"Gruffman;c-16254979" wrote:
Because some people put work into their sims and builds. It is not fair to the creator, plain and simple.
If I download a female sim, change her daytime outfit from red to black and re-upload it as my own, thats not right. Someone else spent their time, their creativity and their effort into making her, not me. Now, if I take that same sim, change her make-up, her skintone, her hair color, her traits, her name ... that is different. I used my time, my creativity to make her as I needed. Upload her away as she has been changed.
Same with a build. If I download a restaurant and I just change the color of the seats and upload it. Thats wrong. Someone had their design, their idea, their creativity, their time to build it, name it, hopefully check it to make sure it is working. They should be credited for the time that they spent. If I take that same restaurant, cause I like the look of the outer building shell, gut the inside, change the bricks on the outside and re-build it as to fit my game ... that is different, it is my time that I used, not someone elses.
It isn't about the sim or the building, it was that persons time. To have someone else take something they made, change one thing ( if that much ) and reload it back as their own tells that person who made it their time meant nothing.
Thats just it the original creators tag is on it your tag goes underneath it. They are recognized.
If i download cc which someone spent time making and they shared it to say MTS then i go and take that hair or that dress that they spent time on put it on my sim and put it on the gallery am i not in the way they are using stealing here doing the same. I am putting my name on a creation that i did not create on a sim i made and put it on the gallery. The gallery is for sharing. If i share a cookie with a friend that i made i expect them to eat that cookie which significantly changes that cookie does it not? I fully change eyes. Hairstyle and clothing and sometimes personality of a sim and i add family members and now pets to this sim. Now am i to be accused of stealing that sim if i put it on the gallery to save it from being deleted from my library.
My thing is if you dont want to totally share your sims in other words to give up ownership of them then keep them in your game dont share them.
The only difference with the gallery and the exchange of sims 3 is that they get featured by Ea. Someone is afraid that someone else will be credited with their work by it being featured under another name. That would be unfair but the original creators name is on the sim anyway
