What about sending people a gift they don't know about before they donate?
(But that would probably not work for long because people would tell they got a surprise.)

Well I don't feel exactly the way you do, but I agree that large paysites are lying about the bandwidth thing.

I don't agree on uploading creations against somebody's permission, but now that even MAXIS is allowing it by including meshes with sims packages automatically, how the heck will I agrument that?
I guess it's purely ethics now, and I cannot enforce my ethics on someone else.

I'm not against the huge paysites, but I'm not for them either... I'll just sit back and watch how this goes. :shock:

This is gonna be big.

Wow! I need to look into that too... I'm being ripped off!

Well that's just craptastic aint it XD
Now every idiot can upload a defected mesh to the EA site and... wait, it's actually kinda funny...

Well I never took medicine or went to a real pschiatrist... what I did was talk to my normal doctor regularly. She might not be a psychiatrist, but at least then you don't have the feeling that someone is trying to mess with your mind.

I slowly got better, with help from mainly this doc and my boyrfiend, because I was afraid to tell anyone else I was depressed (as if they didn't notice lol, acting like a nut).

A misconception many people make, is that when someone says or thinks they don't care for being alive, they want to kill themselves. But that's not  usually what they want at all, they want a solution to become happy again, not to become, well, dead and rotting XD

It's just that, when you are depressed, your life doesn't fulfill you anymore, and it becomes phlat and uninterresting or painfull.  Things you normally really like, don't give the same joy as before.

It is an ilness. However people are very easy to say: I'm depressed, when they are not really sick.

BTW, this has so little to with Retailsims quitting :shock: sorry :oops:

Simply unhappy is something very different from real depression... because a depression is feeling like you want to die, all the time, without a good reason, and even making your body suffer because you can't be arsed to even move around much. You know you want to snap out of it, but it never works. Trying to be rational with yourself hardly works. And even when you know that what you feel and think is not logical, you can't quit without help.
That is very frightening. There's something wrong with your mind and it's ruining your behaviour, feelings, joy, everyhting.

That's when you need to go for help. Depression CAN go away after some time, but without proper help you'll be at more risk of being depressed in the future, and more severely.

About the 'escuse' for the pay items and how that is too much info and not acceptable, well it is. But read this:

When I was depressed, I made large amounts of sims 2 stuff at that time, up untill the time that I spent 8 hours a day at the computer to get some hair right. When it's really not worth spending 8 hours on some hair (within one day), but you do it because then you don't have to think about what's wrong with the rest of your life and what you're supposed to be doing.
At the moment you're in it, it is not strange and even sick to you. You just want it done.

But now I'm healthy and look back, I think: What the HELL was I doing sitting on the pc for 8 hours straight!!! That's insane!

And I can also say, that my sims 2 stuff was an obsession and I found it overly important to get good feedback on it. So I'd post, then check the thread I posted a million times to see what people said about it!

I am glad that I'm over THAT stage and that the depression is gone, because it's really pathetic! But at the time I found it normal behaviour, or didn't think about it.

So maybe the people who use this kind of things as a reason to 'justify' pay content (wich doesn't really need to be justified in my opion, but anyway) really don't know what the heck they are saying, seriously. Or maybe it's all a fake, but in that case, screw them, they have no morals.
But I can't know in this situation, what is the real truth, because on the internet you can write anything, really.
So I can't judge.

I did!!  :shock:  I was depressed because I failed a year of school. Was no fun at all... and it's much more common than people would think.
There's no shame in it, because there's not much you can do about it.

Shit does happen to alot of people, and some let it effect every single thing they do... but do know, that when you are in this kind of situation your judgement of how you behave and what you do is completely warped. It's not an excuse, but then you do know why some people make an ass of themselves or do weird stuff when they are in a situation like this.




That's true, but in my opinion, having a few donation items is not that bad... as a downloader you still have the choice not to buy the item.
But with big paysites, where the amount of payitems is huuuuuge, there really is no point in going there if you don't want to pay... unless you like the frustration and the drooling at stuff you can't have, lol.

However I will still not have donation items, because what's on my site should be freely available to all the poor kiddies (who DO have 1000 dollar computer, playstation 1 2 and 3 and Xbox and the stupid Elmo doll )as well XD

Oh, ok. So it's combo of 'hmm who cares' and 'we give em free bandwidth' and 'they get enough after selling a file'. Wich is true!

But you know, I often get more donations a month, and it all goes to hosting, picture hosting, or any site upgrade anyway. It's nice to save some money up for your site as well. Then you can be sure that you don't get any surprises and can always do an emergency payment on something or the other. Since you can't really know what a site's expenses really are, or their finances, it looks kinda unneeded to me. Especially since the sites I'm talking about, coudln't really be after the money to feed themselves or buy an extra pair of Levi's or something...

And if you have free bandwidth for the grabbing, could you host some of my hairs

Guys, I understand you don't like the giant paysites with huge amounts of pay items and only a few free. Because that IS close to ridiculous.

But why would you want to get a site that only has one or a few sets for a few dollars? Because that IS what EA/Maxis/whatever allows. And they obviously can't live of it.

I know, my site is completely free ad makes it on donation without selling anything, so it IS possible, but a few pay items ( a FEW, not hundreds), who'd care? I can believe it's for the bandwidth. and if their site is mainly free and the free items aren't sh*t, what's the problem...

(This does not have anything to do with the fact that her later reactions to it was a bit out of proportions anyway, but just that I noticed a few sites that only have a few pay items, like this one.)