ParagonFury

Actually, I just thought of something. Doesn't this change mean that Nexus is actually taking a position against itself in the Parlor vs. Cathedral debate it had all those years ago? That Nexus is essentially saying that free mods must be Cathedral, mod maker's wishes be damned but that paid mods must be Parlor, regardless if the community or users want them to be more open or treated the same? EDIT: This whole thing about "free modding being sacred" too really stinks because it seems like Nexus is okay with making money off of mods or modding-related services through ads and their subscription service, but seems to have a problem when Bethesda and individual modders do the same thing directly on the mods. I wanna know why Nexus thinks their Netflix/Youtube Premium-esque monetary scheme is okay, but Bethesda's Point of Sale/By-Item scheme isn't.

No. The most recent revision makes it so that each individual mod author is responsible for compatibility patches for making their mods work with paid mods and hosting them - third parties and others aren't allowed to do it on Nexus. It's basically a "we know we pissed a bunch of people off but we still hate paid mods so we'll make a tweak so that it can't be said we didn't do anything about it but still get to kneecap paid mods" change.

While it's better than nothing it still falls short - you're essentially making dozens of different people responsible for patching, rather than one or two people who might be dedicated to it for a certain mod (as is already the case for several larger creations), just so you can still dance around the issue. You realize Bethesda literally cannot make the changes necessary to "make it equal" even if they want to, because they cannot allow the Bethesda Marketplace to do anything that can't be done/isn't allowed to be done on consoles, right?

Thinking further on it, the anti-patch rule makes no sense from any perspective other than Nexus being vindictive towards paid mods and attempting to use it's influence to diminish or destroy them. It contradicts Nexus's own stated reasoning and policy for why it's doing it (it doesn't make modding easier or better) It discourages traffic to Nexus, rather than encouraging it by piggybacking off of what Bethesda is doing to drive more engagement on Nexus (it doesn't make business sense) It only puts Nexus in a position of opposition to Bethesda in an arena where Bethesda has all the leverage and justification to squash Nexus if it looks like Nexus is trying to sabotage the Creations Shop (it's bad from a survival POV) Functionally there are no good outcomes for Nexus or the modding community if Nexus follows through with this. At best you'll end up with a wash and at worst you could potentially end up nuking the entire PC modding scene if Bethesda decides to crucify Nexus as a show of force. Just drop your vendetta against paid mods already. You can't put that genie back in the bottle (and TBH there are good arguments that it never should have been bottled in the first place) and instead work with it and make a better outcome for all involved rather than trying to make a statement that will just fizzle.

The "No Patches" rule is just dumb. It's "Shooting yourself in the foot" dumb. I saw that Kinggath had that new Bard's College mod, and yeah I bought it because Kinggath makes great stuff and deserves a cut too. Then the very next thing I did? Came to Nexus to find if there were any compatibility patches or tweaks for it; because Nexus is supposed to be the one-stop shop for Bethesda modding outside of the sex mods (or the mods that would get corporate assassins sent after you). But Nexus wants to deny itself traffic and potential eyes on the site just because they have a personal beef with Bethesda having some form of paid mods? That isn't very bright. As someone on Reddit pointed out; they're effectively saying that Elinora's CC Housing is a-okay and worthy of Nexus attention, but her new VC Thief's Hideout is filthy and unworthy of Nexus despite being from the same person, doing the same things. Just the fact that you have multiple creators and personalities who would normally be at each other's throats agreeing with each other and saying this is a bad idea should be enough to tell you not to do this Nexus.