UPDATE: New Statement on Modding Rules

"SnowBnuuy;c-18164198" wrote:

"InuMiroLover;c-18164175" wrote:
Theres something I think needs pointing out. The fact that alot of modders are BIG MAD over this in general leads me to assume that they may have no backup plan if and when modding TS4 isnt an option.

I hope some of them take this as a much needed wakeup call, and not be solely relying on the game to pay their bills. Say what you want about EA/Maxis, but this is still their IP. And they are well within their right to simply take modding away...

Yes! Someone said it! < 3

@haneul the lack of caring about what is going on from EA and players alike is making me consider leaving this community once and for all. I was hoping the ‘no more monetising mods’ would at least be a sort of first step to stop all of the harassment and such that has come out of it all, though it’s a shame the decent Early Access creators would have been affected due to the actions of vile people. I’ve already heard rumours of an Early Access creator doxxing someone who stopped pledging, though those are just rumours I’ve heard so I can’t comment more on that. But without some kind of guideline the lack of ruling is only going to cause problems, and will lead to even more perma paywalling and people getting so big for their boots they’ll start harassing pledgers and such. I have no doubt it will get worse. We already saw the true colours of a handful of Early Access creators people previously trusted when EA momentarily said about ‘no early access.’

@SnowBnuuy I agree that players should not use CC or mods from sketchy creators and should generally not involve themselves with those creators at all. For me, it's not difficult at all to just stay away from that. I love CC and mods, but the game can be played without them. If I'm aware of someone misbehaving, I just won't use their stuff. Players also should be naturally careful about what information they're giving to strangers and what they're downloading to their computers from strangers.

The problem for EA, though, is that I think it's just too late to have a blanket no monetization policy that's easy to enforce. I want EA to put its money and resources into the game and not into messing with content creators (unless those creators are doing something obscene/horrifically illegal). There are so many people who made CC or mods for a while, but now have stopped and have abandoned their Patreons, so their items are technically perma-paywalled. I really don't want anyone at EA to spend their hours going through thousands of reports and looking at these abandoned Patreons where something like a CC blush is locked behind $1/month paywall to determine who is worthy of being sent a cease & desist letter (not to mention conducting an investigation to ban a creator from the playing game or actually sue them). To me, it's just not worth enforcing unless it's done in an extremely targeted way. I would prefer if more resources went to QA or to relieve stress on developers.

ETA: I can just imagine the absolute nightmare situation of spending $1,000-$3,000/hr on lawyers to sue Patreon people with like 10 patrons over a CC couch or hair that's perma-paywalled. :| That's why I say EA shouldn't care and should have a targeted approach or use bots. I think they should care a little, but that the threshold should be high.