Sims 4 buy out, Paralives, life and more...
I have been playing The Sims since primary school, with TS1. And growing up in life, new editions grew with me.
When The Sims 4 came out, I was in my first year of college and extremely broke. The Base Game cost 60 euros, and it was a huge amount back then. My mom knew how much I loved the Sims and encourage me to buy it regardless. The game was... what it was. No pool, no toodler, no basement, and the list goes on. But I was still hoping for the better to come. I played countless hours while getting my degrees and finally launch my own blog. I made so many friendships and was so amazed with The Sims 4 aesthetics and building tools. Building has always been my favorite part and it shows.
In 2018, I was nominated to join the CreatorNetwork. I didn't apply and I didn't request it. Never thought my content was worthy enough.
I was contacted by EA telling me that many people asked them to let me in the program. I was surprised and very grateful. I tried my best to be fair, honest and consistent. But in the meantime, I was hired in my first corporate job. I didn't have any more time to play and I went hiatus for months... I never recover this gap. But I came back and I've tried my best (again). To add to my dispair, my previous computer couldn't support the game anymore and I had to buy a new one (which was hell on earth, as most of my money went to my apartment...). When I was finally ready to be back on tracks, the game felt... lacking. I was not in-tune with the franchise and I only posted about new DLCs - as the lame CreatorNetwork I am.
Now that its confirmed that EA is sold, I had many time to reflect on what should I do next. From now on, I will no longer promote any DLCs from this company as their upcoming owners do not reflect my personnal view about human rights.
I will still play the Sims, post some builds time to time, but that's pretty much it. I hesitate to pretty much resign from the EACreatorNetwork, and I was about to do so. In fact, its been years since I didn't need their gifted DLCs. But I thought about the past me, the student me who was broke and just wanted to espace life with a game...
Being in the network give me the opportunity to give back to the community more packs than I can actually afford ; and it will remain the main objective. I will no longer host giveawyas as previously, but give them through DMs to random people who likes some of my post time to time. You will have nothing to do, I'll just pick random urls. This way, no promotion to EA either.
I am very torn as I care deeply for this franchise. My thoughts goes to the employees who have dedicated many years of their lives to make it happen. The course isn't over. Hang on.
As for me, I have been donating to Paralives Team since two years. I am very excited for the launch and I will most likely move to this game as soon as its out. I already have ideas of projects (builds, you know me). My Paralives blog is on construction and I will share more in the near future with you.
Thank you to all the people who stayed regardless.
Thank you to all the CC creators who made this game survive for so long.
Thank you to my Simblrs friends. I had a blast.
