Gallery misconduct
For quite some time now, many gallery members have been watching a cheat problem with the number of downloads on individual creations. Those who cheat do so in order to increase their popularity to t...
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Our support for each other in the Sims community has remained strong through the fun times as well as the difficult ones. The Sims 4 has been an amazing game and the hard-workers at Maxis deserve a lot of credit for sticking with this game and continuing to work tirelessly on it. We in the user community are also aware that many of our frustrations just can't be easily fixed despite the problems being real.
But download and favorite count manipulation seems like something Maxis should be concerned about. I agree with the other posters (led by KassSimsDesign) that it is problem and it is not new. People with bad intentions will always find a new way to break into code and cause trouble unfortunately. But it would really be wonderful to see a strong effort to stand against this in some way. When you're dealing with software development life cycles, the Requirements, Design, Implementation and Testing understandably take a huge amount of resources and are pivotal to the future success of the game. But Production Data still is of vital importance and it is seems to be compromised more than you would expect over the years.
Perhaps Maxis is working on hard on it and we just don't know. It wouldn't be the first time that an issue was being addressed in secret and was later significantly improved. Maxis middle managers, please consider looking into this issue and re-allocating some project funding to address this in 2018. Thanks for listening to our concerns.
-SWSRogueLeader (aka StarWarsSims)
I fully agree with the OP. The gallery has become somewhat of a joke due to this. Please hear us and "make it go away" . It really is no fun and it certainly is not fair to anyone.
I think your plea of "Please hear us" is particularly apt--and poignant. EA has yet to make a positive
move or even statement confirming that they are acting on this. In fact, I have seen their representatives treat members who speak out about this loophole as the problem, themselves (shoot the messenger?). This is a very thoughtless way to respond--I'm sure their P.R. people would advise them of this, if their own common sense doesn't. If this thread is shut down rather than responded to in a positive, active and supportive way, I guess we will have to think about a more public place to air this problem. As I said before, I don't think the reps understand that many of us--who enjoy the game for fun and relaxation--actually work in media, law, finance and other visible professions. We are not all 10 years old and non-English speakers.
- i agree with everyone. first i didn't know what was going on but now i know and i really don't get that what great is to have fake popularity.. i honestly can say that i'm happy every new follower i have and DL&fav of course who wouldn't be but cheating or making others unhappy and sad and causing gallery's atmosphere tautly.. is it really worth it for popularity what isn't real? thank you Kass for doing so much work for ending this and i'm sure that our voices have been heared. if you ask me this isn't easy to Maxis fix this problem so lets help all how we can.
Have a nice week Maxis and everyone and forgive me for my bad english
Elisa
