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Since Marvel Rivals launched last month, the PC modding community has been working to create a litany of content for the shooter, from new skins and model exchangesto fresh beats for Luna Snow to jam out in her final at. But one of the largest online modding communities is facing a firestorm of death threats over the removal of a series of mods that have transformed it. Captain America in leading American politicians.
In general, many of the cosmetic mods for Rivals that have appeared since the release are harmless – they are client-side alterations, rather than server-side, which means that only players who have installed the mod (whether the user himself or others in a match with it installed) they will see that you have given Spider-Man his Sam Raimi’s dressor returned Iron Fist in Deku from My Hero Academia. But despite that, a brouhaha started this week after one of the biggest mod sites online, Nexus Mods, banned a series of mods that swapped Captain America’s heads for stylized renditions of President-elect Donald Trumpand current President Joe Biden.
While the mods themselves were removed from Nexus last week on January 2, today the Nexus Mods X account released an extended statement clarifying the decision, after community moderators and site ownership found themselves facing a wave of harassment and death threats over claims of bias and censorship. . “In 2020 we updated our Terms of Service to state that we are removing any US political mods from our site,” the statement said. read in part. “By removing the Trump mod, we are simply enforcing our existing file submission policies. What has been overlooked in most of the conversation is that we have also removed other mods with US Presidents uploaded to the site for Marvel Rivalslike Biden and Obama.”
“While we have the right to choose what we host on our platform, we are not the authority on what you do or do not decide to modify in your games, and these mods can be found elsewhere on other sites” , the statement concluded. before linking with Nexus Mods’ terms of service page.
At the beginning of this week in a reddit thread now locked criticizing the decision, Nexus Mods owner TheDarkOne noted that several members of the Nexus Mods moderator team had faced abuse for removing the Trump mod, while ignoring the similar decision to also remove the Biden version. “Case in point, today, with all the nutjobs coming out of the woodwork sending us death threats, calling us pedos and all the other “wah wahs” that come with this ridiculous situation because some YouTuber told them that we were just removing Trump’s mods.”
“It’s so stupid, and these people are so stupid, that I can’t be fucked with it. I don’t expect any of my staff to deal with these guys more than to show them the door,” continued TheDarkOne. “So we remove all the mods that we see / that inform us about the topic, and all the people that this meeting can trot because it is not really worth our time or effort to care.”
Suffice it to say, if you want Captain America to dive into some backlines as a real figure in American politics (and again, it will be mostly for your own enjoyment rather than any poor strategists you’re annoying in the game), you . I will need to take your fix elsewhere. But maybe you should ask yourself if Steve himself would approve before looking those out – and why not something infinitely cooler and have their Marvel vs. Capcom the theme played when he uses his ult instead?
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