I'm mostly just confused as to why Exnem thinks it's a good idea to grout a cake.

I tried to put mouseover tags with [witty] descriptions pointing out the precise inferiority of the pay stuff, but I failed right mightily.

 Dr House: I deleted my Ogularama nachos because the EA appetiser platter was pretty similar and having too much choice gives me brain disease and wind.

OK, so I've been out in my dinghy and found way too many comparison pictures. Admittedly the pay stuff isn't all eye-gougingly bad, but when you got a similar equivalent and it's free, the free content could be utter arsecrack and it would still be better by default.

Shakeshaft at TSR $$$ Vs. Ogularama


Cyclonesue at TSR (I think) $$$ Vs. Ogularama


Wood For Sims $$$ Vs. Parsimonious


Vita Sims $$$ Vs. Parsimonious


Sunair at TSR $$$ Vs. Parsimonious


Exnem $$$ Vs. eris3000 at MtS


Somebody I can't remember at TSR (well, they start to merge, especially after the rum) $$$ versus Sims2Play


I have more, too. But my post is too long already and I'm also starting to need a whizz.

This thread's been good for my health as a pirate. I think paysites are shite, but I keep downloading the stuff (with a five finger discount) because I always thought that if you wanted the best you had to ... well, not PAY, but at least give them the benefit of knowing their stuff is worth nabbing. But when you see some of the more popular stuff side by side with free content it's obvious where the talent is.

It just makes the 'But I need the moneys for working sooo hard!' bullshit even harder to swallow. The people who make this stuff for free have more fun, and it shows when people enjoy what they do. I think paysite creators end up making stuff only grudgingly and with as little effort as they can, because they're not doing it for poops and giggles any more.

I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said. I just haven't had a good rummage for good comparison pics yet. I'll go away now. Um... yarr. Et cetera.

Huh. I tried to make a pink recolour or the cute female short hairstyle and it wouldn't export the textures with Bodyshop. Still, I do like that hair. The red one is pretty dyed-looking, so I might give that to my more flamboyant Sim instead of pink.

By the way, I like Maxis textures overall. I don't like a lot of their designs, but I do like my Sims to look a tad cartoonish, which I think is the look they're going for. I've bought a few Stuff Packs. I'm basically EA's bitch, aren't I?

Pff, I can't mock it as much as I mock fan paysites (to myself - I'm new here so I haven't really had a chance to try out my tricorne mocking hat yet). Sure, most of the content is shite and EA has lost touch with it's fanbase, but it's their property to rip people off with.

Paysite supporters frequently tout the 'Artists charge for their art!' argument, but the fact is that they're scribbling over somebody else's drawing, while EA would be somewhere on the lines of one of those fancy pants art shops that sells lousy paint-sloshed triptychs at extortionate prices to clueless amateur interior designers. What I mean is - it's the fandom's fault for buying that rubbish.

That said, I was a little bit naughty. I really like the male outfits with the waistcoat and the short and spiky female hair style, and the male hair and female clipped-back hairstyles are pretty nifty too. I would have downloaded them for free. So, uh, I did.