Fan Sites Must Be Destroyed!
rose_red:
hehe you said it way better than I did uknortherner2k!
ísarah:
There's no excuse for paysites, they claim the money goes toward hosting. But it isn't really that expensive to host an individual website anymore (i.e. anything other than large group efforts and very large sites like Insim & MTS2), costs have gone down considerably over the years as more and more people open websites and blogs.
Domain name: $10-20 (so let's say average $15) /year ($1.25/month)
Site hosting: $5-30/month depending on whether you choose shared or dedicated server (only very large sites need dedicated servers), so let's say average $17.50/month.
File hosting: you can get a Rapidshare premium account for hosting your files (each file can be up to 2000 MB) at $86/year, or $7/month.
So an economic, but very functional site can cost around $25.75/month if you shop around and do your homework. How does someone justify a site like Peggyzone.com offering donation scheme from $10-70? Or Carla Niven offering a sub for $15/month? :smt120
If it is expensive for them, it actually HELPS them in the long run in improving the quality of the downloads. If they pay the cost themselves they are forced to only release the best of the best. If they offer really beautiful downloads for free, they can put a 'help us out' PayPal button & people will show their support financially. On the other hand, if you look at a mega huge subscription site like TSR they have about 10% - 15% really talented Featured Artists making the best high-end stuff (usually for pay) and the rest 85% - 90% is page after page of gappy hairs and fugly recolors and stuff that looks like it was made in MS Paint. Paysites become quantity before quality.:sad4:
"Well, I'm not rich. Do you think only rich people should be able to have Sims 2 websites?!" Kinda, yeah. That's how the world works.
Newsflash: Anyone who can afford a computer capable of playing the Sims 2, a high speed internet connection, the Sims 2 game + the Expansion packs ($50-18 apiece), has a PayPal account (thus obviously a credit card or bank account), programs like Poser 7 (expensive), Milkshape ($25-40 depending on where and when you bought it) and Photoshop (expensive) is probably not a starvin' Marvin in a hut somewhere. And if they really are poor and are using any sort of pirated software to make their custom content, I don't think they have any right to complain when someone shares their pay content on a site like PMBD.
Gary'sWife:
Sarah, you are my hero.
X-tin:
In our russian forum http://www.prosims.ru we're speaking about it. And our administrator think, that we can get pay objects from PMBD.
Yeah of cours it was long discussion with Janna from vitasims...but if we can, why we mustn't download it?
Lena from inbeatz and Regina from justsims have PMBD's banner - I'm respect they both.
In our site we have translation - http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fprosims.ru&langpair=ru|en&hl=en&ie=UTF8
BeosBoxBoy:
Moderation notice: This thread has had posts removed and/or moderated.
a word of warning to any who do not understand that this is a joke post - it's a joke post. Not a venue for you to post your opinions about pay-sites.
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