Paysites producing content for Official German Site?

[Skadi]

I just logged on to www.diesims2.de which is the German EA site, and started to download items from their advent calendar, when I saw that the items were credited to websites including Birgit43, murano and simgedoehns.

They are given credit on the pop up windows.

Original: Dieses Objekt wurde vom Objektspezialisten www.simgedoehns.de exklusiv
für den Die Sims 2 Adventskalender erstellt.

Translation from Google:
This listing was adopted by the Object specialists exclusively www.simgedoehns.de
For The Sims 2 Advent calendar.

WTF?

[Hecubus]

As I recall, Teko did something for their Seasons release - it wound up being the only paysite on his Murano Mobilia site, but it was also the beginning of his courtship by TSR.

I suspect it's something EA-Germany commissions. Nice work, if you can get it.  

[Chinchillagrl]

:shock:  The candle/floral arrangement from the advent calendar is called murano_ea_floralarrangementwithcandles
I noticed the name when I put it into my game earlier this afternoon.

[Skadi]

Well, at least it wasn't TSR. Are their no free german object creators?

[Markus]

I thought some of the exclusive stuff on there looked a wee bit like paysite items.

[gyrobot]

Well, at least it wasn't TSR. Are their no free german object creators?

I guess so...Then again, these bastards got the hobbies information before we did. Guess we know who EA cares about more...

[Paden]

Um, I knew about the hobbies EP coming out when I opened my copy of BV when I first got it, what, a month or two back. They put in a little advert and if folks paid attention to shit like that, they'd know what was expected out next. Jebus...