Fan Sites Must Be Destroyed!
uknortherner2k:
Quote from: Pistachio;885806
EA has no interest in preventing CC, its bad for business. I have good reason to believe that future releases from Maxis will be more CC friendly rather than less.
Unfortunately the humour in this particular artistic statement is somewhat limited for me, some of us get routinely subjected to too much crap from people who genuinely believe those sentiments. I don't personally enjoy stuck up kids giving me a hard time because they feel I should close my site if I can't afford to pay for it entirely myself, sadly for me the most important decision I have each day is not whether to take the blue or the pink Lexus out for a spin. The bewildering sense of entitlement that seems to be so pervasive throughout this community continues to shock me, the idea that not only should creators make things, they should also be solely responsible for paying for the privilege of other people playing with their creations? The community's deranged obsession with pay sites completely ignores the fact that *someone* has to pay to keep these websites online. Keeping websites free involves more than simply bullying those who can't afford their sites offline.
But the thing is, nobody is putting a gun to your head and saying you must make CC and distribute them for free. If you choose to make content and set up a website, that's *your* decision, and nobody else's. Therefore, why should you expect everyone else to pay for it? It's a hobby, not a business!
At the end of the day, there are sites out there like The Sims Resource that are simply in the business of taking players content and charging for it, claiming the copyright for themselves and paying a handful of privileged "Featured Artists" to churn out an increasing number of substandard items for a ludicrously high subscription price. The rest of the contributors, of course get absolutely nothing, not even ownership or control over their own submissions.
I used to make content for Sims 1 for a now-gone website (Living-It-Up). I did it because it was fun, not because I thought I was entitled to other fans cash! I never received a penny for my work, and I certainly never expected to. I did it because I wanted others to enjoy it.
Shaddeh:
Remember, people, when you support fansites, you support the Communists, and when you support the Communists, you support China, and when you support China, you support ninjas, and when you support ninja you're saying that ninjas>pirates and DATS NO GEWD.
Sexcellent job, BTW. XD
Meganne:
Quote from: Chairman Greg;883196
In fact, I can't think of a cogent business reason that EA would want to slow down fan artists; while at the same time, I can think of lots of business reasons that they wouldn't want fan artists to go looking for a competing game to support. :)
In case you think that your "irony" got lost, it didn't, many just chose to ignore it. You're mixing intentionally free fansites with paysites. Many others make a distinction, you know?
Paysites take money out of the pockets of the same simmers that could buy one expansion more. From a business point of view why should EA support paysites? On the other side I can see very good business reasons to support real fansites, as in free fansites.
I wonder where paysiters would go looking for a "competing game" that allows them to get currency for custom content.
BunniesRPritty:
Maybe it is the heavy scent of bleach in the air over here or the fact that its late at night but I didnt find this humorous at all. I don't get it at all.Seems to me you are lumping together paysites and sites that ask for donations. Can someone explain to me, my brain is starting to explode from trying to find the humor and logic.
ísarah:
Poor people who want to make their own Sims CC sites need to a. get a less expensive hobby, b. ask for voluntary donations without "gift sets" as an incentive, or c. get together with other 'financially challenged' Sims CC creators and split the hosting bill together. Donators could be rewarded with something other than exclusive gift sets and donation meshes (which is a violation of EA terms). For example, if a site is set up to allow people to download only one file at a time (like MTS2), donators could be rewarded with a higher bandwidth allowance (three or more items at a time), since donations are only to help pay the bandwidth bills, right?
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