[AQuantized]

The simplest reason that Nexus is 'bad' is that it throttles free user downloads, so you may spend hours downloading a large mod at 2MB/s. There's nothing wrong with a site like Nexus, but Nexus specifically is very annoying to use.

[simion314]

And to add before someone will say that we should not expect free stuff, it will not be legal to mirror most of the mods because the modders don't allow it (Even with disclaimer, even if they abandoned it, even if Nexus is down or evil)

[gabereiser]

Under this same logic, some of these mods wouldn’t exist. Games that have mod support usually only go so far. This goes a bit beyond that. Nexus as a site, a collection of mods that can be searched, is great. Nexus as a service, throttled downloads, timed ad pages forcing you to see an ad for revenue, sucks, but is necessary for them to keep it going.

The argument that a mod can only be downloaded from Nexus is a courtesy and not anything the mod authors can enforce. Likewise, you can just download the zip from GitHub and build. There’s no real control the authors can do to make sure their mod is downloaded from nexus. Hosting it anywhere else may be against the mod authors wishes but it won’t stop people from hosting the installer/archive.

[motoxpro]

Why are you trying to do something that the modder doesn't want?

[simion314]

This is a mod, a modification using Bethesda tools and assets, the purpose of those tools is not for someone to make money or increase a star counter on a specific website, putting restrictions on mods is IMO against the modding tools and ecosystems implied terms, IMO Bethesda need to update their ToS for next game to ensure sharing and remixing with credits is allowed. It would filter out some modders but would improve things for the players and the rest of the modders(less drama, less wasted time, no more attacking creators in real life because you think they used your asset/code)