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Why Not Pay for Sims CC?

More excellent info on why T$R doesn't deserve your money, by Money Better Spent.

Link: Why Not Pay?

Et l'extract:

Leilatigress actually sat down with three members of the EA Legal team on August 27, 2007. This is available at PMBD but for those that don't want to go look over there, it is posted here too. I asked her to cover a few topics, and here are the replies:

Q. EULA changes: TSR's making a big deal over the removal of the word 'noncommerical' in the EULA for the content manager; is this a permanent change for all EPs/Bodyshop/Homecrafter?
A. It is a permanent change for Bodyshop and Homecrafter it is not going to be in any EPs. Turned right back around and said the EULA for Bon Voyage would match Seasons.

Q. Filesharing: It's been suggested that the only problem EA has with PMBD is that we have adult content (Pandora/M&M/etc), and therefore they don't want our link on the Exchange. However, there's also a rumor that EA will stop PMBD/SFV filesharing altogether - in essence saying that paysites DO own their content. What's the real story?
A. EA has nothing against filesharing since they have the exchange which promotes filesharing. They ignored the rest of that question.

Q. The various statements from tech suport/customer support/EA legal - obviously, there's conflict. Some of it's Maxoid issues, some of it's ancient ties to TSR back when they were free. So what's the story? WHO has final say?
A. Unless it’s signed by an EA Legal team member they have no say and are not held to be responsible for anything or anyone, EA Legal says.

Q. Obviously, the big thing we want is ANY clear statement - paysites good, paysites bad, filesharing good, filesharing bad, or 'we don't give a rat's ass what happens in the fan community".
A. Filesharing good, paysites bad was the statement I got and that is verbatim.

Hooray!

PS. EA is a joke

Why You Should Not Submit to TSR

Lana writing

It's only now that I've left TSR that I realise just how many disadvantages there are to submitting your work to that site. Now obviously with the custom content, you have no control of it once it get published: you can't edit or delete your creations at all without first clearing it with a moderator (every other community site I know of allows submitters to modify and update their creations at any time). This means that if you find a problem with something you uploaded, rather than just reuploading the file/screenshot, you have to sort it all out with a mod first, and even then you have no guarantee that you'll be allowed. And of course, they never ever allow you to remove your uploads. In other words, they are quite happy to keep your files on their servers without your permission, but if you share their pay files without their permission, you're evil and deserve a ban. Hypocrites.

As well, the free artists upload their work because they want to share, TSR wants the free artists to upload so they can lure more visitors, and therefore have more potential subscribers. In other words, TSR are exploiting you for profit, nothing more.

Jasmine writing

Hosting my files elsewhere means I now get total control of my custom content, but I think the biggest advantage of having an independent site is that I also get complete control over my stories. One thing that peed me off a lot about TSR's story-hosting was just how hard it is for an author to continue to perfect their work after it was published. When I edited and reuploaded part 1 of Jasmine's story, after waiting over a week for the story to be approved (they never took more than 2 days ordinarily) I thought something must have gone wrong, so I reuploaded again, only for all my feedback to get deleted and to have to then re-upload once more for it to work. So you have to go through all that hassle just to make a few minor changes to a story. It makes me wonder how I ever stood for it! Now that I'm in complete control of my stories, I am free to modify screenshots when I want, I can add and delete scenes any time and make those all-important typo corrections and minor tweaks...whenever I like. Something you will never get with TSR.

(Fanseelamb put it much better than I did.)

Silver’s Sim Stuff FAQs (Merged)

Silver's Sim Stuff FAQ

Q. Can I use your custom content on sims/lots I upload to another site?
Sure, on 100% free sites (yes, even the Exchange) and you properly credit me and include a link back to here. Also please leave a message on my guestbook/CC pages to let me know!

I do not want my work on sites that charge for content in any way, whether directly charging or through a subscription. Voluntary donation sites (like WNF, InSim, etc) are fine, "donation set" sites are not! And under no circumstances may you put anything of mine on The Sims Resource; I don't care if it's in the free section. No TSR and this is not negotiable.

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