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The Pirate Ship => ARR! => Topic started by: tIIsuggas on 2006 December 22, 17:49:03



Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: tIIsuggas on 2006 December 22, 17:49:03
Is this a sign that the mighty TSR is struggling?  Resorting to advertising in the forums.

(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k22/t2suggas/tsradvertinforum.jpg)


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Quorneater on 2006 December 22, 18:24:52
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Ghanima Atreides on 2006 December 22, 18:41:33
Personally, I think it's just the fact that he spams every bit of space available on that site with ads and previews, hoping to get even MORE cash...


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: tIIsuggas on 2006 December 22, 18:53:10
I think this post may have been the final straw with them, as regards me.  Just after posting this, I had my account suspended.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Pescado on 2006 December 22, 18:54:47
Heh. What'd you get banned for?


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Super_Pirate_Dude on 2006 December 22, 18:59:21
Quote from: "Pescado"
Heh. What'd you get banned for?


Maybe like she said, because she asked on the site?


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: tIIsuggas on 2006 December 22, 19:10:57
I don't have a clue as to why I am banned.  But I didn't take great steps to disguise myself.  It doesn't take a genious to realise I was t2suggas there, and match it up to this username.

It does say when you make an account, that if they know or suspect you of filesharing they will suspend your account without prior notice.

So I was warned.

ETA:  I did send someone a link in a pm, to the TSR booty, because their one download day was nearly up.  

It's also possible they didn't like some of the constructively critical comments I wrote about some of the downloads.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Solowren on 2006 December 22, 19:28:48
I haven't been given the mighty banhammer yet, oh no, I'm too sneaky.

Or maybe it's because I never post on TSR. Or even go there (other than to look at the pictures of the FA stuff to see what I want to download from the booty).


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: tIIsuggas on 2006 December 22, 19:43:00
They never did reply to my support issue asking them to clarify the forum rules, the bit where they state they will reveal our personal info.

I wrote that support issue on the 16 December, and up untill just before I got booted off, there had been no reply.  So there goes the bit where they write back within 72 hours.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: sickpuppy on 2006 December 22, 21:26:11
TSR is banning people they 'think' might be filesharers!? They can't have any real proof...unless Pescado is sharing info. :) So they banned you because if you post on this forum you 'must' be a filesharer?? I think that is very presumptive of them. For all they know you, me, the next guy may be doing research into human behaviors at the college nearby......blah blah blah. They can't possibly 'KNOW'. What asses they are. Never ass-u-me!


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: BlueSoup on 2006 December 22, 22:07:56
They suspended my account before this forum ever existed, and before I started uploading booty here, based only on Rose's say-so.  Never mind that prior to that I hadn't uploaded TSR stuff, that was someone(s) else entirely.

So yeah, fuck Thomas and his almighty god ways, we don't need 'em and WE GOT ALL THEIR STUFF ANYWAYS!!1111!!1oneoneone


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Pescado on 2006 December 22, 22:15:15
Yeah, them and their lousy business sense. I mean, even Microsoft has more sense than that: They don't ban users who pirate their products, they just hassle you and try to goad you into buying them.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: CARLYMICHELLE on 2006 December 23, 01:02:39
looks like they delted your whole profile i cant find your name at TSR


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: BlueSoup on 2006 December 23, 01:04:42
You can't find my name?  Funny, since I have uploads there. :P  Just a couple of neighbourhood terrains though, which are also at mts2.  I only uploaded them because I was a beta tester at the time, and bored, and I wanted to see what the upload process was like (awful).


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Anachronism on 2006 December 23, 01:07:37
Quote from: "BlueSoup"
You can't find my name?  Funny, since I have uploads there. :P  Just a couple of neighbourhood terrains though, which are also at mts2.  I only uploaded them because I was a beta tester at the time, and bored, and I wanted to see what the upload process was like (awful).


Back in the days [*insert sigh here*] when i was an impressionable little simmer, i tried to upload a butt ugly dress. Never again. It took me an hour just to work out HOW to upload.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: CARLYMICHELLE on 2006 December 23, 01:10:12
lol no iwas talking to  tIIsuggas


EDIT  check this out


http://forums.thesimsresource.com/forumdisplay.php?f=595




a featured  artist forum  what the hell it looks similer to the MTS2 blogs section


and this



How FA's are selected

I've been asked to clarify how Featured Artists are selected, since a lot of people seem to think it is an automatic process.

FA's are handpicked based on quality, originality and quantity. We try to offer the broadest possible collection of creations for our subscribers and thus we want to make sure we have top notch quality content for all categories: hair, furniture, lots, sims, makeup, meshes etc. When we notice there is a lack of output in a given category we will look among our artists here on TSR first to see if someone is capable of filling that position. Our Select Artists are the first to be reviewed and chosen from.

In rare cases we need to go outside of TSR to find a suitable artist to fill a position, for example when it comes to "specialist" creation types such as hairstyles and meshes. If we have SA's or new Artists here that are top quality in those fields they get the promotion first. But sometimes the quality is not high enough, the creations are not original enough or the output is too low - then we need to recruit outside of TSR. This is historically the exception rather then the rule however.

I hope this gives you a little insight in how we select our Featured Artists, and why some selections may be upsetting to some people while there are logical reasons behind it.
Best regards,

Thomas O. Isacsson
The Sims Resource




http://forums.thesimsresource.com/showthread.php?t=326389


sickening :x


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: flyonthewall on 2006 December 23, 01:25:51
I found BlueSoup's neighborhood terrains (http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/search_bluesoup/) all right, but when I clicked on her profile it took me to this page (http://www.thesimsresource.com/profiles/1142003/).

So, BlueSoup no longer exists, but her terrain is still fair game.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Plum on 2006 December 23, 01:55:49
Quote
This user does no longer exist.


xD


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Solowren on 2006 December 23, 02:03:25
BlueSoup got TSR-lynched.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: midnitefusion on 2006 December 23, 03:01:32
I never liked TSR.. Never posted at their forums. Sucks that you got your account suspended though.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Marhis on 2006 December 23, 15:15:32
On TSR BlueSoup is a ghost; if you press the thank you link on the hood page you get this:
(http://www.fantasiadomain.com/sims2/23-12-2006.jpg)
 :D

You didn't know, BlueSoup, but you appreciated my feedback!  :lol:

Even more funny is the fact that your hood terrains are pay  :P .


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Cherry Lips on 2006 December 23, 17:43:55
I deeply detest TSR uploading system. Once I waited a month and hairstyle I submitted was "Pending". Then I took it down. UGH.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Got_Nerd on 2006 December 23, 19:51:19
Completely off topic : Bluesoup!  I didn't know that was your terrain!
It's one of the best I've downloaded :)


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: BlueSoup on 2006 December 23, 19:53:59
My hood terrain is pay!!?!!!

Whatever, go to MTS2 and get it for free!

And Got_Nerd - thanks. :)


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: lemmiwinks on 2006 December 23, 21:55:58
So much for the rights of creators to control their work.  :roll:


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Super_Pirate_Dude on 2006 December 24, 01:37:33
Quote from: "flyonthewall"
I found BlueSoup's neighborhood terrains (http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/search_bluesoup/) all right, but when I clicked on her profile it took me to this page (http://www.thesimsresource.com/profiles/1142003/).

So, BlueSoup no longer exists, but her terrain is still fair game.


TSR just want to keep the downloads, because they need something to charge us for


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Jysudo on 2006 December 24, 05:34:14
now this is really weird. Bluesoup is not a FA so why are her downloads paid? This is very weird?!  :shock:


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Quinctia on 2006 December 24, 05:37:11
The majority of all downloads on TSR are paid.  I know it used to be that every week or so, a certain percentage of items would be free, and then it would change for the next week.  So theoretically, if you hung around long enough, everything you wanted would cycle into "free" and you could get it without a sub.

I don't know if they still do it that way or not.  I haven't really seen anything I wanted to download there in ages.  The one exception is cheap starter houses.  For when I'm lazy or filling up a neighborhood with characters that I don't really think I'll play much.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: coliss on 2006 December 24, 05:45:21
Huh, I've just downloaded it, so it's not a pay download. TSR turned into "a free website except for the good stuff, i.e. FA & RA" a month ago or something.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: lemmiwinks on 2006 December 24, 06:36:09
Quote from: "coliss"
Huh, I've just downloaded it, so it's not a pay download. TSR turned into "a free website except for the good stuff, i.e. FA & RA" a month ago or something.


So you are saying Blue's stuff isn't good?  :lol:

Paysites Must Be Destroyed, but Thomas needs a particularly cruel and unusual penalty.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Surelyfunke on 2006 December 24, 07:27:27
Quote from: "Lemmiwinks"

Paysites Must Be Destroyed, but Thomas needs a particularly cruel and unusual penalty.


For once, I agree wholeheartedly with Lemmiwinks! :o


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: andygal on 2006 December 24, 07:38:26
Thomas is a dickhead. (Yes Firefox that is a word).

TSR Must Be Destroyed. or at least taken out of Thomas's hands so it won't be all nazi-ish.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: Marhis on 2006 December 24, 15:45:41
Yes! My mistake, it's not pay (phew), it requires login to download, but not money.


Title: Are we finally having an effect?
Post by: beawaywithit on 2006 December 24, 17:01:03
Quote from: "andygal"

TSR Must Be Destroyed. or at least taken out of Thomas's hands so it won't be all nazi-ish.


Or... you could do both. :D