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EA's Policy Update: My Stance
🕑 Added 2022-08-01 20:59:50 +0000 UTCHey guys,
I've really valued your advice and your support over the last day or so and your understanding of my situation here (partly because I've seen a lot of people be downright mean on twitter and tumblr and it's made me nervous about it and wonder if I'll get yelled at or mistreated for this). I've asked the advice of a lot of my friends and fellow modders and have a tentative stance on the issue.
I've come to the conclusion that, unless we get a clear denouncement of early access from someone who knows for sure, that my current distribution falls in line of this post that says "all users must be able to access the Mods in full for free regardless of whether they donate", because while there's a short early access period for some, all users do have access to my content in the end regardless of if you can or want to donate to or support me.
I want to thank you guys for your advice, even though some of it was contrary to this decision it helped me mull this over and I've been so incredibly grateful for your compassionate responses and help in trying to help me make whatever decision is safest for me. I also took into account the results of the poll, which mostly supported this decision.
Modding isn't all about the money to me, I'm genuinely just blown away that so many of you are patrons here just to support me and enjoy what I do here because I never expected so many of you would come to enjoy my dumb recipes. However, as the cost of living has increased and my tenuous financial situation has taken a hit, I do often rely on the money I get here to pay my bills. I never intended it to be that way but here I am. So it's important to me I don't lose that if I don't absolutely have to.
It's worth understanding that this is also the only money I've been able to get that's from something I did and I worked for/achieved on my own and it'd break my heart a bit if I lost the ability to feel that sense of achievement and worth that I don't otherwise feel in my daily life as someone unable to have traditional employment due to my disabilities. I don't know if that makes any sense but I hope it does 馃槄
Finally, I'm so grateful for all of you, regardless of if you can pledge, you're my guys, and I understand not being in a financial situation to commit to 拢1 a month with everything adding up, that's so understandable, I'm just happy to see you using my stuff and enjoying it anyway! There is, as always, no pressure to pledge or even to keep pledging now (all I ask is that you don't send me hate messages cause I'm fragile 馃ぃ). I love you all regardless.
I hope you all have a fantastic day,
Robin 馃挌馃尰
Edit: The Sims official twitter has confirmed that early access is still allowed, you can find that tweet here. Thanks so much to all of you who wanted to reach out to me to make sure I wouldn't get in trouble.
Comments
Robin
I saw, I'm so relieved 馃槍 I updated my post to add that they gave the clarification but I want to leave the post up because I mean what I say when I say it's not all about early access to me, and I want people to know how much this all means to me. Thanks so much for letting me know. 馃挌馃尰
Ardled
Robin, reasonable time of early access is allowed. Just posted by icemunmun, Read under this link, official statement : https://help.ea.com/en/help/the-sims/the-sims-4/mods-and-the-sims-4-game-updates/
Robin
Thank you so much. And like I said in the post there's absolutely no no pressure to pledge, I just love hearing and seeing people enjoy my stuff in their games 馃挌馃尶
Prahkeet-Mama P Sims
This was sweet and your decision is very understandable. I'm an on and off again patron to many creators. I pay when I have it because I truly do love what you all add to my game. I hope this works out for you.
