Team Vlad

Hey guys! I’ve been getting a lot of messages about the recent EA announcement to the community. Given their decision on having all CC/Mods made entirely available to the public for The Sims 4, I’ve decided to follow their wishes. All of my Patreon content is now accessible for everyone to download. I believe this is the right step going forward and I encourage other creators to do the same!

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now, but always been worried about the outcome, so this is really tough for me. You being my Patron is what allows me to continue creating and support me & my art, so I truly hope you guys can keep doing that, no matter this decision. 💖

The pushback I’m seeing against EA’s no-paywalling policy is honestly…bizarre to me?

I’ve played a lot of games, but The Sims is the only one I’ve played that let other people profit off their IP. Imagine trying to monetize fanworks from any other game without the IP holder getting a cut of the profits… Bethesda? Rockstar? Blizzard? Nintendo? I’m sorry, but EA was being generous by allowing people to make money off their game assets in the first place. Other gaming companies would have just sued.

(** Any company would have a problem, not just games–imagine if EA was Disney. You can’t put so much as a Mickey Mouse silhouette on something and sell it without getting hit with a prompt cease-and-desist.)

I’m not sure if people are being purposely obtuse or if they really just don’t understand how IP laws (or user agreement contracts, which everyone who downloaded the game agreed to) work. “Don’t sell someone else’s intellectual property for a living” feels like a statement that shouldn’t need to be made. Whether you like EA as a company or not, IP laws either matter or they don’t–you can’t pick and choose when laws apply based on how you feel about the IP holder, or how much you think you deserve that money more.

It just doesn’t work like that. It never has.

As far as how this all affects the community…again: other games just don’t have this problem, so I’m not understanding the issue. Banning paywalled mods won’t hurt the community in the slightest. Skyrim modders consistently put out professional quality mods for free, because that’s just…how it is in other gaming communities? They make mods because they love the game. This monetization issue doesn’t exist for other games in the same capacity as it does for The Sims. (And even for Sims, it didn’t used to be this bad.)

In summary: EA’s newest policy update isn’t a shock, nor is it any kind of betrayal of the community. It’s just basic IP law and common sense/decency. 🤷

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SAYING. HOW FUCKING DARE YOU.

MY CC ALWAYS HAVE BEEN RELEASED WITHING 15 DAYS, BECAUSE PATREON HAVE THE OPTION TO AUTO POST FOR PUBLIC, SO IT CAN’T HAPPEN THAT MY SHIT STAYS LOCKED AFTER THAT TIME.

DON’T FUCKING TRY WITH ME.

OOOOOH DARLINGS, YOU CAN BE SURE WE ARE BUILDING OUR LISTS AS WELL. SCREW YOU.

I GAVE EVERYTHING TO THIS FUCKING PLACE FULL OF FUCKING CRAP, I HAVEN’T SLEPT FOR NIGHTS, HAVEN’T EATEN OR WENT OUT WITH MY FUCKING REAL FIRENDS (SINCE I HAVE SOME), OR HELPED MY MUM AND DAD WITH DAILY STUFF BECAUSE I WANTED TO FINISH A PACK OR A CC BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH, BECAUSE I FELT TERRIBLE AT THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE WERE PLEDGING FOR NOTHING, OR STRUGGLE TO HAVE THE CC I WAS WORKING ON. AND I EVEN NEVER HAD A FUCKING CENT OF DONATION BACK UNTIL I LAUNCHED MY EARLY ACCESS PATREON THAT WAS E A R L Y A C C E S S, SO NO COMPULSORY IN DONATING MONEY, (PEOPLE WHO PLEDGE, GIVE MONEY FOR TIME, THEIR ARE BUYING TIME, NOT THE CC BECAUSE THE CC IS FREE AFTER TWO FUCKING WEEKS). EARLY ACCESS THAT MADE ME ERAN 80-100$ PER MONTH, MONEY THAT I HAD TO SPENT FOR MEDICINES AND TO REPLACE SOCKS AND PANTIES ONCE IN A WHILE.

SHAME ON YOU.

AND NOW YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO PUT ME AND OTHER CREATORS IN THIS LIST? I’M NO LONGER WEARING A YELLOW STAR ON MY FUCKING CHEST BITCH, THE LIST ERA IS FINISHED. YOU FASCISTS ANTISEMITE ASSHOLES ARE SPLIT. I’LL REPORT YOU FOR THIS LIST, AND THE ONE THAT THE OTHER KAREN MADE.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT?

IF I HAVE TO BE PUT IN THE SAME BOOK AS THE EXCLUSIVE PEOPLE, THEN YOU KNOW FUCKING WHAT? I’LL BE FUCKING EXCLUSIVE TOO,  ONCE MY CURRENT EARLY ACCESS ITEM IS RELEASED.

FUCK EA AND YOU ASS LICKING DOGS.

I ONLY FEEL TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY SORRY FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO ALWAYS SUPPORTED ME BY WAITING FOR THOSE TWO FUCKING WEEKS. I LOVED YOU. AND I’LL STILL LOVE YOU WHEN YOU’LL START TO HATE ME. BUT AT THIS POINT I’M SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THIS CRAP.

BLAME THESE BITCHES, NOT ME. I’M A HUMAN, AND I HAVE FEELINGS.

This is my position on the new EA policy! https://www.patreon.com/posts/important-notice-69850325