Bethesda is now owned by Microsoft meaning Starfield will be on gamepass day 1. Gamepass already heavily restricts how you mod your games with protected folder bullshit at the OS level.
I have a feeling that it'll be really hard to use nexus with Starfield if not entirely impossible as Beth and Msoft will want to kite you through their new mod store where they take a sizeable chunk from mod makers
I used to tell the kids that back in the day we could host our own servers, load custom skins, load whatever mods we wanted, make our own mp maps from scratch, mod the game to make stuff like counter-strike and team fortress. Fucking everything is locked down and monetized now if it's not some small indy title.
:bloomer: you can still do that, there is still vibrant communities for plenty of games like that and new indie titles (and some bigger ones ala paradox) are still built around doing that to a massive extent
Yeah it was just better when it was the norm.
Back in high school a friend of mine straight up hosted a Quake Arena LAN party.