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Re: Early access patreon charges vs new TOS?

Hey all,

The Sims 4 Mod Policy has been updated today which clarifies the following points:

Note, The Sims recognizes that creating Mods takes time and resources. To recoup these development costs, Mod developers may:

Offer an early access incentive for a reasonable amount of time. After a reasonable early access period, all users must be able to access the Mods in full for free regardless of whether they donate.
Run passive advertisements and requests for donations so long as they are limited to the Mod website or distribution site, and do not appear within the Mod itself.

5 Replies

frogcandles
Rising Vanguard
3 years ago
Can we get someone to confirm what a "reasonable amount of time" is? There are many creators that keep early access for up to a year and having clarification would help let us know who is going against the TOS and who isn't.
MagiCornPrinces
3 years ago
@EA_Cade so nothing about the TOS actually changed ... Besides this time is no stated time that is considered reasonable solely left up to the creator to decide for themself. 5yrs could be reasonable to some lol
moongladesims
3 years ago
@EA_Cade What is a "reasonable amount of time"?
andyvkey
3 years ago
@EA_Cade So, you decided to make things worse? Good job. I assume the use of "reasonable" means that you've decided you just can't be bothered to deal with this, so rather than having an actual time frame that people could argue about, it's now so vague that anything goes.

Modding takes time and resources for other games as well, yet people share their content with the community for free.

I would also argue that this policy goes against EA's EULA, which is concerning in itself.
Izakins
3 years ago
You need to add in your ToU exactly how long reasonable time is. What happening now is that the creators make their own rules on what's reasonable time and its pure greed and ridiculousness from many. I have seen 60 days, half a year, whenever I feel like it, and when I release it I will use adfly to leech even more money.
I hope you can put in a clear number of days that is the max for early accsess, to stop this just becoming an even more redicilous farse than it already is.