Steve from TSR has posted in the site blog of their side of the story in which they cover the accusations, lies and bullying throughout the community. They debunk many myths and cover discussed topics of paysites being illegal, sharing paypal information, trojans in their downloads, attacking other sites as well as the in-bed relationship with EA.
Quite frankly, I wish this whole mess never happened. I don’t know whether to believe MTS2 or TSR…in the digital age, it’s very hard to believe anyone, as it is so simple to spread or create information – whether it’s true or not.
I just wish that The Sims 3 will take a different route and start fresh…I don’t know what can be done. I suppose if paysites really want to be stopped with selling custom content, hopefully whomever creates the next SimPE or modding tool will have agreements tied to the program to not sell content created by those programs…and embed some sort of code to let users know it’s a file that’s been modified with such said program. We all know EA/Maxis isn’t going to do anything.
Read Steve’s post – TSR: Accusations, Lies, Bullying?
Thanks to Hiki’s Sims 3 newsblog for the information!
The best thing is just to avoid them all together. If people are foolish enough to pay TSR that’s all well and good. Personally, there’s much better content out there and TSR isn’t even worth raiding The Booty for.
Until there’s true custom content tools for TS3 all they’re gonna become is a place for 9,000 cow patterns and a few houses. If EA decides that they’ll get exclusive tools then that’s EA shooting themselves in the foot and I wouldn’t be surprised if the community just dies.
From what we’ve seen from the community over the past couple of years that might not be such a bad idea. Because it’s not a community any more. Too many people have adopted the mine mine mine attitude when in reality it’s not yours at all. It’s EA’s. No matter what you do to it, no matter how much you change it, no matter how much you want to claim it’s copyrighted it still in the end is EA’s not yours.
It’s a game, it’s supposed to be fun. If you waste your time doing the whole “hey, that’s mine, you took that from me” thing it stops being fun. The best policy is to just to adopt the attitude I have.
Do whatever you want, I don’t care as long as it stays free as long as my name is on it and if you change it you take my contact info out because I don’t have the patience to do tech support for something I didn’t break in the first place. I break enough things on my own, I don’t need help.
It’s a game, relax and enjoy it without all the crap.
We shouldn’t be paying for content for a goddarn game except if it comes from the official owners, EA set up a TS2 Store, we payed, TSR set up a subscription, we payed, we shared.
EA and TSR need to go back to pre-school or something and learn about the word ‘Share’ I most certainly did since I actually shared lots of things……we are not the bullies, TSR, you are.
Paying for something which is worth NOTHING at all is just stupid, because you’re A) gonna loose it B) delete it
See? Paying for nothing, exactly what I mean.
quote: I don’t know whether to believe MTS2 or TSR…in the digital age, it’s very hard to believe anyone, as it is so simple to spread or create information – whether it’s true or not.
thats why i decided to ignore the rest af the ‘discussion’ unless there is real news.
Am I to understand that TSR already have exclusive programs for The Sims 3? Could someone post a link to more information about the programs? So far, I have only ready about Buggybooz…gregoryokulov@hotmail.com is my email if you don’t want to post in the comments.
At this time, it’s purely rumors that they’ll be getting special tools. I don’t know where it came from, but it’s suggested that since they are close to EA, they will let TSR’s featured artist use special tools to create custom content that nobody else can. But like I said, it’s labeled as a rumor.