UPDATE: New Statement on Modding Rules

"SnowBnuuy;c-18163831" wrote:

"CarpeNocheSims;c-18163198" wrote:
What is a "reasonable amount of time?" A week? A month? A year? Reasonable to some may not be so to others. Ambiguity will just cause more discord, IMO.

This is an incredibly good point, the one that came to mind immediately for me so I'm glad someone mentioned it.

They absolutely need to specify a set length of time because 'reasonable' is subjective, and without a sort of 'baseline' of a timeframe to go by it's only going to cause a lot of problems- and believe me, there are enough problems that have been going on within the CC community with general bad practice and much, much worse than that.

If EA were going to backtrack, they should have gone back to the old 2-3-week rule. This is only going to cause problems, and I repeat, there has been enough going on in the CC community.

@SnowBnuuy EA doesn't want to specify a baseline timeframe because they want to have the flexibility to argue that X or Y is not reasonable based on the circumstances. Being specific doesn't help EA and their lawyers originally avoided mentioning early access all together. They tried to help the community by clearly stating that early access was okay, but any more than that from an official channel in terms of clarity is unlikely. I still think they don't really care about this because it's not worth it from a cost-benefit POV to police or enforce. Honestly (and this is going to sound/bad/cost me all likes on this post) if I were EA, I would have a bot auto-delete all the reports that people sent in about violators of the CC/mod policy, unless the report was about CC/mods containing something really illegal.