As if it wasn't already.

Talk about putting part of your life's work completely out to pasture.

I give it a year. What a shame.

If there was one god damned example of any company saying this and sticking to it I might believe them. But I have yet to be proven wrong. Sucks too as they were my go to for mods.

I’ll give it 8 months before it’s dead

Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.

venture capital

Aaaand it's gone.

They're definitely gonna monetize it to death.

Make it a legally binding contract, otherwise don't bother promising.

This is tragic. I have been on NexusMods since the 2000s. I learned how to mod games because of that site. I will be pouring one out for this landmark of a website after work today. Paid for Lifetime and everything, because the website made it easy to find, install, and update mods for any given game that supported mods. Damn, man. Damn.

I think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.

Thats what they all say when they get acquired. "Won't change our creative direction" type bs.

Maybe this is what it will finally take to get some of the bigger game communities off Nexus. It's a decade overdue.

Pinky promise?

Well they've promised so that's that. No story here.

Translation: "Once all the hub-bub dies down we intend to as slowly as you'll allow, slip in monetization."

Won't monetize it "to death", just right up to the line of death.

Probably a good time to start up a rival mod site that every one will flock too after these guys backpedal on their word.

Something synonymous with Nexus.. CapitalMods anyone?

Narrator: they monetised the site to death.

Reminder that ModDB still exists, and works.

EDIT:

Seeing as this is fairly decently upvoted now:

https://www.moddb.com/

and also, I found this

https://github.com/loicreynier/awesome-modding

absolutely gigantic compendium of tons of mods, websites that have tons of mods for various games that are not nexusmods.

So, just half to death then?

Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.

Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.

As a software engineer i always found nexus simply archaic. Hot take but the molding industry might be better off with a new mod index.

Maaaaaan. Fuck. I really like Nexus Mods. Get ready for another enshittifying ride to the bottom.

Ok, so what is the current alternative nice option for SkyrimSE mods?

Preferably one with a mod manager/download client. Vortex is kind of janky but it did the job. I'd prefer not to manage any of this stuff manually, like cavemen. it's been decades you shouldn't need to do that

I wish I could say this surprised me, but I’ve kind of been expecting this for awhile. They’ve been slowly getting worse for years, it went from just a hobby project to a corporation.

„Trust me, bro, we won‘t enshitify, please don‘t leave and make something new elsewhere that’s out of our control.“

Oh so they'll do it subtly enough to think people won't notice.

The new owners are so trustworthy that they weren't even transparent about who they are. In the comments of the original announcement they defend that with:

This post wasn’t about Chosen — it was about Robin and the legacy he built over 24 years. We’re the new owners and ultimate decision-makers at Nexus Mods. We’ll share more about ourselves when we’ve earned that right. For now, we’re focused on listening, learning, and making modding even easier, and yes, you’ll see us around in the community being active.

I can't say I find that statement to be particularly trustworthy given it's coming from an NFT bro.