Paysite Discussion Thread
Inge Jones:
I am completely astounded by it. I have always thought of the owners of TSR as polite, respectable people, whatever the community may think of the fact they run a Sims paysite. I was really inclined to believe the recent statement on that basis, until I saw this.
Paden:
After being pointed to some evidence, I have made screenies and bookmarked it in case it's needed to prove that this garbage started back in 2006. This kind of thing makes me sick, to read what was in those posts and see them slavering and panting for any new information that jerk would drip down to their open maws... Pack of rabid hyenas, really. I won't say wolves, because wolves are respectable creatures that don't live in their own filth. You can guess what I think about the site in question.
Celestra:
My only thought on this is that almost EVERY site is a form of paysite including this one
People here donate (pay) so that everyone can download all the content freely
If No one donated then i bet this site would be a lot lot smaller IF it even kept going
And as for other sites that charge a fixed fee to everyone its simple . If you like their downloads enough to pay then do so if you don't then don't .
No one is forced to be a member of a paysite and the game will still be here whether people join paysites or not .
Finally I personally do NOT pay money to any site simply because (1) most of them dont have enough stuff to interest me and (2) because i am permanently disabled and what little money i have is used on things i consider more important in my life
Paden:
The difference between a free and pay site is simple. All content on a free site is up for download, whether you pay a fee or not. You don't have to give a red cent to be able to get any item that you may want. There is no dividing line between people who can give money and people that can't, it's all the same for everyone when it comes to downloading any item.
On a pay site, if there is a certain item that you wish to have, you may have to give them a hefty chunk of change to get that collection of pretty pixels that your heart desires. Plus, they don't wish you to share that content with anyone else. They want other people to have to pay to get it, too.
I could go into this chapter and verse, but won't. My views may not be yours, your views may not be mine. I disagree with charging for the custom content because I know darn well that many sites that charge make a hefty bit and it's not all used to pay for the bandwidth. The money that goes to this site, the Wicked Nouk Family or the Sublime sites all goes to pay for the servers and bandwidth. By contributing to them, people enable them to stay open not only for themselves, but for every player of the game that wants to use their stuff. Hope that helps clear some confusion.
Nymphy:
Quote from: Inge Jones;1412681
I am completely astounded by it. I have always thought of the owners of TSR as polite, respectable people, whatever the community may think of the fact they run a Sims paysite. I was really inclined to believe the recent statement on that basis, until I saw this.
Well am glad to enlighten you on that Inge. We would all rather hope that such a thing was not be done, but it clearly is. TSR are sharing personal information of their members:
If you read more of the LJ account I linked to, you will see that not only do they share info of people banned, but also people who had donated to other sites (the owner of Habitat43 shares information of a subsrciber of hers in the last LJ update). And Paleoanth, an exSA, has recently shown PMs where TSR staff share information they suspect of being sharers - people who are just anti pay, who do not even have subscribtions to share TSR's files. Its crazy :/
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