Publisher-Approved Paid Modding Policy

[BathrobeSamuraiB]

Banning patches for VC content is absolutely reprehensible. Nexus, you will lose traffic over this, and I hope you take a huge financial loss from this decision. I know this will definitely have me canceling my subscription. There are other sites that have no issues posting the content patches we need, and I'll be using them going forward.

[Sandman53]

I am not a fan of the no patch/dependency policy change. If you are going to allow Creation Club and official DLC, why not just allow Verified Creations? I just don't understand this stance.

[ScytheBearer]

It's okay for NexusMods to profit from the work of mod authors which is freely donated to  hosted on their site, but NexusMods will not support nor approve of mod authors profiting from their own work.

Edited October 30 by ScytheBearer
changed "donated to" to "hosted on"

[1SaBy]

Disallowing patches for paid mods makes absolutely zero sense. Who thinks this is a good idea? And why? You're making things more difficult for the end user and losing out on the traffic.

[ShyViolets]

I think this is a good decision and am glad Nexus is taking a stance.
 

At the end of the day, it’s a private company that spent decades building to what they are. They don’t have to allow their platform to be used to support paid modding in any way.

 

If Bethesda wants to use modders to generate content, pay them directly, QA test, and release it as official dlc like CC with profit-sharing. That is what modders who want to make money beyond donations should push for - actually being formally contracted or employed as devs.
 

The line between DLC and mods should be maintained though and I see this step helping with that.

[DoctaSax]

Perhaps an exemption is in order where publisher-approved paid mods can't be linked to if the publisher withholds modding tools and the documentation to use them from non-paid modders.

[elpuertorro]

Wow so quick we forget!
People the mods in the Creation Club and made by Verified creators have 1 BIG rule! CAN NOT have dependencies of third party tools or outside patches like SKSE, Papyrus, and so on in other words any tool/dll/fix/patch made by the community is a NO GO, so are you people going over to the Beth's page to complain...no right, so how is it any different?

So Nexus has to let Beth pimp the creators (that split is not fair at all) and get the money without seeing any benefit for Nexus? And on top let them use the Nexus to host for free the fixes/patches for their stuff so it keeps selling, hell no!

You have to be effing kidding me! man common sense doesn't exist anymore or what the hell?

[ralfetas]

3 minutes ago, elpuertorro said:

Wow so quick we forget!
People the mods in the Creation Club and made by Verified creators have 1 BIG rule! CAN NOT have dependencies of third party tools or outside patches like SKSE, Papyrus, and so on in other words any tool/dll/fix/patch made by the community is a NO GO, so are you people going over to the Beth's page to complain...no right, so how is it any different?

So Nexus has to let Beth pimp the creators (that split is not fair at all) and get the money without seeing any benefit for Nexus? And on top let them use the Nexus to host for free the fixes/patches for their stuff so it keeps selling, hell no!

You have to be effing kidding me! man common sense doesn't exist anymore or what the hell?

Let me just say that i agreed 100% with you, in any word, in fact, i was going to write something like this.

[reiella]

This feels a lot like Nexus wanting to press their thumb on the scale.

It's a bit of forcing creators to decide if they want to be paid for their work or if they want their work to be part of the community.

And it's well within Nexus's rights to do that, it just feels more like it's going to fracture the community more than grow it.

[elpuertorro]

19 minutes ago, reiella said:

This feels a lot like Nexus wanting to press their thumb on the scale.

It's a bit of forcing creators to decide if they want to be paid for their work or if they want their work to be part of the community.

And it's well within Nexus's rights to do that, it just feels more like it's going to fracture the community more than grow it.

Nexus pressing their thumb? more like Nexus avoiding getting crushed by Bethesda's thumb and also the scale, and If by getting paid paid you mean give them only 30% of the profit and make them make sure the mod is independent from any other mod, orf community tool or creation, then yes!.

You mean the younger community, as we og modders always do/did it for fun and we share what we do if someone sends some tips your way then be it, but it was never to get paid, that is a seed that Beth has been planting so they can convince them to join, you want to get paid? you do what TheModernStoryteller did with Forgotten City, you make your own game out of the mod or by what your learned modding! or hey you have Patreon, Ko-Fi and such with all profits to the author, If someone comes into modding with the premise to make money and getting paid for it,  they are in the wrong community and will have a very rude awekening from reality, but that's just my opinion, so take it for what it is.