@PurpleCosmonauts First of all, I was helping people: They asked for evidence and save files and gave instructions for Google Drive and OneDrive. The fact is that using OneDrive puts your Sims files at risk. Like, I wrote, I found out the hard way and people in several discord channels had to rescue my files so they weren't completely lost..
Secondly, my so-called rant is a collection of facts that have been disseminated and discussed throughout the Sims Community since 4 came out. So this is nothing new. It's a pattern that will go on as long as we keep giving them our money. If you lost $40 you would try to rectify the situation as you are able. But you can't do that because of the no refund policy on DLC. I also was not happy with MWS but had no recourse.
I stopped playing for an entire year after I preordered HSY and essentially lost $40 and would not have returned to the game save for the fact that my doctor told me I couldn't work anymore and that it would be good to get in get back to things I once enjoyed and to find something new to learn. So I came back to Simming and took up loom knitting.
All I did with my last post is state facts so that people who might feel someway about the event or new simmers to know that this kind of thing happens a lot. You are free to fact check if you like.
And all I said was that this was a place to discuss event issues and problems and not to announce that they had finished the event.
FOMO is a real thing and I just wanted people to know that they were not alone because even if I had enough days left to finish the event I couldn't because my Sims that had the skills and (finally) the ingredients were gone by becoming unplayable and were in limbo. You are very welcome to download my save files if you would like to see that my sims are indeed unplayable and you can't even tell them to care for themselves at home,so if you do download my save files and can help me get my Sims back, I would be humbled and in your debt. I'm awfully attached to them The Gallery version of them did not save their skills with them, which I thought they would. So even this debacle caused me to learn to be careful to check my Library/Gallery to see if a Sim's skills were saved with them.
You and I might not know if something is helpful until we see it or try it, so even if it was solely a rant, which it wasn't, somebody might be thankful that I wrote caveats about OneDrive. I've had a computer since I was 5 and I am very much older, I never expected OneDrive to be a mirror of all the files on my local drives. I thought it was like Google Drive and it isn't. And others might not know that they are/were helped by my posts because they send me a DM. My posts might not look like "regular" help but that does not mean that it isn't helpful to someone.
I'm sorry I what I said made you feel like I was an [something I cannot say here] it was not intended like that but I still don't believe that this was the place to post a message that they had finished the event because everyone who posted here had an issue and most could not finish.
And now I will bow out because like everyone else in my life, everyone will be happier if I just shut up.
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