TS3 L&P
talysman:
I point to the Legal Threatz as proof that there is no such relationship with any paysites, at least not currently. EA was concerned only with links (to a website that Pescado does not own) for downloading their garbage products, but made no comment about downloads (available on a website Pescado does own) for garbage garbage from paysites.
zherok:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 December 19, 08:36:00
Why did you specifically mention TSR? Do you know about a definite link between EA and TSR beyond the rumours I mentioned?
I think it was just speculation on the part of the people who linked to the BBS. Something about how the Maxoid worded the ban to the Booty or something.
Aha, found it: http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=4e81567021bcc3744668c12a5a66d0f5&directoryID=2&startRow=1&openItemID=item.2,item.104,item.41,item.127,item.23#fbe743ae7dba176013c319ba0b97704c
"A lot of our Simmers have been posting links to PaySitesMustBeDestroyed which is not ok. This site often posts content that is either from our TS2 Store or from partner sites which are pay/subscription based. This is considered linking to pirated content."
I've probably clicked around too much to reasonably find the thread that linked me there, but I believe the TSR connection was just a guess from the thread that brought me to the Maxoid post. Like, "Partner sites? Must be TSR!" that sorta thing. Nothing definite.
Kyna:
The thing is that nowhere has EA stated who these partner sites are or how the partnership affects simmers. Speculation and rumours will continue until EA state who their partner sites are, and how these partnerships affect simmers.
What I've heard is most likely is that the EULA will be differently worded for TS3, and that the only creators able to develop CC will have to be in partnership with EA or licensed by them in some form. EA have seen how willing simmers are to pay for CC and now they want their piece of the pie (as was demonstrated by the introduction of their online store). EA conducted a survey a while back regarding CC sites, nearly all the sites listed in the survey were pay sites, and many sites with free content (such as MATY, Simbology, MTS2, GOS, InSim, SimLogical) were not included in the survey. If EA do go down the route of limiting who can produce CC, they will be killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
If PMBD were doing something illegal, I'm sure EA would have sent their lawyers after them for the content that is hosted there. Instead, their lawyers sent a letter to MATY regarding content that is NOT hosted here.
zherok:
I'm not too worried yet. There's just too many details they'd have to work on, and the rewards seem pretty damn obvious to be worse than potential gains. Their store is pretty damn benign compared to TSR, and I doubt they could get away with giving you imaginary points for creating content and expect to regulate it with any relevance, ala Peggy G Zone, especially if they made it the ONLY way to get content.
They know sharing is a huge thing, they know that people are willing to spend millions of man-hours producing free shit for their game. TSR can't be that lucrative that they're willing to irreparably damage their IP to emulate it as the only way to get stuff. It's a given that any large restriction would kill a lot of the incentive to create stuff.
rohina:
So, it turns out that EA is a sinking ship, according to the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/19/ea-blackbox.html
I love the last line of that article, "The announcements come a week after EA said it was cancelling plans to open a new studio in Vancouver and after the company lowered its expectation for revenue and earnings for the 2009 fiscal year." Isn't this tantamount to admitting defeat about TS3 before it even comes out?
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