I knew it was bad…but not to the point it makes to the local news. Often you can find pornography pictures on the Sims 3 exchange due to the fact that there are tools available to allow users to change the uploaded image of user-created content. With so many uploads, it’s often hard to keep track of what has been posted. But EA needs to step up and do something about it, because after all it is their website and it’s their image of their brand that they’ll ruin if they don’t get it fixed – and fast. Fox5 based in Maryland interviewed a mother who happened to take her story to the local news.
EA has yet to comment on this matter, but they really ought to before it creeps further and makes national headlines…
PS. – Please keep the comments clean, and by all means do NOT link to the adult content.
Why are they acting like its EA who put the porn up.
The exchanges on various EA games have always been filled with porn its nothing new.
Fox needs to get back and actually work on reporting news worthy things.
I don’t blame EA at all but maybe this might make them sit up and sort out a few site problems…
This won’t make national news because this is just FOX doing its typical scaremongering crap. Maybe if were lucky (read: unlucky) it will get Jack Thompson out of hiding from whatever bar he’s drinking his worries away at. I wouldn’t count on it though. Also there is a ‘Report’ button for a reason.
Dunno anything about Fox, never watch their news.
Im glad I live in Australia. We’d be all like “PORN? WHERE? Show us mate!” xD . . .
Its not EA’s fault. Even neopets has pornography problems. Its just unfortunate that the only way to protect children is to lock them in the basement.
This would be a great topic on a simprograms forum 😉
Haha winewine I dnt ea will their too busy being on twitter and not making patches for their game ea going dwn and bad thing is the sims will get affected by it, they alreay ruined simcity I say bring bk will wright
Those old folks are just making a big deal out of this. There’s porn on YouTube too! Companies cannot screen the content fast enough. It’s just not possible. They have to rely on user reports instead of putting someone in front of the screen to look at every single piece of custom content.
Great. Hopefully now they’ll deal with that whole Sesert business. Was only last night he started spamming these types of images in every thread. EA has been “looking into it” for months. Maybe now they’ll sit up and do something about it. Because allowing users to repeadidly upload and post pornographic images while doing near nothing about it is just unnaceptable.
But that’s the issue funnykid, they do not deal with this content. It gets reported, but usually just ignored. The only times they actuelly delete this content is when someone makes a big deal about it on the forums. It is entirely EA’s problem.
The main problem is this nutcase who keeps making new accounts after the current one gets banned. Sis works on another forum and she says they deal with spammers like this by banning not only accounts but also IP address. So unless this idiot has an abundance of money for new computers, he/she would get the perma ban. It’s just disgusting cause it’s the same stupid psycho.
I noticed it didn’t say how old her kids were. The way they were talking, it sounded like the kids were under 13, (or they would have said teens, and not kids) and therefore not old enough to be on the game in the first place. Also, I’m pretty sure you have to be at least 13 to have an EA account. Which means it’s the parent’s fault if the kids aren’t old enough.
Wow, they did a horrible job explaining what the site is, how it works, etc….
But still…they should probably try and fix a few of the glitches out if Fox news claims they found quite a few more.
Not sure why she felt the need to have her face blurred out too haha…..I feel like she is probably the one playing it all the time and just claimed her kids found it.
First of all, for all you FOX haters, you may want to actually look and see that this is not FOXNews. This is a FOX affiliate, as in, a local news station. So you have no idea what you’re talking about. Local news reports on crap all the time.
Second of all, I’m glad that somebody is reporting about it. I didn’t really think it was important for a TV piece, but hey. They’ll put anything on local news. 😉
This problem is everywhere. I had to delete friends from Facebook because of their accounts spamming me with lewd images.
7 Of 10 Kids come across pronography accidentially. The other 3 searched for it.
Seriuosly,thats the exchange. I came across houses with large Swastikas on the ground,worhshipping the nazis,violence and so on. And if you look at TSR there are way nastier things (toddlers in slutty clothes etc pp…) EA can’t supervise everything…
Umm, the game is rated correctly and if a parent allows thei kid on the site then it is their responcibility. I am a 29 year old mother and it isn’t that difficult to block sites. In addition I am tired of conservatives ruining gaming. Stay out of it, if I want violence, and sims making whoopie then I am old enough to decide for myself and children. For those that are against educate yourself in the time that you are wasting trying to get a cover ban and block it yourself.
Wow, dumb people are going to end up ruining the game for us all.
And OMG they’re downloading one of my sims haha.