The popular modding site is discontinuing Marvel Rivals mods that let you play as Trump and Biden

since then Marvel competitors Launched last month, the PC modding community has been working on creating a series of content for the shooter, from New skins and Model trade-offsl New beats For Luna Snow to crash her last time. But one of the largest online modding communities has found itself in the middle of a firestorm of death threats over the removal of a series of controversial mods Captain America To senior American politicians.

In general, there are many cosmetic modifications Competitors That have appeared since release are harmless – they are client-side mods, not server-side, meaning that only players who have installed the mod (either the user themselves or others in a match with it installed) will see that I gave Spider-Man to Sam Raimi suitor transformed Iron Fist in Deku from My hero academy. Despite this, an uproar erupted this week after one of the internet’s biggest modding sites, Nexus Mods, banned a series of mods that replaced Captain America’s heads with stylized versions of… President-elect Donald TrumpAnd the current president, Joe Biden.

While the mods themselves were removed from Nexus last week on January 2, the Nexus Mods “In 2020, we updated our terms of service to state that we will remove any US political edits from our site,” the statement read. Partially reads. “By removing the Trump template, we are simply implementing our existing file submission policies. What has been overlooked in most conversations is that we have also removed other edits featuring Presidents of the United States that were uploaded to the site for Marvel competitorsLike 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 modifications can be found elsewhere on other sites,” the statement concluded. Before linking to Nexus Mods Terms of Service page.

Earlier this week in The Reddit thread is now closed Criticizing the decision, Nexus Mods owner TheDarkOne noted that several members of the Nexus Mods moderator team faced abuse for removing the Trump mod, while ignoring the similar decision to remove the Biden version of it as well. “Case in point, today, with all the crazy people 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 we’re just removing Trump edits. “

“It’s so stupid, and these people are so stupid, that I can’t really mess with it. “I don’t expect any of my employees to have to deal with these hits more than showing them the door either,” TheDarkOne continued. “So, we’re deleting all the edits “What we see/are told about it, and all the people who are bothered by it can scramble because it’s not worth our time or effort to care about.”

Suffice it to say, if you want Captain America to delve into some backstory as a real figure in American politics (and again, that will be mostly for your own enjoyment and not from any poor strategists you pester in-game), then you’ll need to get your fix elsewhere. But maybe you should ask yourself whether Steve himself would agree before looking for those things, and also why he wouldn’t Something infinitely cooler And have it Marvel vs. Capcom Playing with the theme when he uses his super abilities instead?

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