Third Party Mods

Dac · Apr 13, 2022

notpee said: ↑

yes it is
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Thanks
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DaddelZeit said: ↑

Welcome to the forums
Third party websites are a very...sensitive topic on most BeamNG related media, as you can probably tell.
This is my take on the whole thing, some might think this is very wrong, but after all you're allowed to have different opinions.

There is a slight chance of getting a ransomware or a virus by downloading from any of the above listed websites, however you're not going to be under a large risk as long as these files are compressed zip files, or rar files. If it's an exe, I wouldn't even bother. For example: the world of mods installer. If I remember correctly, this is an actual virus and contains malicious code.

The main reason why 3rd party websites are despised is because of the way they operate: they take someone else's work from wherever, the repository, the forums, sometimes even from another 3rd party website, upload it to their's and make money off the ads on their site. And when I say from wherever, I mean wherever. A large amount of the time modders might even find their unreleased or private mods leaked onto one of those websites, sometimes with and sometimes without credit. Nobody likes having their work or themselves disrespected in such a way.

TL;DR:
3rd party sites are bad not because of possible viruses, but because they make money off of other people's work, while said people get nothing from it.

The best sources of mods are the repository, the forums, and the discord/YouTube of the creator.
Hope this clears things up
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Wow that's very helpful

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