posted by Buddha Paul (Admin) on Apr 5

There you are, just enjoying the game you’ve always loved no matter what they call you.. Sims… Avatars.. whatever.. it’s always going to be The Sims Online in your heart.  Then a system message from Parizad flashes across your screen, warning you that the Repo Man is coming to take away any conterfiet custom content objects you have in your possetion. 

At first, you don’t give it much thought.  Then you start second guessing some of the things you did buy.. hmm.. is it really okay that someone duplicated that statuette they purchased at Walmart?  But you figure okay, if a trinket or two disappears fine.

The next day you enter your lot and your heart stops!  All those beautiful cabinets you’ve worked so hard to purchase.. all gone!  Planters, chairs..  everything converted into cardboard boxes and cheesy folding chairs!

You rush back to the stores demanding a refund.. but they’re all closed.  Most of them left without inventory!  Finger pointing everywhere!  The stratic dev lovers all tring to protect their precious devs.  No officical word from anyone!

Now at first glance one might say anyone in posession of counterfit merchendise deserves to have it reposessed.  Normally I’d wholeheartedly agree with you, but the problem is that EA has a policy of reviewing and approving each item submitted.  Sure, you’d expect one or two obscure items to slip through but this is not the case.  Blatent copyright violation such as Disney and Warner Brothers characters have slipped through. 

Since all this transpired going into the weekend perhaps we should give EA some time to formulate a respnose, but I would urge anyone effected to not simply gripe in the forums about it.  Be prepared to take legal consumer action.  Remember, simoleons (or whatever they choose to call it) now have a real cash value.  If you purched your simoleons through the ATM via PayPall you may lose important rights by waiting too long. 

We’ll add more news as we get it.  Your comments are encouraged!