jysudo: TSR FAs are best downloaded and not seen or heard.
Care to elaborate on your reasoning behind this comment? I'm interested in knowing why you prefer that I remain "not seen or heard".....
AnneBonny: At least now I have new respect for Grizzelda and NeptuneSuzy who share their creations off TSR for free.
Thanks for the compliment.....
For the record, I have a free site (ts2creations) and I upload to mts2 and TSR (as an FA). I don't mind going out on a limb and saying that I'm not being paid any big bucks by TSR, LOL! I think there is a false impression that all FA's get some big cache to post over there and that's just not true. When I first started making Sims2 content over 2 years ago when the game came out I uploaded to TSR because their interface for submitting was very simple and they gave you a nice little profile page. At that time mts2 was young and harder to navigate. Over time I became an FA, and made friends at TSR, thus I'm still there.
I don't really know what to say about the whole paysite debate..... I have a Free Site and I (as well as Grizzelda) want everyone to share and recolor our meshes.... one thrill as a creator is to see my meshes recolored! I also love to see my creations all over!
Everytime I see a screenie with one of my Medieval Hair or Gown creations I'm thrilled!
I'm also at TSR as an FA. I just want to make it clear that I'm not there for the alleged big bucks....I'm there for the community of friends that I've had for years now. I understand that my creations over there are Pay items but that's a compromise I make.
I find it a little disheartening that many veiws in this thread are harsh and one sided. And there also seems to be a fair amount anger here. It might be a good thing to remember that everyone is an individual and has different reasons for their actions. And nothing is as simple as being black and white
Also I can't understand any of the negative opinions made against mts2, Delphy is the single most influencial person in the Sims2 community when it comes to Free Content! Without mts2, a Free site, we wouldn't have the support to make CC.
I'm also disheartened and surprised by some of the responses to DrPixel, first of all he owns a free site (Blarney Stone) and has been contributing to the Sims1/Sims2 community for many years. What I find interesting is that there are so few posters Thanking him for his FREE contributions. Not only is the majority of his custom content available free, but the advice on creating content that he has given to so many people in the community is also done freely, as well as sharing freely any new techniques etc that he has developed.
One last point and then everyone can get the rocks ready to throw at me, LOL!
Simply put...."Two wrongs don't make a right". I understand that you find Pay Sites to be wrong and bad for the gaming community in general. That may be true, but copying someone's file in order to share it is also wrong. It's always going to be theft of intellectual property, that's just a fact. Now I know there will be responses from some of you that say much of the bitmap in most files etc is either from a Maxis creation or photoskinned from another site etc. Sure, sometimes that's true, but not always. For instance, 90% of the skirts I use on my gowns is rendered from a digital picture of my livingroom....I cut/pasted/etc from my curtains. And many of my bitmaps contain ONLY art made from scratch, and I mean totally from scratch, just an empty feild in PSP. For someone to copy and share that is simple theft of intellectual property. It's wrong, and it's rude to anyone who created an original bitmap etc. And it's considered rude in all gaming communities when someone copies someone else's bitmap etc file without asking their permission first.
For me personally, after I create something I don't really care where it ends up etc. But someone else might. And the fact is that by copying their work you have infringed on their rights. At least state that you know what you're doing is wrong but you're going to do it anyway. Personally, I respect Discolusure.....not only at paysites, but here also.
OK, throw those rocks.....just keep them small! LOL!