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.

Source

 

[osaka35]

Updates from source:

*We intend to explore the option to automatically give Premium membership to mod authors who hit a threshold of unique downloads each month, this threshold is still to be confirmed. This is not going to happen in the short term and will be sometime after the pricing update. We'll update you all on this once we know how this is going to work.

*We have decided to continue to offer the Lifetime Premium service exclusively to mod authors via the Donation Points store. The price will be staying at 51,500DP for now. We may alter some of the fixed-term options once the new system launches

 

[Jiehfeng]

Was pretty surprised to see Nexus Mods on the FP. Kinda shitty move, but to be fair though, doesn't every other service that does some kind of hosting not provide a one time payment either?

If for some reason this is due to lack of funds, which I very highly doubt, they could at least provide something like one time bandwidth payments for a certain amount of GB to download at full speed. That would be better than this.

 

[MasterJ360]

Wait... so your saying my current lifetime Premium will be gone in August for a monthly sub?

 

[LeyendaV]

Good thing I bought the lifetime membership several years ago.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Wait... so your saying my current lifetime Premium will be gone in August for a monthly sub?

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.

Read.

 

[MasterJ360]

Read.

Thanx I read it now

 

[Bladexdsl]

nexus turning into greedy bastards

 

[the_randomizer]

Cheap lazy bastards

 

[Veho]

Times they are a-changing, publishers are starting to frown upon game mods*, C&D and takedown notices are flying, maybe Nexus Mods needs money for lawyers?


*Because publishers have this weird penchant for killing off communities and efforts and projects that attract attention to their games and provide free publicity, go figure.

 

[subcon959]

This sort of move usually results in people flocking to other sites.

 

[MasterJ360]

Times they are a-changing, publishers are starting to frown upon game mods*, C&D and takedown notices are flying, maybe Nexus Mods needs money for lawyers?


*Because publishers have this weird penchant for killing off communities and efforts and projects that attract attention to their games and provide free publicity, go figure.

Yeah thats usually the case behind Patreon mods takedown (Capcom/Nintendo). Wouldn't be surprised if Nexus getting the same treatment

 

[Clydefrosch]

i mean, it's really honestly super clever to try and profit off of user generated content

 

[Jiehfeng]

i mean, it's really honestly super clever to try and profit off of user generated content

Is it? YouTube says hello.

 

[DinohScene]

Do mod creators see anything of that revenue?
If not, kek.

 

[LeyendaV]

Do mod creators see anything of that revenue?
If not, kek.

We do, actually.

 

[deinonychus71]

Was pretty surprised to see Nexus Mods on the FP. Kinda shitty move, but to be fair though, doesn't every other service that does some kind of hosting not provide a one time payment either?

Plex has a lifetime subscription, so does Emby.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Plex has a lifetime subscription, so does Emby.

I see, but I'm mostly talking about file hosting and such. There may be one or two that has lifetime access but that's pretty rare among everything else that has recurring payments.

 

[LeyendaV]

Plex has a lifetime subscription, so does Emby.

Gamebanana does as well.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

is this even worth the price, for no ads there's adblockers and the capped download speed wasn't THAT slow, as for bigger pms i cant say anything there i dont get nexus mods pms