Really Pixelade???

Can't expect much from a click bait youtube channel unfortunately. (Iron Seagull is right behind him. Take whatever little visual information people saw in a trailer and go buck wild, "TODDLERS IN UNIVERSITY,ROBOT INVASION, SIMSTAGRAM, STUDENT LOANS AND MORE")

Worse part is this is pretty much a thing with people with some bigger channels and people paying them just to promote and shout them out. Seen it with instagram and twitter for sure. Just to get their name out there.

"TWSimGamer82;c-17302136" wrote:
He's a click bait channel most of the time anyway. What did people expect?

Him and iron are the most clickbait ever?? saw a thumbnail of his video(pixel) suggesting a color wheel was possibly coming because it was in the trailer yesterday.

"PlayerSinger2010;c-17302169" wrote:
Oh wow. Oh yikes yikes yikes. iirc, the Sims team doesn't like this sort of thing, right? Like, people should NOT be making money off mods.

No, the Sims team does not do this. Can say a lot of things about EA's practices, but they do not do this stuff as the likes of Bethesda encourages. Ever since that foorah about modders actually selling their content through Steam came up and Bethesda endorsing it, I started losing respect for Bethesda then. Valve did listen to people then and cancelled it, but Bethesda has still encouraged it, and it is only a minority of modders who have wanted to do that in the first place. I don't mind supporting a good modder and content creator through Patreon or such, but outright profiting on content that isn't even entirely their creation is just wrong, and can potentially lead to lawsuits that could end up causing government interference to the point that any modded and custom content ends up stifled to the point of obsolescence.
All gamers will end up getting hurt by this, even those who do prefer to stay with base game content, because there is a lot of content created and imagined by modders that inspires developers to put into the main game, including Sims 4.
For example, Kerbal Space Program started as a simple model rocketry simulator, but through that a lot of modders were inspired to also create aeronautic content for it, when the engine at the time wasn't even coded for such physics. But because of their success in creating that, and how many gamers adopted that content into their game, the developers(Squad) were inspired to challenge themselves to add that feature to the game, and it only improved it 200%. I think it even created pressure on the engine developer, Unity, to improve the game engine as well, so a lot of other games benefited from that.
This is the real concern I have, and with everything that has happened so far, it feels a real tangible concern. So, yes, what Pixelade is doing is wrong and it should be avoided. This is nothing more than a cashgrab, and at its simplest will only encourage stolen modded content to end up on the menu. That is a real thing that occurs, where people take someone else's work and sell it as if it were their own, and I highly doubt Pixelade has the resources or the willingness to do their due diligence to verify any modded content they push through their service. Because for one thing there is no copyright to such content. There can't be when it rides so closely on the work of others.

Good modders do give a lot, and they deserve appreciation for what they do, but this is not how to do it.

No idea why everyone is going crazy over this when this business model has been done and is currently in practice. Product placement, a positive review, a trip. Look at the Game Changers and how they are flown out, given expensive meals and amazing hotel rooms, free games, and free merchandise. All of this is done because the creator promotes the game.

What he has done is air it into the public, which is a massive no-no. This is something that you provide when you are contacted by someone. Yes, people pay YouTubers to advertise their mods, some creators do it for free because they love the mod. You would be surprised at how many mod review videos are actually paid advertisements.

However, Pixelade’s content is very low-tier and is designed to grab attention and not retain it. Why do you think he puts his merch before the video even starts? Most people click off after two minutes. He makes three to four videos on the same thing, the same content, the same speculation, and lists it as ‘news’ and facts.

“Oh, a SimGuru made a joke on Twitter? Time to take this as fact and make three videos on it with clickbait titles… also, buy my merch... also, Sims 4 sucks and Paralives is better yet I will still keep making content for Sims 4, even though I clearly hate the game.”

I can understand the 'business' point of view cuz most things in business is like this in real life. Just like how businesses pay companies to place ads to get viewers to buy their stuff.

But the only concerning thing here is that the CC/mod makers most likely not earn any or much from getting people to download the stuff so they don't get anything from paying to be promoted.

"NoTalent;c-17302277" wrote:


“ Oh, a SimGuru made a joke on Twitter? Time to take this as fact and make three videos on it with clickbait titles… also, buy my merch... also, Sims 4 plum and Paralives is better yet I will still keep making content for Sims 4, even though I clearly hate the game.”

this so much! Or any tweet, really is considered newsworthy

"MissyHissy;c-17301595" wrote:
When on earth did a hobby like the Sims turn into a money-making machine for modders? I love creating for the games but the thought of charging money like that makes my skin crawl :'( Promoting lesser-known content creators would have been a much better use of the platforms.

@MissyHissy from what I've seen on YT it looks like some of the content creators are doing it as their full time job. Heck the Kardashian's charge tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote someone/thing on their social media. So, when folks get a certain number of subscribers that start to find ways to monetize their channels/platforms.

Is it right or wrong, dunno, but Content Creator/Social Media Maven is a bonafide career path these days

"InuMiroLover;c-17301664" wrote:
I think that boy shouldve had a nap first before posting that.

I watch his stuff sometimes, so I dont consider myself a follower of his. He always seemed to have a new video up with "news" that really wasnt news. Like do we really need a new video every 5 seconds about some vague inconsequential tweet from a dev and claim its "news"?

@InuMiroLover nope, but dude has tapped into human's capacity to be nosey and is monetizing it.
When folks stop watching those type of videos he'll stop making it. But people love gossip, so I think he has found his sweet spot.

Let's see how this business of his goes :) I bet most modders and cc creators already know how to get noticed without paying a middle man those fares.

"DeKay;c-17302286" wrote:
I can understand the 'business' point of view cuz most things in business is like this in real life. Just like how businesses pay companies to place ads to get viewers to buy their stuff.

But the only concerning thing here is that the CC/mod makers most likely not earn any or much from getting people to download the stuff so they don't get anything from paying to be promoted.

I agree, but any mod creator with a Patreon can afford it. Nisa makes $5000 a month minimum, Sacrificial about the same, the creator who makes the mod we shall nott alk about here pulls in more than $8000. If they are paying for ads, they are making money.