Retail Sims

[sickpuppy]

She's worked really hard on those new sets! *Stamping foot*

How much anyone want to bet she found the meshes on some dl site and just made them into packages. Thanks to Quaxi and SimPE, the FREE program, that is NOT hard to do....

She will get so antsy to have people admire her work she WILL put them up someplace.

[Cyberdodo]

*munches popcorn*

[BootStrapBill]

Well, she and all the other paysite owners can take heart, because in a few more years this site will be toast and it won't matter anymore.  World's gonna end, dontcha know.  :p

[Pescado]

so can she really put viruses on the site?

It doesn't work that way. Unlike some people, we're hosted on secure Unix servers, and Unix does not have virii. The ignorant like to bandy about how their hacker friends will get you. Those of us who actually know anything about how this works like to point and laugh at them.

[Feverish]

The following screenshots were taken in the Work-In-Progress stage.  Please visit each set's page for the final result screenshots.  And no, you can't download the files.

I think I may cry because I can't download that tacky candy cane bed.
How shall I go on with my life... :roll:

The bad news, for all of you, is that I may charge for some of the upcoming sets. I hate to do that but if it keeps me from having to leave the house for a job for a while I may have to resort to it.

To be honest I really don't care about her mental health seeing as how she's using it as an excuse to justify charging people.
I have my own damn prescription pills to pay for, not anyone elses.
And I pay for them by working at my crappy job for the crappy pay that I get.
Other than some "substantial mental scars" I see no reason why she can't do the same.
Hell, at my job we have people who come to work half drunk.

[Aquamarine]

Ugh, dramawhores like this should all be killed. Solve the overpopulation problem in one go.

[Feverish]

Then who would entertain us with their self-righteous whining?
I say contaminate their drinking water so they can't reproduce.
Then there won't be any of their offspring starving from lack of "donation" money.

[Pescado]

Ugh, dramawhores like this should all be killed. Solve the overpopulation problem in one go.

Give it about 10 years. Society will collapse into rioting and anarchy and only the survivalists will make it.

In other, unrelated news, Some "SimFreak" fellow on S2C in the BOO FRICKETY HOO thread seems to think we're claiming credit for the paysite booty...because yeah, stuffing them in directories named after their creators is so credit-claiming.

[Chris]

Retail sims closes on December 1st.
PMBD: 1
Sims Pay sites: 0

[Pescado]

Yup. If they go through with it, I have a special killmark to commemorate the occasion prepped.

[Rovam]

Does it involve starving babies in any way?  

[Captain_kirst]

The retail sims thread has just been locked http://forums.sims2community.com/showpost.php?p=649750&postcount=68

[Anouk]

Guys, I understand you don't like the giant paysites with huge amounts of pay items and only a few free. Because that IS close to ridiculous.

But why would you want to get a site that only has one or a few sets for a few dollars? Because that IS what EA/Maxis/whatever allows. And they obviously can't live of it.

I know, my site is completely free ad makes it on donation without selling anything, so it IS possible, but a few pay items ( a FEW, not hundreds), who'd care? I can believe it's for the bandwidth. and if their site is mainly free and the free items aren't sh*t, what's the problem...

(This does not have anything to do with the fact that her later reactions to it was a bit out of proportions anyway, but just that I noticed a few sites that only have a few pay items, like this one.)

[Pescado]

The retail sims thread has just been locked http://forums.sims2community.com/showpost.php?p=649750&postcount=68

Heh. Even if Delphy's claim that "game content and materials" refers to only what was contained in the game, there's STILL a problem with that: Every single object ever made is an existing EA object that has been cloned and modified. The only thing that truly consists of completely unique code not at all derived from anything EA in origin is certain small hacks created from scratch-hexing and SimPE. Everything else is built on parts that were, at some point, extracted and cloned from an EA part.

Guys, I understand you don't like the giant paysites with huge amounts of pay items and only a few free. Because that IS close to ridiculous.

But why would you want to get a site that only has one or a few sets for a few dollars? Because that IS what EA/Maxis/whatever allows. And they obviously can't live of it.

Because you have to draw the line somewhere. And if they're really supporting just their bandwidth on it, then the money one of us paid to get that item in the first place covers that bandwidth already. Since the items are hosted at our expense, not theirs, we therefore can only alleviate their bandwidth costs in doing so.

Also, all paysites look the same to me anyway. If someone has acquired this item and claims to be a paysite, my criteria for not yanking it consists of the inability to acquire it for free. I don't actually *USE* any of this stuff. It all looks the same to me. As far as I'm concerned, a paysite is a paysite. Perhaps this is a somewhat hard-line view of the matter, but I was never known for doing things in moderation.

[Enelar]

Point #1 - I have MH issues too but instead of fucking publically whining about it and pointing fingers and writing a huge OH NOES I'M LEAVING TEH INTARNETS 4EVER!!! BEG ME NOT TO!! post, I get up from my computer, turn the damn thing off and work on getting my head together instead. If that means I'm MIA from forums or sites, big fucking deal. The internet isn't that important.

Point #2 - No fan artists in ANY other fan community I know of are stupid enough to think they have the God-given right to make profit off someone else's copyright and some of them work ten times as hard as your average Sims creator because they love what they do. I am sick of this attitude that somehow if you create things for the Sims, you are entitled to cash when no other fan artist would be.

Point #3 - One down, more to go.