Nexus Mods, a popular website that hosts mods for over 1300 console and PC games, is restructuring their premium memberships. While the site is available to use for free to anyone, the premium membership allows users to browse the site ad-free, have a bigger private message box, and have uncapped download speeds. While any purchase would unlock lifetime access to the first two benefits (their account would be marked as a "supporter"), the uncapped download speeds needed to be renewed regularly, or could be purchased permanently for £49.99 (the "premium" users, separate from the supporters).

However, on August 3, Nexus Mods will no longer offer the option to purchase a lifetime subscription, and will no longer grant purchasers the supporter designation that gives lifetime access to the ad-free site or bigger PM box. They will also be removing the option to renew your premium membership for 3 or 6 months, leaving only two purchase choices: monthly, billed at £4.99/month, or yearly, billed at £49.99/year. They will still, however, continue to fulfill the benefits for those in the supporter category or those who have a lifetime premium membership, so if you'd like to gain permanent access to Nexus Mods' premium experience, you've only got two weeks left to do so.

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[Chary]

The internet is becoming cable TV. Pay for all these different packages and services. Everything has a subscription service.

However, some sites need to thrive and need the money to continue what they're doing. £50 a year seems pretty excessive for fast downloads, though.

 

[Valwinz]

Remember when mods creators were mad about Bethesda paid mods and now lookt at Nexus fuck Nexus

 

[ZeroFX]

loverslab will be the one for me now then, nexus became so trash in the recent years ffs! i use it since oblivion came... this only makes the mods go to their author's own sites, that already happened in the past, nexus couldn't handle more "heavy" (not in size) mods because advertisers, but now nexus became full cash grabby, with that modpack bs without opt-out option because they seek normies to pay premium...

 

[chrisrlink]

I don't mind the caps for free use (hopefully that never changes)

 

[limpbiz411]

greed

 

[SaulFemm]

What the hell do you people know about Nexus' operating costs to deem this "greedy"?

 

[BitMasterPlus]

Never pay for mods if you're a pirate. Argh.

 

[Foxi4]

May as well close the site then. If they're going to charge people to access content that Nexus Mods doesn't even make, a competitor that doesn't will spring up. It's next level cheek - not even Sony or Microsoft charge players to access *the storefront*, the storefront is where you go to make your purchases. The fact that they have an access fee at all is egregious enough.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

May as well close the site then. If they're going to charge people to access content that Nexus Mods doesn't even make, a competitor that doesn't will spring up. It's next level cheek - not even Sony or Microsoft charge players to access *the storefront*, the storefront is where you go to make your purchases. The fact that they have an access fee at all is egregious enough.

Uhh except they're not? You don't have to pay for premium to access any content, the only thing a subscription does is give you uncapped downloads and no ads, that's it.

I see no reason to complain, hosting a file sharing site can get expensive, especially at the scale Nexus Mods is running at now, plus adding the fact that they give mod creators some of that cash as well (even if it's kind of a pittance ).

 

[Foxi4]

Uhh except they're not? You don't have to pay for premium to access any content, the only thing a subscription does is give you uncapped downloads and no ads, that's it.

I see no reason to complain, hosting a file sharing site can get expensive, especially at the scale Nexus Mods is running at now, plus adding the fact that they give mod creators some of that cash as well (even if it's kind of a pittance ).

From a quick glance it seemed like they were going to charge for access in general, which would've been stupid on their part. If they're only charging for premium features then it's indeed a non-issue, I appreciate the correction.

 

[Asia81]

I have just 1 thing to say
lol

 

[tech3475]

Is premium worth it?

 

[MasterJ360]

Some mods are huge like 5 or 6GB a file and trust me they will take hours to complete from basic download speed. I went Lifetime premium so I could download the Final Fantasy XIII HD Project and UHD Movie packs which the fast download speeds were well worth the money. If you don't mind the wait or you download small mod files then premium wont matter much to ya. The game looks incredibly beautiful now btw.

 

[xdarkx]

I'm more curious as to why some of the guys here are calling this move greedy even though you can download all the mods for free and can still do so after this change.

 

[Bladexdsl]

there's ALWAYS steam workshop...o wait nexus only has FAP mods can't get them on steam

 

[driverdis]

Well, I just got the lifetime membership after reading this, that way I don’t need to care about it anymore. I can go about my day without a reoccurring membership with them.

 

[Darksabre72]

just asking is the lifetime membership worth it?

 

[Ashura66]

Never pay for mods if you're a pirate. Argh.

Except Nexus is NOT charging you for the mods themselves... You don't and never will have toi pay to access the content itself.

 

[Mikemk]

This isn't surprising, and I doubt it's greedy. Single payment and lifetime subscriptions aren't good for businesses that have monthly costs to fulfill those businesses, if the lifetime subscription is too popular, NM may become unable to service it at all

 

[raxadian]

I would say is time to backup your favorite mods and find other places were they are hosted, just in case.