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Personal Note, Sims 4 & Mods Policy
🕑 Added 2022-08-01 10:52:53 +0000 UTCHi guys! I haven't been able to connect for some time, that's why I've been absent. As you may know I went home to visit my parents and i was supposed to come back the end of July. However due to plane delay I'm still at my parent's house and my flight is moved to 5th of August.
I know thet there was a new patch released recently, but since I'm a little off-the-grid, I've been trying to download the update, but due to poor internet connection I still can't update my game, so for now i can't tell you the status of my mods.
With that being said, August will be a little chaotic. Once I have stable internet I'll start testing and fixing if anything needs to be fixed for the latest patch, since the time is not much, I don't think I'll be able to offer new custom object for this month, but I have plans on updating and optimizing existing mods.
My plans include:
Adding inventory on all my stations, so your Sim won't need to keep objects in their own.
Fixing issue with Wicker Making station where even if you have the ingredient, the price doesn't subtract
Adding Batch Crafting for the Cosmetics Station
If you have any requests for better use on my exisating mods feel free to share it, and I will try to implement as much as I can.
Now, to the second point, I personally don't have Twitter, but a lot of my friends do and they informed me for the new changes EA made for making and distributing mods/cc. After searching more and reading what many other creators are experiencing and their decisions I have decided that I will keep the early access model that I currently have until EA have a more clear say on whether or not it is allowed.
I've been reading many simmers opinions on the matter, and some of them are very hurtful. I do understand that there are creators who abused the situation, but most of us are not money hungry monsters preying on your income. There are different reasons, why someone can't 'just get out and find a real job'. I usually avoid sharing personal information, since this is a gaming comunity and most people keep their privacy, something that I like as well, but I just want to give an example of why sometimes you can't just find a regular job. As one of the simmers who heavily relies on the income I make from making cc/mods this has left my financial situation hanging in the balance. I use this money to support myself and helps me feel less of a burden to the people I care about. I am someone who's life depend on hemodialysis machine. I need to visit hospital 4 times a week and spend a whole day there from 9 in the morning until 5 afternoon. I recieve very small amount of disability benefits from my own country, which is not enough to live in the county I'm studing. I'm extremely grateful to my best friend, who opened her apartment for me and keep me live with her without paying rent. With that being said, I'm also a very small creator, in fact I don't make more than 300£ a month from Patreon, and yet this helps me to feel like I contribute to my household and let me buy ourselves food.
This isn't intending to be a pity post, I just hope it will help some simmers to see that for some creators this is a job because 'regular job' can be very hard to have.
If you read this far, thank you and I hope you won't judge me too harsh after my decision to keep the early access. Of course, if EA formally declare no early access I will make everything public on release. However, I can't say from now how this will impact my creating and if I will be able to keep creating on such fast paced speed.
Thank you to every single one of my patrons, you have no idea what a positive impact on my life you had!
Comments
Oouga
I am a patron of you because of all your hard work. I believe in paying someone for their work.
Pied Piper
Hi, yes, I saw on the EA page that was updated.
MizoreYukii
Not sure if anyone let you know yet, but early access is still allowed! They clarified on August 2nd: https://help.ea.com/en-gb/help/the-sims/the-sims-4/mods-and-the-sims-4-game-updates/
