In Nexus Mods’ words: “A beast of monstrous proportions is approaching.” Today, the mod distribution site – home to some of the best community made video game additions (looking at you Shrek and Thomas) – will hit 10bn downloads.
To put that milestone into some perspective, “if every download were a footstep, you could walk to the moon 11 times, or walk The Seven Thousand Steps to High Hrothgar 4,161,464 times,” Nexus Mods said.
Meanwhile, if you are more like me and find it easier to envision things with pizza slices, if Nexus Mods celebrated each download with a slice of thick crust Margherita with extra cheese, “this pizza would cover 15 times the size of Manhattan Island”. These are facts you simply knead to know to appreciate how monumental this milestone really is.
Celebrating today, the site said these 10bn downloads are “spread across 539,682 mod files, created by a vibrant community of 128,361 mod authors”. All of these mods are “serving over 47 million total members”, with 2683 different games being modded. Meanwhile, the site sees roughly 10m downloads per day. Phew!