Have to agree with you. While I’m not the biggest fan of Nexus Mods, I do think they’ve improved the modding scene overall. Before Moddb or Nexusmods, it was a total crapshoot whether you were downloading a mod or a virus, and if it was a mod then there was no guarantee that it’d actually work. And at least from my personal experience I’ve been able to do whatever I wanted with only the trouble of creating an account and logging in (which sucks I won’t lie).
That said, I really hope they stick to their announcement and use it to actually make versioning integrate with their mods rather than use this as a cash grab to enshittify.
That’s originally what I thought as well, but at least as far as I got into their actual website (linked in the article) it doesn’t seem to be the case.
They were charging $18 for 1 hot dog, $36 for 2, and all the way up to 10 at least it was $180. Absolutely no discount that I could find for ordering in bulk (and to get any further it required me to verify an address and that was more effort than my curiousity was worth).