My exact sentiments.

And since I know that the TSR douchebags like to read this threads, I'd like to personally tell them to fuck themselves to death.

I don't know that I consider myself hard core, but I surely don't have anything pay in my game. Not because I'm cheap and don't want to pay for it, but because of the reasons you mentioned. I plain old find better stuff on free fansites and have yet to find anything pay that doesn't have a more attractive free option. I think that's what's got me so worried about the Sims 3. I refuse to play a game where custom content is going to be dictated by EA or, even worse, TSR.

I also agree that the Sims 3 seems like a port of a console game, I think that's what made me start on this quest for Sims 3 CC answers  .
Do you happen to know if Quaxi got help from Maxis with SimPE or if that is an urban legend? I wonder because I doubt EA's going to be as forthcoming with information sharing this time around and the only answer I can find at the big forums is "don't worry, the hackers will create something to make cc possible". I just wonder who these mystery hackers are and if they know they've been tapped to save the Sims 3 from complete phail. Like I said before, I wasn't around for the Sims - Sims 2 change, so I don't know if this is a normal attitude from the community and I shouldn't worry or if I should just forget about the Sims 3 altogether.

I read that SimPE was created by members of the community with help from Maxis developers. I don't know if this is correct or not since I just started playing the game a couple years ago, but if that is the truth, then who is stepping up to the plate to actually create these tools? And would EA Sims give the same amount of help as they did when it was Maxis Sims? All I keep getting is vague references to "the hackers".

I hope this is okay to discuss here. I figured it would be alright since the rumor is that TSR/EA Store is going to be it as far as legal custom content goes for the Sims 3 and we're all in agreement that TSR is teh evil. If not, feel free to macro me and call me a stupidface 

Does anyone know for certain that the Sims 3 is going to have a version of Bodyshop and Homecrafter yet? I just got done reading a mess of a thread on the BBS with one side yelling there's not going to be legally free custom content/tools for the Sims 3 and another side yelling that there will definitely be free custom content tools.

Does anyone here know if there will be EA released CC tools? I figured I'd ask here since the BBS seems to be filled with staffed TSR employees that are calling people greedy for wanting free CC.