Kiyasumeni Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 In the end thenexusforums.com is also about money, and you can not deny that.I also think it isn't the finest move of Curse, and it might well be that the community here is "better" and that's great! I thought the Nexus forums was about bringing together a modding community that has something in common. We all love the same games. If they were about money im sure they could find a far more profitable endeavor. I personally have never gotten the impression that Nexus is about money....at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake57 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 (edited) In the end thenexusforums.com is also about money, and you can not deny that.How so? If it was all about money... then the banner at the top of this forum might actually be saying something like Curse :thumbsup: I did not say "ALL" about money, please don't twist my words.I said in the end they are also about money, with that i mean that they are earning money in some way... may it be through ads (traffic) or the support of premium members.And i am NOT saying there is anything wrong about that. @Kiyasumenithenexusforums indeed they are bringing modding community together, but they DO earn money... that doesn't have to be a bad thing, because both parts are getting something out of it. And that brings me to my point: Curse and thenexusforums are making money, but curse trying to promote their site to a further extent. Edited November 17, 2011 by Snake57 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moraelin Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 (edited) More mods is a good thing, right? :PNot entirely. Quantity over quality sucks....unless they are all quality... which isn't how it works... but would be awesome... so... Well, it's not like even here we have 100% only legendary quality work. And people have to start somewhere. Practice makes perfect, but you can't start directly with tons of practice. We all started with just changing the numbers on some item, or recolouring some sword pink, or some fugly mesh that gave others nightmares. Well, I know I made some fugly stuff, anyway. Edited November 17, 2011 by Moraelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seweryn Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 (edited) I did not say "ALL" about money, please don't twist my words.I said in the end they are also about money, with that i mean that they are earning money in some way... may it be through ads (traffic) or the support of premium members.And i am NOT saying there is anything wrong about that. You need to be somehow around money to be able to run the site. The is a difference between running a site for money and running the site when you have a job and doing it in free time to help people. Curse is running site only for money since that is the way for living and nexus it is not. At least in my opinion. Edited November 17, 2011 by seweryn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghogiel Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 More mods is a good thing, right? :PNot entirely. Quantity over quality sucks....unless they are all quality... which isn't how it works... but would be awesome... so... Well, it's not like even here we have 100% only legendary quality work. And people have to start somewhere. Practice makes perfect, but you can't start directly with tons of practice. We all started with just changing the numbers on some item, or recolouring some sword pink, or some fugly mesh that gave others nightmares. Well, I know I made some fugly stuff, anyway.yeah I know. Just saying in theory more sounds good. but in reality it's actually not that good, and sometimes the opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thepal Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) Never played WOW. Never heard of Curse. When I released my mod, I went to any mod sites I could find easily and added my mod. A site we've had to banlist because they continue to spam mod authors with advertising links was one of them (I saw it mentioned in a thread somewhere). Didn't even see about the competition until later. As long as noone in the Elder Scrolls community is paying them anything (then I'd be a little annoyed) it is just another mod site people can download from. I assume they make their money off advertising and stuff, and that doesn't hurt the community at all. Nexus will always be number 1. Edit: lol... That was awesome. I love the replace it did for A site we've had to banlist because they continue to spam mod authors with advertising links (and therefore am leaving it there). Edited November 18, 2011 by Thepal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinRider Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Edit: lol... That was awesome. I love the replace it did for A site we've had to banlist because they continue to spam mod authors with advertising links (and therefore am leaving it there). I've just added A site we've had to banlist because they continue to spam mod authors with advertising links and Curse to the bad word filters for the time being, replacing them with "A site we've had to banlist because they continue to spam mod authors with advertising links". They've sent out over 100 messages in the past 24 hours to mod authors trying to get them to use their site. Same reason for doing it as Bethesda; blatant advertising. I've removed the messages in question. If you're interested in using Curse then go check them out, but I don't appreciate them advertising like that. I wouldn't have minded if it was a public thread on these forums, but to spam authors directly doesn't sit right with me. I blocked PM access (but didn't ban..) their first account, wishfireCurse for doing this. They've just made another account and carried on where they left off. No more. (I hope Dark0ne doesn't mind me posting his quote here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plutoman101 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Ehh, that's pretty pathetic. I've never played WoW or anything like that, my experience with Curse has been positive from Guild Wars Guru. The site moved to Curse a while back, which was flexible and helpful to them in getting it set up. Same with some of the wiki stuff. However, seeing the constant adverts is frustrating. It's one thing to be about money (I mean, who isn't?), and it's one thing to compete, but it's another thing entirely to spam mod authors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatKidLuke Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 i can only see this from a "consumer perspective", i used the curse addon-downloader for WOW and that tool worked very well, but yeah - that strategy seems a bit like shady business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thepal Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I'd say they probably have someone in the position of needing to get modders to the site, and they are doing it by any means possible. In which case it could just be the one person's decision, not Curse's business model as a whole. Didn't realise about the spam either. I guess I avoided it by putting my mod there already :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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