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Nexus Mods Fine With Bigots Leaving Over Removed Starfield ‘Pronoun’ Mod (kotaku.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Natural monopoly. Nobody else offers as good of an experience. The closest is ModDB and their UX is stuck in the mid 2000s.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't think that term really applies here. It's not like the barrier to entry for a webservice hosting game modification data is all that high. It's very different from the railway, waterworks and power grid markets.

Also there are at least the competitors Loverslab, Curseforge, ModMD and Modrinth from the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Indeed, it applies as much as accusations of monopoly. Two sides of the same coin. Really, it's not a monopoly situation or any kind at all. It's just by far the best of its kind and it has no competition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Does any one of those integrate with Mod Organizer or do I have to download the mod (often also with an annoying wait time) and then point Mod Organizer to it. Do they have an API that enables "a new version is out" notifications, or do I have to hunt everything down manually.

It really wouldn't be that hard, but none of them cares. Nexus kinda has itself positioned well there as they would not have to support any third-party API endpoints in Vortex, but Vortex isn't even the popular choice for many games.

[–] niemcycle 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I remember using ModDB back then, I'm shocked that they have never updated their site since then