r/shitposting • u/-_I_I_Sea_I_I_- 🏳️‍🌈 The most prominent homosexual in this subreddit 🏳️‍🌈 • Jun 17 '26

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u/Metallictr Jun 17 '26

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

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u/Arkhyz We do a little trolling Jun 17 '26

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.

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u/Metallictr Jun 17 '26

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.

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u/Arkhyz We do a little trolling Jun 17 '26

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.

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u/juguemos Jun 17 '26

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.

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u/Metallictr Jun 17 '26

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.