I am devastated (Patreon)

Today, EA officially destroyed the CC and modding community. For years, they have allowed creators to do early access for their content as a way to help support themselves for all the time and effort they pour into the game. Now they are no longer allowing us to do that.

This comes at such a heartbreaking time for me because my patreon had been struggling until recently. In July, I started noticing a large increase in patrons. I went from struggling to keep 12 patrons at a time to having 25+ which doesn't sound like a lot but it meant the difference between being able to afford my cats' prescription or not. It meant being able to do more of what I loved and not live so much in survival mode all the time.

That freedom was short-lived. Only a week or so after my patreon finally took off a little bit, EA made this announcement.

They do still allow us to make money via donations but we can't provide early access incentives anymore. Early access is the reason I have most of my patrons and I imagine I'll lose them all once I'm forced to stop doing early access.

Keeping this patreon going no matter how badly it does was my New Year's Resolution to myself and I want to keep that promise to myself so I'll continue to make content for my patreon until the end of December. After that, I don't really see a reason to continue doing this unless EA comes to their senses and realises crippling modders and CC creators is as good as killing their own franchise.

Modders and CC creators make The Sims what it is, not EA. I fear they're going to find that out the hard way soon enough when creators stop making stuff for the game and people inevitably stop buying new packs because of that.

I really hope my patrons continue to stick around. I'd really like to keep sharing my stuff with you as long as I'm able to. I'll be sad if you go, but I understand. Life is hard, money isn't easy to come by, and why pay for something you can get for free immediately? I get it and I wish you all the best.