TheVampireDante

ESL plugins have a limit of 4096, on top of the ESP/ESM one, then you add in mods that don't use plugins at all and given enough time you can build up quite a modlist. Reaching that overall limit is definitely something, but it is doable, especially if you're very careful about how you go about it.

Some might for that reason, claiming some of them as their own for the ego hype, but I don't see that being a big reason. Others will have their own little sites or pages setup for collecting click/ad revenue or just to sell the mods outright, usually to an audience of newbies that don't know that the original free versions exist. Another is people that want to speedrun setting up the "competition" to this site for whatever reasons they have (not getting into that here, but the theme of this thread is likely very relevent). This sometimes gets coupled with a "you can claim your mods by signing up and messaging us" - which increases their numbers and makes things seem more legitimate when it's not. Then there's malware infectors grabbing files to redistribute with their BS included to scrape other types of data, grabbing large amounts of differing mods to redistribute elsewhere to reach a large number of people. There's a ton of other reasons/theories/ideas of why, but those are the ones that come to mind first.

Indeed - then you get ones like these that breach the 1K mark on their own. 1,758: https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrimspecialedition/collections/qdurkx 1,935: https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrimspecialedition/collections/9zfscf 4,235: https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrimspecialedition/collections/gnfjwh

Oh I know that all too well. I don't care why they do it personally, just mentioning some of the excuses I've seen used. Another one is "it's not available here legally" btw. It's not legal and not allowed here. That's all that matters as far as I'm concerned.

Not that they can't pay - many just don't want to. Or claim they're "trying it out" before buying something. Or claim they don't want to support the company making/publishing a game for some reason, but still like the product itself. Some don't seem to think they're doing anything wrong.

Necromongers: "Keep what you kill" Loremongers: "Bitch if you will"

Haven't heard that one in years.

Envy, probably annoyed the digital characters have one that they wouldn't need a microscope to view...

Empty head, empty heart.

Just keep an eye out for any blue police boxes appearing outside.

No.

Honestly - unless there's verification from a Marvel rep that the "age up" for the character is officially accepted, I wouldn't go making any mods that could cause an issue. A Dev from the studio should know they can't make a statement like that without backup from the character's copyright holder.

Nothing more than a stiff breeze in some cases it would appear...