Mm-hmm. Like I said, she's one of the main reasons I'm willing to shell out for a TSR subscription - or was, their new policy on personal information sharing is making me reconsider.

The sucky thing about TSR, if you're someone like me who's way more into objects/furniture and Build Mode stuff than silly BodyShop crap, is that they have a handful of artists who are actually fantastically good at making stuff, and do it in unique personal styles that you can't really find replacements for anywhere else: Windkeeper (who, granted, is mostly just doing Maxis style stuff, but is damn good at it), Cashcraft, NoFrills, Shannanigan, DOT, etc etc. Even some of the SAs, like MsBarrows - I honestly don't know why SHE isn't an FA and some of the no-talents hacks they have are. They also have some retardedly good builders, like Tiko.

And yet, aside from Windkeeper and Sunair, who gets the most fellating and snuggly-fuzzies from the sheeps, and who clogs up the "Coming Soon" bar? The barbie-doll "Sim coutiers". Bah. I wish the FAs and SAs who made good STUFF (who, suprise suprise, seem to be some of the saner ones) would ditch TSR and set up their own site. Hell, I'd be willing to "donate" more just to see it happen.

Actually, a lot of the "best ones" are free, or were free until they got greedy. How many times have you heard, "oh, I love so-and-so's set, I had them from when they were on MTS2... she's gone pay now, though."

Effectively ALL of the worthwhile modders - including Pescado himself - are free.



Except that Pescado himself doesn't actually use any custom content except his own hacks, as far as I recall.

Still, don't drink the damn Kool-Aid. I think most paysite creators charge because there's a market for their stuff, not because they wouldn't do it if there wasn't.



The point is, some people who sub to paysites want to share, and Pescado is enabling it because he doesn't like paysites, and also because this is doubtless an amusing spectacle to him.

Y'know, I'm a paying TSR member, and you're one of the main reasons I'm willing to shell out the $49.95 a year for a sub (because I'm a complete sucker for retro stuff, having an entire '50s hood), but I call bullshit on this.

What part of creating do you find fun? Obsessing over a mesh/texture, tweaking it to get it "just right"? Filesharing in no way makes that less fun, because it doesn't even affect it. Having a community of people who like your stuff / make similar stuff / post recolors of and do neat things with your meshes? You could maybe argue that filesharing makes it less likely for people to give the thanks and the warm-fuzzies, but there are plenty of people who pay for site subscriptions (like yours truly) who shun any kind of interaction at all, and probably plenty of people who aren't willing or able to pay for a sub to TSR who would happily give you the warm fuzzies if they could (say, if you stuck all your stuff on MTS2, instead.)

Really, the only aspect of being a paysite creator filesharing interferes with is YOU MAKING MONEY, and while I'm sure that's a sweet bonus when you can pull it off, I object to the notion that counts as "fun".

If you want to argue that PSMBD is ruining your PROFITS, okay, sure, but at least be honest about that.



Then post all your stuff to MTS2, which does.

EDIT: And because I realize that I probably sound slightly bitchier than I intend, I'd like to point out that I really do adore your stuff and think you're one of the better FAs on TSR, and I would be bummed if you stopped creating. Still, if you'd rather spend your time sewing or crafting or whatnot, especially if creating really isn't fun for you anymore, go for it. Don't torture yourself doing something that's not fun for you anymore, especially for a site that seems to treat people as badly as TSR.

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