i'm not buying no damn moola 😭😭😭😭
for the record i was already anti ea, but the situation keeps getting freakishly worse.
i always tell ppl to buy sims 3 off cd keys cuz theres no reason ea needs ur money for a 15 year old game. ea doesn't need your money period.
It's so embarrassing that simmers don't know how to boycott, big companies like EA only respond when their pockets start to hurt they DO NOT CARE if you complain and just keep BUYING anyway so of course they're gonna keep selling out cause simmers have no damn backbone. Even the people that are buying just to 'review' marketplace items or packs gtfo, you're the reason they keep giving us LOW EFFORT CONTENT.
i need to shed some light on why sometimes boycotts dont go well or pick up fast enough bc its not totally that simmers dont know how to boycott; there's just a lot of fucking people in the world:
case in point - there are few women in my office where i work, all in our 20s or 30s. a very small percentage of us are simmers to a varying degree (its p much the only thing we have in common sadly). do you know who the ONLY one who knows about all this shit with EA of the few of us?
JUST. ME. i am the ONLY one who sims and knows whats going on and is loud about it.
the ones that dont know:
play on their xbox: had NO idea about any of this until i asked them about it point blank. unfortunately, they ALSO like the marketplace and believe its totally harmless, a "fun" add-on and im being dramatic - im really not, this whole thing is so annoying.
plays on PC, only heard some things here'n'there like on FB or twitter. thought nothing of it / didnt investigate further (why?!?! wtf!!!) and kept playing as usual. she is indifferent re: the marketplace and also believes im being dramatic and "too political" about a video game.
my OWN sister who used to sim!!!! had no idea about ANY of this shit either. she is on our side but only after i told her but doesnt sim herself anymore nor do her kids, her coworkers and friends - i am the sole source of this news. i am the *only* simmer in my family and friends group (thats sad lmao) but how many people you wanna bet just dont know about any of this? lets also remember this annoying thing that STILL happens: when we bring up "sims", most IRL people immediately dismiss it as "oh sims? pff" and change the subject. pretty god damn defeating.
TLDR: YES OBVS we want boycotts to work, but we cant force it upon other people. some people just have NO idea by either ignorance, laziness or straight up by living under a fucking rock.
so lets not just fully place the blame on the simmers. some of us are trying to spread the word, be loud about it and help sustain the boycott. most people regardless of how they often they sim just, apparently, dont care enough and thats the struggle.
you can lead a horse to water, man














