"CyrusTheLoser;c-16257108" wrote:
I don't see any actual reason to defend reuploading, it doesn't do anything good for the community. It bloats the main pages of the gallery up with duplicates and untalented names. It makes it 100x harder for me to find people who are actually good builders to follow. It also discourages the people who are actually putting time and effort into making good builds from uploading their work.
People aren't selling their builds and sims. They're not making money off of putting them on the gallery. The only thing they get out of uploading them is community feedback and appreciation. So all of this about how "at the end of the day, it belongs to EA anyway" is rather irrelevant. It's easy to say "don't like it? don't upload!" but that would be precisely why the gallery is in such a poor state right now : )
"Aeyella;c-16257129" wrote:
the only reason to defend it would be if you are a reuploader.
but for the rest of us (even people who dont upload anything to the gallery, like myself), it just makes the gallery harder to use.
I don't see the point in using the gallery as a cloud for backup, sorry. That's not its intended purpose and it's easy to backup your own tray folder to your own computer or storage cloud.
100% Agreed !
The only reuploads that are acceptable to me are the EA/Maxis creations for those who wish to offer revisited versions, well identified as such. EA/Maxis creations are not personnal, they are made under the name of the company for players to play with.
Making changes and reuploading a player's creations is disrespectful. If you download a creation and change it for your game only, it's ok, but changing it to reuplaod it, is an insult to the creator's work.
