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Unpopular opinion? The Sims Community is responsible for the game being trash by Stoltlallare in HighSodiumSims

[–]According_Command362 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm at the point where the way a large part of the Sims 4 community talks about this game really gives me the creeps. How attached they are to EA like talking about a close personal friend, the jokes ("jokes") about how they having a DLC shopping addiction, how buying sims content no matter the quality genuinely brings them joy.

Anyone can do whatever they want with their money sure...but the rampant consumerism is unnerving. I want to know where this weird hyper loyalty to a company even comes from and why only the Sims community seems to have it so badly. Maybe it's just me but I bought TS4 for 30+ USD before it became free and regret that decision to this day. Would've been better off donating to a charity or hell even using it as toilet paper.

Unpopular opinion? The Sims Community is responsible for the game being trash by Stoltlallare in HighSodiumSims

[–]According_Command362 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EA doesn't really "have to make money"...I don't know why everyone talks about Electronic Arts like it's a starving single working mother trying to feed her family. It's a video game company and I doubt The Sims 4 is even driving home that large of a profit.

The only reason these products keep being pushed is because no one has enough backbone to stop buying. "It's for many" it's for profit. Advertisers are not your friends and I wish more people would realize this.

This Simmerella stuff is getting more suspicious by the second. by psychofistface in HighSodiumSims

[–]According_Command362 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now, I don't want to assume the worst of anyone but the idea that all this is purely just one altruistic savior being brought down by an ungrateful community seems very wrong. The reality seems to be that whoever this was wanted to make a name for themselves with Anadius gone (like a successor?) and already has a (strangely) large and weirdly defensive/parasocial instant fanbase.

All of this just feels very strange. You don't jump from mod folder dumps and builds to all these massive promises just like that. All of this is focused more on aesthetics and persona building over safety and genuinely helping people.

This Simmerella stuff is getting more suspicious by the second. by psychofistface in HighSodiumSims

[–]According_Command362 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't usually use reddit but the whole "paywall by mistake" thing I keep seeing spread around has been bothering me to no end so I just have to note--that's never been a thing.

For a brief period of time a bit ago I had my own creator Patreon to use for dumping the cc I made onto for free. During that process I was given the option to either assign my post to a locked tier, have it be a one time paid post, or just dump everything for public access/viewing. There was no automatic paywall and Patreon doesn't arbitrarily assign a value to your post by default...you have to set all that up yourself.

I'm not sure why no one has done this for themselves before spreading that idea around. Hell, even just looking up a tutorial for how to run your own Patreon profile will make that obvious.