Nexus Mods Wants To Replace Modding Frustration With One-Click Simplicity


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One of the best–and worst–things about PC gaming is the support for mods, allowing users to customize their games to an absurd degree. Installing a mod isn’t always straightforward, and the more it remixes a game, the greater the chance of that title crashing, burning, and frustrating the user on the other end. Nexus Mods, one of the largest sites in the modding community, is aiming to fix that issue with a long-term plan to make mods easier to access and use.

Following a change in leadership last year that saw Victor “Foledinho” Folmann take over, the current boss of the site has penned an open letter describing plans to change the very nature of how mods are presented, shared, and accessed on the longrunning site.

Imagine a future where replacing batarangs in Batman: Arkham Knight with cans of Dr. Pepper is easier than ever.

“For going on 25 years now, this platform has been modeling mods as files. Mods are not files. Mods are systems. With dependencies, with conflicts, with load orders, with versioning, with environments, all that complexity,” Folmann wrote. “Everything that has been making


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