Publisher-Approved Paid Modding Policy

[Pickysaurus]

Creation Club vs Verified Creators Clarification

Based on your initial feedback regarding this policy we've taken a quick dive into the Creation Club vs Verified Creator distinction for Skyrim/Fallout 4/Starfield and spoken with Bethesda to confirm the difference. 

We consider Creation Club content as "official content" in line with Bethesda's stance and therefore will treat it like DLC. This also extends to any Creations published by the official Bethesda Game Studios account on their website. You can view the list of mods for Skyrim and Starfield here.

Any other Verified Creator content is considered unofficial and this policy therefore applies to it.

[Nikusys]

Thank you

[sonicdsl]

2 hours ago, Pickysaurus said:

Modding games is already a complicated process

Agreed. And while I have no problem with the majority of this, patches that mod authors make for free so that their free mods are compatible with paid additions (DLC or otherwise) to a game rarely contribute to the complication (the point of a patch is to make things easier to cohabitate, no?). This part of your rule goes exactly towards further complicating the process and has no logic based on what you say in your post. You'll end up with the opposite of your intention, I believe, with a decline in traffic due to an increase in confusion for users trying to figure out how to get things to play well together, why their free mod's author won't provide a patch, etc. 

In my opinion, this part of the new rule is quite poorly thought out and should be quickly reconsidered.

[Pickysaurus]

38 minutes ago, Gaztec said:

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."

If your collection needs paid mods at all it won't be permitted. 

 

In regards to the Discord thing. This is simply our way of confirming that side-stepping the "no paywall" rules by pointing to a Discord server or something that heavily advertises paid mods is not ok either. 

[DefinitelyNotNoah]

Thank you very much for this decision! Based Nexus

[Czasior]

You made me sad with the patches. I already made a few of them (they are very tiny parts of bigger patch hubs), spent some time making them right, with good quality and compatibility with other patches I'm creating. Shame it has to go to the dumpster now and all the effort is wasted.

[showler]

I wouldn't dumpster them.  Post them on other sites, preferably the same place as the paid mod they patch.

[trainwiz]

Sorry but I'm a bit confused here. Are you saying with this new policy if people wanted to modify and make patches for the VCs I've put out, they're unable to host any of that here all of a sudden? That seems counter to the basic principles of game modding to begin with.

[bartek3456]

I'm with Czasior and Trainwiz in regard to patches. Forbidding people from being able to post them on Nexus isn't really a good idea.

[Khundiann]

All this red tape BS just because companies that are already making money hand over fist, want to exploit modders and modding to make even more money by doing less themselves. In the process of making these rules and agreements with Nexusmods they are trying to get their foot in the door by playing nice, while in fact undermining the very existence of websites like Nexusmods that are dedicated to modding. All the years of hard work by the community creating tools, guides, etc. and these hustlers are going to step in and monetize this hard work and lay down restrictions going forward. 

I would tread carefully while dealing with this corporate scum, just my 2 cents!