Arthmoor, who is responsible for Skyrim mods that have been downloaded millions of times, will be removing their work from Nexus Mods.
The modding community is huge and plays a massive role in a lot of games, whether certain studios like that or not. Take-Two, for example, has been going in hard on GTA mods recently, issuing DMCA takedowns left and right. The same risk has not yet befallen Skyrim, and probably never will. However, a change in policy for Nexus Mods could mean your favorite Skyrim mods are about to disappear.
Nexus Mods hosts mods from a number of different users and is where those who want to use those mods go to download them. Starting this month, modders who upload their work to Nexus will no longer be allowed to delete it. That's due to Nexus adding a new feature called collections in which different mods are grouped together. A creator deleting even one mod that appears in various collections could render all of those collections obsolete.
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Modders will be allowed to archive their creations, hiding them from the site, but they will still be included in whatever collections they are already a part of. That isn't good enough for Arthmoor who has revealed they will be deleting their work from the site before the new rules are exacted. That's bad news for Skyrim players, a game for which Arthmoor has created mods that have been used by millions of players.
One of Arthmoor's most popular Skyrim mods is Alternate Start – Live Another Life. The mod allows you to skip Skyrim's intro and tutorial and has been downloaded more than eight million times. “Here's to hoping that current efforts by several parties to launch sites that honor a mod author's legal right to delete their content take hold and provide some badly needed competition in this space,” Arthmoor wrote on Nexus Mods.
Arthmoor has also created mods for Oblivion and Morrowind which will also be removed. However, all of their work will still be available through AFK Mods, a site that still allows creators to delete their work whenever they like. The change in policy by Nexus Mods has added fuel to the argument over who exactly owns mods once they have been added to a site. Some creators are happy for a site like Nexus to take ownership and do whatever they want with their creations, whereas modders like Arthmoor believe they should be able to continue doing what they want with their mods.
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