What does the Steam Workshop mean for the Nexus?

[FlaviusBelisarius]

As some of you may be aware, I'm pretty excited about the nexus mod manager, and I love the nexus. However, I admit I am worried about the future of Skyrim mods at the nexus. It seems to me that many will ignore or never even learn about the nexus, and opt instead to use the Steam Workshop. I personally dislike the Steam Workshop, so I would hate to see this happen. Also, the SW says it will ban any "offensive" content, which worries me. It seems that if the SW becomes popular, the Nexus will just get all the porn mods that the Workshop disallows.

 

I also worry that the combination of the Nexus Mod Manager and SW mods will become too confusing. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Edited February 8, 2012 by davidhawisher

[Garagorn888]

Steam Workshop is much easier to use than the Nexus Mod Manager, and the NMM will likely become obsolete eventually.

 

I will be sad to see the Skyrim Nexus's download site go, but will still use the forums.

 

But as soon as mods stop using SKSE and Scriptdragon, now that the CK's scripting app is available, I think many will move to Steam Workshop due to it's ease of use.

 

Just my opinion. Don't kill me, Nexus fans.

 

*Hides*

 

 

[FlaviusBelisarius]

Steam Workshop is much easier to use than the Nexus Mod Manager, and the NMM will likely become obsolete eventually.

 

I will be sad to see the Skyrim Nexus's download site go, but will still use the forums.

 

But as soon as mods stop using SKSE and Scriptdragon, now that the CK's scripting app is available, I think many will move to Steam Workshop due to it's ease of use.

 

Just my opinion. Don't kill me, Nexus fans.

 

*Hides*

What happens if Steam decides a mod like Deadly reflex from Oblivion is "offensive" because it's "too violent"? I agree that's not likely to happen, but at the same time I don't like the idea of steam having that kind of control.

[Garagorn888]

I doubt that they'll deny violent mods.

 

Porn mods? Good riddance, you disgusting perverts.

[FlaviusBelisarius]

I agree completely, because I'm fed up as hell with all the porn on the nexus. At the same time though, the creative freedom still isn't quite the same. Someone made a witcher 2 clothing mod for Skyrim. Would that be approved, considering that as a high-profile corporation, steam has a greater need to control copyright infringement than the nexus does?

[QuickFox]

I think your poll options are too biased to be worth voting on.

 

I believe skyrim's modding community will eclipse oblivion's significantly, and that the CK & SW will only help it to grow.

[FlaviusBelisarius]

I think your poll options are too biased to be worth voting on.

 

I believe skyrim's modding community will eclipse oblivion's significantly, and that the CK & SW will only help it to grow.

I apologize. It wasn't my intent to show bias, but I felt pessimistic about the SW. I updated the poll options.

[nosisab]

Actually I feel a bit annoyed by these polls (believe yours is not the first and probably will not be the last) because they are created by and voted by people who, mostly at least, can't have a clue yet of what is going on and least yet about what will be.

 

Edit: After the tsunami pass and the screams of despair diminish, we talk about this again.

Edited February 8, 2012 by nosisab

[FlaviusBelisarius]

Actually I feel a bit annoyed by these polls (believe yours is not the first and probably will not be the last) because they are created by and voted by people who, mostly at least, can't have a clue yet of what is going on and least yet about what will be.

How's that?

[nosisab]

Actually I feel a bit annoyed by these polls (believe yours is not the first and probably will not be the last) because they are created by and voted by people who, mostly at least, can't have a clue yet of what is going on and least yet about what will be.

How's that?

Nexus had above ten years to learn to deal with the many problems modding creates and still no final answer can be given... Steam is newbie in this segment, lets give them some time to get over the incoming tsunami which is only being faintly detected yet but not even believed by most. The first, small wave we already see... needing to edit ini files and disabling it's own ESPs to get the textures pack working without killing every other texture mods is far from what I call "click and play", and the "solution" as always came from the "community", not from the "herd".

 

Edit to change ongoing tsunami for incoming tsunami ... forgive the lack of mastering in English although the first form is not totally wrong in this case.

Edited February 8, 2012 by nosisab