PotatoHunter

In response to post #24601489. #24601644, #24601719, #24601884, #24601969, #24602009, #24602079, #24602239, #24602539, #24603004 are all replies on the same post. Look, okay maybe I got overzealous in my original post. I'll openly admit it, I was wrong, but I also read all the news posts completely. So taking a cut of paid mods to support free mods is a good idea? I dont think so. You can't have the best of both worlds. Corporate greed will win if theres not 100% opposition to this. I'm not saying that Nexus doesnt deserve money, they definently do for everything they've done. Modders also deserve money for their mods. But its money from a program hellbent on destroying the free modding community. And the almighty Valve gets 75 percent. But this program is evil. There will not be a co-existance of paid content and free content. To think that is naive. There are rumours out there that the paid content is already being taken down. I hope thats true. I just feel that even accepting a small cut of the money is a little bit hypocritical in my eyes. And look, I'm not a premium member. I've used Nexus since Oblivion, and I never donated either. Maybe in the long run, this'll be a good thing. Maybe I should join premium and give a mod author a couple bucks here or there once a while. But I stand by my original point. Accepting money from this service is like Ulfric Stormcloak getting a cut of Thalmor money for fighting the Empire for them (who even knows, maybe he was). Even if the money amounts to an iron dagger. Its the principle.

In response to post #24601489. #24601644, #24601719, #24601884, #24601969 are all replies on the same post. Yeah I understand this, but they are the leaders of this community and they are speaking out against it. You can't speak out against something while having money trickle in your back pocket simultaneously, even if your upfront about it. Your on one side or another.

In response to post #24601489. #24601644 is also a reply to the same post. I've been going site to site, spreading the petition, fighting the good fight, and now I'm starting to feel betrayed and angry because I just found out about this. U'd feel the same too.

Hey! Since when is the NEXUS taking a CUT from this bullshit! If you guys don't remove yourself from the service providers list and instead side COMPLETELY with us against Valve and Bethesda, then we'll take you down too.

In response to post #24596349. Lmao wow. Almost ridiculously accurate.

I think the community, every single person, needs to band together to stop this now. This will spread to other games. However, this is the Skyrim modding community. I think they picked the wrong community / game to start with. We have the power to stop this now. But we have to do it together. Unified. Defiant. 1) Sign that petition going around to start. 2) Make the message very clear to Valve and Bethesda that we will not stand for this. 3) Any mod author whos work is being used for paid mods, or anyone who knows about any work being used in paid mods, MAKE YOUR VOICE BE HEARD AND STOP IT. The more examples of this occuring, the more bad it looks for the program. 4) Mod authors, take a stand and dont give permission for your work to be used in paid mods. Trust me, your cut isnt that big when Valve takes 75%. 5) While I know we all use Steam and generally accept it and enjoy its sales, maybe for the current time being, limit your usage of Steam or atleast hold off on any purchases until this battle is won. Hopefully this will be enough, but if it gets worse, we will probably be forced to start a black market of stealing mods from the Workshop and distributing them out for free in an act of defiance. Its not something I would want to do. But it'll be something we might have to do.