Nexus Mods' new owner is a company whose co-founder has already had to reassure folks that NFTs and crypto aren't incoming

The modding tract has chosen Chosen

Yesterday, modding tract Nexus Mods announced a alteration successful ownership that'll spot its laminitis measurement back. Not overmuch info was provided successful the announcement arsenic to who the caller owners were, but it's present been confirmed to beryllium a institution called Chosen.

As we reported yesterday, the ownership alteration announcement penned by Nexus mods laminitis Robin 'Dark0ne' Scott didn't spell into overmuch item arsenic to the individuality of those being handed the reigns. A Victor and a Marinus were cited arsenic having "come connected committee to pb this adjacent chapter", on with links to their Nexus Mods profiles that lone offered little bios.

We reached retired to Nexus Mods yesterday successful bid to effort and larn much astir the individuality of the caller owners, and were provided with a connection by assemblage pb Mathew Elliott.

"We didn’t spell into excessively overmuch item astir the caller ownership successful the archetypal post, but the assemblage has been speedy to enactment connected their researcher hats, digging into the caller owners’ identities, backgrounds, beliefs, adjacent their favourite shot teams, and speculating connected what this mightiness mean for modding," it said, "A spot of Reddit oregon Twitter sleuthing volition aboveground astir of what they've found." It added that the caller owners are "very hands-on and are present embedded straight with the squad successful our offices."

The assemblage sleuthing Elliott referenced was this ResetEra thread, which saw users RandomlyRandom67 and chocobalt reason that the caller owners are a institution called Chosen, with co-founders Victor Folmann and Marinus Elgaard believed to beryllium the Victor and Marinus referred to successful Scott's post. This has present been confirmed via a stickied remark connected Scott's archetypal post.

In it, Folmann, Elgaard, and Nikolaj Nyholm code Scott's station not mentioning Chosen by name, writing: "This station wasn’t astir Chosen — it was astir Robin and the bequest helium built implicit 24 years. We’re the caller owners and eventual decision-makers astatine Nexus Mods. We’ll stock much astir ourselves erstwhile we’ve earned that right. For now, we’re focused connected listening, learning, and making modding adjacent easier, and yes, you’ll spot america astir successful the assemblage being active."

The trio asseverate that they don't program to commencement charging for mods oregon revoking beingness premium subscriptions, adding successful presumption of monetisation successful general: "We’re not changing the halfway model. No assertive monetisation. No paid mods. If anything, we’re aiming for less ads, not more."

Chosen, which was lone founded successful January 2025, authorities their purpose arsenic being to "partner with founders to assistance standard what they’ve built—amplifying their impact, supporting their squad and culture, and ensuring the concern thrives for the agelong term." Basically, they look to beryllium successful the concern of buying into oregon buying up community-focused platforms (their website cites erstwhile enactment with the likes of EA FC assemblage databases FUTBIN and RenderZ), and moving them, with founders offered the accidental to enactment connected committee oregon instrumentality a "quick, straightforward exit" that Chosen assertion shouldn't permission them worrying astir their instauration going down the pan.

Folmann's LinkedIn enactment came nether scrutiny pursuing the aforementioned ResetEra sleuthing, including a 'Gaming startup monetisation cheat sheet' that mentions NFTs and crypto, primitively posted 7 months ago. When a commenter fretted astir these features being added to Nexus Mods, Folmann responded "100% hold — not happening".

Another station from 4 months agone sees him foretell that successful 2025 "AI volition alteration solo devs to make $100M hits and 2-person teams to physique AAA games", and assertion "AI-powered modding volition revolutionise crippled development".

We've reached retired to Nexus Mods and Chosen for comment.

It'll beryllium absorbing to spot however each of this plays out, but primitively announcing the ownership alteration successful a mode that near folks needing to bash immoderate beauteous in-depth detective enactment to find retired precisely who was taking implicit seems a unusual and counterproductive determination connected Nexus Mods' part, astatine slightest from a PR perspective.