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Additional details courtesy of user PCGamingMegaMod

Resetera users have discovered that both new owners named by Dark0ne work for a company called Chosen.

We partner with founders to help scale what they’ve built amplifying their impact, supporting their team and culture, and ensuring the business thrives for the long term.

From Chosen's "Why work with us?" section:

You’ve built something players love. We’re here to protect that magic and help it grow — with the care, creativity, and support it deserves.

It's vague to what extent this is a sale. Dark0ne mentioned the owners have "changed hands", but also mentions "I’ll also be working with the team to help guide the overall direction of the site, just without needing to be the person who signs off on every little thing and without taking responsibility for any and all things Nexus Mods".

In regards to Lifetime Premium, a Nexus Community Manager wrote this comment here:

Lifetime Premium means exactly that: Lifetime. There are no plans to revoke it. Beyond the fact that it wouldn’t make business sense, doing so would break trust with the community, which is the last thing we want. We’re committed to honouring the promises made to our supporters.

Back in the 80's, Atari had a monopoly of games and charged absurd amounts of money for titles that pretty much had no quality control. The cost of each cartridge would easily go over $100 in today's money and gamers began to pull back on purchasing anything. This eventually culminated in the infamous E.T. movie tie in that led to pallets of its unsold cartridges ending up in a landfill and crashing the industry.

Now that Nintendo's signaled to the rest of the industry it's okay to sell digital titles at $80 each, how soon do you see gamers collectively hold back on their purchases that will eventually collapse the AAA market? Will the current trade war play a role in the hardware side of things with the collapse? Will all major companies save Nintendo suffer the downturn?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31266507

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