people who use mod managers to download and install mods from Nexus Mods) increased to just under 1,000,000 each month. Considering the fact Nexus Mod Manager is, unfortunately, unstable and prone to unrecoverable corruption of the mod installation folder this is only a good thing as far as we are concerned. What we're seeing is less people using Nexus Mod Manager (15% in 2020, down from 22% in 2019), and they are moving to either Vortex or Mod Organizer 2 (12.5%, up from 10.5%). By the end of 2020 this number had increased to 72%. In 2019 Vortex accounted for 67% of all Nexus Mods users who used mod managers connected to our API. Our users downloaded over 59PB (59,000TB) of files in 2020, averaging 27Gbps of throughput on our service providers at any given time.įinally, user uptake of Vortex is increasing. While the number of downloads for Bethesda games increased by 1% in 2019 and 26% in 2020, the number of downloads for non-Bethesda games has increased by 69% and 89% respectively showing that, while Bethesda modding is still just as popular as ever, we continue to make inroads in hosting mods for as many games as possible, be they Bethesda games or not. 72% of downloads are for Bethesda games, showing that Bethesda games still account for the lion-share of downloads on Nexus Mods, however, that share is decreasing each year. This means, on average, our users are starting 22 new downloads every second of every day of the year. Naturally, with the increased number of users, views and mods on the site our download servers have also been busier than ever, averaging 56.7 million downloads each month in 2020, an increase of 32% on 2019's 42.8 million downloads. Some big game releases in 2020 including Mount & Blade: Bannerlord, Mechwarrior 5, Resident Evil 3, Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and the continuing Master Chief Collection, among many others, have continued to increase our extensive mod offerings outside of Bethesda games while Stardew Valley, The Witcher 3 and Monster Hunter World have continued to thrive with modding communities more popular than some of Bethesda's offerings on Nexus Mods. Non-Bethesda file uploads increased 82% in 2020 while Bethesda uploads increased 22%, up from -7% in 2019, showing that Covid has increased modding in both Bethesda and non-Bethesda games alike. 2020 is the first year in Nexus Mod's 20 year history that the new mod split between Bethesda games and non-Bethesda games was actually in favour of non-Bethesda games with 54% of all files uploaded in 2020 being for non-Bethesda games. We averaged 4,599 new mod uploads each month, a 47% increase on 2019's 3,116 new mods per month. This means the number of games we support has almost doubled in two years. We welcomed 300 new moddable games to Nexus Mods in 2020, up from the 221 new games added in 2019. We are now less than 50,000 new users off hitting the 25 million member milestone which will almost certainly be reached by the end of January. Our membership has swelled, increasing by 5.3 million in 2020, a 75% increase on 2019's 3 million new users. While these numbers have always steadily increased year-on-year, this is the single biggest yearly increase we've recorded since Skyrim was released almost a decade ago. We averaged 8.4 million unique visitors each month, a 43% increase from 2019's 5.9 million visitors with pageviews averaging 184 million each month, a 36% increase on 2019's 136 million. Read on if you're interested in the details, leave it there if that's all you needed to know.Ī year of Coronavirus and staying safe at home has inflated our statistics considerably. However, progress in some areas has been slow for us as we work to fight decade-old legacy code, highlighting key areas for us to improve upon, but we're better placed to face that head-on now than ever before. We're serving more users more mods for more games each and every year, not by a little, but by a lot. Everything you would like to see increase for your modding enjoyment, has. Statistically we're doing better than ever. I wasn't able to get around to doing one last year and I am aware that some of you actually like to punish yourselves, but if you're like me and just like to skim read, here's the TL DR: It has been a couple of years since I last updated you all on the more internal goings on at Nexus Mods so I've decided to drum up enough enthusiasm to write another of my long-winded, banal "blog posts" on the matter.
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