Really Pixelade???

"Simburian;c-17303552" wrote:
All the game-changers will have to broaden their scope with other games as Sims 4 gets older and nearer to it's end. James Turner is already doing it, LGR has largely given up on it, building a large following for other stuff and Pixilade and others will have to do the same. I doubt EA will support them after they have finished with a game, from what I see with SimCity5, so any other business game-changers do, is their own concern to win or fail at and not any of our business. Just support or not, it's your choice. Just my opinion though. :)

James's broadening scopes isn't a new thing, he's had a non-Sims channel at least as long as he had his Sims one. Most of the GCs play other games too, at least the ones who are on YouTube or twitch. And most of them don't rely on EA for support anyway. They have their channels with ads and income from merch and whatnot. Sims might be what we know a lot of them for but it's not the only thing.

Sure, for some of them TS4 is the main thing on their channels now but I doubt they're particularly worried about either EA support after TS4 or the whole franchise coming to an end (it could, sure, but as long as it's profitable, there will be more).

As for Pixelade, I think the biggest oops about this whole thing was that the way he presented it was that he was the one initiating the commissions. I wouldn't be surprised if some exchange of money, services, promotion, or goods happens when other YouTubers promote CC packs or mods sometimes. It's just that it's likely done on an on-demand basis rather than "come to me, I'll promote you". That just sounds like "I'm important, you need me" which isn't really true.
I'm no fan of Pixelade for my own reasons (the already mentioned clickbait stuff he does) but to me it was more of a "oh dude, no, bad move" rather than "down with him" kinda thing. There was definitely a part of the community that wildly overreacted, which is sadly the nature of the social media beast.