It was a simple tool that did the job well.
At some point the owner of Nexus Mods decided/needed to monetize, so he started jamming ads and slow connections to non-premium customers.
Soon after, he deprecated Nexus Mod Manager for Vortex. Go search their own forums if you want to see the nightmare, but "installing" a mod via Vortex takes around 9 clicks, doesn't always install the mod properly, and generally is slower than molasses. It's essentially an app wrapper over a poorly written website.
No shock at all they're making yet another anti-user, anti-creator move. They generally seem to have a grudge against their own community.
The entire "mod" community around gaming is like this as well. ModDrop was created as a response to the onslaught of ads/premium/bad stewardship and became the very thing it hated.