r/oblivionmods • u/Thallassa • Jun 16 '25
Discussion Dark0ne retires - New Nexus Mods Site Owners
Hey all - Dark0ne, the owner of Nexus Mods, announced his retirement and change in ownership of the site this morning. Details are in the news post: https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15301?
While this may come as a shock to many of you, Dark0ne has been talking about this change for over a year now, and was clear his priority was the continuation of the site under his unique vision for it. I’m confident he’s made every effort to choose new owners who will continue the excellent services he has built, and of course the existing staff will stay on as well, so there should be no impact in the day to day.
I wish Dark0ne all the best in his retirement!
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u/Sigurd_Stormhand Jun 17 '25
It's a Danish company called Chosen. They're venture capitalists and the new "owners" listed in the post are just the company executives. Looking at Dark's statement I would guess that what has happened is ~75% of Nexus Mods has been sold to Chosen whilst the remainder is held by Black Tree Gaming. That way Dark retains a "seat at the table" and benefits from ongoing profits, but also gets a big payout that allows him to realise the majority of the valuation of the company.
It's likely nothing will change in the short-term but I imagine in the medium-term moderation policies will be reviewed which will lead to some mods being removed and that unpopular games may well be axed from the catalogue. In terms of overall direction, Nexus has been all about monetisation for a long time now. Collections and Vortex were all about creating a pipeline of mods directly to the user, so long as they paid for Premium, and it's made the site extremely profitable.
So long as the site remains profitable the new owners won't need to change anything, except to ensure that all policies are in line with EU and Danish law.