VOTE PLEASE    |
22 march 2002
the
coming Sims web industry |
| read here please EA's
present position to the Sims web * EA says: it's ok for pay sites ... i have started this site as a fan page & not as a business with this EA's decision the Sims web is beginning officially to be a business & currently on such a base like stated now i am not willing to support Maxis/EA's gain anymore many members of this community shared for years their knowledge, skills, time, work & creativity for free with all fans foolish! i would say - they seemingly had from the beginning on the right to take money to cover their costs the present costs & the future costs, or would you deny better done objects after they paid for a skilled 3D designer? or a quicker surfing after they paid for a good own server? this is for me the border between an amateur fan page & a proffessional add ons producing page i'm sure, people on the pay sites see it not that way but in my eyes, when this' a game for you, when this' a fun for you, when this' a hobby for you, so you are trying to keep the costs payable for you when you step across this border & your site is going to be bigger than you can pay for, so you have to stop or you have to start a business site business means to be paid from the surfers & downloaders, then they are customers i am not very surprised that there is seemingly no doubt on EA's side EA is a money earning company & they have to profit from their business & it looks like they forgot, that fans are fans & not their business partners for me means the current situation that i am not willing now to be EA's business partner i am still a fan of the game The Sims, but meantime no more a fan of Maxis my work for The Sims is too precious to be accessible for free since i could get my bills paid legal now i am also not in the mood to compete as a scorned german fan site maker with mainly US american people, who are rather interested in a half professional add ons production, especially not since exactly those already big, known & paid sites are still additional prefered by Maxis features on thesims.ea.com & i am not in the mood to hear in the near future, that my files must be crap, because i can pay for my site out of my own pocket & because just what you've paid for is worthy to be admired i will show clearly my disgusting about the current progression in the Sims web the coming Sims web industry my work is my only trump & i am not going to sell it out |
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