Garden of Shadows is down, but not out.

[strangetomato]

I thought I'd do my part to spread the word to anyone who might be wondering about Garden of Shadows, and why it's not working. It seems TSR made a legal complaint to GoS's web host about them redistributing their supposedly "copyrighted content." There are more details here on nymphynymms journal. (ETA: And also on Jenfold's dreamwidth journal.)

Thank you to simgaroop for bringing this to my attention. I'm a big fan of Garden of Shadows, even though I mostly lurk. They continue to create quality content for Sims 2, even though most other cc sites gave up the ghost a long time ago. I was thoroughly enjoying the Earth Day monthly theme, and I'm saddened that this messes with their next monthly theme right around that exciting time when the new theme is decided and announced (which theme won? Does anyone know? I was just going to go check). Way to ruin everyone's fun, TSR. Bunch of dicks.

Comments

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

I wish TSR would just stop doing this shit. I don't think the "sharing" that was going on at GOS was really affecting their revenue in any case, considering they seem to be close partners with EA and that in turn is a huge advertisement for that site.

Any Sim Newbie can find TSR easily and buy a subscription, unaware that selling CC goes actually against EA terms of use.

I'll never understand why EA supports this site in particular and not ModTheSims instead, but I'm afraid that trying to find reason is like beating a dead horse.

Last night's exhaustion made me forget to unlock my previous entry, so I'm doing that right now to spread the word to more people. And I'm also updating my MTS profile again. You are right, the more people know about TSR's acts, the better.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

I honestly think that EA is looking at this from what seems to them to be the most profitable angle - by supporting the biggest Sims CC site, they are getting the most publicity for themselves. You like to shop at TSR? Come try our excellent EA store items!

If they wanted to, they could so easily stomp on TSR for selling what is essentially theirs, but they won't, because they would alienate a huge number of their customers. Likewise, if they openly supported paysites, they'd alienate the non-paysite crowd. So they remain quiet on the matter, and continue to promote themselves through TSR, which they've probably found will work better for them than doing do through MTS. It's all about the money.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I have no real interest in actually discussing TSR and their logic (if we ignore them, maybe they will go away? One can hope...), but this sounds like Occam's razor to me. Well said.

[lady-talaie.livejournal.com]

Is it ene know as a fact that EAMaxis supports TSR? I thought that ad was a load of crap and not even real. Not to mention that Mod will come up in any search engine before TSR.