PMBD

taken from:  http://www.boutiqueemilie.net/


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Merry Christmas! I hope everyone's holiday will be filled with joy and happiness. Thank you so much for the past year, I can't believe how many of you have visited this site. Almost 1 000 000! In the light of the success B. Emilie has had, I'm sad to announce that I'll be closing the site early next year. My interest in sims has faded this fall and I don't feel creative enough to create for it. There's just no will power. Even playing the game is boring. I think I need to move on. I'm truly sorry about this because I know it'll dissapoint a lot of you kind people out there. I'm saying this now as a warning, to give you plenty of time to grab everything you might want to keep in the future. Also, I'm changing my policy: you're allowed to share all of my creations from this point on (except the donation gifts of course). You may send them via email to each other, or upload to download sites such as MTS2. You may NOT however take credit for my work, or submit my files to a pay site. I think that's all I wanted to say. Best wishes.

Typical pay site owner. They'll shut down a site but leave up that little blue Pay Pal button until it rots and rusts. It's understandable that she's sick of the game, but it's lame that she's being stingy with her shit hole donation set. They are in the booty, but they aren't event that good.

Well, will she still be creating for TSR? I haven't seen anything in her blog. Also, I don't see the paypal button or the donation set anymore. :?:

probably not, she doesn't like sims anymore

I don't see it as *that* unreasonable. She's only ever had like a couple of donation sets anyways. And she's not saying to keep paying her for her donation sets even after her site's closed. For some reason, she just wants her donation sets to stay w/ the people who donated only. It might seem like a bizarre request to you, but hey, at least she's not being greedy.

And at least she's not pulling a forwardmotion (hopefully). Like OMG I tried to get a life so I'm closing my site but whoops TSR's waving that money in my face so I guess I'll stay and create for you guys instead of having a life!!! That dude pisses me off.

Frankly I don't see anything wrong with her request regarding paid files. She is just trying to keep her files unique which is exactly in the interests of those who paid.

Can you imagine if you once paid for her files but now it is going free because she is closing? You might feel a sense of betrayal as a consumer. I think she is not greedy. If she is, she would just stay on creating with TSR.

Sometimes it is good to look at things in a larger persepective and not just accuse anyone who had a few paysites as being greedy.

This pretty much happens all the time in real life. Aren't you pissed that I can pick up clothes at the Salvation Army that you paid an arm and a leg for 30 years ago? No? Yeah, see?


PAYSITES MUST BE DESTROYED!

Another kill mark perhaps?

As the site is closing after the arrival of PMBD.

She's definitely not a killmark.

BE was one of the few sites I still downloaded from :(  Is the site going offline?  I hope people put her work up @ mts2.

Of course she will. She'll be over on TSR faster than you can say "cabbage". Like Jesse said, all the cool kids are doing it!

Research people: Emilie has been at TSR as "GS Emilie" for over a year. She has a few sets up there. She is currently set as a "Retired Artist."

Anyways, I don't have a bad thing to say about her. I like her stuff and I think it's shitty to cry "TSR Sellout" everytime someone closes a site - especially since it's pretty obvious that Emilie had the good graces to put up a very open redistribution policy. I never felt that she had a donation set up to rip people off - in fact, it isn't even available on her site as far as I can tell. It seemed to honestly be about bandwidth, as her previous site had a lot of bandwidth problems.

Sorry, but "honestly about bandwidth" doesn't exist these days when there are many places that host CC free.

Right. The fact that for several months now, she has not had the donation set up on her site, implies (to me at least) that she found another way around her bandwidth problems. I don't really know that I can fault someone who had a donation set in the past, and then got rid of it when the discovered another way of doing things. Many CC creators are not professional site designers or very familiar with hosting in general. It takes a certain learning curve while they explore their options.

Perhaps I haven't had all my faith in humanity beaten out of me yet though.

Just give it time.  And a few encounters with Pescado  :lol:

On a serious note, I'll really miss her site.  Aside from the frequent layout changes, it was definitely one of the better ones in the community.

Aww, this makes me sad. I always use her CC in my game. And I do understand her policy regarding her pay files. Maybe she thinks it's only fair that the people who actually paid are the only ones who get to use them, never mind those of us who got them from other sources. It doesn't really matter to me because I think her free stuff are better than her pay ones.

If she was set as a "retired artist" as Stitches said, it must have changed in the last day or so: GS Emilie (http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/gs%20emilie) at TSR is currently an "Awarded Artist". All of her stuff requires a subscription to download, as well.
Oh, no-- wait. It does require a subscription to download, but she's under "Retired Artist" on the "Retired Artists" page. I guess having "Select Artist" and "Retired Artist" is just another way of saying "they don't make stuff anymore, but people like them too much for us to make them free-- I mean, goodness, man, what would that do to our profits?!"

Either way, it's too bad- I was hoping to get some of it.

I had no idea the owner of Boutique Emilie was also the owner of Get Skintight., though. I missed that site, and had no idea where it had disappeared to.
Guess I didn't care that much, otherwise I would have found it out by now.

I liked Boutique Emilie pretty well, but I'm not so disappointed by its closing.

As for the "I do not want my donation sets to be shared, even though the site is closing" thing, I would guess it was because it might be seen as unfair by the subscribers. "I paid for this, and now they're getting it for free? Outrage!"
Then again, of course, I have my suspicions of her moving to TSR. But, they're just that: suspicions. Basically unfounded! And if I turn out to be wrong, everyone can point and laugh at me.
I'm quite okay with that.

GS Emilie has been a Retired Artist at TSR for quite some time already. Her stuff will be up in the Booty when my internet connection improves, and hopefully early January when real life stops being so busy. :P

Which is great news for those that mentioned missing Get Skintight, as all the GS Emilie downloads from TSR are the content of Get Skintight.

If anything, I imagine she might do what she did before - when she actually closes the site, she might dump the currently free downloads onto TSR, like she did when she closed Get Skintight.

Well, she did mention that any site can host her BE stuff, as long as credit was given.  So if I wanted to I could open up a BE section on my site and host all her stuff there.  Would TSR want to host stuff that people could get anywhere else?

Maybe someone can contact her and get permission to post all her stuff at MTS2?

Someone on SFV has it all, pictures and everything.

You don't need to contact her.  (at least, she doesn't outline that you need to) It's all on the front page.  In fact, she specifically mentioned MTS2 as a place to host her things.

Ahh...I haven't even checked.  But, to put something on that site in her name (a la Sussi), we'd need to contact her, wouldn't we?

I'm not sure.  I guess you'd have to ask her make sure those at MTS2 realize that her things could be posted by other people.  I'm sure they'd want 1 person to post everything so that there wern't double listings of the same things.  It doesn't look like anyone has put her stuff up at MTS2 yet.

I've contacted her regarding making a coordinated effort to put stuff up on MTS2 under her name, like Sussi.  I guess we'll see what she says.

I find this reaking of....something. My conspiracy sense is tingling!

I find it strange that less then a month ago, GSEmilie was offering to host Xander's atomically correct skins on her site....then friegns 'disinterest' suddenly, and bows out. She didn't seem uninterested then...

And ....getskintight? Here---> http://www.getskintight.net/  ?

I found that link yesterday, going through simsquirts hopelessly outdated links. I thought it'd take me to nothing...but surprise!



Now, I retreat to my corner, back to being an ill-informed moron.

Hmm

I did email her, asking if we could make an effort to get all her content on MTS2 so it wouldn't get lost.  She turned me down, said she didn't want people to think she was spamming with her shit.

well that domain has been up for sale for quite awhile, it wouldnt surprise me if someone decided to buy it and use it for some new endeavor, it doesnt sound like its connected with the real getskintight though...or at least not to me.

And yeah they are trying to space out the Sussi uploads to mts2 because everytime HP uploads them she does like 10 at a time and nobody elses downloads show up on the main page...so it looks like spamming, so I can see why Emilie would say she didnt want to do the same thing.

But shes probably planning on putting them all up on tsr (like it was mentioned before, thats where all the GS stuff is and of course they are all pay)...so that might be another reason why she said no to mts2.

I have not seen anymore DLS of Sussis lately at MTS2. At least she didnt go the TSR way :).

Wow, that new getskintight.net site is really open about the fact that they will SELL skins, no hiding behind "donations to keep the site up" crap.

I'm very sure that Emilie is not the person behind that site though.

But it's freaky, Emilie named get skintight after a "The Donnas" song. Can't see why anyone would want that name when It's already been used (or maybe that's the reason they want it). Doesn't exactly have anything to do with the sims either :?

It doesn't make sense unless you look at it from a business point of view. Often in business, you don't start an entirely new company with a new name - you buy an existing company and the intangible benefit of instant name recognition in the existing business community.

Well, I don't know if this was on her site before, but it's certainly there now:



Seems like she reads our little forum here.  Or at least has heard the rumours somewhere...

Funny that she says she's closing down because she's lost all interest in creating and playing the game.. yet she's going to be doing some work for TSR.

Damn, I must have really misread the "I will NOT" part.

Umm she said quite the opposite, actually.

She said that she will not be working *exclusively* for TSR, which implies that she will still be doing some work.  That's how I read it anyway. /shrugs

I think you're reading it wrong actually, putting emphasis on the wrong word.

I checked her TSR site theres no activity there, she probably is trully quitting, people get burnt out, and need changes from time to time. Right now not playing sims taking a break.