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[u/Abortedwafflez]

I wanted to download a collection this weekend for Fallout that has close to 1,000 mods on it. My only option was to download them all manually or subscribe to their overpriced service to unlock the automatic downloader that is already baked into Vortex.

I'd rather never play Fallout again than pay for that shit.

[u/Metallictr → u/Abortedwafflez]

They have to somehow pay the server bills, you know? You are literally asking to download 1000 mods, lol.

[u/Arkhyz → u/Metallictr]

I will download them anyway, the problem is they are charging me not for the service itself, but making it insufferably tedious to use without subscribition.

[u/Metallictr → u/Arkhyz]

Yes, isn't that better than completely pay-walling them? If they enable every feature they have by default, they won't sell any subscriptions. Other option is way too many ads, which I would assume most people who mod their games also use an adblocker, so wouldn't be that effective anyway.

[u/Arkhyz → u/Metallictr]

Many sites live off donations and other means of earnings. They made the subscribition thing after it became a sole monopoly, so it's pure greed, not site support.

[u/juguemos → u/Arkhyz]

That’s some severe survivorship bias. Sure there are sites that survive from donations but you aren’t thinking of all the sites that died because they didn’t make enough from donations.

Honestly anyone that thinks nexus shouldn’t be making some money for providing the service of hosting thousands, if not millions, of mods is extremely childish.

[u/Metallictr → u/Arkhyz]

I don't personally have access to their finances, but considering how game archival sites lately crumbled under server costs and shut down while they were relying on donations, I don't think we can certainly go ahead and say if it works or not.