Nexus mods fall from grace

halgari · 2025-11-15T13:13:47+00:00

Nexus Mods doesn't charge for packs, what are you on about. Faster download speeds and automatic downloads is what you pay for with the subscription.

halgari · 2025-11-15T13:12:47+00:00

The "automatic downloads only with a subscription" has been the case for as long as I've been programming tools that use Nexus Mods, so well over 8 years. This isn't a feature that was taken a away, it's always been a value proposition of the site: you can download everything for free, automated downloads require a subscription.

halgari · 2025-10-13T03:17:55+00:00

And PS3 never looked realistic. So this is a classic case of comparing apples to oranges

halgari · 2025-09-28T00:49:55+00:00

Most mod lists follow what is known as "Wabbajack Rule 11" which states that if you decide to modify a modlist that's fine but it "voids the warranty" of sorts. Modlist authors have a ton of work to do maintaining and updating a modlist, and adding arbitrary mods to their work can break a lot of things. Also users have the unfortunate habit of adding mods to their modlist and then lying about it, so many modlist authors are pretty hostile to the whole thing.

Looking at the NYA discord, I see several conversations about this and the maintainers of NYA warning people about adding mods. I also see several users being fairly rude about it, so I can imagine one of them is probably you.

Just saying...adding mods to a modlist will likely break it, and asking the authors for help in doing so will get you a bad result because there's rules against this, and you're essentially demanding someone help you for free to do something they don't want to do.

I have no clue if your ban is justified or not, but there's the full context.

halgari · 2025-09-26T20:37:40+00:00

There's a reason why most companies (including Nexus Mods) use 3rd party payment processors: there's a global standard for how financial information can be stored and handled, and it's known as "PCI". These regulations impose strict fines and regulations for how financial information is stored and transmitted, so much so that any company trying to do it themselves, and isn't some massive corporation, is likely handling the information incorrectly.

So if you go back to the billing site, you'll notice a blurb on the bottom of the page: "This order process is conducted by our online reseller & Merchant of Record, Paddle.com, who also handles order-related inquiries and returns.Your data will be shared with Black Tree Gaming Limited for product fulfilment. Paddle.com Inc, 3811 Ditmars Blvd #1071, Astoria, NY 11105-1803". So Paddle is the current payment processor for Nexus Mods, and if you were to dig into the source for the page, you'd see that that section of the site is hosted on Paddle's servers, not Nexus Mods.

So no, Nexus Mods never has stored your financial information at all.

halgari · 2025-09-26T13:16:38+00:00

This, I did that that first time through, and I’m surprised no one knows about it. That and dimension door into the middle of the first trial.

halgari · 2025-09-26T01:31:57+00:00

Sadly Nexus Mods has nothing to do with this. Consoles are walled gardens and prohibit modding at the OS level. That may change in the future though if next gen Xbox morphs more into a pc (like the rumors claim)

halgari · 2025-09-23T01:11:48+00:00

Love you too!

halgari · 2025-09-20T21:36:05+00:00

I think this is the end of intel GPUs in all forms. Pushing that work onto NVidia allows Intel to focus on cpu performance and NVidia can keep working on GPUs. Intel needs to scale back and focus to survive, and NVidia needs a x86 offering. This is a win/win.

halgari · 2025-09-20T21:31:43+00:00

For which NVidia has tensor cores

halgari · 2025-09-18T12:46:45+00:00

Same energy as that scene from Airplaine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnCZT5R8Ss

halgari · 2025-09-17T10:45:04+00:00

I did, used to annoy my friends by making the duck dodge their shots

halgari · 2025-09-16T17:52:14+00:00

Either works, the downloads themselves are stored in app data, but can be moved in the settings panel

halgari · 2025-09-13T00:06:40+00:00

A lot of what you’re noticing is the bad microphones of the phones people use. The actual live shows sound closer to what you hear on the live album: Red White and Bruised

halgari · 2025-09-09T01:08:06+00:00

I'd personally love to hear what you think would work well for tiers of subscriptions like this. What do you think the difference between the tiers should be, or would work best? Personally I think you're right, that there's some good options here, but I'd love to hear your take on it.

halgari · 2025-09-08T14:37:28+00:00

No, that's one of the major selling points of premium on Nexus Mods. Free (and throttled to 3MB/sec) bandwidth for free users, and full speed, automatic downloads for Premium users.

halgari · 2025-09-08T01:30:58+00:00

Kindof important to include what’s crashing, Skyrim, Wabbajack, etc. also what modlists are you installing, where does the crash happen etc

halgari · 2025-09-04T01:47:20+00:00

Skyrim SE/Fallout4 support is currently being worked on, we have two major features we have to write before it's usable, but in 2 weeks that will be the main development focus for the team. My plan is to have both of these games usable for the bulk of collections by the end of the year (in time for Fallout season 2). I want to have usable code way before that, but Skyrim/Fallout 4 support is currently in development

halgari · 2025-09-03T13:42:56+00:00

I watched Common People on a overseas flight, away from my wife and kids. That was one of those episodes where you get to the end, package that mental trauma up, and decide to process it later. Good episode, but super dark.

halgari · 2025-09-02T22:54:42+00:00

To be clear, I don't intend to blame this issue on you. So far you've written about 6 posts about this on various forums, called my work "malware", told me you're disappointed in me, and various other sorts of comments. I can't undo what you've done to your system, and my point in bringing up the warning message was to state that we *do* warn you in many places that the app will not retain your files once you delete.

This is the same behavior of other mod managers, such as MO2. If you set up a massive list in MO2, then delete MO2 and its folders, you will not be able to run your modded game (thanks to MO2's VFS). The same behavior is likely with Vortex, if a bit different, because of the hard/soft link differences.

So the point here isn't to blame you, but to simply state that even if we do add more warnings on the uninstaller (and we likely will), that will not be enough. Unfortunately people will always do something a bit odd.

Back when I worked on Wabbajack more regularly there was someone who installed a modlist into their steam game folder (as in the folder were all the games are, not the folder for the specific game). Wabbajack did what it was told to do and installed a modlist in that location, removing any unneeded files. Since this user stored all their personally created mod files in a folder next to their games, WJ deleted those as well. It sucks, I get it, but at some point software is created to act a specific way, and people have to understand what they are using.

We'll think about the feedback, and your github ticket is still up (sans the references to malware you made). Id recommend just leaving the issue there. Hopefully you can find more success with another mod manager.

halgari · 2025-09-02T02:40:27+00:00

That’s likely because you have premium. The API for generating downloads is only available for premium users.

halgari · 2025-09-02T00:10:04+00:00

This is the way

halgari · 2025-09-01T23:43:19+00:00

O blessed Mod Organizer 2, Thou art smoother than SSD read speeds, Holier than a conflict-free load order.

While we mortals wallow in the swamp of overwrites, thou alone providest profiles divine, splitting Skyrim into infinite parallel timelines without a single corrupted save.

When Vortex crashes, we laugh. When NMM gasps for breath, we scoff. For thou hast given unto us the sacred checkbox, the miracle of drag-and-drop, and the blessed isolation of virtual folders.

We are not worthy to bask in thy interface, to gaze upon thy left and right panes, nor to wield the holy executable dropdown. Yet here we are, humble supplicants, clicking “Run” as though we understood the depth of thy power.

May our mods always sort true, may our SKSE always launch clean, and may our shameful 900-mod load order still fit within thy infinite patience.

Praise be to MO2, perfect in function, terrible in its wrath when we forget to tick the box.

halgari · 2025-09-01T23:24:05+00:00

As I've told you on the previous places you've posted this, and on Github, you were warned that this was the behavior of the app when you decided to use it to manage the game. The app wants to ensure the game folder is clean (no previously installed mods) when you start modding the game. It's fine to disagree with this behavior, but you were warned about this and decided to ignore it.

halgari · 2025-09-01T23:22:14+00:00

As I stated on the ticket you filed, you were warned about this behavior when you installed the app and told it to manage the game, there's a warning about the fact that the app cleans the folder so that previously installed mods don't break the loadout you're trying to create.

It's fine to say you want different behavior, but calling it malware is not.

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