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[DryvBy]

Nexus Mods shouldn't even be visited at this point. Can NeoGAF make a mod site that doesn't restrict any mods that aren't illegal?

Edit and leaving my foolishness for humility reasons:

Nexus Mods removes God of War Ragnarök mod that removes PSN requirement

Nexus Mods shouldn't even be visited at this point. Can NeoGAF make a mod site that doesn't restrict any mods that aren't illegal? Edit and leaving my foolishness for humility reasons...

www.neogaf.com

 

[willothedog]

Isn't it on GitHub?

 

[Skifi28]

They're afraid of their own shadows at this point.

Edit: Or the modder in this case.

 

[Thabass]

From what I heard was that the modder removed it himself and it wasn't Nexus Mods that removed it.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Of all the stupid things to take down this really takes the cake.

 

[Puscifer]

Glad I stopped subscribing to them, they're absolute jokes and have been showing their ass the past year.

We really should be using moddb

 

[DryvBy]

From what I heard was that the modder removed it himself and it wasn't Nexus Mods that removed it.

Can you source? I'll get a mod to update the heading if true.

 

[jshackles]

Isn't it on GitHub?

Looks like it got removed from Github as well

 

[jshackles]

Can you source? I'll get a mod to update the heading if true.

 

[Thabass]

Can you source? I'll get a mod to update the heading if true.

Unfortunately the only source I have is from Nexus Mods themselves via X.



Though, I don't see them making this statement publicly if they were lying about it. But, take it as you will.

 

[adamsapple]

Unfortunately the only source I have is from Nexus Mods themselves via X.



Though, I don't see them making this statement publicly if they were lying about it. But, take it as you will.

The ninja's got to him.

 

[Punished Miku]

Yeah, I bet Sony went right for the jugular on this one.

 

[CliffBronger]

It will probably turn up on based mods at some point.

 

[HL3.exe]

Seems logical, if shitty. Nexus doesn't want to be accountable, makes sense.

 

[jshackles]

Yeah, I bet Sony went right for the jugular on this one.

My thought as well - Sony lawyers probably sent him a well worded cease and desist letter, complete with legal threats over "lost sales".

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[ManaByte]

You should know by now that Nexus Mods is not your friend.

 

[Mithos]

This is why you download mods day 1 when you see a mod that you "think" might be removed for any reason.

 

[pudel]

I wonder what happened! (not really)

 

[tmlDan]

good.

 

[RCX]

Anybody want to link a mirror?

 

[Bojji]

Nexus mods are pussies. Proven many times now.

 

[T4keD0wN]

My thought as well - Sony lawyers probably sent him a well worded cease and desist letter, complete with legal threats over "lost sales".

Mod had only about 2500 downloads, doubt it was ever on Sonys radar.

 

[willothedog]

Anybody want to link a mirror?

It's on gamepressure

 

[jshackles]

Mod had only about 2500 downloads, doubt it was ever on Sonys radar.

It hit a lot of major gaming news outlets yesterday, even though the mod had been out for a couple of days by then

New PC Mod Removes God of War Ragnarok's PSN Requirement [Update]

The simple and free mod lets you play the sequel on Steam without any PSN linking

kotaku.com

God of War Ragnarok's PSN PC Requirement Removed By Modder, But Only Briefly

Since Sony hasn't dropped the PSN requirement from God of War Ragnarok's PC port, a modder took actions into their own hands.

www.gamespot.com

God of War Ragnarok Mod Removes Controversial PSN Requirement — and Its Creator Has Vowed to Maintain It - IGN

Just days after PlayStation game God of War Ragnarok launched on PC to a ‘mixed’ Steam user review rating over its forced PlayStation Network account linking, a mod has been released that bypasses the requirement entirely.

www.ign.com

Kind of a bad look for Sony, if your big push for PC games requiring PSN is so publicly shown to be easily bypassed. This was definitely on their radar after yesterday's press rounds.

 

[T4keD0wN]

It hit a lot of major gaming news outlets yesterday, even though the mod had been out for a couple of days by then

New PC Mod Removes God of War Ragnarok's PSN Requirement [Update]

The simple and free mod lets you play the sequel on Steam without any PSN linking

kotaku.com

God of War Ragnarok's PSN PC Requirement Removed By Modder, But Only Briefly

Since Sony hasn't dropped the PSN requirement from God of War Ragnarok's PC port, a modder took actions into their own hands.

www.gamespot.com

God of War Ragnarok Mod Removes Controversial PSN Requirement — and Its Creator Has Vowed to Maintain It - IGN

Just days after PlayStation game God of War Ragnarok launched on PC to a ‘mixed’ Steam user review rating over its forced PlayStation Network account linking, a mod has been released that bypasses the requirement entirely.

www.ign.com

Kind of a bad look for Sony, if your big push for PC games requiring PSN is so publicly shown to be easily bypassed. This was definitely on their radar after yesterday's press rounds.

Turns out the modder has removed it as a precaution to avoid any potential trouble coming up because of the attention it was starting to get.

 

[Draugoth]

​

• Shortly after the release of the PC port of Ragnarök, Nexus Mods user iArtoriasUA created a mod called NoPSSSDK for it that allowed players to bypass this requirement and play without a PSN account.
• However, the mod has now been mysteriously taken down without explanation or reason. Nexus Mods reports that the author was responsible for the removal and has "reached out" to find out why, though a recent statement from iArtoriasUA suggested they planned to keep it up and maintained as much as possible.

Just a few days after the PC launch of God of War Ragnarök and the subsequent release of a mod that allows players to bypass Sony's controversial PlayStation Network (PSN) sign-in requirement, the mod has been taken down without any explanation or reasoning. At the time of writing, it is no longer available to download from GitHub or the hosting site Nexus Mods.

Titled "NoPSSDK" by its author iArtoriasUA, the mod works by using a .dll file placed into the game's folder to disable its PSN interface and "fully strips the PlayStation PC SDK runtime requirement for God of War Ragnarök." Aside from letting fans skirt around the need for a PSN account, this also effectively allowed them to play Santa Monica Studio's action-adventure title while offline — something that isn't possible with the PSN requirement, as it serves as always-online DRM.

At the moment, it's not clear why the project has gone offline, though Nexus Mods reports that iArtoriasUA is responsible for its disappearance. "By the way: We've noticed that the popular PSN-bypass mod for God of War Ragnarök has been removed from our site by the author, and so we've reached out to find out why," reads a post from the site's official X (Twitter) account shared Wednesday morning.

With that in mind, a natural assumption to make is that Sony got involved somehow, though that can't be said for certain since there's no concrete evidence of the firm doing so. Still, given that the mod had already racked up several thousand downloads in just a couple days, I can't imagine Sony was happy about a popular workaround for its policy.

Full report via WindowsCentral

 

[LectureMaster]

Of course, Nexus Mod has been a pussy all the time.

 

[DaciaJC]

It's pretty cute that they try to paint themselves as showing concern, meanwhile they have no issue deleting mods that don't conform to their radical woke ideology.

 

[TheUndeadGamer]

good.

How is it good?

 

[tmlDan]

How is it good?

because im tired of PC gamers complaining about PS all the time when other pubs on PC have been doing it for a long time

 

[HogIsland]

it's crazy to me that a website that still links to low-speed/high-speed download options like some ROM site from 2006 remains the primary outlet for something as widely used as mods. mods should just be distributed via bittorrent with like RSS feeds for aggregation/discovery and some file management frontend. there are better tools in the console hacking community and they're facilitating copyright infringement.

 

[Dafegamer]

 

[jshackles]

Seems the mod author just got spooked by the posibility of lawyers

 

[bender]

Seems the mod author just got spooked by the posibility of lawyers

But, but, but Fuck Sony and Fuck Nexus, Fuck the System, I was born to rage against them.

 

[//DEVIL//]

what I find that this mod must have been downloaded a million time already. no one can like... mediafire it or host it anywhere ?

 

[ZehDon]

Seems the mod author just got spooked by the posibility of lawyers

That's a bit sad to see. The work itself was made public, and it used Microsoft's libraries, so I imagine we'll have a new version before long.

 

[DeepEnigma]

But, but, but Fuck Sony and Fuck Nexus, Fuck the System, I was born to rage against them.

Now these "how do you do fellow kids" Rage for the Machine, ironic.

 

[lmimmfn]

Fuck that POS woke site, use alternatives and kill that site

 

[adamsapple]

Seems the mod author just got spooked by the posibility of lawyers

 

[damidu]

fiiine, ill do it myself

 

[Draugoth]

Seems it was some Sony dmca

 

[El Muerto]

The git is accessible via wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20240924200559/https://github.com/iArtorias/nopssdk

 

[JimboJones]

How is it good?

He astroturfs for Sony.