guys, I CANNOT stand being discriminated against any longer, we must no longer rely on nexus and moddb and instead make for ourselves a new place to share mods free of judgement and hostility for how we choose to enjoy our games in the privacy of our own homes, also that you don't need a fucking account to use, as an interim I suggest a magnet dump on /t/
give it back balthazar
>go into your steam apps folder>copy one of your .acf files>modify the file so it matches the game (use steamdb)>put the game files into a new folder (the path should be in the .acf file)>if the game appears in your steam library (with a purchase button) you did it correctlyThis circumvents 99% of anti-piracy measures that modders use
What if you bought the game legally on GOG? Did this faggot think of that at all?
>>738784279I'm working on a new game launcher, made from fucking scratch. It'll have support for mods by providing layerFS, INT3 hooking etc. And of course support for different mod repos (use at your own risk) to avoid this BS. Other cool features is the ability to mod ROMs for consoles like the GBA, and a cool "these hacks are available for this ROM" explorer that will autopatch a copy of your rom letting you try them out without managing a bunch of fucking files. Any other features you'd like to see?
use nemesis
>caring if people pirate a fucking game from 2012what a fuckin faggot bro.
>>738784558Valvegans think anyone outside of the cult is evil.
>>738784558lots of mods don't support GOG versions outright, shit's fucked
How did modding become so cucked? Modders pleading for approval or legality instead of just doing whatever? They can't even handle mods of mods anymore.
>>738785046What about my legitimately purchased, DRM free, store-bought copy from 2011?
>>738785085Discord probably. It became cucked when modding communities walled themselves between an echo chamber there.
>>738784279>be modder>implement a shitty DRM for a company that doesn't care about youAlso wouldn't this filter you playing from GOG? So not only are they implementing DRM for Bethesda but also Valve?>>738785085It's the platforms they exist on.When the platform you're on hyper moderates everything, this kind of mentality is what's going to happen.Modders wouldn't act like this if the platform also hosted "genocide Redguards questline" alongside it, slavery mods and other edgy shit. Because the community the modder exists in won't be this bitched nonsense.
If you check the actual mod page, the author's pinned comic reveals he's literally some doddering old fuck in his 70s. Explains a lot about his bizarre mindset.
>>738785642Comment, not comic. The dementia is spreading.
>>738784279This is fucking retarded. Are the mod makers just virtue signalling or what the fuck is this?
>>738784924>nemesiswe use pandora now gramps
>>738784279What the heck is a "mod pirate site"? Aren't mods free?
>>738784279This is why I support GenAI. These retards won't be having it their way.
It actually makes sense because you'll get people asking why the mod doesn't work with the pre-release leak they bought on CDR in Vietnam But there's probably also something very gay about it too
>>738786237>Aren't mods free?I can't with these goyim. FREE? In 2026?This guy isn't the only mod author deranged enough to think his mod needs some sort of authentication or check for whatever reason. Yes, we do live in an age now where pirating mods is a thing.
>>738784279>FNISain't that shit old news, for years now?
>>738784279Hey, at least the Skyrim modding scene hasn't been affected by the retardation of checking for rival mods and crashing your game if those are installed.
>>738786341There's a difference between ignoring retards that pirate releases that aren't compatible and implementing DRM on behalf of 2 businesses, for no reason. Time and effort into implementing DRM is actually retarded.It doesn't stop retards crying about their pirated version being wrong and not working. They're still going to reply and DM their logs and talk about it not working.The only thing this achieved is painting the modder as pathetic of the highest order.
>>738784558>did this retard putting DRM into a mod of all things think things throughlmao
>>738785138You had to install Steam to play your legitimately purchased, DRM free, store-bought copy from 2011.
>>738784279fucking christ, talk about being whipped and cucked on a spiritual levelwhich onw was FNIS again? was it the animation one?
>>738784279>using FNIS for anything There's like 3 alternatives made by people who aren't moralfags that are better in every respect.
>>738784279Isn't the guy who made this a legitimate Boomer?
>>738787391FNIS hasn't been relevant since like 2016 or something. Everyone uses pandora engine now for custom animations.
>>738784279there is no fucking way im installing spyware just to play mods in toddos game
>>738784279I'm pretty sure a mod doing that is extremely illegal because it can be defined in legal terms as distributing malicious software. Someone should call the internet police on him.
>>738788075Thought it was Ooen animation now that everyone is using.
>>738784558GOG is the same as piracy.
What is the downside of those portable pirate releases? It's so much more convenient to just unzip and play (not even unzip if it's a torrent) that I don't get why GOG doesn't do it instead of having an installer.
>>738788341They can go hand in hand. OAR is for replacing vanilla animations, Pandora, FNIS and Nemesis is for injecting new animations that isn't natively supported by the game, this includes adding a 3rd or more attack animations to the basic attack strings when it normally only uses 2.
>>738788486it's slightly less convenient to make them that way, the same reason games come as folders with 100 different files in them only one of which matters to you rather than a single .exe
>>738786237Not if it's on the steam workshop
>>738788486>I don't get why GOG doesn't do it Better file compression probably
>>738785085It started with Minecraft being easily moddable and sharing them through monetized links being encouraged, then Skyrim made things even worse.
>>738784279>FNISold and dogshit, irrelevant alsouse pandora like a normal human being
i guess playing vanilla skyrim is modern hate crime
Wasn't there some guy who made a mod for some game that just bricked your PC if it detected Russian because it was right at the start of the war?
>>738790884we still have plenty of those in all kinds of software
Why the hate toward modDb? I thought it was the last good mod hosting site (excluding its kind of bad site layout)?
>>738784279didnt everyone already move on from fnis?
>>738784279His check for a legal steam installation is garbage.I had my Skyrim installed by steam and FNiS would still bitch about it.
>>738784279Some people are such egotistic maniacs that they fail to take into account that piracy is LEGAL in some countries. This thing doesn't make them some sort of heroes of entertainment, it makes them retards in an echo chamber thinking that piracy is some sort of evil thing that must be taken down because "missed sales" and completely disregard the fact that piracy is literally free advertising.What a weird hill to die on.Also, FNIS hasn't been relevant in almost a decade now.
>>738791276>the countries in question be like
>>738791276Free advertising is a weak argument. You're not within your right to go around doing the marketing campaign for other people's products as you see fit. They're free to say "no thank you" to your marketing offer.I don't know why niggas want to feel morally superior for pirating, just pirate the game and pirate the mod too.
>>738790884You know, FO4 right now is really awkward about this. By far the majority of modders for the game are slavs and it becomes especially weird that you see ukranian and russian mods together in the page, especially when those mods involve actual guns and armor used in the war right now.
>>738784279Why do I often see these fags claiming they are being spammed with bugs that only occur in "illegal installations". The only difference between an illegal one and a legal one would be the version could be older but there are plenty of legitimate reasons to use older versions and besides that.....how often are bugs coming up only in random versions of the game?I understand that can be an issue for some types of games but not elder scrolls....elder scrolls is, by design, extremely modular. They have to be trolling with this BS about pirated versions giving them tons of bugs they wouldn't otherwise need to fix.
>>738786790Did you? Did you really? I bought Skyrim day one for PC in 2011 and I'm pretty sure it didn't need steam.
>>738784279All of these words spent just because you want to be tittilated constantly like a horny teenager
>>738784895That sounds amazing anon - here is my suggestion. A tiny QoL addition>Dedicated folder for backing up games/rom and a backup button to hit if you need it that automatically copies the ROM or game into the backup folder. That way I don't have to make backups myself elsewhere.I understand this isn't super feasible for massive PC games like Skyrim but for others its very useful. Maybe place a warning like "this game is over 5GB are you sure you want to back it up, this may take a while"
>>738793112yes I DO want to be tittified and you will NOT stand in my way
>>738792101I'm unaware of any laws of india because I care not of that place.I was referring to european countries. Not all of them, but some of them, mine included.>>738792738Picrel.https://www.techdirt.com/2011/02/11/how-neil-gaiman-went-fearing-piracy-to-believing-its-incredibly-good-thing/Due to the nature of piracy, companies are not at liberty to say ""no thank you"" to it, however only fools and those who make shit games will fight against it.If the product is good, piracy will increase sales.If you're parasitic and don't want people to figure out that you have a terrible game, then you oppose piracy because you want people to give you money and forget about refunding your shitty experience (if applicable).If your product is VERY niche, piracy actually has the ability to resurrect franchises, increasing sales in the process (see: Snowpiercer, it was doomed to fail until korean pirates stumbled upon the idea).
>>738793646 (Me)>PicrelMy bad, I wanted to post the pic of the article instead of the gif.Anyways, here's the interview mentioned by the article.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qkyt1wXNlI
>>738784279FNIS is outdated anyway, you use nemesis for most cases and pandora if you really want to see your character take horse/wolf/draugr/falmer/werewolf/dragon/giant cock
>>738784279fuck off piratefag, you should face consequences for stealing games
what if you have both legal and illegal copies of Skyrim? It's been around for so long I've definitely done both
>>738785715>Lilith the Elderholy shit a 70 year old troon? He might be the oldest one alive
>>738793419>doesn't work on male charactersdropped
>>738784279Last I checked FNIS was obsolete slop, no?
>>738784279man i am glad i stopped modding skyrim before the moralfags came in
>>738785046I just found this out yesterday when I tried playing alien isolation with VR mod. Pretty disappointed since I was quite hyped while it was downloading and now have to wait for a steam sale
Reminds me of when a Starsector modder got completely shat on when it came out he added crash code if you used a certain mod together with it
>putting DRM on a modBut whyI'll just crack your faggot mod then
>>738793646You don't have to convince me, I agree, but it's an incredibly weak appeal to make in discussions about piracy because it is not your divine right to decide how marketing is done. Regardless of how effective it is. Not every game takes the best marketing strategy and the sales results are impacted by that, it's still their right to have marketed the game however they saw fit.Most of the cope people use to defend piracy can be very easily countered with "I do not care.">It's not stealing, it's copyingOk, I don't want people to copy my game>It actually helps sales!I don't want your help selling my gameAny appeal to the virtues of piracy can be dismissed without the pirates changing their minds about pirating the thing in question.You pirate it because you want to and because you can, not because you're helping sales. Even if it does end up helping. I have discovered many of my favorite series through piracy, but also discovered a few games I would probably have bought to try and felt glad I didn't waste money on them, and many games I did enjoy, but not enough to want to buy the game or sequel. Played to completion, had fun, never spent a dime.But, again, I agree that it can help. I bought so much crap of my favorite series discovered through piracy, and shilled those games so hard that I'm sure I made a few people buy them too. But that's not true of everything I pirate, even good games.
>>738785085It's a symptom of a larger problem, corporation worship. Corporations managed to convince many people that they are genuine "allies" and champions for social justice. They fooled many people to believe "we're in this together" and that everything corporations do is for our benefit. When you factor in the rise of autism, you can see how autists who get into hobbies or professions like molding can suddenly become very protective of their best buddies in suits who don't even know who the fuck they are.
>>738794250does it not work with pirated steam copy as well?
>>738794596I can't find steam version anywhere, every upload seems to be GoG versions
>>738793759pretty sure Pandora is just better overall since it's faster than nemesis
>>738794291>But whysome people get a tiny sliver of power and/or authority over people and they lose their fucking minds
The Ninja Gaiden mod I use supposedly doesn't work on pirated versions but I use it just fine. I think it just requires latest patch but people are dumb and it's not his job to help retards update their games so he says it only works on Steam because Steam auto updates. Anyone smart enough to update their pirated copy is smart enough to download the mod anyway to give it a shot and see if he can change any files or paths to make it work with the pirated copy.
>>738794385>but it's an incredibly weak appeal to make in discussions about piracy because it is not your divine right to decide how marketing is doneSure, but due to the principle of piracy, the creators have no choice in the matter. Good thing then, that it's modern day piracy and not traditional piracy which outright steals a product.>Most of the cope people use to defend piracy can be very easily countered with "I do not care."Countered? I don't think so. Brushed aside? Yes.You can avoid any discussion by saying "I do not care" yet that presents no additional points to the discourse, it only shows one's distaste for it. Be it rational or not, it is -by effect- a rage quit from the discussion.Provided of course, that they ACTUALLY don't care. What you describe as>Ok, I don't want people to copy my gameisn't "I do not care", otherwise it wouldn't be said in the first place.>I don't want your help selling my gameThis is non-sensical. It's akin to asking people not to talk about the product. It's just not reasonable.>inb4 but they aren't just talking here!That's not my point, the point is that there are some methods of marketing that can not and will never be controllable.>You pirate it because you want to and because you can, not because you're helping sales.Also applicable to talking about any product in existence. I'm not a marketer, I'm just a guy who may advocate for a product based on its qualities alone. The financial state of the company making the product is outside my area of interests.That aside, I tend to agree.I pirate games because I can and I'm allowed to. If I play the game and I really like it, I buy it to voice my support. Either way, I'll talk about the game to my friends who are more keen on buying games by the way and the cycle continues.
