#simslittleblackbook

You may now direct creators who don’t follow those guidelines to this statement:

For more information: https://help.ea.com/en-gb/help/the-sims/the-sims-4/mods-and-the-sims-4-game-updates/

Thank you to everyone who did their part by sending a ticket or reaching out to a guru, this is a big deal. Glad EA is finally doing something about a huge portion of the CC creator communities exploitative practices.

Cowbuilds statement on IG

How cute they are coordinating responses. So a few problems with this. As we laid out in Leo’s post, this was alway EAs stance so paywalling sims content and package files prior to July 21st is against TOS.

Second, Cowbuild and alot of her friends repeatedly violates the positive play charter by stealing companies models and that whole doxxing fiasco.

The community can still report her for all those violations.

Third they also will have to be careful how they market their content because they often use sims assets in their photos. If they are now just selling 3d models but using sims assets in their promotion that’s not exactly the best look legally. But I’m sure their lawyer informed them of that. Will they continue to use sims 4 hashtags or say it’s for the sims 4? That remains to be seen.

Not sure if their little work around will matter because it’s very obvious what they are doing and now that it’s crystal clear that EA is not ok with it the optics will be pretty bad. There actions will be interpreted as sketchy even if they try to spin it.

Newsflash Cowbuild, this whole anti paywall dialogue is getting traced back to you. Just take a look at twitter or Reddit every thread is like oh I bet this is because of all the crazy sh*t Cowbuild pulled. Keep it up, see how far it gets you.

CC tumblr’s stop promoting these sketchy people who obviously have no concern for the rules of the community. Same for Youtubers. If either do the community should remind them they do not follow EAs TOS. Moreover they are now 3d modelers they have no business being promoted in our community any longer

Similarly Patreon can’t keep sitting on the fence, now that EA has clarified their stance.

The early access and the rest of the community really needs to take a stand against paywallers who refuse to comply. They are the ones that brought the hammer down it’s important that they are chased out if they refuse to comply, because what’s next? Mods aren’t supported all together? Donations aren’t allowed? How much will we as a community allow them to f*ck up? Seriously? Early access creators hopefully you’re sharpening your pitchforks because these weirdos are to blame for your bag getting taken away.

Hey, let's talk?

For those who don't understand anything, follow the end of the post I'll leave some links explaining the situation!

So... Let's go!

The following is! Like all creators, or most of them here on patreon, I survive with your subscription! I'll be very direct, because I really have everything to lose, if this all comes to an end!

I see a lot of comments about this whole situation involving the new content trading policy for TS4 and I really never thought it would get to this point! People wishing you doom, laughing as if it were something banal, but it means the food of many of us! This is so dirty, I couldn't believe how ROTTEN these people are!

From EA I already expected the worst, although, in my naive mind, I didn't have the "worst" parameter to imagine how dirty they could be for us!

To those who support this new EA policy bullshit, my heartfelt fuck you!

We never force you to subscribe to our content! I have never shared exclusive content! And never would! But your greedy little ass couldn't wait 15/20 days to get the content publicly, could it? Well, fuck you! I can't thank you guys, I never had your support, I didn't have a penny from you in the food I ate during the month and not even in my household bills, you guys are trash! And I'm just referring to you guys who are celebrating with all this shit, who are happy to take the shit out of the right that made me have enough to eat every day, who made me buy my computer so I could work harder. YOU! GO FUCK YOU!

To everyone who has supported me during these 2 years of patreon, THANK YOU SO MUCH! They made me feel fulfilled for being able to work with what made me happy, with what I liked to do! I never thought this was possible, and it was! All Thanks to you!

I don't know what it will be like from now on, I don't know if I'll be able to offer my content publicly since I'll have to find a way to make money or I'll have to sell everything I can to continue surviving with a minimum!

I'll be sharing my content this month only and depending on how this snowball behaves, we'll be back in the following months. If things get any worse, I'll be giving myself an ultimatum that The Sims is no longer for me! The community is inhumane garbage and those that are worth it are few!

Again, thank you very much! I'll keep you posted throughout the week!

We apologize for the delay, a couple of us have been dealing with personal stuff, and we also had to figure out some things internally. We wanted to make sure that we were able to dedicate an appropriate amount of time and bandwidth to this post even if it was a few days late. Thanks for allowing us to do that. We’ve tried to remain laser-focused on bringing awareness to the bad behavior of shady creators and not speak on much else as we felt it would distract and detract from that, but the past few days have made that no longer an option.

First, we want to fully denounce the actions of both Sunny/Mack3030 and Simvault. It was truly stunning the amount of damage they both have done to this movement with their harassment, bullying, microaggressions, racism, and various other damaging actions to this entire anti-paywall community. It is infuriating and enraging that in a matter of 48 hrs. they managed to undo months and months of work from all over the community, through their harassment and micro-aggressions of people in marginalized communities on Twitter.

We acknowledge that Sunny/Mack3030 has done a lot to raise awareness around the issues of paywalls, but it’s clear that she is no longer the person who should be at forefront of this.

For those of you that say that those who hold them accountable are divisive, we must wonder, why are only the people who have decided to voice their opinions on Sunny/Mack3030 and Simvault divisive, but they themselves are not? Simvault whose horrible behavior truly shocked and disgusted our contributors? Mack3030's repeated new and old controversies that feed the narrative that this movement is unjust. Because we bit our tongues and tried to be diplomatic for the "good of the anti-paywall community" this whole time and yet again we are watching another controversy unfold distorting all the good that was done. A controversy that she was an architect of through her endless hypocrisy, impulsivity, need to call out everyone who didn’t fall in line, her increasingly reckless behavior, a lack of regard for others privacy and incessant need to center this whole discussion around herself at every opportunity. We tried that approach to try not to further divide the anti-paywall community and focus on our shared goal, which was misguided.

Lastly, we must ask you if this is who you want as your champion?

Someone who would've sold out had circumstances been different? That doesn't sound like someone fit to be the figurehead of this. We are no longer associated with Sunny/Mack3030 and with her leaving the anti-paywall community, we hope that we can have continued productive conversations on the abuse of the community by creators.

Ya we’re aware. We’ve been referencing the TOS and EULA and delusional Stan’s like yourself kept saying the TOS didn’t necessarily apply to The Sims. Or that the policy was old or that Guru Drake wasn’t authorized to speak on their behalf and the meaningless excuses they continued to make in order to hoard money from mostly working class players who were unaware of this policy. Cope more. No one cares. EA said it plain as day, it’s not our fault these greedy vultures overstayed their welcome.

If Felix wants to sue a multibillion dollar company over a dying iteration of a franchise, instead of… oh…I dunno…. just following the rules, that says more about him than anything else.