The shaming of non-premium users needs to stop!

[StormWolf01]

The extra step to downloading is a bit annoying. I've paid for premium in the past, and it's a perfectly fine service. I'm not interested in doing so right now. Going to a different page instead of being able to directly download into Vortex is a bit of a hassle, especially when you need multiple files from the same mod. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad, but it's exacerbated by the site being extremely slow at the moment.

Right click on the download button, and choose open in new tab, or open in new window. Then the original page will not redirect.

As for the slowness and lag that we're experiencing.... yeah, there's a technical problem somewhere. Some of the servers like the image upload servers aren't even connecting. But they know about it, and it'll be fixed as soon as possible.

[Garrette63]

 

The extra step to downloading is a bit annoying. I've paid for premium in the past, and it's a perfectly fine service. I'm not interested in doing so right now. Going to a different page instead of being able to directly download into Vortex is a bit of a hassle, especially when you need multiple files from the same mod. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad, but it's exacerbated by the site being extremely slow at the moment.

Right click on the download button, and choose open in new tab, or open in new window. Then the original page will not redirect.

As for the slowness and lag that we're experiencing.... yeah, there's a technical problem somewhere. Some of the servers like the image upload servers aren't even connecting. But they know about it, and it'll be fixed as soon as possible.

 

 

Thanks for the advice. It doesn't bother me that much really, though it would be nice if I didn't have to see it since I've already paid in the past. That's a selfish request though. The server issue is the real problem, I think, and is almost like salt on the wound. Hopefully it will be fixed soon enough though, as you said.

[906Razor]

I don't particularly mind the bandwidth limit. that's fine. And go ahead and remind me that the download is gonna take a bit, that's fine, I'm an adult, I can be patient and wait it out, but I just find it mildly annoying that instead of the

1. click download
2. begin download

It's now become:

1. Click download
2. Page refreshes, reloads self to take me to download page for mod
3. Click "Slow download," Reminding me of a skeevy, "download free now" site where they hide the actual download link next to 5 fake advertisements disguised as a download button and shaming me for having the AUDACITY to not throw my cash at them needlessly
4. Wait 5 seconds for the download to ready itself
5. Download all 3 megabytes of my file, a download that takes only 1.7 seconds at best.

I would understand throwing a 5 second wait on a file that's large enough to sufficiently disturb the servers, enough so that they need to do... Whatever server mumbo jumbo one would need to wait 5 additional seconds for, but... really? Like... Genuinely? On a file where the download itself takes less than half the time of the wait for the file itself to begin downloading?

 

It just seems like they're really just begging me to get premium at this point, and I'll be honest, while I'm sure it will come a day where I end up purchasing a lifetime package, I've got to say, inconveniencing people is seriously not a good way to win them over, if anything, it's a fast-track to losing people, not gaining. Quite a few people would just find it much easier to move to a smaller, more user-friendly site than to deal with dumb stuff like this, especially in a modder's scene, where, let me be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if someone is currently in the works of making some sort of utility that just outright skips the whole URL side of it and just rips the files for the user en masse.

 

Just my two cents, really.

 

THIS. It gets so annoying when you are heavily modding the game. I already paid for Premium twice before, I'm not paying right now because I can't (I live in Brazil and the currency conversion from Euros to Reais is VERY high), but this new download screen is just annoying and takes up extra time, if at least the page wouldn't refresh after clicking download it would be "fine" I guess

[StormWolf01]

 

 

The extra step to downloading is a bit annoying. I've paid for premium in the past, and it's a perfectly fine service. I'm not interested in doing so right now. Going to a different page instead of being able to directly download into Vortex is a bit of a hassle, especially when you need multiple files from the same mod. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad, but it's exacerbated by the site being extremely slow at the moment.

Right click on the download button, and choose open in new tab, or open in new window. Then the original page will not redirect.

As for the slowness and lag that we're experiencing.... yeah, there's a technical problem somewhere. Some of the servers like the image upload servers aren't even connecting. But they know about it, and it'll be fixed as soon as possible.

 

 

Thanks for the advice. It doesn't bother me that much really, though it would be nice if I didn't have to see it since I've already paid in the past. That's a selfish request though. The server issue is the real problem, I think, and is almost like salt on the wound. Hopefully it will be fixed soon enough though, as you said.

 

No problem :)

Agreed :)

[Digus]

It wouldn't surprise me if all that traffic reloading the pages before letting people download is what is slowing the site down.

[Madrias]

I'm going to preface this by mentioning I've read about 90% of this thread in the past two hours (I skipped some of the more drama-laden posts) and that I typically don't get involved in threads like these. I have no desire to fling insults, threaten doom and gloom, or howl about how this isn't fair.

 

I'm also going to give fair warnings on two points. The first is that I haven't downloaded anything in about 5 or 6 months, as a result of my desktop going up in smoke. The second is that I'm not going to hide my caustic personality if it happens to show up. I won't throw insults at people, so if it feels like I've insulted you, I probably wasn't intending on it.

 

With that out of the way, I'll get to my points.

 

While this thread seemed to me to have started out of some form of protest, it's spiraled out of control, and I haven't seen the community this vicious since the whole paid mods debacle. The important thing to remember is that within any group of people, there are nice people, and there are those who aren't so much. I'd say the word I'm thinking of, but it wouldn't get past the word filters, and I'm not about to try filter dodging from my phone.

 

Now, we have an interesting split of the community. We have the Premium Members, whether monthly or permanent. Then we have the Supporters, who either paid for ad removal, or got dropped into it when their Premium expired. Then there are the Free Members, with a split sub-group based on whether they ad-block or not.

 

So we have four groups, and each of those four can be roughly broken down into four groups: Nice, Evil, Calm, and Silent.

 

The problem here is that those who have nothing good to say are belting out their thoughts, and instead of keeping it civil, they're targeting specific users, they're carpet-bombing entire groups, tarring and feathering everyone with the same brush.

 

So, what group am I in? I'm one of those Free Members who uses an ad-blocker. Yeah, I'm one of those "filthy freeloaders" that some people have so "graciously" painted the whole group with.

 

Now, I could give a long-winded spiel about my use of ad-block, but the short version is that I've had to reinstall Windows three times because of malicious ads getting past the antivirus, and each time, I was told I had to buy a new license key at the cost of $100. So, no, I don't let any ads in, not until the ad distribution companies can provide, to a reasonable degree, that the ads don't contain malicious code.

 

So, why haven't I simply bought Premium or become a Supporter? Well, it wasn't from a lack of trying. I don't have credit cards, and I don't have a debit card, either. I buy my games on Steam using Visa Gift Cards. Now, maybe it was just the type of card I was using, but apparently, you can't make purchases outside of the United States with the ones I have used. Otherwise, I'd still be having this discussion, but carrying a different flag.

 

Too many people here have forgotten one of the oldest guidelines for a conversation. "If you don't have anything nice to say, then say nothing at all." Instead, they point their internet hatred-cannons at everyone else who dares have a different opinion, a different title under their name, a different point to make, and they blast them.

 

Do I consider myself a contributor to the site? Hell no. I have one not-very-good mod to my name that, last I checked, has maybe 30 downloads. I occasionally have advice, when it falls within something I've encountered before. I've downloaded a lot of mods in the past, and maybe endorsed a tenth of them at best. I had a mod in the pipeline, but it's stuck on a desktop that runs for 30 minutes at a time, so there it sits until I get back up and running with a bucket of new, expensive parts I can barely afford.

 

Will I ever get Premium? Maybe. It depends on whether I get my hands on a gift card that works here, at a time when I have the money to spend. For the foreseeable future, though, I'm down and out for the next year. Maybe more. After all, I haven't done the math to know how many months it's going to take me to save up to fix it.

 

So, with my howling over with, I'm going to call it a night.

[GuyGamer]

Modb is now better than this site. Nexus used to be the best.

[RoryD]

I dunno about "shaming", but the whole "Slow Download / Premium Download" thing you have to click through now looks like it was taken straight off some dodgy Russian filehost site with a name like FilezBox.dz. Just a trashy look to have in general.

[viventem]

у меня где то неделю назад произошел один казус!

 

при попытке скачать любой из файлов с Нексуса

кнопка SLOW DOWNLOAD не работает

[viventem]

I had one incident about a week ago!

when trying to download any of the files from the Nexus

SLOW DOWNLOAD button does not work