No more stories at the EA?

[karu]

Where'd they all go?   



http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/search.php?&loginRequireMsg=true&asset_type=story&pid=Exchange_stories

[dasha]

The whole Sims 2 site isn't loading for me right now. Maybe they're having problems.

[Markus]

There must be some angry twelve year olds right now. 

[Saraswati]

Oh this periodically happens.. you should have seen us all, about 2 and a half years ago the site went into meltdown and some of the most highly rated stuff on there just started randomly dissapearing.. First the image would go, then the whole thing.. That was one of the times a whole heap of good creators left the exchange. It hasn't done it on that scale since then, but it still periodically does this.

[RedLove]

Well the images are gone on most of the stuff at the Official site (if not all the stuff) and the exchange home page is in French for me. o.O Everything else is english.

[Anouk]

Wouldn't surprise me if they were just deleting the whole bunch and starting fresh to easily sift out pay items.

[Titan]

Wouldn't surprise me if they were just deleting the whole bunch and starting fresh to easily sift out pay items.

I just checked it out and according to their own count, there is nothing at all in the exchange.  I think Anouk is right about them starting fresh, it would have been way too hard to go through everything looking for pay items. 

[Saraswati]

nah guys, it's nothing to worry about.. barring that disaster, the stuff is always back within a few hours. They're just having server trouble again. I've seen this happen once every few months since that time we had the accidental mega-cull.

[keirra]

Wouldn't surprise me if they were just deleting the whole bunch and starting fresh to easily sift out pay items.

Just curious, why would they want or need to do that?

[Ocean Bacon]

Wouldn't surprise me if they were just deleting the whole bunch and starting fresh to easily sift out pay items.

Okay, I admit that made me laugh. 

Although, I think it may be because too many twelve-year-olds posted a 'story' at once and the site couln't handle that much ugly crap at a time.

[Markus]

There's some really whacked out stories on there...

[Saraswati]

*laughs* yes, and at least one or two of them are mine, although mine at least involve correct spelling and a rought idea of grammar..

[Modo]

And nothing of value was lost.

(Well maybe about 10% of the content on there would be missed)

[Saraswati]

actually there's some early stuff on there from some of the creators on there that is fairly decent.. that woman who did the War Goddess, for example.. there's also another creator who was doing a ton of Ancient Greek stuff early on.. neither of them are active creators anymore. There are decent creators on there, they're just difficult to find in the deluge of mr-potato-head sims.

[dasha]

There are a whole lot of threads on the BBS, and not a Maxoid in sight. Go figure.