- 17 days
Good. SteamDB is completely dead being bought by NexusMods.
Who wants to bet the first thing to go will be concurrent user count? Or perhaps I will need to make an account (for data harvesting) or pay a subscription to view the numbers.
- ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
SteamDB is completely dead being bought by NexusMods.
Been hearing this a lot, but no one can ever actually explain why, only that ‘nexusmods bad’ but never even why they’re bad.
Is it because they removed bigoted mods?
Is it because they stopped drama queens holding up entire modding scenes with drama?
- deadcade@lemmy.deadca.deEnglish17 days
The company that now owns SteamDB has this bolded on their front page:
We acquire. We amplify. We conquer.
It can’t really get more dystopian than that.
NexusMods themselves went to absolute shit, requiring an account for stuff like downloading mods, and getting a premium subscription for basic features like “Instant downloads”, “Viewing more mods per page”, and “The ability to choose a preferred download server”.
SteamDB used to provide a completely free (in price) service, with no strings attached. This was by far the most common usecase of the service. Seeing the history of NexusMods and the company that owns it, this will change. The moment SteamDB requires an account for previously public info, or even a premium subscription, is the moment the service becomes unusable for most. Effectively, SteamDB is marked for death.
- creamfresh@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
NexusMods themselves went to absolute shit, requiring an account for stuff like downloading mods, and getting a premium subscription for basic features like “Instant downloads”, “Viewing more mods per page”, and “The ability to choose a preferred download server”.
I don’t remember a time when this wasn’t the case. Download servers are expensive.