Yesterday, modding web site Nexus Mods introduced a change in possession that’ll see its founder step again. Not a lot data was offered within the announcement as to who the brand new homeowners had been, but it surely’s now been confirmed to be an organization referred to as Chosen.
As we reported yesterday, the possession change announcement penned by Nexus mods founder Robin ‘Dark0ne’ Scott did not go into a lot element as to the identification of these being handed the reigns. A Victor and a Marinus had been cited as having “come on board to guide this subsequent chapter”, together with hyperlinks to their Nexus Mods profiles that solely provided transient bios.
We reached out to Nexus Mods yesterday with the intention to attempt to be taught extra concerning the identification of the brand new homeowners, and had been supplied with a press release by group lead Mathew Elliott.
“We didn’t go into an excessive amount of element concerning the new possession within the preliminary put up, however the group has been fast to placed on their investigator hats, digging into the brand new homeowners’ identities, backgrounds, beliefs, even their favourite soccer groups, and speculating on what this would possibly imply for modding,” it stated, “A little bit of Reddit or Twitter sleuthing will floor most of what they’ve discovered.” It added that the brand new homeowners are “very hands-on and at the moment are embedded instantly with the crew in our places of work.”
The group sleuthing Elliott referenced was this ResetEra thread, which noticed customers RandomlyRandom67 and chocobalt conclude that the brand new homeowners are an organization referred to as Chosen, with co-founders Victor Folmann and Marinus Elgaard believed to be the Victor and Marinus referred to in Scott’s put up. This has now been confirmed by way of a stickied comment on Scott’s unique put up.
In it, Folmann, Elgaard, and Nikolaj Nyholm tackle Scott’s put up not mentioning Chosen by title, writing: “This put up wasn’t about Chosen — it was about Robin and the legacy he constructed over 24 years. We’re the brand new homeowners and supreme decision-makers at Nexus Mods. We’ll share extra about ourselves once we’ve earned that proper. For now, we’re targeted on listening, studying, and making modding even simpler, and sure, you’ll see us round in the neighborhood being lively.”
The trio assert that they do not plan to begin charging for mods or revoking lifetime premium subscriptions, including when it comes to monetisation basically: “We’re not altering the core mannequin. No aggressive monetisation. No paid mods. If something, we’re aiming for fewer adverts, no more.”
Chosen, which was solely based in January 2025, state their aim as being to “associate with founders to assist scale what they’ve constructed—amplifying their impression, supporting their crew and tradition, and making certain the enterprise thrives for the long run.” Mainly, they appear to be within the enterprise of shopping for into or shopping for up community-focused platforms (their web site cites earlier work with the likes of EA FC group databases FUTBIN and RenderZ), and operating them, with founders provided the possibility to remain on board or take a “quick, straightforward exit” that Chosen declare should not go away them worrying about their creation taking place the pan.
Folmann’s LinkedIn exercise got here below scrutiny following the aforementioned ResetEra sleuthing, together with a ‘Gaming startup monetisation cheat sheet’ that mentions NFTs and crypto, initially posted seven months ago. When a commenter fretted about these options being added to Nexus Mods, Folmann responded “100% agree — not taking place”.
One other post from 4 months in the past sees him predict that in 2025 “AI will allow solo devs to create $100M hits and 2-person groups to construct AAA video games”, and declare “AI-powered modding will revolutionise sport growth”.
We have reached out to Nexus Mods and Chosen for remark.
It will be attention-grabbing to see how all of this performs out, however initially saying the possession change in a method that left people needing to do some fairly in-depth detective work to search out out precisely who was taking on appears a wierd and counterproductive transfer on Nexus Mods’ half, a minimum of from a PR perspective.
