Anyone else banned from Skyrim Nexus?
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hannibalektr
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@ Dagmar, I see three posts where people agree about the "horror stories on the nexus". Steam has none of that, and simply can't be blamed for the DLC problem, no way, it's the game maker.. get a clue, all your objections there are "feeble" at best.
Nothing I wrote is irrelevant, you just can't discern the reality. I've worked for major corporations for the last 20 years, mostly software licensing and the re-seller channel. What do you have, 14 years of chewing bubble gum?
In that case (and again this is skyrim, this isnt Gearbox forum) you again make the same point he did, it's the game makers responsibility to design the game for steam, not the other way around. Steam is just a retail POC, the vendor is responsible for it's DLC content and how it is downloaded. Totally hypocritical statement AGAIN!
Good point, you obviously know nothing about software, computers or licensing models. All nexus does is host files with a comments section. Steam offers much more security and performance while browsing with your friends and buying games. Hands down the leader in the industry. So go ahead and hate, doesn't bother me. I'm use to 90% of the gene pool having no common sense.
But, this is "skyrim forums". how is that feeble or a non point? Did you forget where you are too? This string was about the nexus and skyrim mods on steam.
Nothing I wrote is irrelevant, you just can't discern the reality. I've worked for major corporations for the last 20 years, mostly software licensing and the re-seller channel. What do you have, 14 years of chewing bubble gum?
In that case (and again this is skyrim, this isnt Gearbox forum) you again make the same point he did, it's the game makers responsibility to design the game for steam, not the other way around. Steam is just a retail POC, the vendor is responsible for it's DLC content and how it is downloaded. Totally hypocritical statement AGAIN!
Good point, you obviously know nothing about software, computers or licensing models. All nexus does is host files with a comments section. Steam offers much more security and performance while browsing with your friends and buying games. Hands down the leader in the industry. So go ahead and hate, doesn't bother me. I'm use to 90% of the gene pool having no common sense.
But, this is "skyrim forums". how is that feeble or a non point? Did you forget where you are too? This string was about the nexus and skyrim mods on steam.
hannibalektr
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But was anyone's computer compromised with a trojan virus? No, did anyone lose money? No. This was an "attempt" to hack into steam, but no damage was done because as I stated before, they have safeguards and good infrastructure in place.
Why don't you link an article that proves this? Because none of them show any real damage. This conversation isnt about whether or not hackers are trying to penetrate steam, its about damage control when they do. Steam has never been successfully hacked to date and has never served up trojan virus's to their downloading subscribers. NEVER ONCE!
Key word here is "encrypted". The hackers never could decode the encrypted information. Hence no money damage was done. A professional organization, with "encrypted" files.. love it! Love steam!
Feeble you say? Nah, try just plain lame attempts to troll me.
Sean
lost somewhere
It's funny how blind you are, as Steam has also been hacked, and people do have "horror stories" about steam, you can even do a quick google search to find them.
From what I can see, people have had their accounts randomly deleted, Steam has terrible customer service, and the DRM is a pretty big issue with some people, so by all accounts, ignore anything that goes against Steam because it doesn't fit in with your opinions.
You don't seem to read practically anything shown, and their are more Pros with Nexus than Steam, and the Pros also outweigh the Cons.
The Nexus has:
-more games available for the NMM
-allows you to re-sort your mod order easily
-a more established modding community
-allows you to disable a mod/DLC WITHOUT having to open the game launcher
--which is good if you want to load Skyrim Script Extender right after, and not have to deal with the launcher
-Seems pretty secure to me, but then again, I am not an idiot when downloading files
--Never had an issue with trojans from them either
-Ads can be blocked with something called AdBlock (such a new and revolutionary thing,
)-No fee to use their tool
-Can use the Games for Windows version with NMM
-Disabling a mod will restore what was there previously, without having to jump through any hoops
Edit:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/...ack-credit-cards-personal-info-may-be-stolen/
http://techland.time.com/2012/02/13/steam-hack-worse-than-thought-three-months-later/
Dagmar
Defender of the Bunnies of Skyrim
Again this is irrelevant to the very simple and irrefutable observation that Steam's system for content management is relatively rigid and inflexible. Like all your responses to my posts it's a total straw man. You consistently fail to respond to the point because you have nothing to refute it so tilting at windmills is your only resort rather than simple use of common sense to concede the point.
No, you simply choose to ignore the meaning of the word. As stated above, nothing you've responded with is on point regardless of your willful blindness to that fact driven by a clouded and misguided ego.
Yet again you commit another sad logical fallacy making a false appeal to authority. The facts stand on their own. Only the truly desperate are forced to resort to waving their epeni and infantile immature ad hominems because they have no relevant facts to support their position. You may as well wave the white flag since metaphorically that's all you're doing with this statement.
This only displays profound ignorance about what Steam is. Steam is not simply a retail POC. That only encompasses a fraction of the service it provides to both its retailer and the consumer licensees The overwhelming functionality of the software is devoted to content management technology. It is a large part of its selling point to retailers.
You clearly don't even understand the meaning of the word. Throwing around the term simply because it has a negative connotation while being completely out of context only makes one look foolish and inept.
It must come from having to look at yourself in the mirror everyday.
You responded directly tomy post which clearly makes the subject matter of our discussion the content management features of Steam no matter how much you would like to pretend otherwise. I've haven't forgotten anything. You on the other had have displayed large deficits in the ability to retain a very simple fact about Steam.
Dagmar
Defender of the Bunnies of Skyrim
What color is the sky in your world? Are there unicorns there?
Steam was successfully hacked. The act is defined by the fact that the hackers gained access to information they should never have been able to get, not by their ability to use credit card information. They still were able to circumvent Steam's security which by common definition, regardless of what the word may mean in your personal "reality", is what successful hacking entails.
Further only the credit card information was encrypted. The rest of the personal information of the account holders was not. Depending on what information account holders chose to provide that could have been used for identity theft and targetting for phishing scams. There's no way practical method to get a metric of that, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen to any of the account holders whose information was compromised.
hannibalektr
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The sky is blue here, it's a beautiful day and I'm going outside to enjoy it with my kids on my vacation here.
It's been interesting reading the grasp at straws... toodles
It's been interesting reading the grasp at straws... toodles
utael
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Dagmar do you know your emails are sold by Nexus as well as your name? advertising companies approach high traffic websites and purchase the emails. Sorry any email can get targeted look at and forum. Hell if Rayven wanted to she could sell emails from this forum as well. I'm glad she doesn't (at least thats what the TOS say) but she could change those TOS at any time and sell email addresses. THEY AREN'T private info. Just like they can serve junk mail to your home address. Its public info.
As far as hacking goes. Yes steam was hacked. Pretty much any website out there is hacked. Its about the info that was taken. Steam kept their plops encrypted and didn't pull a Sony who left the credit card numbers in an UN-encrypted text document.
Again, one service isn't better than the other and neither of you will convince the other of anything but before making blanket statements try getting in dept with the discussion.
My stance on both is don't throw your cards one way or the other. As far as me I won't be using the nexus nearly as much as I'll use steam the reason being is Nexus continued to charge me for premium service after I had canceled and it took an email to explain what was going on and the reply from the owner of the website proceeded to act as if I was the moron for telling her to refund my account.
As far as hacking goes. Yes steam was hacked. Pretty much any website out there is hacked. Its about the info that was taken. Steam kept their plops encrypted and didn't pull a Sony who left the credit card numbers in an UN-encrypted text document.
Again, one service isn't better than the other and neither of you will convince the other of anything but before making blanket statements try getting in dept with the discussion.
My stance on both is don't throw your cards one way or the other. As far as me I won't be using the nexus nearly as much as I'll use steam the reason being is Nexus continued to charge me for premium service after I had canceled and it took an email to explain what was going on and the reply from the owner of the website proceeded to act as if I was the moron for telling her to refund my account.
Sean
lost somewhere
Except they did wait 90 days before saying that it was worse than people thought, and that is a pretty low move.
I would never trust either company with my card details or even personal information, but the main point of this little discussion is how Hannibal thinks that Nexus is full of viruses and will be dead in a month (or some idiotic timeframe), and then claims to have facts bases on one hacking, even though Steam went through a time of it being hacked, too.
I don't care of one person preferring Steam or Nexus over the other, but stating something on know real grounds, and then denying any and all facts is just irritating.
Then there's the rating spam, which just shows how immature Hannibal is.
hannibalektr
You need to visit the top of any forum page and click on the word 'Inbox' beside your name.
You need to visit the top of any forum page and click on the word 'Inbox' beside your name.
Stigweard Ruadhan
Jeg er stolt. Jeg er sterk.
It really escalated in here, did it not?
Sean
lost somewhere
Assumed, since you have been ranting so much.
I have shown similar of Steam
No.
Right, maybe you should read your posts.
What?
You went through 8 of my previous posts just to give me a Disagree, despite them being past posts.
You did all 8 at once, not separately, that seems like spam to me.
Losing personal information and credit card info is definitely winning.
Now you try to attack me with the MOST HYPOCRITICAL insult on the internet, very sad.
I'm not the one who had to go through other posts to give a rating.
Halkin
pzzzztt
you kick one, they all limp
Raijin
A Mage that loves a Templar
hannibalektr, Dude you went too far when you started pointing the "Get a life" finger at Sean_ over of his post count. I've been a member here since Jun 1, 2012 and I've posted 2,402(plus 1) messages here. Do I need a life? Probably but you know what? While I do have RL friends... They simply do not have a particular interests in gaming like I do. I'm forced to reach out over the internet to community like forums with other gamers; like this forum for an example.
This forum is a community; great for socialization. For you to tell people to get a life over their post count is somewhat childish. I hope you take the time to reread your post that you would man up and apologize for that silly statement.
This forum is a community; great for socialization. For you to tell people to get a life over their post count is somewhat childish. I hope you take the time to reread your post that you would man up and apologize for that silly statement.
Sean
lost somewhere
Way to sound like a spoiled child.
Do you not read what you are typing?
Hannibal appears to be a troll, and nothing more.
Lady Imp
Rabid Wolverine
Nocte Aeterna
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film
-pulls up lawn chair and gathers popcorn-
Lady Imp
Rabid Wolverine
In response to the whole hacking thing...there's one fundamental thing some of you seem to be missing:
If it's on the web, it can be hacked. If it's on a computer, it can be hacked.
Who cares if the Nexus gets hacked more often than Steam? Who cares that the Nexus is downloading trojan horses? Yaknow, if your computer had the proper protection, you can guard yourself against the electronic STDs and this becomes a moot point. Yaknow, there's a good possibility that this site is installing adware on your computer without your knowledge too....you gonna go trashing it now?
As I said before, both systems have their good points, and both have their bad. I would also like to take this moment to say that deleting ANYTHING downloaded by Steam is a COMPLETE pain in the badonkadonk, and their customer service quite frankly sucks balls. After I destroyed my copy of Morrowind with a mod, I emailed their support and got NO response. SUPER pissed. Fortunately, Chowder138 gave me a hand with it, and I'm all honkey dorey now.
Like I said before, both systems have their ups and their downs. Lesson here: keep your nose clean and your computer's condom up-to-date and you'll be fine.
Cause seriously, this thread has turned into this:
In other news, I tried to embed that video and got a "the server did not respond" and damn near had a heart attack...all that ranting for nothing!!
If it's on the web, it can be hacked. If it's on a computer, it can be hacked.
Who cares if the Nexus gets hacked more often than Steam? Who cares that the Nexus is downloading trojan horses? Yaknow, if your computer had the proper protection, you can guard yourself against the electronic STDs and this becomes a moot point. Yaknow, there's a good possibility that this site is installing adware on your computer without your knowledge too....you gonna go trashing it now?
As I said before, both systems have their good points, and both have their bad. I would also like to take this moment to say that deleting ANYTHING downloaded by Steam is a COMPLETE pain in the badonkadonk, and their customer service quite frankly sucks balls. After I destroyed my copy of Morrowind with a mod, I emailed their support and got NO response. SUPER pissed. Fortunately, Chowder138 gave me a hand with it, and I'm all honkey dorey now.
Like I said before, both systems have their ups and their downs. Lesson here: keep your nose clean and your computer's condom up-to-date and you'll be fine.
Cause seriously, this thread has turned into this:
In other news, I tried to embed that video and got a "the server did not respond" and damn near had a heart attack...all that ranting for nothing!!
Raijin
A Mage that loves a Templar
*raises hand* I need a life...
Getting a life is so overrated. It should be banned.
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