What are we doing?
We can now afford to give mod authors Free Premium. Yay! Mod authors will now be given Free Premium time as direct rewards for their contributions to the site without needing to have opted-in to Donation Points to purchase Premium memberships from the Donation Points Store. Now you can save your Donation Points for other great options like game keys, payouts and charity donations.
Here is a reminder of the milestones and their various rewards:
- 1,000 UDL: Free Supporter Membership and Access to Mod Author Discord Servers/Nexus Mods Forum (This is current functionality)
- 3,000 UDL: Free 1 Month Premium Membership
- 6,000 UDL: Free 1 Month Premium Membership
- 9,000 UDL: Free 1 Month Premium Membership
- 12,000 UDL: Free 1 Month Premium Membership
- 15,000 UDL: Free 1 Month Premium Membership
- 18,000 UDL: Free 1 Month Premium Membership
- 21,000 UDL: Free 1 Month Premium Membership
- 24,000 UDL: Free 1 Month Premium Membership
- 27,000 UDL: Free 1 Month Premium Membership
- 30,000 UDL: Lifetime Premium Membership
As we said in our last article, this Unique Download total will be calculated using our data on all historical mods including hidden, archived and deleted. As soon as we decided to put this in place, we removed the option to purchase Lifetime Premium from the DP store.
Some of you will have previously purchased Lifetime Premium, either with hard cash, back before the option was removed in 2021, or with Donation Points. We realise you will be missing out on this benefit, we get that this sucks. We really appreciate your past contributions which have helped us to grow the platform to the point where we can give back to mod authors in this way and for that, we are very thankful. In the future, we hope we may be able to recognise this contribution.
How is this going to work?
Mod authors will now receive Free Premium Memberships based on the milestones achieved. These months of Premium will appear as redeemable options in a new “Rewards” tab on your billing page.
If, for example, you have a total of 10,000 Unique Downloads, you will receive the previous 3 milestones of rewards aka, 3 Months of Premium Membership. When you achieve the next milestone of Unique Downloads, you will get another month of membership. Simple!
Things to note:
- You cannot redeem a reward if you have an active subscription or membership.
- You can only redeem the rewards one at a time. This is to allow you to have Premium benefits as and when you want to.
- These Rewards are non-transferable.
- Once you earn Lifetime, you will need to redeem this as well as it will require you to no longer have an active Premium membership.
- Once you are a Lifetime Premium member, you will no longer be able to earn Free Premium Membership Rewards as we literally cannot reward you any more than this.
How will I know when I have a reward?
We’ll tell you! The information will come in the form of a notification as well as an email (sorry but you may get several notifications if you already have a high number of UDLs when the system goes live). If, for some reason, you don’t receive either of these, we have added a function to our Discord to tell you your total calculated UDL count and a count has also been added to the new "User Profile" beta. Otherwise, if you think you’ve passed a milestone, but haven't received a notification/email, check your billing page.
Why are we doing this?
We felt that authors being able to purchase Premium using Donation Points was no longer representative of the appreciation we feel for their contributions to our community. Therefore, we decided to implement this change so that mod authors could have Premium as a result of their hard work while also being able to use their Donation Points purely for payouts and game keys.
In addition, the Donation Point membership system was open to abuse as memberships could be bought repeatedly and without limit. This resulted in a sort of 'Donation Points Black Market’ scenario where Donation Point earners could sell Lifetime to other users in exchange for real-life currency, essentially a form of money laundering.
When is it happening?
With the release of this news post, you can expect the system to go live imminently. Keep an eye on our Discord and this news post’s comments to see when exactly it will go live. If you experience any issues, please contact [email protected] or visit our feedback board or the feedback channel on our Discord.
What do you think of this change? Let us know in the comments.
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The feature should be fully rolled out as of 7 March! Let us know if you have any issues.Big thumbs up from me!
But even if thousands of unique file downloads doesn't count, it says 2000+ unique downloaders so I should've see Supporter on my profile, not just a member, right?
I've earned lifetime premium.
Thanks a lot !