That's a weird sort of logic.  If it's free no one can say anything bad about it, no matter what ? That's pretty stringent.

The reason I noticed it wasn't the work itself, it was the description.  As a bikini it's fine.  But sexy woman soldier?  That bugged me.  That's all.  Y'all can go back to your pay site bashing now.

Oh I don't know, sometimes i wonder about MTS2 "Quality control", when I see stuff like that make it through : http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=243529

"sexy woman soldier" in camo bikini and high heels?  WFT?  That is so wrong on so many levels....

Anyway what's up with that title"re: custom content help! Major benes! 5 star rating!  Please I'm desperate! ............. what the hell is that??

Isn't it strange how most people are different, but all crazies are somewhat alike.

My my my.  This is really quite the thread.  I tried to read all of it, I really did, but had to skip to the end, or get no sleep tonight.  I have ploughed through some novels faster than this.

Anyway, hopefully I am not repeating anything.  I clicked on the Mainstreet link and got this

This site is closed
 

Bring this Site Back

We need $90.00 by September

or it will stay closed

donate for us to bring it back .

Good points Willy.

But what about the fact that most of the tools creators use to mod the game involve reverse engineering and that is clearly against the EULA.  Is it completely unreasonable that if they crack down on sites that break their EULA, they will also address the issue of tools like SimPE ?

I dunno, it's like having the eye of Sauron on you.  I rather they look the other way.

From the outside looking in, as I am not neck-deep in the sims community, I actually fail to understand what all the fuss is about.  Why do people care so much about pay sites.  There is certainly enough free content and free sites so people never need to pay.

Personally I don't agree with sites which try to make their living selling sims content.  Making a little money to pay for bandwidth is one thing, trying to make it your main source of income is another. But even when that's the case, I don't care enough to be the slightest bit angry about it.  I don't even care enough to boycott a site, if there is something there I want.  Why is everyone so freaking passionate about it??  You'd think that pay sites are sweat shops, or use child labor, or deal in the white trade. Now those are things to get upset about and boycott.

Anyway.  The whole debate seems to have produced some good results.  Made people reconsider.  Stopped or slowed the slow drifting of content to pay sites. That was a real concern. We can thank MTS2 for being such a strong counterforce to that.  Thanks to PMBD for making pay sites less exclusive and less attractive to run.

There is only one thing I am sure of.  If people make so much noise that they prod  EA to act, everyone will be unhappy.  Be careful of what you wish for.  For those who think that EA will simply sue pay sites and leave free sites alone, I have some nice land in Florida to sell you.  

To paraphrase beoboxboy in one of the link above...(go read it, that post rocked) don't wake the sleeping giant.