You have been lied to.
The real thieves are those that expect to be paid for 'work' that is not allowed to be sold.
Those hardworking people you talk about, are using gamefiles and coding that is copyrighted by EA and Maxis, and selling them, against their wishes and disregarding their EULA.
I bet drugdealers work really hard too.
Since you are allready a criminal, it should be no wonder you would help thieves like these friends you talk about.
Bullcrap
If you are so loyal, don't use the stuff then. You are one person that use everything, you use stuff that other people share with you. If nobody share their stuff, you don't have anything to put in your game. And you find it normal that people pay hunderds of dollars to share it with you but they may not use donations so they can reduce their costs?
Anyway, i am leaving now offcourse i'll will be back.
enjoy the time this site is up...
I don't use any of the booty.
If she's bought all this stuff for the purpose of 'sharing' content as you say, she's actually aimed to sell this stuff right from the start.
And don't talk to me about sharing, I share enough of my own stuff, without disrespecting anyone that made the tools to make it possible.
Your friend is using Simpe, Unimesh plugins, all tools that are provided for free. She is allso basing her creations on knowledge provided for free.
Your friend is disrespecting the people that made it possible for her to create stuff for the game.
Without your friend, we'll still have stuff to share. Now the people who developed everything we use to create, the people your friend is leeching of, the people your friend has to thank every cent she makes off of this shit, they are the ones that we'll mis. They are the very ones that made custom content possible, and they don't charge one cent.
Your reasoning is fucked up. You are disregarding the efforts and hard work of dozens of people, you are disregarding the rules EA and MAXIS put up in order for their stuff to be redistributed, and you put your friend and any paysite on a pedestral they don't belong on.
Just because someone makes pretty stuff, doesn't mean they are right to sell it. And I've now explained exactly why.
And you are an idiot to have to do some chick's dirty work for her.