"Maggiedoll;c-16798560" wrote:
People take the gallery waaayyy too seriously.
Judging from what comes up in recent uploads (especially the ones with unrelated names) I'm pretty sure that an awful lot of gallery uploads are done by people just trying to save a build or household, not even intending to upload it.
People raise drama treating the gallery like a virtual goods marketplace with actual intellectual property.. which it's not.
I can understand the frustration to some degree, but unlike virtual world trade, The Sims actually is "just a game." At least with mods and CC, there's legit new content. But your sim family or house is part of playing the game, and when people are uploading to the gallery they're rarely using their own new content; they're just uploading a part of their own game. I want to say "if it feels like work, you're doing it wrong," but that's not fair because you can play your own game however you like. But.. you can't expect other people to see it the way you do. It's not reasonable to get mad at other people for seeing the game as a game.
I agree. Most of the time if I upload someone else’s people or houses it is because I have spent time building up skills for a person I added to my family. I will add a hash tag with my name so that if my game goes down and I need to reload I don’t lose all that skill building/relationships. I try to remember and mention that certain sims are not mine. In fact I pretty much stopped downloading other people’s sims to use. But, when I first got into the game, I didn’t know we could re-upload sims with updated skills and such. As far as houses go, I sometimes reupload them for a similar reason, I have changed a house in the inside, or I have downloaded my sims collections in the house. And I always note that it is not my house, though I don’t always remember the original persons name. I certainly don’t mind Maxis having their name appear as original, as I didn’t originally create it, but may have changed it in some way, and didn’t want to lose it if my game crashes. I did make a hospital once with others rooms, and shared it noting the rooms, and the original house were someonelses. I personally don’t really mind people re-uploading my stuff, because I know many do it for the same reason I do, not because I am trying to get downloads from others content, but it’s there in case of a crash. I share my creations to 1) save them for myself and/or 2) think someone else may enjoy having it in their game.
