humraa

It failed, I threw my toys out of the pram, complained in an earlier post, then relented and spent my weekend reinstalling. Now SkyUI (crucially, but amongst others) won't work. All save games now obsolete and new games grossly lacking functionality. VERY SIMPLY DO NOT INSTALL THIS UPDATE UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO REINSTALL/MOD SKYRIM FROM SCRATCH. History is littered with software companies, actually not only software companies, who have put through a major update that so fundamentally alters the experience of the existing user base that it is risked or, in the worst cases, decimated. Nexus this is a huge mistake on your part, I know you're a small group but you have made a huge mistake and you have handled it terrifyingly badly. I'm really sorry. I study this sort of stuff for a living. 1)Immediately change the NMM update prompt with full risk disclosure. 2)Include the fact that this is a small team that needs support and appreciates the user base and asks people to upgrade in spite of the risks to help user and developer long term. Patience, pain, reward, thank you. The merits of "should have read the small print first", as a post-event crisis response, are very low and typically exacerbatory. 3)That it is a big mistake does not make it dishonest or malicious, and anyone who threatens you is a moron. Consider passing on full details to police etc. 4)Dual version support. Tell people FO4 necessitates a new approach, multi-profiling is ultimately a great thing, and eventually they must be migrated as mods are created/updated. But that they can continue if they wish. For all their screw-ups MSFT didn't force Vista on XP users, which is a reasonable proxy for this situation. CLEAR COMMUNICATION UP FRONT, AT THE POINT OF THE USER'S DECISION. 5)Notice that people would pay money to go back one week, so you can afford to hire someone. 6)That Nexus is an exceptional achievement does not make it indestructible and this misstep must make that clear to you. Learn, evolve, improve, etc, etc. I've got one more reinstall attempt in me. After that my goodwill will be gone and chances are I'll never visit this site again.

So I used to have Skyrim, and now I don't have Skyrim. I genuinely appreciate that I've been able to enjoy something for free, but I guess my experience is similar to many: opened NMM, pressed update (as usual), and only after the uninstall/install does it say that this potentially completely resets the 100 mods you painstakingly applied to your Skyrim. Migration failed, now trying to reload mods but can't find the guide I used to say what exact configurations were needed. You acknowledge that there are infinite configurations of PCs/mods and yet you don't give a massive disclaimer of the significance of the update. Very simply, to have spent hundreds of hours on something, first modding then playing, to be told suddenly, "it's over and you should have been more careful", is a terrible response and I find it stunning that the .60 release is still even available without a bulletproof backup facility included. I think the key misunderstanding is that a lot of people are not developer/players but players - 99% of the modding I did was done before playing the game and starting over completely, with the hours and hours involved, is too much. So that's it, my new PC will never play Skyrim again. Gutted.