Self-downloading your own work.
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? The most recent What...
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I have the same problem with only one change: I live in Germany. This bug exists since the beginning of Sims 4 and it works all over the world. It is not a regional problem. In 2016 the gallery even had big problems after a patch. After that, the figures for downloads, content and followers were no longer correct at all. Everything was slippery and changed. But an honest way of playing has not been possible here for a long time. The players, who push their own downloads here by using the above description, are becoming more and more. I have been pleading for years for this "counting system"; to finally be abolished completely. Then there is no more competition and no more bad words. Everyone wants to outdo the other in one way or another. This only brings unrest and struggle to the gallery. Please EA, finally fix this bug, so that the Sims 4 will be honest again soon or do without this counting system completely. It would also relieve the server, wouldn't it?
- @agrimonys I think though if the counting system was gone it would be harder to find things on gallery. Particularly houses, spas, and other lots. I'll start by look through the newest items but most of the time I end up finding what I want in the "popular now" or "most popular" when it comes to lots. So, there's advantages and disadvatages to it. Making sure people can't cheat getting downloads would make it easier for good creators get noticed over those who were just trying to cheat to get lots of downloads. This is just my opinion though.
@TopNotchToddler. Sorry, but I am old enough to not let anything or anyone tell me what to do or not to do, or what I have to say or not to say! Not even at a polite request. I live in a democracy and there it should be possible to discuss issues politely and objectively. But I agree with you on one point, this should be done without accusations. And yet there is no getting around this issue.
@Honeytraits. I am neither a developer nor a computer scientist, but once I was told by a computer scientist that it would be possible to abolish this counting system to the extent that it is no longer publicly visible to the players. For EA it can still run covert to get the categories "currently popular"; or "most popular";. And if what @LukasCreateSims said is also included, namely that every download counts only once, no matter how often the creation is downloaded, then we come to a very honest area again.Then we are at the players who convince with their work and have earned their downloads from other players in an honest way.
Because of the existing system there are also many players who don't know this and also do it unconsciously.
I don't exclude myself from this, because often things got lost in my library, which I could download from my catalogue (because online on the sims4 folder) back into my library.
In the course of time, since the Sims 4 exists, there were already the one or other problem.
With my old account there were just as many errors, which could only be fixed with a new account. All this with the help of EA.
But those players, who deliberately push up their own download numbers just to get into the above mentioned categories, wouldn't have a chance to cheat in this way - among others also themselves.
This also makes many things in the gallery dishonest, because you ask yourself - "How is that possible"? if someone has e.g. 5 followers, but in his catalog only 5 creations but already 10000 downloads? That is striking, isn't it? This is only a simple example but can be found in the gallery many times.And young or newly added and honest players would never have a chance to get into the above mentioned categories.
Where is the fair play then?
It's a pity if only a few honest players don't have a fair chance with this now existing system - especially since Sims4 is now also available on Playstation and X-Box, isn't it?
Unfortunately it is true that the number of players who push themselves up through this system is increasing, whether intentionally or unintentionally. And we would like to draw your attention to this, so that EA has the opportunity to work on it and hopefully change it soon.
Thanks a lot also to @EA_Mai for reply.Best regards
- @agrimonys I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I agreed we need to fix the cheating problem but I was disagreeing about getting rid of the counting system.
As for having a significantly more downloads than followers, having followers helps but I have almost 2k followers and my downloads can range wildly just like when I had less followers. I might get thousands of downloads on one sim and then only a couple hundred on another. Whether someone has downloads has more to do if people like their creations and if they use poses with their sims. That's at least with my experience. You can't judge whether someone is cheating solely by the ratio of followers to downloads.
