[brianjlogan]

Honestly the comments so far don't line up with my experience.

Possibly for the very experienced devs/games on HN who are making their own mods Nexus was limiting and annoying.

For me it was the level of difficulty just low enough I didn't have to work to enjoy mods. I remember trying to install mods on Halo CE pre mod managers and it was a nightmare.

Did Nexus solve all of that? No but it was an easy enough experience that I could know one website, one tool, and be able to mod my games.

For the normies. For myself Nexus was a fixture throughout my teens and into my adult life.

I'm very thankful for all the hard work they put in.

It's impossible to keep everyone happy all of the time, but for some people like myself it just worked and we were able to enjoy it.

[belval]

Yes it is very interesting how the comment section is overtly negative yet NexusMods is one of the rare thing that "just works" for me. Even my girlfriend who is not well-versed in tech at all mods her Skyrim/Oblivion herself thanks to how easy it is with NexusMods.

[diggan]

Judging by your two's comments, there seem to be a mismatch what people think of when they hear "Nexus Mods". Originally, it was just a website where people uploaded mods, and others downloaded them and manually re-organized stuff on disk, or with some game-specific mod manager.

But what you two seem to be talking about, is the relatively new mod manager that Nexus also has, which basically allows you to one-click install mods.

I think many comments talk only about the website (in isolation), while both of you are talking about the mod manager, hence the mismatch in experience.

[altairprime]

As an occasional user of either form of NexusMods, both have been worth paying for in the recent past. The last time I played through SDV I had approximately thirty mods that I hand-installed because I was patching them locally to improve weather handling and learning C# from it. I’ve also used the mod manager to do a couple other games that badly need the improvements (“Stop Wasting My Time” is the best mod ever) and that I wasn’t modifying further. In both circumstances, I paid for a membership to support them, and I ended it when I stopped playing the game I was modding. Glad they exist and will continue to pay them when I use them, especially if they continue to be opinionated along current lines.

[Tadpole9181]

Relatively new? I feel like a decade ago I was using their mod manager (pre-Vortex) and it "just worked".

[brianjlogan]

Probably because a vast majority of those people don't read HackerNews to be fair.

[D13Fd]

Yeah. I paid for the lifetime plan a long time ago. It’s fast and easy to use. Generally I would categorize it as inoffensive.

I loved the change a few years ago that prevented mod authors from removing mods. I use Wabbajack, an amazing program where modders compile lists of mods and bundle them with compatibility patches to make everything work nicely. The Wabbajack program automatically downloads and sets up everything.

But random disappearing mods created endless work for the Wabbajack modders, because they would have to adjust lists and compatibility patches every time someone removed an old version. Mod lists would go away for days, weeks, or forever because someone removed some tiny mod from Nexus for no good reason. It’s so much better now.

[Tadpole9181]

Seriously, Nexus works great and I vastly prefer it to the clunky Team workshop or, God forbid, manually installing everything.

I'm convinced a ton of people commenting here haven't even used Nexus in years or convinced themselves they're "power users" who don't need to use a launcher, just to blame Nexus on the subsequent pain.

Some of them are clearly commenting in bad faith though, and have never used Nexus and are just slinging mud because of their audacity to moderate offensive content or inflammatory users.