Wow. I cannot agree more with everything that's been said here. I just recently came back from being gone for well over a year now and I was very surprised at this community. I fully expected to come back to a community that was thriving and yet I found a ghost town complete with tons of crap being offered. I've been wondering where everyone went to. I've had enough time to reflect and feel like there are several reasons that quite a few of the wonderful creators we once had are now gone. TSR's greed and total need to be the only cc website for the community has definitely killed it for those that did create and those that would create. Who wants to be bothered to make something nice for the community when TSR will either report the download from a file sharing site as their own or they'll hack the shit out of a site that took the website owner alot of time to create.

I really don't think MTS's stand on what they would and wouldn't allow in cc back when ts3 came out helped the community either. At that time, MTS was pretty popular and then they lowered the boom on everyone. While I agree they needed to crack down on the god awful submissions, they also managed to crack down on the creators that actually made nice cc for simmers. There were very few creators that could actually mesh their own meshes. The bulk of the meshes were converted 3d models scaled back for the sims game. Therefore, it wasn't their own work so MTS would not allow those meshes to be uploaded. If the artwork for paintings is not made by the person creating the painting, yes, you guessed it, it is turned down. Stupidity ruined MTS.

And I'm sorry, but we can't forget MATY's part in this either. I give kudo's to Pes for everything he has done for this community. I realize that people are so tired of others not reading posts, not searching for answers and asking the same damn idiotic thing over and over is a pain in the ass, but the freakin attitude here has driven people away. Not just from this forum, but from this community as a whole. Someone donated money about a week ago and asked a simple question and some other asshat comes back with a totally shitty remark to them. Who wants to donate to a site that is going to rip them to shreds for asking a question? And a legitimate question at that.

I have played the sims since The Sims 1 came out. I am so saddened to see what has happened to this community. I remember when we thought Simbella's was so horrible to this community but as it turns out, they were a walk in the park compared to what has happened to it now. To me, this is no longer a community. It is a ghost town. And it's full of some of the crappiest content I've ever seen. I really don't think the Sims 4 will even come close to keeping a fan base. By the time it gets here, even the crap creators will be gone.

This is due to the last awesomemod update. It happened to me and I had to reinstall back to 1.3. That was the only thing I could do to cure it. I got lucky because a friend had not updated to the last one. She had the 8-6-09 update. Another friend of mine also had updated and it happened to them as well.