Hello all! Komodo here!

Our admin team have decided to post this change of etiquette here to make it known our revised stance in regards to uploading monetised links to this website.

As of today we have officially banned link sharing sites such as adf.ly and linkshrink from our downloads.
New mods will need to be uploaded directly, or linked either directly to a free download or to a free download page.

For example:

• Mods linked to your Patreon page are banned.
• However, mods linked to Patreon posts are fine as long as the file is available there for free, visible at first glance. No redirecting.
• Mods linked to a YouTube page or video are banned regardless of whether or not there is a link available*
• Links to paid commerce sites like Gumroad are also banned

*this doesn’t mean that youtube videos cannot be embedded into your description or changelog, just that the download link cannot point to a video/channel

Failure to comply with these changes may result in a deletion of your mods without warning or a ban if necessary. (subject to moderator’s opinion)

Our reasoning for this change in rules are as follows:
Firstly, there were a growing amount of users making “adf.ly chains” to profit multiple times off of one link. Additionaly, an argument could be made that users were profiting almost entirely off of Dimps/Bandai’s work, which was never our intention here at xenoversemods as we aim to make free additional content to enhance the user experience of the game.

We hope you can understand and we are deeply sorry to any innocent content creators who are affected by this change.

We recommend you become a YouTube/Twitch partner to show off your work if you still wish to earn money. We also recommend adding optional donation links to your user profiles and mod descriptions. It is not essential, but we urge you update your links now to avoid any conflict down the line.

As some of you may have noticed, over the past few weeks there has been a new section for mods entitled “CAC section”. This was implemented due to overwhelming demand from users who fall under this growing niche of mod creators and also people who avoid this type of modification. The split is designed to act as a portal for people who like to upload/download these kinds of mods to do so without any further harassment from commentors, and for the people who have a problem with these kinds of mods can browse the site without finding only this content. In theory, stick to your section and everybody wins.

However, this feature has been completely misused by nearly everyone on both sides due to our unintended lack of communication, and only seems to be getting worse with time. No matter what damage control measures we seem to be taking, people keep mislabelling and mixing up mods by ignoring this change, or seeing it as an opportunity to appear on both sections of the site, the latter of which, we can not tolerate.

So, in attempt to resolve this mess we’ve relabelled the categories with hints and added an upload agreement for modders to sign to ensure they do not make these mistakes, and also to remind them of our upload rules before they pull the trigger.

Guidelines involving category selection:

• If your mod is a custom skill or a set/item of clothing, it does not belong in this section and will be removed if caught.
• Similarly, if your mod is a player character with custom skills and clothing, it only belongs in this section.
• The subcategories in Xenoverse 2 are strictly off-limits for CAC2X2M mods, as it is very misleading.
• If you want your CAC’s unqiue skills/outfits to appear in the Xenoverse 2 category, upload them as separate entities in this section.
• People caught using false categories or multiple top-level categories will have their work removed from these categories or will not be accepted.
• If your mod is a large pack that contains mostly new content and also some CAC mods, then feel free to post elsewhere.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post

– Xenoverse Mods Admin Team