Template to send to EA regarding Paywallers.
Hey y'all! I had an anon ask about this, so I wrote this up real quick for anyone who doesn't have the time or ability to pen a long thing to send to EA about the paywallers. Feel free to change it up as much as you'd like, add even more paywallers (highly recommend this), do whatever you want, let's REPORT REPORT REPORT 💖
How to report:
To report Mods, give us the details right here on EA Help:
Click Contact Us from any page on EA Help.
We recommend logging in to your EA Account.
Select The Sims 4. If needed, use the search bar to find the game.
Select your Platform.
For Topic, select Report concerns or harassment.
For Issue, choose Report website.
From here, you’ll open a webform to let us know more about what happened. Please provide a link to the Mods you think break the rules, and as much detail as you can about why. Your report will be reviewed by our team.
Then you just enter your name/email (which isn't shared with anyone but EA)
Here's my lil template! THIS HAS BEEN CENSORED. In my actual report I listed their full names, and patreon/tumblr pages! If you want a full uncensored version please privately message me and I'll happily send it. Give EA as MUCH info as you can on this. The more of us that report the better off we'll be. Also i borrowed a little bit of wording from @myshunosun (the distribution and installation part) sorry but it sounded nice and I couldn't think of how else to phrase it.
My Template:
I made the subject "Custom Content in the Sims community- perma paywallers"
"Hello there, my name is ______, and I have been an avid sims fan and consumer for MANY years. It has recently come to my attention that EA has released an official article on the distribution and installation of mods and custom content. In this article, it states to reach out if we find any mods that go against the guidelines clearly stated in this article. As a community, we know of MANY people who permanently lock their custom content behind what we call 'paywalls', which means simmers have NO access to them unless they pay. This is clearly against EA's policies and I would now like to report them to you in the hopes that you will not let this continue any longer. As someone who has already spent hundreds on this game and franchise, I believe it is wrong in so many ways to lock content using EA's intellectual property/program/meshes behind paywalls when it is clearly against your policy. Following is a list of some of the most famous and notorious paywallers in the community.
S*xamcc currently makes OVER 10 THOUSAND dollars a month from perma paywalling his custom content. The last time they had their patrons publicly listed they had over 2000 a month. They have removed thier public patron amount due to the backlash they have received. This is unacceptable when EA CLEARLY states that mods are NOT to be sold. This creator has no shame and will continue to lock all of their content behind paywalls until someone stops them.
Other perma paywallers:
antos*ms, bergd*rf, cowbu*ld, P*xel V*bes
Thank you so much for reading my report and taking what we as a community have been against for so long seriously. I greatly hope that you look at these reports and do something about these creators."
Feel free to look at this list for a list of names: https://www.notion.so/sunnysresources/Simmer-List-05b801e94c074c6eac93777101209113
Enjoy friends. :)
