Gaztec

This compromise was just a twist of the knife. Now users have extra justification to pester individual authors for patches to paid content those authors may not even own, being that they're the only ones who can host patches. Also, yes, I have passed along extensive feedback to Bethesda about creations menu -- It is weird some people assume because I want Nexus to be better that I cannot also want to better Bethesda too. We are only here out of love for Beth games.

So much boiler plate and beating around the bush for such a vapid response. I get that Nexus doesn't like paid mods but it's the world we live in now and will continue to live in. Dying on this hill is pointless and hurts users, I thought better of nexus than sacrificing users games for the sake of scoring points.

I want to champion Nexus, I love the idea of Collections, the new NM app, all that. I want one place to host it all, one installer new users can click that just figures it all out for them and gives them the game they want with the mods they want. But I simply do not believe that paying modders is bad. I think mods like Bards College Expansion, Blood and Snow and many others deserve to be paid. The prospect of pay will encourage others to aim for this level of quality. For most (regardless of what is said) it really just comes down to quality. They will pay for good content, if it is easy. We should stop pretending modding is pure and free of corporate interest, Bethesda will continue to try for as long as the company exists and there has never been a shortage of hustlers shoving Patreon links into their MCM's or books. The focus shouldn't be on "All mods must be free forever" but "What mods warrant a price" and negotiating the questions around that. Many authors who previously championed the "Forever Free" badges are now Verified Creators, being paid for your work is pretty cool and i'm happy they were able to do that. Jumping straight to "make your own entire game" should not be a counterpoint, many modders move on not because they wish to but because life demands it. Nexus already has its' DP scheme which has already proven difficult to rely on, being that we had three months pending while Nexus decided to make an algorithm for it. The existence of DP to me, acknowledges that soliciting Donations for many modders goes nowhere, users simply do not donate that much or that often unless you're in some nsfw niche. If you have aspirations of making mod content full time, it feels as though the world is working against you, that your notion of being paid for hundreds of your hours is wrong. I know I could have made other choices in my life, but I tried my best to find gainful employment and all that was left for me was burning out of minimum wage, donations through mods keep me here and I aspire to someday create something less niche but all this action against anything resembling paid mods or stable income from modding just pushes me further and further into more niche content. I have no intent to release "free" inferior versions of mods, or ever close-source anything, I want to give back. I don't even want to do anything paid, I just want to be able to eat and spend my time modding rather than the cycle of temp work, so I find the idea of offering additional customisation or assets through paid addons very tempting. Paid opinions aside, the rule is completely unenforceable and will cause patch quality to diminish, which if we were being cynical might be the point. We have had soft-dependency scripted LL injection for years, all that this rule accomplishes is make it so more dramatic compatibility fixes like navmesh and location edits are more difficult to accomplish. If this rule continues, someone more effective than me will just create a xSE plugin to circumvent it.

To iterate on questions already asked... By "Collections requiring Paid Mods" do you mean I can still support them so long as I mark them as Optional in my collections? Or just not at all? As it stands the UX for Optional mods in Collections isn't great and it's often easier to just clone and make a whole second collection, if enough mods have changed to warrant a new patch at the bottom. The further rules in the Advertising Policy are also very strange to me. For instance: "Do not link to external sites/communities where monetisation of mods or modding-related assistance is discussed. This includes both direct links (e.g. Patreon) and indirect links (e.g. a Discord server promoting paid content on Patreon)" Does that imply that I cannot have a conversation in my own discord about my thoughts on paid modding, if I link my discord on my mod pages, since it's the best place to get timely support? As it stands, many of these rules smell like "Whoever reports first wins."