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Whoa. That is...pretty awful. Who is reading Sims stories for literary content? Yes, some Simmers are great writers, but there's a huge variety in age, language, education, skill. I read them for the storytelling! Sims stories should be a place for people to experiment, to grow and practice with whatever they're trying to do, without judgement. (Maybe judgement on the scandalous Sims though! :D )

Even if a person is clearly not a native English speaker or is a newbie writer, it's the enthusiasm, the pictures (sometimes staged, sometimes live), the construction of the story they wanted to tell or were thrown into that draws people in. We all have our preferences for what kind of story we want to read, but to critique people putting themselves and their writing out there is pretty rude. 

Sorry, I get kind of worked up about this. I am literally a librarian IRL, and the elitist attitude I see from people about what "counts" as reading material is just gross and puts people off from writing and reading. We don't need that in the Sims world. 

Saturation Nation. If I had a billion dollars this forum would be the last thing on my mind. EA

Thank you. I am learning to write stories now, so my writing is not "Superb" and the way they worded their post, was very off putting to say the least. 

I so get this! I post pics and little bits of humor sometimes, but I've never been brave enough to post whole stories. I made a tumblr to follow simmers, but not added anything. I look forward to your stories. :D 

Skyrim hasn't got an expensive forum with uploads and downloads as what Sims 2 had. Sims 2 custom content could be uploaded to the BBS directly from the game, as well as the stories, which were probably the worst for bandwidth, then which required moderation ... imagine that! All kinds of inappropriate things. Then there was the star ratings system which got very competitive and ... nasty, which also required moderation. And this was at a time when the internet was not quite as worked out with its speed, efficiency and economics yet, so even with the addition of what they said were advertisements on the BSS but as far as I could see were only in-house advertisements, like from EA about their off-shoot games, I get why it became necessary to shut that down and try to make people move on. As great as it was when it was good, for us the players. 

If the forum had membership fees, that would be different. If the game had ongoing subscription fees, that would be different. But since it's a one-off purchase, even with the expansions, the up-keep of a forum would need to be kept in check. The Store on Sims 3 probably helped. Hey that one's still going. You don't need a Commerce degree like mine to understand companies need profitability and profit growth. They can't keep running without it, as much as they love us. Otherwise we would have to be cave-people.

You can actually get the complete suite of The Sims 2 by the way. 

True, most games with heavy modding seem to revolve around Nexus, Tumblr, etc. Don't mention forums having fees!! They'll get ideas! 😄 I wonder how expensive keeping up our beloved Sims forum was, to a big ol' company like EA though? 

(And yeah, I recently "found" Sims 2, so I have it on my new computer. Whew.)

There should at least be a Sims 3 creative corner for people who still create stuff like the Sims 3 and like to share it with other people here.  

The sims 2 site is also lacking... It needs some development.

Be careful through.  The forum is kind of buggy.  When I tried to edit my Coastal Roads post, it told me that it didn't exist and it disappeared from the forum.  I ended up reposting it on my Tumblre and than later it turned out that it got posted after all