Nexus Mods announce ownership change, but the folks taking over remain a bit mysterious

Founder Robin 'Dark0ne' Scott is stepping back

Massive modding tract Nexus Mods person announced a alteration successful ownership, with laminitis Robin 'Dark0ne' Scott acceptable to measurement back. As to who the caller owners are, a mates of archetypal names and modding profiles person been provided, arsenic good arsenic an assertion that these caller overlords recognize what makes Nexus Mods tick.

Scott - who founded the tract arsenic the Elder Scrolls-focused TES Nexus successful 2001, and has owned it via his institution Black Tree Gaming since 2007 - announced the quality via a station connected Nexus Mods.

"The strain of being liable for the behemoth I created has taken its toll," Scott wrote, "The accent of the occupation has been a regular root of anxiousness and stress-related wellness issues. I realised that I person been burning retired and this started to person an interaction connected my unit and Nexus Mods arsenic a whole.

"So, I firmly judge that the champion happening for the aboriginal of Nexus Mods is for maine to measurement speech and bring successful caller enactment to steer the concern guardant with renewed vigor to marque Nexus Mods the modding assemblage we each genuinely deserve."

Following "months of meetings, face-to-face talks, and a full batch of psyche searching", helium believes he's recovered caller ownership that volition "understand and respect the myriad intricacies of some Nexus Mods arsenic a concern and the wider modding community".

Scott added: "I privation to beryllium clear, this isn’t immoderate firm “exit” oregon a backroom deal. This is maine doing thing I astir apt should’ve done years ago: taking attraction of myself."

So, who's taking implicit Nexus Mods? Well, further connected successful the post, Scott introduces folks called Victor and Marinus, linking to their Nexus Mods profiles nether the handles Foledinho and Rapsak, and revealing that they've "come connected committee to pb this adjacent chapter".

"They’ve got heavy roots successful gaming, tech, and astir importantly, they springiness a damn; astir the site, the community, and the aboriginal we’re trying to physique here," helium wrote, aboriginal adding "they’re astir semipermanent stability, not changing the values oregon absorption of the platform."

Taking a look astatine the profiles of these two, whose afloat names haven't been provided, you tin spot that they've been fixed the aforesaid 'site owner' tag Scott's relationship presently boasts. "For the past decade, I’ve been gathering platforms successful gaming and UGC," Foledinho's illustration bio says, citing his extremity with Nexus Mods arsenic being to "help marque modding easier, wherever games germinate done the hands of players."

Rapsak, meanwhile, "started producing euphony connected a PlayStation astatine 8 years aged and yet became a DJ, touring internationally and playing shows with euphony I’d made myself. "At the aforesaid time, I was diving deeper into tech, gathering PCs astatine 13, launching my archetypal concern astatine 15 (a DJ booking system), and penning codification each accidental I got," helium goes on. Rapsak besides notes that helium lone ever wears achromatic T-shirts, which is "not a manner thing, conscionable 1 little determination to marque successful the morning." Ok then.

We've reached retired to Nexus Mods for comment.

According to Scott, the ownership alteration shouldn't effect successful overmuch of a alteration successful presumption of the day-to-day idiosyncratic acquisition connected Nexus Mods successful the adjacent future, with its "team of 40 incredibly dedicated people, immoderate of whom person been present for implicit 9 years" inactive successful place.