August 2, 2022

I'm backkk

Hi everyone!

I've been online in Sims spaces for around 2 weeks now, to adjust to being active again. I missed you guys so much. I don't know how to start, but my personal life was not so... nice the recent few months. On Tumblr I made a post where I summarized all of my feelings and emotions about my personal state, if you are interested you can read it here, but no pressure, it's mostly just about how my life, personal state, and battling Covid went on. Day by day, I am feeling good enough to come back online a little bit more. I am happy that I am feeling a little bit better now ♡

You don't even know how thankful I am to everyone who continued supporting me in the time where I wasn't able to create CC, while battling mental health & physical issues. I'm truly thankful from the bottom of my heart, that the support goes for more than just for receiving CC early access ♡ Means the world to me, cause creating is my passion, and I am just SO thankful to see everyone who wants to support me as a person. I mean it~

BTW, speaking of early access, the recent days, a policy change of EA is making the rounds. It's unsure what exactly it means for custom content creators, but some changes in their policy are facts, for example that perma-paywalled content (which I NEVER did, I only did early access for a maximum of 1-3 weeks) is not allowed, never was. You can see the new policy here. Tbh it didn't change much from their previous policy, except from some legal stuff about the sims branding. The wording is a bit unsure imo, especially since english is not my mother tongue, but it could be that early access is included too within these guidelines. Which is sad in my opinion, because honest early access creators who never abused the guidelines were always officially allowed, unlike permanent paywall creators who abused the rules & milked their downloaders. Anyways, I am unsure how I will proceed, depending on if early access truly is not allowed anymore (which to me seems like it, but then again, early access is just earlier access, and not a forced payment to get CC)

Depending on how it will develop the next days, when a true statement from EA about Early Access might arrive, I don't know how to change up my Patreon account here. I am not sure if I should wait if early access is still allowed, or if I will make every new creation free, with optional pledges. First of all, I won't stop creating. In fact, I have some great ideas for my upcoming stuff, which I've been all writing down in my silly little journal. ♡ I put hours and hours of work into my creations, it's truly something that I love and will never leave behind me. My CC items are like my babies, I am THAT attached to my works and passion, hehe.

If I'll decide to not do early access anymore, I will update my tiers for some optional benefits, like polls, WIP pics, etc. If any of you guys have ideas for some nice and fun benefits, feel free to tell me~

I've also read up on the doxxing drama that seemed to have happened while I was away (in April), and I am ASHAMED that some "creators" truly did something awful like that. I can promise everyone here, that I NEVER manipulated CC pieces, tracked anyone, or used their data, etc. It's one of the most disgusting things that have happened in this community for sure.

I'm sorry for the rambling, but I felt like I have to write all my thoughts out. Again, I am sooo sooo incredibly thankful to everyone sticking with me, and supporting me, whether it's by pledges, comments, downloads, etc. I am truly grateful! Much love to everyone~ Please stay safe and healthy, guys!

Comments (20)

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Toys of dukeness · August 22, 2022

Let me kisses you *3*

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Pralinesims · September 13, 2022

Kisses back, my sweetie! ♥

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F66x's Tip Jar! · August 4, 2022

AWESOME

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Pralinesims · August 4, 2022

Aww thank youuu ♡

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manueaPinny · August 3, 2022

Welcome backkk 😍

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Pralinesims · August 3, 2022

Thank you, my dear! ♡

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LivingDeadGal Sims · August 3, 2022

I am so so happy you are back ♥ I hope you are doing well now and I am sorry that the last few months have not been great for you. Happy to be here to support you and your amazing cc!!

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Pralinesims · August 3, 2022

Thank you sooo so much, you are so nice, thanks for your calming and kind words ♡ You don't know how much I appreciate everything!!!

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Kresix · August 2, 2022

Just to let you know, it’s been confirmed today from the sims on Twitter that early access is okay! <3

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Pralinesims · August 3, 2022

Thanks a lot for telling me! ♡ so appreciated!

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Scottie · August 2, 2022

I agree with the above and your opinion on the paywall drama and for that I have become a member xx.

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Pralinesims · August 3, 2022

Thank you sooo much!!! ♡

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ANISA · August 2, 2022

Glad your back darling!! I’ve always loved your creations☺️ Imo i think it’s better to be safe than to risk your patreon account and everything for the uncertainty of early access bc to me it sounds like it’s not allowed (im guessing…) so for me i’m gonna just adjust my tiers bc my stuff was always free. That’s just my humble advice lol. But the amount of cc shopping that im about to do my pc will be crying for help😂😅

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Pralinesims · August 3, 2022

Thank you so tons, you are so sweet! ♡ CC shopping can be so therapeutic sometimes hihi. And btw, EA actually greenlit early access yesterday, it's still vague cause they didn't specify how long something should be locked, but with the updated policy it's at least known that it's not forbidden :)

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Ms. Book · August 2, 2022

Glad to have you back! I've been rocking with you since TS3! So happy that you have chosen to stay!

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Pralinesims · August 3, 2022

Thank you soo much! And hehe, of course I'll stay, no matter what ♡

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taylor latimer · August 2, 2022

I so so appreciate this message and how much you care/ just seem like a nice person 😭 I'm sorry that a handful of people have ruined it for all CC creators and modders. Even if it's just through a donation option I'll keep supporting 💙💙

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Pralinesims · August 3, 2022

Thank you so much!! ;_; this means a lot to me, you don't know ♡

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AshSims · August 2, 2022

Psshhh girllll I love you and have been following you since TSR. No need to even say you had nothing to do with the doxxing crap because I know you would never do anything that absurd. It seems pretty clear to me that early access also is not allowed. Pixelade also shared a video on YouTube of a conversation between a fellow simmer and someone from EA where they asked EA if early access was also not allowed and EA confirmed that it is not :/

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Pralinesims · August 2, 2022

Thanks so much for having faith in me T_T ♡ And yes, that seems to me like that too. The conversations from the EA chats had differing responses with different people, but it really seems to go into the direction that early access is not allowed either.