Good news? (Patreon)

Well the good news is that it didn't take EA very long to revise its policy in favour of early access creators. The bad news is that they hurt all of us unnecessarily.

But anyway, I will focus on the positive even though I feel very mentally and emotionally drained from being yanked back and forth over the past couple of days.

EA seemed to come to their senses faster than anyone had anticipated and revised their policy statement, clarifying that modders and custom content creators can continue to provide early access incentives for their creations as long as the content is released publicly for free after an "acceptable early access period."

Unfortunately, they did not clarify what an "acceptable early access period" actually is so until they do clarify this further, I will continue to do 3 week early access as I've always done, as outlined by SimGuruDrake in the only official statement we had to go off of for years until just recently.

I'm sure it's obvious that I'm frustrated with having all this stress placed on me for no reason whatsoever; however, I'm grateful that I can continue doing what I do in the long term because I really enjoy it and I don't have to sacrifice my own meals so my cats can get their medicated food from the vet. So I'm happy about that and will choose to focus on that, instead.

Amazingly, my patron number increased rather than decreased during all of this and it makes me so happy, I could cry. I had really been losing my faith in humanity lately and seeing so many people come together to show that they'll keep supporting me no matter what reminded me that there really are more good people than bad people in the world. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, I appreciate you so much and I hope you get every amazing thing in life that you want. Even to the people who cancelled their subscriptions, thank you for supporting me for the time that you did. I'm so happy to have had you as a patron even for just a short time and I hope you continue to enjoy the stuff I have to share with you.

This Snarky Witch is a Sappy Witch today. Much love to all of you and I can't wait to keep sharing my creations with you!