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No.
The greed is through the roof, if this was to "Support the Creators" as EA and the Team want to project for a start the revenue split should be flipped to be in the Creator's favour. From what we understand the creators are the ones making the content for the marketplace themselves and EA is enriching themselves from creators' hard work, shaving off the top to pay for the financially, morally and ethically wrong buy out.
Exploiting the creators, their communities and the sims community as a whole in the process. A creator came out speaking about the build up to the marketplace's announcement the targeting of the vulnerable, the secrecy and deceit; with everything else that is coming out about the business model, it makes me sick.
The Marketplace itself is much more aggreges than even the Sims 3 Store was looking at the Moola prices thread and the TS3 Store bar was already deeper than the pits of hell to begin with.
If anything is to be changed about this to make it even the tiniest bit better, to start with the revenue split is the first thing that needs to be addressed; 30/70 (creator/company) split is such a disgusting split, not even YouTube or Twitch stupe that low. YouTube has a 55/45 split and Twitch's standard for subs is 50/50. Creators make the content, they should never be getting less than half measures, as an artist myself this split is just insulting.
Not to mention the game itself, the amount of bugs I see this causing... because there totally isn't enough bugs already and with all the additional content the marketplace will bring.
The game is physically struggling under its own weight with the infamous shaky foundation it was built on. It's a matter of when (not if) the game will cease to be functional.