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Really Pixelade???
TheIntrovertSimmer
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y'all know pixelade a'ight? well a few days ago on a now deleted tweet, he announced paid content promotion for our CC/Mod creators, then someone has said that this really saddens the community cos this person has a huge platform and should be using his voice to promote smaller creators, not charging them money for it. and we all started from the same place.
edit: PLT let's be civil here encourage ourselves to try and make what we say less mean and more constructive.
edit: PLT let's be civil here encourage ourselves to try and make what we say less mean and more constructive.
y'all got bread?
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Edit: I am not really surprised though because I had the sense he was more about merchandising than a genuine love for the sims. If you start your video selling me lemon mugs etc, yeah I am not going to watch anymore and I don't.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/956513/netz-a-porter-outfits-ready-to-wear-for-your-sims-no-cc-required
Twitter: NetzspannungTS
we all try ...
I watch his stuff sometimes, so I dont consider myself a follower of his. He always seemed to have a new video up with "news" that really wasnt news. Like do we really need a new video every 5 seconds about some vague inconsequential tweet from a dev and claim its "news"?
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I guess...
I am pretty sure other sim tubers are doing fine without the side hustle. Hey if people want to get robbed even more on top of buying these lackluster sim games, who am I to judge. I just find it sad and the epitome of what is wrong with America in general. No one raises each other up, everyone just out for themselves. If you are doing quality work, people will be inclined to support you financially. I know I have.
Oh wow.........that's.....LOW.....;-;
Regardless of the iffiness though, wow some people have gone way too far with their reactions to the whole thing. But I guess it falls under "disappointed but not surprised" on various fronts.
But well, hindsight and all that.
Player: *instructs sim to prepare meal* "Then eat something, you little goofball!"
Sim: *starts cooking meal*
-5 seconds later-
Sim: *Stops cooking meal* "I'm so hungry!"
Player: *head hits desk*
Actually, I am glad he talks about the guru’s tweets because I am not on Twitter, but like knowing what the guru’s say. Also, I don't see anything wrong with him making money from sponsoring modders. Some of his video’s are informative, others are so so. Iron seagull makes really good video’s.
I hope no one pays him. Its just mods/CC. I understand wanting people to use your custom content but you dont get anything from it so wasting money is pointless
Also I don't expect this thread to stay open for long bc we're not allowed to create threads openly bashing people...
Worse part is this is pretty much a thing with people with some bigger channels and people paying them just to promote and shout them out. Seen it with instagram and twitter for sure. Just to get their name out there.
Him and iron are the most clickbait ever😒😒 saw a thumbnail of his video(pixel) suggesting a color wheel was possibly coming because it was in the trailer yesterday.
No, the Sims team does not do this. Can say a lot of things about EA's practices, but they do not do this stuff as the likes of Bethesda encourages. Ever since that foorah about modders actually selling their content through Steam came up and Bethesda endorsing it, I started losing respect for Bethesda then. Valve did listen to people then and cancelled it, but Bethesda has still encouraged it, and it is only a minority of modders who have wanted to do that in the first place. I don't mind supporting a good modder and content creator through Patreon or such, but outright profiting on content that isn't even entirely their creation is just wrong, and can potentially lead to lawsuits that could end up causing government interference to the point that any modded and custom content ends up stifled to the point of obsolescence.
All gamers will end up getting hurt by this, even those who do prefer to stay with base game content, because there is a lot of content created and imagined by modders that inspires developers to put into the main game, including Sims 4.
For example, Kerbal Space Program started as a simple model rocketry simulator, but through that a lot of modders were inspired to also create aeronautic content for it, when the engine at the time wasn't even coded for such physics. But because of their success in creating that, and how many gamers adopted that content into their game, the developers(Squad) were inspired to challenge themselves to add that feature to the game, and it only improved it 200%. I think it even created pressure on the engine developer, Unity, to improve the game engine as well, so a lot of other games benefited from that.
This is the real concern I have, and with everything that has happened so far, it feels a real tangible concern. So, yes, what Pixelade is doing is wrong and it should be avoided. This is nothing more than a cashgrab, and at its simplest will only encourage stolen modded content to end up on the menu. That is a real thing that occurs, where people take someone else's work and sell it as if it were their own, and I highly doubt Pixelade has the resources or the willingness to do their due diligence to verify any modded content they push through their service. Because for one thing there is no copyright to such content. There can't be when it rides so closely on the work of others.
Good modders do give a lot, and they deserve appreciation for what they do, but this is not how to do it.