@ Devilfish:)
I did not mean to imply that we are all sour and stuff.
What I meant was that surely he had to have asked K&E "So what kind of community is this?" and they might have answered something like "The peeps are always willing to throw a few bucks our way specially if we turn on the pressure easy as pie.".With that Walt thinks "sweet ."
If I may make a comparison (and before I go on let me totally clarify this:IN NO WAY will I mean to make light or fun of bad/abusive relationships and the pain they cause)
As a whole sort of like a body we are a lot like a battered women.We put up with Maxis BS on their DRM software, not only thta we come back for more(some of us anyways).Some of us at least at some point if not still have put up with the evil treacherous way paysites behave(and some of us even defending them)
EA having us pay for individual downloadsd and including Securom with patches(That almost feels like being with a big ol bag of WTF)
These are just a few small examples,yet thru them all we as a whole keep coming back for more cause if we just play nice and be good maybe the Sim Gods or whatever will behave.
(Again I do not want to make light of abuse or compare it to something as trivial as a game)
So yeah I can see when Walt asked or seen how donation drives have been in the past he figured these folks take anything.....cashcow here I come,it wouldnt have been an unreasonable conclusion.

Personally I think its great to see that everyone is making a stand,means maybe there is hope yet that we get a reasonable playing game without having to pay a small fortune,having to violate the EULA or having to pay a fortune for cool stuff

Kat


PS my reaL name is Katja maybe I should just go by that for a while lol

I wanna throw something out here (but first let me check for my flame proof undies and magical rum bottle defending shield).Maybe walt isnt so dumb after all.Lets face it during the great paysites vs free sites disaster noone left and after it all blew over we played happy families again.The giant fireball from space that is seccurom (sp??) may have forced some of us to find other ways of playing (such as say only installing up to the Securom free Expacks) .But play we did.And letsface it as a community all the other monor disasters etc unless directly involved we just sit by point and laugh and toast Marshmellows.In that sense was Walt (from his POV anyways) that wrong in assuming "they'll put up with look they put up with everything else" I kinda get the feeling we are a very sick and dysfunctional community.
Just some musings on my part
Kat

Long time lurker,first time poster here.
I voted burn it.I figure between the combined efforts of all the people backing stuff up and then pescado doing his thing most everything if not all is backed up somewhere.The only issue I would have is the legality and the moral side of this.If its illegal then don't do it it's not worht getting in trouble with the law over this.The moral side even tho everyone here is pirate like to crash and burn just because you can just doesn't sit well with me.In a way I think it cheapens/lessens PMBD because its one thing to be right morally to take a stand against paysites for their illegalness and another side to knowingly and willfully destroy another site.
I am sure I am not explaining this well at all.It just seems to contradict itself.However if burning is the only way to have any chance at saving anything then burn away (aside from legal issues).
Kat