GameIsland has had a section for pay items for a long time now. About a year, I believe.

That's my exact thoughts, Missbonbon. When TSR originally said they had EA help with this, I rolled my eyes and thought "in your dreams". But with the looks of this and how it just emanates EA launcher look, I can't help but wonder if someone in Engineering or Web Team didn't give them a template to work with and the knowledge to pull it off. Maybe I'm imagining things but it's just too fishy.

The worms above her eyebrows really need to go. Poor thing, being attacked by albino worms!

Neriana's not posted in the last little bit, and I can't speak for her, but I'd have to think that she'd not have made that comment about ANYone who had LEFT TSR.

Look at it this way. There were several folks who've left TSR in the last year alone. Those who left mostly did so because of all the crap going down. From what I understand, those folks didn't know a lot of the inside nastiness that we all are aware of today.

That said, I took neriana's statement as meaning that with the wealth of info about TSR that is out there now--proof in the form of screenshots, admittance, witness accounts--anyone who remains there is dumb. Naive. Blinded by the cultish atmosphere. Brainwashed.

That's how I took her statement. Paleo, Darq, Gelydh, et. al. did not enter my mind, and why? Because they made the intelligent decision to get out when the crap started flying. And, to me, anyone else who comes out of it is danged genius, too!

Anyway, I had to pipe up. Now I'll go back to lurking like always.

Here's a copy/paste as I'm about to go out the door.

ROFLMBO WB, you are full of win.

I don't know why, but I have an incredibly ominous feeling about the Sims community after reading Coconut's latest. Maybe it's the fact that I absolutely HATE The Sims 3. Or maybe it's the fact that I hate The Sims Resource. Or maybe it's the fact that there's flouncing going on.

Or maybe it's all of the above. At any rate, I see Armageddon occurring to the Sims community. Fatalism, FTW!

That's what I came here to say. If I had an account at TSR, I'd just have to leave a comment letting those brainwashed cult members know that in the REAL WORLD businesses are required to send out warnings such as this to their customers.

Don't feel bad, neriana. I didn't make the connection either till someone mentioned it. I think part of me must've figured no one SURELY would put Thomas' poor wife in the mix. But when you're dealing with a Twit Twat bar, you just never know what might come up.

Days like this make me wonder why I even still PLAY my Sims games once in a while. Stupid TSR and stupid EA for holding the pooper scooper while Thomas takes a crap on their reputation.

So, it's no more Mr. Nice Guy, eh? Last time you were here, you were all nice and all. Either a. we made you mad, b. you have multiple personalities, or c. Johan is a shared account with multiple people.

At any rate, that's not my point. My point is this:

Johan,
Pescado doesn't have to tell you anything. All you're trying to do is to get him to talk like you got Delphy to talking so that somehow you can try to discredit Pescado. Pescado won't likely fall for your bait, but nice try anyway. The difference between Delphy and Pescado is that one is willing to listen to both sides and the other is hard-headed enough to just kick you in the teeth if he thinks you're an idiot. Watch your teeth, Johan. Remember, you're not at TSR.

Well, I guess Thomas does read the dictionary. We know what the word of that day was (miscreant), so what's the word for today, Thomas? Here, Thomas, maybe I can help you.

How about 'reprobate'. Look it up in the dictionary and you might find you share a similarity with that word.

Truth is, it's next to impossible to find stuff here. Hundreds of pages when most of them go off topic creates a mind-numbing experience. I went back a month or so ago to try to find something that was said about EA and never did find it. Fished through about 300 pages of stuff before I finally gave up. Search feature wasn't my friend that day. I've learned since then that if I want to remember something, I have to bookmark the page because asking for help won't work.

Somehow, I'm not at all surprised. Another point for them! When they're caught red-handed they still get away!

Exactly. And what TSR doesn't realize is that you can be pro-free and not be a pirate. I've not arr'd any games, music, yada yada. It's just not for me. But just because I'm not interested in that doesn't mean that I'm pro-paysite. The EULA says no profiting from content, and even if it didn't I'd not support a paysite simply because I think it's stupid to pay a 3rd party for pixels that I can't touch and might not be able to trust. I'd say there are a lot of us out there who would rather have it free and honest, unlike some of the ARRing FAs I've heard who are pretending to have bought their games.