MortiferusX Posted September 23, 2018 Posted September 23, 2018 German: Ok, da mein Englisch nicht so 100% sicher ist und mir manchmal einige Wörter fehlen habe ich diesen Text im Google Übersetzer verfasst und hier sowohl den deutschen, als auch den englischen Text geposted. Als ich begann zu meine spiele zu mod, war modding noch ein hobby, dass man freiwillig gemacht hat. Inzwischen hat sich hier leider einiges getan und viele Modder verstecken ihre Mods hinter einer Paywall. Mir ist klar, dass modding viel Zeit in Anspruch nimmt und diese Zeit auch ihren Wert hat. Nur denke ich, dass einige hier wirklich übertreiben. Es gibt auf der einen Seite Leute, die einen oder mehrere großartige Mods entwickelt haben und dafür lediglich eine kleine Spende von ein paar Euro/Dollar verlangen. Leider gibt es auch negative Beispiele die dagegen wirklich gierig wirken und verlangen teilweise 20 oder 30 euro/dollar, damit man all ihre Animationen bekommt. Das ist verdammt noch mal mehr als man für ein komplettes MMO bezahlt und das NUR für Animationen! Ich möchte hier eure Arbeit wirklich nicht schlechtreden aber ich denke, dass es Euch nicht wehtun würde, weniger zu verlangen. Eventuell würden dann sogar mehr Leute spenden und am Ende habt Ihr genau so viele Einnahmen wie mit den höheren Preisen. Denkt mal darüber nach. English: Ok, because my English is not 100% secure and sometimes I miss a few words I wrote this text in Google Translate and posted both the German and the English text here. When I started modding my games, modding was still a hobby that you volunteered for. In the meantime a lot has happened here and many modders hide their mods behind a paywall. I realize that modding takes a lot of time and that time has its value. Only I think that some really exaggerate here. On the one hand, there are people who have developed one or more great mods and just ask for a small donation of a few euros / dollars. Unfortunately, there are also negative examples that act against it really greedy and sometimes require 20 or 30 euro / dollar, so you get all their animations. This is damn more than you pay for a complete MMO and ONLY for animations! I really do not want to complain about your work here, but I think that it would not hurt you to demand less. Maybe even more people would donate and in the end you have exactly as much revenue as with the higher prices. Think about it.
EvilReFlex Posted September 23, 2018 Posted September 23, 2018 Kann gut verstehen das manche Modder ihre Sachen hinter eine "Paywall" stellen, wenn man einen Link für Spenden erstellt benutzt den so gut wie keiner. (vllt einer bei 10k Downloads!!) Modding wird immer komplexer und man braucht für aufwendige Sachen auch immer mehr bzw teurere tools. Früher konnte man sich 3DSMax laden und mit Keygen aktivieren aber heute sind die ganzen Illegalen Downloads verseucht mit Bitcoin Miner und anderen Scheiß. Ich versuche jetzt auch schon seit einigen Jahren alles Legal zu erstellen und keine illegalen Kopien mehr zu benutzen. (Statt Photoshop benutze ich zB PaintShopPro, ist viel billiger aber man hat alles was man für Texturen usw. braucht.) Leider läuft meine 3 Jahre Lizenz von 3DSMax bald ab und ich weiß nicht wo ich das Geld für eine neue her bekommen soll, habe es schon mit Spenden versucht, aber mehr als 100€ ist da gesamt nie zusammen gekommen. (Habe bei meinen Mods recht viele Downloads, würde jeder nur 10Cent zahlen hätte ich locker genug Geld für eine Lizenz) Blender habe ich schon mal angetestet, aber ich finde die Bedienung von dem Programm einfach nur zum kotzen, aber vllt wird das mit der neuen Version besser. (2.8 soll ja einiges ändern) Aber wie gesagt, viele beschweren sich über Paywalls und fordern Spenden.... aber spenden tut vllt 1 von 10000 Leuten.
R-Lo Posted September 23, 2018 Posted September 23, 2018 A simple answer to your question, Demand for constant supply. One upon a time, modding was not known among general gamers, Now it is and the mods are required to be more in depth and detailed and more time is needed to create and maintain them, It's a hobby yes, but many hobbies from sports and radio controlled cars, planes etc to YouTubers can generate a sponsorship, Modding is now becoming mainstream media and not just for an elite group of gamers, I do agree with your statement though, Many authors charge too much for animations and the multiple tiers only make things messy and overpriced, Also some seem to tactically upload public file, purposely holding back certain things like climaxes or the more publicly requested action, My view is that a Patreon should only be for donations or early access, on one level. Not tied up into gold and silver schemes to maximize profits, Being honest I find this a weird practice as sometimes the silver animations were better produced and more interesting/entertaining to see than the gold was! Just remember guys and gals, If this becomes a flame thread it's likely to be locked so watch tones etc There's more chance of being heard if things remain friendly and constructive
MortiferusX Posted September 23, 2018 Author Posted September 23, 2018 50 minutes ago, EvilReFlex said: Aber wie gesagt, viele beschweren sich über Paywalls und fordern Spenden.... aber spenden tut vllt 1 von 10000 Leuten. Ich beschwere mich ja nicht über die Paywall an sich, sondern über das Maß, dass es mitlerweile angenommen hat. Dass die Leute auch Kosten haben usw. ist mir bewusst und deshalb bin ich auch gerne bereit, für GUTE Mods oder Animationen nen kleinen Betrag zu zahlen. Was mir gegen den Strich geht ist, dass ich wie gesagt teilweise für ein einziges Animations-Pack mehr bezahlen soll, als für ein komplettes MMO. Ich werde jetzt keine negativen Beispiele nennen aber ein positives Beispiel ist für mich Sacrificial. Er verlangt grade mal 2 $ pro Veröffentlichung hat mit Extreme Violence, Road to Fame und Lifes Drama 3 Mods, die ich sehr gelungen finde und wo es mir diese 2 $ für den Download auch echt wert ist. Auch die 3 Euro für Daederpools MCCC oder 5 Euro für Basemental Drugs, Wicked Whims und Nisa K. sind noch absolut im Rahmen. Ich hab jetzt keine Ahnung, wieviele Downloads du mit deinen Mods hast aber wenn ich sehe, wieviele allein schon meinen Palace of Pleasure in nicht einmal 3 Wochen heruntergeladen haben ... hätte ich nur 10 Cent pro Download bekommen hätte ich jetzt schon über 1000 € eingenommen und das ist nur ein verdammtes Grundstück. Es gibt hier Mods mit 1 Mio + Downloads im Loverslab. Die bräuchten bei 10 Cent pro Download nie wieder arbeiten.
SirDuke Posted September 23, 2018 Posted September 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, MortiferusX said: ~~ ein positives Beispiel ist für mich Sacrificial. Er verlangt grade mal 2 $ pro Veröffentlichung ~~ 100% total agreement! You are total right there!
heartbeatsandbrainwaves Posted September 23, 2018 Posted September 23, 2018 The Sims 4 team actually has an official stance on this. Timed exclusives are tolerated, paywalls are not. If a creator is keeping content as a patreon exclusive for longer than 2-3 weeks, you can snitch to EA. There is also a website which uploads patreon exclusives for free. What they do may go upset the community or violate creator's terms, but does not go against EA's Terms. Therefore, I do not consider it piracy. But I still will not link it, unless it can be confirmed it is ok to link such a place. With that said, I have learned there is not much money in doing the right thing and using an optional tip jar. Other creators who give people a choice to pay or not are also not very successful. People need to be more generous to those doing the right thing.
MortiferusX Posted September 23, 2018 Author Posted September 23, 2018 14 minutes ago, heartbeatsandbrainwaves said: The Sims 4 team actually has an official stance on this. Timed exclusives are tolerated, paywalls are not. If a creator is keeping content as a patreon exclusive for longer than 2-3 weeks, you can snitch to EA. There is also a website which uploads patreon exclusives for free. What they do may go upset the community or violate creator's terms, but does not go against EA's Terms. Therefore, I do not consider it piracy. But I still will not link it, unless it can be confirmed it is ok to link such a place. With that said, I have learned there is not much money in doing the right thing and using an optional tip jar. Other creators who give people a choice to pay or not are also not very successful. People need to be more generous to those doing the right thing. Then i don't know why some animators can release here there Content with "Patreon Exclusive" animations without early access.
Hiroki Posted September 23, 2018 Posted September 23, 2018 Well if SimGuruDrake wants to show that they are actually enforcing this stance on modding, they would have to take down the Pandorasims website first, for they are not only stealing mods, but also putting these behind a paywall. I totally agree that there are abuses regarding Patreon and paywalls. I have seen here people posting small "samples" of their work to lure people into their paysite/Patreon. We also have example of modders that start becoming popular and eventually end putting most of their content behind a paywall. The last problem is that the quality of mods is actually threatened by the Patreon/paywalls system. I don't know if you have noticed but people can be really enthusiastic when they are being proposed some bad quality shit mod as long as it's a perverted mod. They will download it no matter what. People also download shit mods based on a good photoshoped picture. Overall, people are stupid. And so penny pinching modders create a lot of bad quality content just to have people register on their Patreon. The best example of that is animations. People have noticed that animators can gain a lot of money, and so they start making animations, but from my point of view we have only like 3-4 good animators. Patreon is certainly a good incentive for work, and quite often it works quite well. The economic model of WickedWhims for example seems fair to me.
heartbeatsandbrainwaves Posted September 23, 2018 Posted September 23, 2018 23 minutes ago, Hiroki said: Well if SimGuruDrake wants to show that they are actually enforcing this stance on modding, they would have to take down the Pandorasims website first, for they are not only stealing mods, but also putting these behind a paywall. The Sim Guru directly stated that EA does not have teams monitoring for this, they need snitches. If you have noticed somebody stealing, you need to snitch on them. I do hope pandorasims stays up, only because it looks like a website from the nineties that will steal my credit card information lol. A bit of kitsch and my moral outrage is out the window I suppose. I am half joking about that. On another topic, how long have you been holding certain parts of your mod behind a paywall? Longer than 2-3 weeks for some of them, it appears at a glance. Your mod is good quality and original work, so you probably deserve more money than you get, certainly you should have more money than some other creators. I won't snitch. But whatever your excuse is for holding content behind a paywall for longer than the Sim Gurus allow, is probably everybody else's as well. And some people who release good CC on patreon do so fairly. Aharris00britney makes a good amount of money on patreon, and some good CC, and uses timed exclusives only with nothing stuck behind a paywall. So perhaps I was being cynical. I am sorry. I don't think the economic system of Wickedwhims is fair. If it was fair, Turbodriver would give me all his money. I am joking... or am I? 51 minutes ago, MortiferusX said: Then i don't know why some animators can release here there Content with "Patreon Exclusive" animationswithout early access. Because they are breaking EA's TOU and nobody has stopped them yet. EA does not have a team monitoring this, they need snitches. Send an email to a Sims community manager, I guess.
EvilReFlex Posted September 23, 2018 Posted September 23, 2018 1 hour ago, MortiferusX said: Ich beschwere mich ja nicht über die Paywall an sich, sondern über das Maß, dass es mitlerweile angenommen hat. Dass die Leute auch Kosten haben usw. ist mir bewusst und deshalb bin ich auch gerne bereit, für GUTE Mods oder Animationen nen kleinen Betrag zu zahlen. Was mir gegen den Strich geht ist, dass ich wie gesagt teilweise für ein einziges Animations-Pack mehr bezahlen soll, als für ein komplettes MMO. Ich hab jetzt keine Ahnung, wieviele Downloads du mit deinen Mods hast aber wenn ich sehe, wieviele allein schon meinen Palace of Pleasure in nicht einmal 3 Wochen heruntergeladen haben ... hätte ich nur 10 Cent pro Download bekommen hätte ich jetzt schon über 1000 € eingenommen und das ist nur ein verdammtes Grundstück. Es gibt hier Mods mit 1 Mio + Downloads im Loverslab. Die bräuchten bei 10 Cent pro Download nie wieder arbeiten. Dann bist du einer von 10000 Leuten die "bereit" sind etwas zu zahlen. Aber ich gebe dir natürlich Recht, einige übertreiben es extrem, erst recht auf Patreon. Wenn man da sieht das Visual Novels mit billig DAZ models mehrere 1000€ im Monat einbringen aber keiner für Mods zahlen will ist das schon sehr demotivierend. Und ja stimmt, 10Cent pro Download wären ja schon extrem, bin mal schnell meine beliebtesten Downloads überflogen und habe ca 250k Downloads gezählt. .... also 25000€. ?
Hiroki Posted September 23, 2018 Posted September 23, 2018 9 minutes ago, heartbeatsandbrainwaves said: The Sim Guru directly stated that EA does not have teams monitoring for this, they need snitches. If you have noticed somebody stealing, you need to snitch on them. I do hope pandorasims stays up, only because it looks like a website from the nineties that will steal my credit card information lol. A bit of kitsch and my moral outrage is out the window I suppose. I am half joking about that. On another topic, how long have you been holding certain parts of your mod behind a paywall? Longer than 2-3 weeks for some of them, it appears at a glance. Your mod is good quality and original work, so you probably deserve more money than you get, certainly you should have more money than some other creators. I won't snitch. But whatever your excuse is for holding content behind a paywall for longer than the Sim Gurus allow, is probably everybody else's as well. And some people who release good CC on patreon do so fairly. Aharris00britney makes a good amount of money on patreon, and some good CC, and uses timed exclusives only with nothing stuck behind a paywall. So perhaps I was being cynical. I am sorry. I don't think the economic system of Wickedwhims is fair. If it was fair, Turbodriver would give me all his money. I am joking... or am I? Because they are breaking EA's TOU and nobody has stopped them yet. EA does not have a team monitoring this, they need snitches. Send an email to a Sims community manager, I guess. SimGuruDrake's statement has no legal value at all, it's only a statement on a forum, it can't replace the Terms of Use. It merely states what is tolerated and what isn't, because there is not a single line in the TOU that actually allow modding. On my Patreon the only thing that I'm making "exclusive" is an underwear for males, so I feel rather safe. The rest I don't intend to release to the public as it's already outdated and bugged. There is already a big difference between how I use my Patreon and how some other modders use it, so I wouldn't say that my reasons are the same as everybody else's. I always intended to release my work soon after it was released on Patreon. If I didn't it was because I just stopped modding for some times or other reasons. I don't see any good economic interest in keeping things behind a paywall, actually I believe that I would earn even more money If I made more public releases. However it seems obvious that if I release unfinished work on Patreon I will just take the time needed to finish it before releasing to the public. If it takes more than 2-3 weeks, so be it. I'm not a professional so I'm not spending so much time on my mods. Some people, however, who earn thousands a month, are in a different situation. I'm not a patron of Aharris00britney, but I can believe that she does good stuff. I'm not saying that everyone is doing shit work, I'm talking about a general trend that was already observed in Skyrim modding. But note that harris00britney has only 248 patrons, that's probably not much compared to the work that she puts in her mods, because I know from my own experience that making quality models and textures require a tremendous amount of time.
Mariana Soprano Posted September 24, 2018 Posted September 24, 2018 Oh Mann! Die ganze Patreon Diskussion nu auch noch zweisprachig. Die Rück-Übersetzung ins "Deutsche" ist aber n schlechter Witz, nech?! Nur hilft das ganze diskutieren nicht weiter und darüber wird wohl auch niemand (außer jenen, die mehr wollen, als sie sich leisten können) wirklich nachdenken. Btw. ich leiste mir das nicht! Ich unterstütze mein Heimatforum (aktuell seit Monaten als Einzige). Würde ich wegen Updates genervt sein, würde ich die entsprechenden Members selbst fragen - nuuuur - an denjenigen wird sowat abgleiten wie Schmierseife (und wie bei mir Patreon). Texte doch diejenigen Creators an, die du auch meinst - isch haben keine Ahnung, weil mich Patreon nicht interessiert (Sims 3 und L666 Desaster) - ein "Offener Brief" ist ganz sicher nicht zielführend. Dabei ist unwesentlich, ob EA und die Modder rechtlich im Einklang sind oder eben nicht - solange es keine Folgen zeitigt. Es gäbe ne ganze Menge S3 / S4 Paysites längst nicht mehr, würde Rechtliches gewichtet..... ich wette, die haben ne janze Armada von Anwälten, die sie an der Kette halten - und sie werden wissen warum. Sex sells! Sogar den Griff ins Klo namens Die Sims 4. Hab mich selten beim ins Klo greifen so amüsiert... *zugeb Bei WW und den Animationen muss der Nicht-Patreon-User schlicht warten bis der Kreative sein DL hier frei zur Verfügung stellt. Bei den Mengen, die produziert und upgedated werden, darf man davon ausgehen, dass die Kreativen sehr viel Zeit opfern - die können dann eben nicht nebenher noch zwei oder drei Jobs machen um sich über Wasser zu halten. Ansonsten gäb es keine monatlichen Updates - sondern wesentlich seltener und vermutlich kleinere. Zudem ist es so, dass viele, die runterladen selbst so gar nichts Positives absondern, kein Like, kein Danke - maximal Fragen, wenn etwas nicht funktioniert. Oder flaming, wenn jemand etwas nicht rausgibt. Da ist Patreon nicht die schlechteste Idee derartiges etwas im Zaum zu halten. Lange Zeit gab es nämlich sehr wenig und häufig nicht sonderlich gute, eher statische Animationen - die Kinderschuhe halt. Mittlerweile gehts bei vielen in die professionelle Richtung. Fast schon filmreife Szenen - kanns immer gar nicht fassen, was meine Sims und wo so alles anstellen können. Bei DL von Simfiles kann ich nicht mitreden, ich lad zwar schon mal nen Sim runter (aber nur, wenn ich ein oder zwei CC sonst nicht kenne / finde). Hab keinen einzigen DL Sim im Spiel - ich mach se einfach selbst schic. Liebe Grüße an alle mit und ohne Patreon! MS *will immer nur spieleeeeen!
SexyLove85 Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 I feel you on this. I cant get African hairs cause they’re under Patreon. It’s not fair. Modding is to help make games better not to suck a person dry. I can’t afford to be a persons Patreon even if I love their mods.
Afro68 Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 Patreon isn't going anywhere and this forum has a patreon account so it's a huge grey area. We ended up in this patreon situation because of how Kinky World in Sims 3 went. The creator went over a year without updating here, left the thread open and it got really nasty as it was starting to reach a point where you're using LL for advertising purposes. I've seen some CC creators come in and make a thread and all they have is patreon stuff only. Based on how this forum has handled things that shouldn't be allowed but at this point I'm not jumping up and down about it. If no one pays for it then it gets taken care of.
doan77 Posted September 28, 2018 Posted September 28, 2018 On 9/25/2018 at 5:34 PM, Just A Gamer said: Patreon isn't going anywhere and this forum has a patreon account so it's a huge grey area. We ended up in this patreon situation because of how Kinky World in Sims 3 went. The creator went over a year without updating here, left the thread open and it got really nasty as it was starting to reach a point where you're using LL for advertising purposes. I've seen some CC creators come in and make a thread and all they have is patreon stuff only. Based on how this forum has handled things that shouldn't be allowed but at this point I'm not jumping up and down about it. If no one pays for it then it gets taken care of. The point is Kinky World abusive use of patreon was tolerated because the creator did something no one else could do . Today the first guy who share screenshot of his game has a patreon account. When i see some people with patreon account asking for something in a thread, i just want to answer them: How much will you pay me for this ?
Mariana Soprano Posted September 28, 2018 Posted September 28, 2018 On 9/23/2018 at 2:34 PM, EvilReFlex said: Ich seh bei dir nu grad keine simlischen Sachen - aber warum nicht exclusive Auftragsarbeiten für deine Games anbieten? Dafür zahlen einige gern was / mehr. Dürfte sich auch herumsprechen, wenn die Sachen gelungen sind. Was du in der Signatur hast, würde mich nicht mal interessieren, wenn es für Sims wäre (ist nicht abwertend gemeint!). Versteh mich bitte nicht miss, Hufe und ne Fellpants für nen Sims Satyr... wären bestimmt nicht nur mir mehr als ne Kaffeespende (a 5 Euro) wert.
Mariana Soprano Posted September 28, 2018 Posted September 28, 2018 52 minutes ago, doan77 said: The point is Kinky World abusive use of patreon was tolerated because the creator did something no one else could do . Today the first guy who share screenshot of his game has a patreon account. When i see some people with patreon account asking for something in a thread, i just want to answer them: How much will you pay me for this ? Or some like to sell your own created content to you?!
Afro68 Posted September 28, 2018 Posted September 28, 2018 5 hours ago, doan77 said: The point is Kinky World abusive use of patreon was tolerated because the creator did something no one else could do . Today the first guy who share screenshot of his game has a patreon account. When i see some people with patreon account asking for something in a thread, i just want to answer them: How much will you pay me for this ? I'll give you that but I'd like to add is this forum had never seen any abuse of Patreon like that and really didn't have an idea of how they'd like to deal with it. There still isn't any guidelines really to this day.
Excorsion Posted October 7, 2018 Posted October 7, 2018 the problem i see with patreon right now... you have modders.. putting out numerous updates for thier patreon accounts and then posting on thier threads here... one modder did this for over 3 months between LL updates... for those of us that watch the threads for updates it is stupid that we come on and see such and such has updated thier file then we go there and find out they did not actually update thier file but just posted a ad for thier patreon... yet when this is brought up we get told there is a fix in the works.. yet the rules have not been updating in a very longtime... this is a bad stance to take when you are the one running the forums... if you let people abuse your services then sooner or later you are going to have the 'well you let so and so do it so you have to late me do it too'... All I'm saying is get the rules updated and stick to it instead of letting it slide because you are afraid the modders will leave... guess what... they already have left... patreon made sure of that. get back to what this forum was originally for the sharing of mods without advertising.
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