How possible is it that the non FA accounts that were hacked were for people who wouldn't kick up a fuss ie suspected pirates?  Usually if they get a notice that their account does not exist they assume they have been banned.  Didn't it mention somewhere that they could keep track of people who went there by clicking links from here?  On 21st feb I followed two links from here one for windkeeper and I can't remember the other but both times a connection was attempted to my computer as soon as I got to TSR.

So the "hacking" didn't just happen to FA accounts. By the sounds of it all accounts were vulnerable, but I think we all knew that anyway.  How many lies can people stomach before they turn away from that site.  I am still not convinced that TSR was hacked. I guess that may be something we will never know.

On everything official he spells Isaksson, it is spelled that way on the MTS2 attempts to lure helga and bruno, it is also Isaksson on the fansite list on BBS.

Does this mean that there are parts of the game software that you can put up on non-commercial sites, as there is a separate (non existent) one that deals with custom content.  I don't think EA would be agreeing with that any time soon.

Roflmao@ miscreants.

Mind you Pescado and his band of merry miscreants has a certain ring to it.

TSR probably earned as much as they did because they were given an unfair advantage over the community (not sure if monopoly could rightly be used here).  While honest people and people who weren't so sure were contacting EA to clarify the situation EA was sending back emails claiming paysites are illegal, meanwhile, TSR thrived under the guise of subscription site, while advertising themselves as a freesite here, there and everywhere. They are hoping that this new situation will be brushed under the carpet,  they are using the same tactics on their members as they use here when they visit, under the assumption that sims 2 players have the attention span of gnats, they launched the booty competition, and a brand new newsletter, to divert them.

dstar I hope you didn't think that my post after yours was in response to something you said, I started typing before you posted, I am back and forward at my pc as I am busy.

What and listen to the same confusing shit that johan has been spouting here.  Sorry a visit to TSR from me anytime soon isn't on the cards.   I like to hold on to the contents of my stomach, crawling around in the excrement that is TSR wouldn't achieve this.

 

Mine was interstella coffee, but wait isn't stella a lager.  lager flavoured coffee ftw

TSRs stand of the day on the MTS2 hacking is starting to get confusing, they are constantly changing their minds and I have lost track of what they are claiming right now.  I know they have refuted the claim that security was compromised.  Can I ask, if they are saying coconut is a mad haxxor and she did it, how did she have access to buggy's and thom's password, isn't that back to the security was compromised tack.  I don't believe for one minute that coconut has anything to do with this just trying to get round TSR's logic on this.

My choice to not buy the sims 3 is a personal one. I don't think that my not using paysites has an impact on them but that is my stand, it was my choice long before I knew of this site.  I hope modders are going to move forward to sims 3 if they can.  I would not wish an unmodded sims game on anyone.

My first sims2 fansite find from the bbs was sims2uk.  I don't know why I didn't click the TSR link, I knew nothing about it and hadn't read anything negative about any sites. I have heard stories of TSR being ok in the sims 1 days, Maxis being fair when they had control, but I know nothing of this, I wasn't a sims player.  All I have known is the way TSR and EA are now. TSR came into the sims2 community with an ok image because they carried it over from sims1.  The image both EA and TSR will carry to the sims3 is the one here and now for the sims2. As for pirates wanting everything for free I bought all my games,  I want nothing for free, I do not download TSR either pay or free, I don't need them, this goes for any other pay sites that carry free items.

bloody hell. I forgot about april fool. That'll teach me to only look at avi's. I got through nearly a full reply before it registered

There does seem to be some panic going on. The timings are going way off base.  They told Delphy months ago,  that the breach was fixed in December,  the Windkeeper thing was noticed on the 21st February,  If they stuck to the breach they could have created doubt for simsecret which would have put doubt on buggygate for some people.  They are clucking because they want their paying subscribers to carry on paying and feel safe. At the same time try and unravel themselves from any of the other wrong doings.  They haven't had time to get a real plan together to accomplish this, so it seems they are doing it on a each to their own basis.

Well that was a pointless visit.  Now we know where Drea gets her mad skillz from.