PMBD

What would you do if EA oficially supports paysites?

We all know they'll probably never bother to do an official statemnt, for many reasons. But what would you do if they did anyway, in favour of paysites?

The last option for me: I'd close my site and let the community decide if they will put up with all their shit being pay. If more free sites follow, hopefully large ones like MTS2, Insimenator and such, it will make a huge impact.
Hopefully EA's customers decide that everything being pay aint that fun, a very large group of customers boycotting this might push EA to the other side, at least for Sims 3. Sims franchise is only succesfull because of it's customers, after all. Please your customers, get more money. Piss off your customers, get bent.

Even if EA gave paysites green light, I doubt they would help to protect the copyright to the creators' products and I really, really doubt many siteowners actually would drag their issues to court, no matter what they shout now... So as long as no one can touch me for supporting PMDB, sure (I'm poor. I couldn't even afford to ask a lawyer to say "Hi! How are you!" to me...)

I would also make sure to get all my EA products from very unofficial distributers from that day...  :evil:

Yep, I chose that too. Not gonna change my principles just because EA says so. *bites thumb at them!*



Hoyeah. I'd d/l all my games from that day on.

Well, I signed an EULA that made it clear to me, and no matter what, I'm sticking to that, and would continue to download booty - after all, it's still in Malaysia.

I think it's a good idea to close the free sites, and stop supporting EA if they are going to favour pay creators.  So many people say that the custom content is what keeps them going - and buying eps - so if EA comes out on the paysite side, they should suffer free site closure.

Same as the above posters. I'd play the game, keep supporting PMBD as openly as possible, and make sure that EA never got another nickle out of me. They're pissing me off with their stuff packs already, I mean... geez. Paying money, for a set of (often boring) clothes, and some items? Torrents ftw, I say.

Screw you guys I'd open a Paysite and and fund my brand new Mercedes. I'd also have the best rates in the community.. 99.99 for the first hour of downloading and 119.95 every hour there after.

Can I come ride in your Mercedes, even though I'm just a smelly pirate? :(

...that sounded WAY dirtier than I intended.

rofl... You can be my driver.

I'll open a paysite that sells really ugly stuff for insane prices!

...after sending the content here. :P

Me 2. Seriously. Just not a mercedes. Aston Martin.  :wink:

o0o Let's join forces, double our prices and buy two.

I think I would still come here for the booty, possibly help to contribute if I could and I WOULD NOT BUY THE GAME AGAIN.  I will download The Sims 2 at warez sites cause if I really wanted to I could have done it already, but I wanted to be a good girl  :lol:

I would blow up EA Games headquarters.  I have had all the training I need with Red Alert!!!  :lol:

If they supported paysites they'd just be further proving themselves to be morons anyway (I'm still mad at them for putting spyware in Battlefield 2142), so screw 'em either way!

I probably became a terrorist. Against EA. Nah, that's to go to far, but
i am not calling myself an amazon for nothing. Old female warriours.

I would boycott EA, download illegal games from internett.
Do what you want cuz a pirate is free... I am a pirate! I'd keep supporting PMND openly, no matter what.

 8)

well if EA do decide to make it legal to claim their stuff as our own, then sure I'd make a paysite....

the sims 2 £49.99
all expansions £39.99 each
stuff packs £29.99 each
homecrafter £40.00
Bodyshop £20.00
plus subscriptions for exchange objects.

sure its a little more expensive than in the shops, but I'd have my freewebs site charges to think of.   :P

The thing to do is start a newsgroup (alt.binaries.EA.mustbedestroyed) and post isos of all the games. Speaking of that there should also be a newsgroup  for all the paysites booty (alt.binaries.pmbd). :twisted:

I voted for the first option as a joke.

Seriously though, piracy ftw.

I'd do something different, namely;

...I would roll my eyes and figure EA Games was basically taking the easy way out and completely avoiding the issue of having to sue some dumb shmuck selling downloads out of her den, who could give a few interviews and make herself look like the poor wittle helpless underdog being crushed in the jaws of the big evil EA tiger, when she uz on'y tryin' ta feed hur poor chilluns...*sniff*  

Then I'd basically ignore it and keep downloading the booty.

Corporations set great store by public opinion and public opinion is not informed by truth. It's informed by Geraldo Rivera.

I'd still go here openly. A principle is a principle, even if EAxis don't have any themselves.

Not sure I would boycutt buying their games in lieu of torrenting, though. We're talking about breaking a 7 year old habit (obsession?) that even lasted through stuff packs like On Holiday, Makin' Magic and Pets... Ideally I would, but I'd probably cave just to have them sooner.  :oops:

I said I would do something different.  I'm spending more time playing (yes, playing) Second Life than The Sims these days.  The avatars can be made to look different from each other so you can tell them apart, unlike the sims, and the sea reflects light.  And the houses can have ceilings.  It's all I ever wanted, really.   Was it too much to ask from The Sims 2?

I'd do something different....

I would go and kill EA...and then kill something else...and then drink some rum back over here. Yarr!!

then we will go banging and banging those donation sets..
and ill spead serials and codes and fucking links from those paysites and here..!

hm..

LOSER!  :twisted:

Next to last option for me. I am a pirate to the bone. Once a pirate always a pirate.
Indeed! 1s0 ftw! Arrr! B00ty all teh way!  :lol:

El oh el at the prospect of EA determining the actions of thousands of twelve year olds. Cause, you know, we all should do what large corporations tell us to, cause they're all large and shit.

OMG, Mom, we have to buy all this shit on the intarnets because EA told me too!

I would not support PMBD because it would be illegal, in that case; I would neither support paysites anyway, though, because of my personal ethic/moral - which is indipendent by legal issues.

Arrrrr!! Ok, that having been said...I've been a pirate long before discovering the Sims and this site, I see no reason to stop being one just because EA makes the wrong decision. I am a pirate inside, dammit. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/Pilippi/pirate2.gif)

I'd download via warez sites or torrents, cause those bastards wouldn't get another penny of my money. I gots a hungry child, so screw them! I use the money that could go to buy the expansion packs to feed my son, so I think I've got my priorities straight. Too bad the paysite owners can't figure it out... Oh, you say they have? Where do they get the money to feed their hungry chilluns? Our pockets? Waitaminnit! Can't they work a real job instead of charging us for the results of their hobbies, which in most cases is shit... I've got an idea! Why doesn't EA hire them and then they can pay taxes and stuff on the garbage they're putting on the net and keeping every dime, sixpence, euro or whatever??? If EA supports the shit spawned by their game, when they say in their own legal stuff that it's not on to profit from THEIR game, then they have cranial/rectal syndrome worse than I ever thought...

I'd rip off the best free CC creators in the community and sell their content on my paysite for 50$ apiece, ignoring the AA and all the hate e-mails I'd get. After all, my imaginary chilluns need feeding! :P

...And the illegally downloaded booty would cost three times as much. 8U7 71X3 1 707377Y M403 1T MY537F!!!11!one 5T0P S4Y1N6 1 570730 17 U M34N13 P1R4735.. (And if you don't understand most of that, you're normal, lol)

I would feed my chilluns. By 'feed' i mean 'intoxicate' and by 'chilluns' i mean 'bitches'.

Once a pirate, always a pirate. Also, why pay for what can be get for free? NO 'FEEDING' 3rd paties' 'CHILLUNS'  :evil:

I'd still play the games I've already bought and just make more of my own CC.  (I've been really lazy about making stuff this time around.  I only bother with it when I need something specific that I can't find to download.)  I would also drop out of the community entirely, boycott all future EA games, (new EPs included,)  and actively attempt to deter everyone I personally know from purchasing anything by EA.

I've dumped tons of money into this game if you count the computer I bought just to play it.  Sure I use it for other things, but I would have made do with the clunker for awhile longer if not for this game.  I don't know if it is hypocritical to still play the EA games I already own while boycotting them but I enjoy this game too much to simply chuck my disks out the nearest window ... and the penny-pincher in me would be horrified by the waste.

Yarr!

I'd probably keep playing the game, make good CC and donate it here, then open a site with the crappy stuff - because I need to make money for my 6 children [ and neveryoumind that they aren't human children, they have to eat too :D ]