[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.