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КОМЕНТАРІ • 331

  • @LOEVALENTINE
    @LOEVALENTINE 2 роки тому +1106

    “Realistically, a game, should take longer than that to develop to be good” 2014 base game Sims 4 is cricketing bestie

    • @cro.artwork
      @cro.artwork 2 роки тому +4

      LMAO

    • @defsouul3127
      @defsouul3127 2 роки тому +4

      Well ts4 base game isn't good so

    • @LOEVALENTINE
      @LOEVALENTINE 2 роки тому +56

      @@defsouul3127 that was my point, it took 5 years to develop TS4, and it launched with barely anything. No pools, toddlers, lagging etc.

    • @Terestrasz
      @Terestrasz 2 роки тому +11

      @@LOEVALENTINE One of the reasons was because they had to start over almost entirely from scratch.

    • @ed3n213
      @ed3n213 Рік тому

      @@Terestraszsorry, do you know why that is? i’m catching up with a lot of sims info and i’m not sure where to start when looking into this

  • @Marsbar354
    @Marsbar354 2 роки тому +1408

    I had this when I was a kid and thought it was it’s own stand- alone sims game. I remember just walking around looking at stuff not realising you could put stuff in your actual game ☠️

    • @summerwhixh
      @summerwhixh 2 роки тому +17

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @gretabianco1283
      @gretabianco1283 2 роки тому +28

      me when i begged my mum to get me the sims makin magic.

    • @Danielle-eu3li
      @Danielle-eu3li 2 роки тому +31

      Lmao “man this game is hard”

    • @pippacita
      @pippacita 2 роки тому +15

      me when i first played pokemon and i spent the entire time in a cave and spamming tackle cause i didn’t know how it worked

    • @chiarra644
      @chiarra644 2 роки тому +5

      @@gretabianco1283 I did the same thing with sims 2 seasons. When I went to install it, major disappointment.

  • @lcarney1954
    @lcarney1954 2 роки тому +790

    The ultimate shovelware: THAT DAMN U2 ALBUM WE DIDNT ASK FOOOOOOOR

    • @TiwidTV
      @TiwidTV 2 роки тому +28

      she kinda slayed tho ngl

    • @solssun
      @solssun 2 роки тому +58

      I feel like this moment is the millennial / gen-z divide

    • @doggytheanarchist7876
      @doggytheanarchist7876 2 роки тому +9

      @@solssun do y'all even remember U2?

    • @MiloKuroshiro
      @MiloKuroshiro 2 роки тому +7

      That's more like adware

    • @barrronessa
      @barrronessa 2 роки тому +12

      this was more triggering than i had expected

  • @indeboss
    @indeboss 2 роки тому +1001

    There's a whole bunch of illegal EPs that were made for The Sims 2 and 3 in Russia: stuff like Harry Potter, Sex in the City, a bunch of Russian TV shows, etc. They were basically a collection of custom content of a specific theme, sims, houses and/or neighborhoods from the show/movie. I personally was gifted the Sex in the City one and let me tell you, the mods that were included in that EP as well, traumatize me a little, with straight up p*rn playing on all TV channels. And also you could woohoo any sim but I didn't know what woohooing was, so I just, while playing on a waterpark lot with a hot tub, that my sims were just having a lot of fun with strangers.

    • @madmuffin4484
      @madmuffin4484 2 роки тому +52

      I’ve never heard of this? I wonder if the Harry Potter one is available for Download/purchase somewhere

    • @ireallylovecilantro
      @ireallylovecilantro 2 роки тому +50

      Your comment reminded me of The Sims Online mods that were “x-rated” lol. Basically if you had the mod you could see what other Sims were wearing (n00d too) but without it you wouldn’t know. Yes I had it as a 10 year old. 😵‍💫 Just for a bit though to see what all the excitement was about. Dis Gust TING!

    • @cuteniarose5371
      @cuteniarose5371 2 роки тому +66

      I distinctly remember having the Shrek one lmao. It was just a save with a family of green people

    • @DoNotTouchElks
      @DoNotTouchElks 2 роки тому +57

      omg yes!! i remember how a salesperson was trying to push me a "Twilight EP" when I was asking for TS3 Late Night because its translation has the word "twilight" in it lmao

    • @ren.pfa.99
      @ren.pfa.99 2 роки тому

      @@DoNotTouchElks the sims 3 late night! God i remember wanting to buy the cd for that

  • @lumaelodie
    @lumaelodie 2 роки тому +1057

    its sad how the sims cashgrabs back then were made by third party companies but now they’re being distributed straight from eaxis...

  • @amypatnaude88
    @amypatnaude88 2 роки тому +233

    I wish they’d add “the sims” to origin just updated enough to be playable. I miss it so much.

    • @jesaea
      @jesaea 2 роки тому +8

      Bestie just pirate it

    • @amypatnaude88
      @amypatnaude88 2 роки тому +14

      @@jesaea I’ve tried. It only works for a few minutes and then just exits the game. Or it doesn’t ever work or it’s so tiny it’s unplayable.

    • @FrenkTheJoy
      @FrenkTheJoy 2 роки тому +10

      @@amypatnaude88 Huh, I had no problem with the version I pirated. Perfectly large size, no crashing. Obviously I don't know what computer you're using or what version you downloaded, but there was a version on pirate bay that didn't even need to be mounted to an iso, there was just a trick with one of the files you had to do to get it to work right (which I can't remember, unfortunately)

    • @langustajableczna
      @langustajableczna 2 роки тому +2

      @@amypatnaude88 I've pirated so many games and the sims def works normally lmao

    • @niaram
      @niaram 2 роки тому

      @@amypatnaude88 where did u download it from?

  • @TheWildDeadHero
    @TheWildDeadHero 2 роки тому +516

    Fun fact: selling content is technically against the terms-of-service agreement on at least the first three Sims games. The Sims Resource was actually breaking the license everyone agrees to when playing and making content for the game.

    • @chimominino
      @chimominino 2 роки тому +113

      I dunno if this is different, but my understanding is that TSR has a paid subscription to the site for certain benefits, and the custom content is downloadable for free whether you have a subscription or not. Thus, it's not selling content. ⭐️

    • @DigitalDassie
      @DigitalDassie 2 роки тому +67

      @@chimominino I *think* @thewilddeadhero meant back in the day. TSR pay-walled certain custom content. Not perks/ early access, full on certain bits of premium content. Not sure when the platform changed, I think after Sims 3? As TSR partnered with EA at that time to create a modding tool. But I'm not 100% on the ins and outs.
      That's why there were two camps of creators, those who posted on TSR (for money) and those who posted on Modthesims (for free). I am going on my memory here, so the details might not be exact, but I believe people were calling to boycott the paywalls and support modthesims.
      It's still technically against the TOU to indefinitely pay-wall custom content, but EA has never actually done anything to enforce this (that I'm aware of).

    • @illtardisyourdoctor
      @illtardisyourdoctor 2 роки тому +14

      @@DigitalDassie I dont think EA had very strict modding rules back in the day because they technically didn't endorse modding. Even for Sims 3 where it was almost as easy as it is now
      Only for Sims 4 did they start working with modders and acknowledging it as something that's okay

    • @xtxpxhx
      @xtxpxhx 2 роки тому +15

      You mean T$R?

    • @snowmorgan4115
      @snowmorgan4115 2 роки тому +2

      It's not illegal it just means you break your warnity and they aren't responsible for what you do

  • @UvThe1st
    @UvThe1st 2 роки тому +249

    "If you put a monkey in a moving cable car with nothing but an unwired computer containing a software writing program, I'm sure he could do better" is how I would describe the absolute shirt that was My Wedding Stories. This is my new favourite phrase for describing all Sims 4 feck ups.

  • @macroni6164
    @macroni6164 2 роки тому +225

    "entire simussy" made me choke kn my bagel

  • @liv9596
    @liv9596 2 роки тому +146

    so you could say that that one U2 album that got downloaded on all of our apple libraries in the 2000’s is the music equivalent of shovelware

    • @jvseventeen
      @jvseventeen 2 роки тому +7

      Yes!! lol I came here hoping someone had said it already. I don't even have an iPhone (nor did i) but I've heard soooo much about how annoying that album was lol

    • @Julia-yw1ll
      @Julia-yw1ll 2 роки тому +3

      Happened to me back Then, I gave it a shot and absolutely lover the music so I was happy xD

  • @KimSokolArt
    @KimSokolArt 2 роки тому +134

    I was making Sims 1 cc as a li'l 13 year old in 2000 and so there's a non-zero chance some of my stuff is on there which would be hilarious to me, ngl

    • @DaMaLoJo
      @DaMaLoJo 2 роки тому +5

      I wish I could add this to my resume

  • @CylindricalWhistle
    @CylindricalWhistle 2 роки тому +118

    I’m probably the odd one out in the Sims community because everyone else is like ‘give your money to support cc creators!’, but it makes me uncomfortable when people paywall their cc. I mean, allowing voluntary donations is one thing, but directly charging people for cc feels weird. In most other video game communities, requesting money for cc is seen as bad form. After all, the cc creators don’t own the game itself, and the origins of online modding community were open source and democratic. It was just people freely sharing what they could out of passion. This is like if there was suddenly a movement in the fan fiction community for writers to paywall their works. It feels like it goes against the spirit that brought communities like this alive in the first place.
    Now that it turns out that a ton of these paywall Patreon cc creators were literally doxxing their patrons and harassing people’s workplaces, I’m even more put off.

    • @XvXHaruhiSuzumiyaXvX
      @XvXHaruhiSuzumiyaXvX 2 роки тому +35

      yeah, i feel this- i don't mind early access, but overall i hate the monetization of mods and custom content in the gaming industry. thankfully it doesn't really seem to be catching on outside of small pockets

    • @deadeyeguys
      @deadeyeguys 2 роки тому +24

      exactly my thoughts. i think that early access cc and donations are fine, cuz at least everyone gets the content for free at some point.
      but yeah, i’ve never seen any other modding community in which content is locked behind a paywall the way that modding & cc in the sims is. like, i don’t think i’ve *ever* seen that with a game like terraria, because it’s just… not something you do.

    • @Niriixa
      @Niriixa 2 роки тому +2

      Unpopular opinion, but this is why I don't think artists who paywall their fanart on patreon etc are justified in doing so either. I find the railing against fanfiction writers hypocritical, because fanartists have been doing the same shit for years.

  • @_jeanique
    @_jeanique 2 роки тому +521

    “Shovelware” so basically all of EA’s games since they apparently don’t care about any of them or the players but they’ll still shove it all in your face 😭

    • @katieweaver2856
      @katieweaver2856 2 роки тому +14

      I would say yes, in intention absolutely. In execution, and only through the hard work of outside creators and the community, the games become worth something. But they inadvertently profit from other creatives’ labor by doing so.

    • @ellislily
      @ellislily 2 роки тому +12

      I would say the wedding pack LMAO

    • @ElvenChaos
      @ElvenChaos 2 роки тому +6

      Yes. All of the yes.

    • @_jeanique
      @_jeanique 2 роки тому +6

      @@katieweaver2856 oh no definitely I 100% agree with you. My heart aches for all of the hardworking people within the company. Their efforts are certainly soiled by EA’s actions and overall attitude :< and of course the community and content creators who really make everything worthwhile!
      Edit: typo

    • @SirFaceFone
      @SirFaceFone 2 роки тому +3

      @@ellislily Nah that's malware

  • @drpepperparty
    @drpepperparty 2 роки тому +27

    I remember Sims 2 magazines where they included a CD with free stuff, that was also definitely stolen!

  • @CapnCrimson
    @CapnCrimson 2 роки тому +56

    I had a program for The Sims 2 when I was a kid, which was promoted as like, a "create your own content for The Sims 2!" program. It was basically a program where it would give you a few stock items, and you could ajust them with sliders, and I think add a few items onto it (like using a slider to make the hair longer, and then adding bunny ears). The things you could make were fucking ugly, and when it was actually put in the game, it would be buggy as hell. Like I remember the hair would be floating an entire head above the sim.
    It was an awful program, definitely made just to profit from the popularity of The Sims 2. I returned it the day after I bought it, and while I do think it was the ethically right thing to do, and also I was a kid, so any amount of money was a lot to me, sometimes I think it could've been fun to keep it, just for the oddity of it. I don't remember what it was called, I've tried to find it before, but I only ever get That's Life. If anyone else remember this or had it, it could be fun to hear.

    • @MajaCiant
      @MajaCiant 2 роки тому +12

      I have it too and I found it. It's called "Style & Fashion - Das Toolpack für Die Sims 2" in German. I don't know if it has been published in other countries too.

    • @paigefoley5778
      @paigefoley5778 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah I think I had something similar in nz. I only remember making patterns that you could apply to existing clothes/furniture and then install into to game. It was super buggy and the stuff you created looked real bad in game so I hardly used it.

    • @CapnCrimson
      @CapnCrimson 2 роки тому +2

      @@MajaCiant I don't know if that was the one I had. The box I had looked very different, but the content could be the same 🤷‍♀️
      I live in Denmark, so it's not too crazy to think it may have been the same, just slightly differently packaged.

    • @Arcenceil
      @Arcenceil 2 роки тому +2

      @@paigefoley5778 also from New Zealand and i remember it exactly this way aswell

  • @mauratyson9580
    @mauratyson9580 2 роки тому +9

    The guy who said he was surprised that the sims would release a game with that many bugs is in for a whirlwind when he heard about My Wedding Stories

  • @sammortlokk
    @sammortlokk 2 роки тому +23

    the x-media intro feels like an overdramatic indian reality tv show scene 😂😂

  • @heatherengland1042
    @heatherengland1042 2 роки тому +31

    Every single time you say “ visionary, visions are scary.” My ADHD brain has to sing the rest of the damn song! Every single time!

    • @DigitalDassie
      @DigitalDassie 2 роки тому +3

      Such a disaster, what a catastrophe?! 😂

  • @j.r.765
    @j.r.765 2 роки тому +160

    Community created items locked behind a perma-paywall?! That's one innovation that survived till this day.

    • @ireallylovecilantro
      @ireallylovecilantro 2 роки тому +20

      Yep there was a whole uprising against TSR for that back in the day. 😂

    • @flamepelt3092
      @flamepelt3092 2 роки тому +5

      Down with tsr! Mod the sims or Patreon are far better

    • @XvXHaruhiSuzumiyaXvX
      @XvXHaruhiSuzumiyaXvX 2 роки тому +10

      @@flamepelt3092 patreon is incredibly hit or miss, especially with the recent allegations of doxxing and software tracking

  • @xeoney
    @xeoney 2 роки тому +309

    "Corporate needs you to tell the difference between these two pictures."
    *Shovelware and The Sims 4*
    "It's the same picture."

  • @catking1059
    @catking1059 2 роки тому +60

    “Sim-ussy” *Here lies Cat King, they’ve died*

  • @susysimsalot3150
    @susysimsalot3150 2 роки тому +4

    I wanted this so bad as a kid. We had internet because my dad worked at the local cable company, but most internet was too slow for downloading a bunch of cc back then. Plus everyone was kind of scared of downloading things off the internet.

  • @Jackamo6200
    @Jackamo6200 2 роки тому +13

    I love these documentary-style videos! I live in the UK but I’ve never heard of this ‘expansion pack’

  • @celiastav4694
    @celiastav4694 2 роки тому +20

    Not you putting your entire SIMUSSY into it babe 😭😭😭😂

  • @FrancescaLeann
    @FrancescaLeann 2 роки тому +39

    What's wild. My mom purchased this from a thrift store for me. I had no idea what I was playing lol

  • @ranellexposed
    @ranellexposed 2 роки тому +8

    That Jojo Siwa ‘well if you yell at me I’m gonna cry’ moment will forever be iconic.

  • @solssun
    @solssun 2 роки тому +50

    does that make every sims 4 expansion pack shovelware by definition

    • @purplevoncreep9920
      @purplevoncreep9920 2 роки тому +5

      Sims 3s store content as a total is worth over $14,000 to buy everything "Sims 4 bad because kits" literally ignoring the fact sims 3 is over 100 times more expensive lol

    • @hellformichelle
      @hellformichelle 2 роки тому +3

      @@purplevoncreep9920 But the Sims 3 had so much base game content that you didn't have to buy any expansions at all and still had an enjoyable experience. The Sims 4 is a less enjoyable game even with several packs installed.
      That being said, the store was a cash grab and so are the buggy packs and kits they keep releasing

    • @purplevoncreep9920
      @purplevoncreep9920 2 роки тому

      @@hellformichelle the term cash brag is so overused its unreal, every expansion is made with the intention of making money regardless of how much you liked it thats game development lol

    • @p3rditious638
      @p3rditious638 2 роки тому +2

      @@hellformichelle Are you kidding? The Sims 3 base game had the content level equivalent of a Sims 4 game pack

    • @---pu7ke
      @---pu7ke 2 роки тому

      @@purplevoncreep9920 I actually don’t think it’s actually 100x more expensive. Maybe 25x if we include sims 3 store (which yes is ridiculous). I dont have all the sims 4 packs but have spent about $716 on sims 4 through the origin store. I will say, though, that sims 3 store aside (which is a crazy thing to include imo but it didn’t affect me much with jealousy), with just the expansion and stuff packs, sims 3 had wayyyy more content for similar price points. Also why sims 3 runs poorly because it’s just so much content.
      (I am an obsessed person who loves all the sims games, though.)

  • @sadshenanigans1403
    @sadshenanigans1403 2 роки тому +8

    I don't know when it happened but you have become one of my FAVORITE creators. Thank you for putting out so much content and making my day a little better.

  • @anti_acido
    @anti_acido 2 роки тому +9

    i feel funny watching this because i have pirated all my sims games since 2012
    i only recently legally purchased my first copy of the sims in a sale for like 5 USD
    (t'was but a symbolic gesture, for i am still playing the pirated version with all dlcs, with no forethought of ever stopping my decade-long sinful actions...)

  • @CornPops871
    @CornPops871 2 роки тому +11

    hell yeah LGR shoutout, Clint's the goat man

  • @pandapotatoess4538
    @pandapotatoess4538 2 роки тому +7

    “I put my whole SIMUSSY into that and-“ my first time hearing that joke to be used with the Sims lmao 😂

  • @cerulean_city_misty4659
    @cerulean_city_misty4659 2 роки тому +4

    Honestly I didn't start playing the sims until about 2 or 3 years ago and have only ever played the sims4 so it's really interesting to me to hear about all of the history behind the franchise like this

  • @ronnieromanov6240
    @ronnieromanov6240 2 роки тому +118

    Ive just lost 13 sims in a revolution so this is a nice break from chaos x

    • @iwakeupandboomimarat
      @iwakeupandboomimarat 2 роки тому +29

      gemma collins please elaborate

    • @hotcrunchycheeto
      @hotcrunchycheeto 2 роки тому +7

      What did you do, try an update the game?🤣

    • @ronnieromanov6240
      @ronnieromanov6240 2 роки тому +26

      @@hotcrunchycheeto no 13 were shot in my basement 😭

    • @ronnieromanov6240
      @ronnieromanov6240 2 роки тому +33

      @@iwakeupandboomimarat 13 were shot in my basement by a monk and that covers it i think 😭

    • @hotcrunchycheeto
      @hotcrunchycheeto 2 роки тому +9

      @@ronnieromanov6240 omg! Extreme violence mod?

  • @idanlevy9096
    @idanlevy9096 2 роки тому +14

    The 5-stars review is definitely written by the "creators" of That's Life. Definitely.

  • @oflilyandlotus7985
    @oflilyandlotus7985 2 роки тому +9

    he spent the majority of the game budget on that intro 😂 I felt like I was at the cinema

  • @itsbrooklynbabyyy
    @itsbrooklynbabyyy 2 роки тому +89

    Plumbella do you think you can make a video about the recent scandal that happened in the mods community? About how some creators still keep their content behind a paywall for months on end when it violates ea tou which stipulates content have to be released for free after 2-3weeks or so of being in early access. Simmer Erin covered it but none of the other creators do and I wonder why it’s super important for people to know especially that some of those creators were caught doxxing their patrons.

    • @mavymagdowney9798
      @mavymagdowney9798 2 роки тому +7

      that's such a bullshit rule. ea don't release their stuff for free after a couple weeks, and their prices are a lot more than a creator's patreon. if cc creators are making their own meshes, textures, etc. it should be their choice how they monetize it. can you explain the reasoning behind this rule?

    • @mavymagdowney9798
      @mavymagdowney9798 2 роки тому

      sorry i got a bit heated 😅 to be clear i'm mad at EA not you lol

    • @itsbrooklynbabyyy
      @itsbrooklynbabyyy 2 роки тому +35

      @@mavymagdowney9798 well to be fair if you make a product and people are using it to make or showcase their art are they profiting off of you or you of them ? If you’re not making money over it ? That’s what people don’t get at the end of the day the sims isn’t your platform. You have the right to do things for you in your own game but to use the game to make your money and you’re not giving ea a cut ? It’s actually a given that ea isn’t suing all of them tbh. The fact that ea allow the creators to keep the cut they make and to release it to the public for us to have it for free sounds like a lot of compromising to me.

    • @itsbrooklynbabyyy
      @itsbrooklynbabyyy 2 роки тому +14

      @@mavymagdowney9798 im not mad at you either hopefully my explanation was clear but at the end of the day everyone is using capitalism in one way or another to their advantage and some people are trying to hide it and be greedy and it shows.

    • @mavymagdowney9798
      @mavymagdowney9798 2 роки тому +2

      @@itsbrooklynbabyyy thanks for explaining :]

  • @lexibyday9504
    @lexibyday9504 2 роки тому +12

    I saw it in a store here in Autralia, it didn't get here until Sims2 was already out so I was instantly suspicious of it.

  • @theminisimmer
    @theminisimmer 2 роки тому +54

    I was wondering if you could show us a current household or something? Love your funny commentary and challanges but it's be refreshing to see something like that again.

  • @tallulahbrown5864
    @tallulahbrown5864 2 роки тому +11

    Scammed with spice is my new favourite quote

  • @nightsgrow6575
    @nightsgrow6575 2 роки тому +6

    The fact that I keep hearing the name as “that slag” and “that slag 2” feels very on brand for your channel somehow

  • @mitchelljakubka
    @mitchelljakubka 2 роки тому +6

    Love these "History Of" videos!! keep them coming!!

  • @johnalogue9832
    @johnalogue9832 2 роки тому +4

    Pre-installed software a user may not want is generally considered bloatware, not shovelware. Shovelware is all about selling in budget bins--to be easy to buy. Bloatware is about being inconvenient/difficult to *remove.*
    Though I will also say, Edge is actually just a technically superior browser based on Chrome (which has ironically become bloated adware). I use Firefox, but Edge is my second choice even if MS is a pain about it.

  • @hannahrebekahnash
    @hannahrebekahnash 2 роки тому +1

    Halfway through watching this video my lunar isle package arrived and now im sat here, watching the rest of the video in my new jumper with a lovely cup of tea in one of dadbella's mugs. Cozy is the word here.
    Thank you Jesse!! I bloody love ya hen

  • @Swatme101
    @Swatme101 2 роки тому +26

    I love going into this video fully knowing this is Plumbella’s #1 video 😂 so brave of her to revisit in this storytelling form

  • @4thofEleven
    @4thofEleven 2 роки тому +2

    I've still got a bit of nostalgia for these sorts of shovelware compilations of custom content for big games stolen from fan sites. Back when I was a kid with limited or no internet, it was the only way to get custom levels or items for games. I remember a friend had bought a disk with thousands of Doom and Duke Nukem levels, all just thrown onto a disk with no organization or logic to what was included, and we'd spent ages just playing them at random.

    • @gnu_andrew
      @gnu_andrew 3 місяці тому

      Me too. I picked up stuff from all over the place in the 90s, first on floppies then CD compilations. Things were much more localised. You can have something like this "That's Life" pack in Europe without US players even been aware of it, because there just wasn't the same thing of being constantly online.

  • @GuavaMarshmellow
    @GuavaMarshmellow 2 роки тому +3

    "Did you see what I did there? It's a scam."
    That was my favourite advert.

  • @LittleRecordGirl
    @LittleRecordGirl 2 роки тому +2

    I remember seeing it in the shops and wanting it so bad, but we were super poor and it was a big deal we even had the first Sims and use of my mum's then boyfriends PC.
    I wish there was an official way to play the original and its expansions as there's something about the OG Sims that just exudes this wonderful charm and nostalgia.

  • @belladramatic961
    @belladramatic961 2 роки тому +2

    Your description of having the family computer and no internet connection and thinking you can suss it out takes me back 😂😂😂 I’m 28 now with 3 younger sisters and we got our first family computer in 1997 and we had that same on for YEARS and I always thought I could be the one to suss this thing out but nope 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @xtxpxhx
    @xtxpxhx 2 роки тому +8

    Not to revive the beef simmers used to have with T$R, but allpaysitesmustbedestroyed

  • @pippacita
    @pippacita 2 роки тому +1

    whenever i hear of stuff like this i think about that illegal nintendo ds sd card that had hundreds of games in one and you could play so many „for free“ and you could just buy it like not many were really aware it was basically illegal

  • @tassaron
    @tassaron 2 роки тому +3

    I downloaded sooooo many items from the web back before Sims 2 came out. I'm pretty sure it was from TSR and 7 Deadly Sims. I had a cake that would fill the motives of everyone in the house anytime it was eaten, so I'd assign a child to constantly eat cake in a locked room then play without any challenge 😂

  • @zimternet
    @zimternet 2 роки тому

    on the topic of illegal sims expansions i vividly remember seeing an image of a bootleg sims 4 expansion that used someones ever after high x danganronpa crossover fanart as the cover art. i want to know so desperately what comes with that. its probably just like stolen princess-themed cc but still

  • @cursedbeasts9991
    @cursedbeasts9991 2 роки тому +5

    I had like 2 of these for sims 2 as well as borrowed one from a classmate in middle school that was themed around Harry Potter but came with Charmed and also adult mods for some reason. The cc quality on all 3 was kinda meh quality, I found better stuff when I got on the internet later on and found sims CC sites.

  • @planetbea
    @planetbea 2 роки тому

    that "do you see what i did there" advert aint stop me from doing shit!! 🤣

  • @kaitlynhutchinson4470
    @kaitlynhutchinson4470 2 роки тому

    AAAAH so excited for the iceberg video

  • @didip1000
    @didip1000 2 роки тому +62

    There is a Sims CC creator who hides stolen CC behind a paywall though!

    • @servetica
      @servetica 2 роки тому +21

      do you know who it is? i keep seeing posts ab it from cc creators on tumblr but nobody says who! i wanna know so i don’t accidentally download from them

    • @PeggingCryptids
      @PeggingCryptids 2 роки тому

      @@servetica Bergdorfverse, Cowbuild, Hermajestybuilds, Anto, Hel-Studio, or Busra TSR and some of them leak your info to doxxers. Be safe and don't pay for cc.

    • @wanderingegg_
      @wanderingegg_ 2 роки тому +2

      id like to know who it is too, if you know

    • @Michelle-yi1gh
      @Michelle-yi1gh 2 роки тому +16

      @@servetica I believe it may be LeoSims but there are quite a few that have been accused of stealing meshes from other CC creators and SecondLife. Apparently Cowbuild has been stealing meshes from furniture designers as well. There’s quite a few that are now mixed up in the Patreon doxxing scandal.

    • @DigitalDassie
      @DigitalDassie 2 роки тому

      @@Michelle-yi1gh I've noticed a bunch of people guilty of this. But I also suspect LeoSims, as I've noticed certain posts disappear. I suspect because the original creator contacted them about it. I don't have any proof beyond my own observation and conjecture though. There used to be a baby shower set that's disappeared...

  • @PunkGothEmoVampKid
    @PunkGothEmoVampKid 2 роки тому

    Another dug out of the memory bank ! Thank you !
    But while I was trying to find some gameplays of the game , just to do a little reminiscing , I think I know why it wasn't working for you . I came across someone saying that , " The program checks for the presence of 'The Sims 2' . If the game is not present then that is as far as you go " !

  • @uchihamarss
    @uchihamarss 2 роки тому

    you’re very good at these deep dive videos

  • @luv4tajhanb
    @luv4tajhanb 2 роки тому +1

    Aww yayyyy Plumbella loves LGR, too! I love when my faves support my other faves 💕

  • @alexeistates5591
    @alexeistates5591 2 роки тому +1

    i just noticed the heartstopper books in the background. IM SCREAMING

  • @erinkinsella91
    @erinkinsella91 2 роки тому +8

    yOu WoULdNt StEaL tHe SiMs

  • @ca_lcium
    @ca_lcium 2 роки тому +1

    I remember seeing That's Life 2 a lot in flea markets (I live in Europe as well) when I was around 6, Sims 2 had already come out some time ago so there was a lot of expansion packs of Sims 1 being sold for dirt cheap. I thought it was a Sims 2 EP 🤦‍♂

  • @deniellefervelle4041
    @deniellefervelle4041 2 роки тому

    I love your content, but this kind of video is truly the best for me !!

  • @dokida
    @dokida 2 роки тому +4

    video games and the internet in general was like the wild west... somehow shit like this would just fly for way too long LOL

  • @rach5233
    @rach5233 2 роки тому

    wow that amazon review is from only a few days after I was born, its crazy how long the sims has been around!!

  • @kellysueballard7654
    @kellysueballard7654 2 роки тому +2

    I got a Mandela Effect going on. I played Sims when it first came out, when I still lived with my family. I moved out on my own the day after graduation. The messed up thing is, I graduated in 1998. 😳

  • @TheRavensNest
    @TheRavensNest 2 роки тому

    The sound effect... So many delightful flashbacks!

  • @seanmacguire3324
    @seanmacguire3324 2 роки тому +1

    Just thought I’d say I’m a pin collector and I’ll b picking up the one you have but I would buy the fuckkkk out of these fanfiction stickers as pins. I adore them

  • @cflo1606
    @cflo1606 2 роки тому +6

    Please Plumbella I'm trying to do revision and you make a Sims video 😭😭😭 Now I wanna play the Simsss

  • @FangzV
    @FangzV 2 роки тому

    Sooo not that it takes a lot of detective work to figure out that the anonymous adverti-- *review* at 13:35 isn't legit, but I got curious and looked into it.
    That random P> in the review caught my eye. I assumed right off the bat that this was an html paragraph tag that got caught in a copy-paste. I went to see if I could find phrases from this in any kind of marketing copy or on the box, but I couldn't.
    But I *did* find the developer's website from the boxart on Moby Games. I took a dive with the wayback and I found a couple of their German announcement posts about the game (and the linked X-Media is a German company, so that explains why it was mostly found in Europe. Any of their English seems to be machine translated, so no wonder they couldn't go through the motions to establish much reach internationally).
    Not only does this review read with a very similar voice as the back of the English box, but their German advertising also emphasizing this idea of working hard to earn your items/money.
    Their site didn't last much longer after release. There was a brief period where it was replaced by the text of a German law (RVG) about lawyers' fees, but I'm not sure if that's related to any kind of legal repurcussions or just a fun coincidence from someone buying the domain.
    I couldn't find anything that more closely matched the text of this review. But I did find users on their site complaining that it didn't work lol. And maybe unofficial add-ons for other games?

  • @Sophiesaurus04
    @Sophiesaurus04 2 роки тому

    I am so excited for this iceberg!!

  • @dusklunistheumbreon
    @dusklunistheumbreon 2 роки тому +1

    Specifically, all that pre-downloaded stuff would be *bloatware,* not shovelware. As far as I'm aware, they're distinct terms (although they very much can overlap).
    But yeah. Kinda fuckin wild they got away with blatant violations of copyright law like this.

  • @skye24242
    @skye24242 2 роки тому +1

    thank you for existing lol you have alway made day 💗💗

  • @8bitmermaid
    @8bitmermaid 2 роки тому

    Have you considered doing a lore video on Morcucorp? Morcubus and his corporation was a major bad guy in my sims agents and they are brought up in bios of other sim main games

  • @RochelleWilliamsreads
    @RochelleWilliamsreads 2 роки тому

    I have this vivid memory of this website back in the oughts that I downloaded custom content from. I want to say it was something like Sleepy Hollow sims. They had midi music that played on the website, it might have been Grim Grinning Ghosts from the Haunted Mansion. They had really beautiful goth CC, a lot of it reproduced from movies or named after things from movies. Does anyone else remember that? Does anyone still have that CC that could do a video on it? Or just on OLD CC in general?

  • @ellionn
    @ellionn 2 роки тому

    Plumbella please talk about the drama with CC creators sharing their Patrons personal information my brain is too smooth to read through it all

  • @AlexaFaie
    @AlexaFaie 2 роки тому

    I've been playing the Sims since the first game and I never heard of or saw the That's Life packs anywhere. Granted I didn't actually know that The Sims had expansion packs until well after The Sims 2 came out at which point my Mum didn't want to get them for me as she thought it was making you buy the whole game over again, she didn't quite understand that it was adding extra content. It was hard enough to get The SIms 2 as a gift (and I didn't get pocket money so there was no ability to save up to get it myself). There was one singular game shop in my home town and it mostly sold stuff for consoles. Like we bought our CDi Player games there back in the 90s (Legend of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon is THE BEST and ONLY VALID Legend of Zelda game in the franchise because you actually play as Zelda not that wimpy whiny Link).
    I also did have my own computer, built it myself! The family got to use it, but it was very much mine. All the bits I could get in purple were purple (or beige and purple because it was the 90s when I built it so...). And we did have dial up but most of my time online was spent on Neopets so didn't really know there were forums for Sims stuff. It was still a much simpler time though.

  • @sachadanielle6596
    @sachadanielle6596 2 роки тому

    I remember downloading content for The Sims from every one of those sites mentioned. Oh the nostalgia 🤩

  • @cupofcait
    @cupofcait 2 роки тому +8

    That intro with the rolling clouds really gave me The Ring tape vibes lmao I was sitting here like 😳

    • @ireallylovecilantro
      @ireallylovecilantro 2 роки тому +4

      It looks like something an edgy hacker would make when someone installs a virus. 😆

    • @alwaysantoinette
      @alwaysantoinette 2 роки тому +1

      It’s definitely a creepy and loud intro lol

  • @starchaser1437
    @starchaser1437 2 роки тому +12

    "Don't buy illegal things"
    *looks at my 🍃 supply*
    👀

  • @planetexistentialism3825
    @planetexistentialism3825 2 роки тому +1

    the intro screen has me crying

  • @amb5972
    @amb5972 2 роки тому +22

    plumbella: “26th of november, 2019, rainy day, nothing ordinary happening -“
    me, who had their 19th birthday that day: 🥺💔

  • @sarahwillacker4135
    @sarahwillacker4135 2 роки тому +1

    Can't waaaaait for the Sims iceberg!!

  • @vindifference
    @vindifference 2 роки тому +1

    Internet Explorer was more the shovelware tbh. Edge is merely just another version of Chrome, and is therefore actually useable if you were forced to.

  • @roseseveryday3596
    @roseseveryday3596 2 роки тому

    Love it, love to hear it, your camera is shaking SO much though babe

  • @ahtijansson9283
    @ahtijansson9283 2 роки тому

    that media intro was like something from a ps1 game like a fighting or action platformer

  • @yazbee8736
    @yazbee8736 2 роки тому

    The jump of excitement I get every dang time babe

  • @jovialpunk
    @jovialpunk 2 роки тому

    "I put my whole sim-ussy-" absolutely took me out. Deceased.

  • @jennytimelord9689
    @jennytimelord9689 2 роки тому

    Jesse, babe, I hope you're out there living your best nonbinary life 💜 you always give me such nostalgia, talking about our special interest! I'm so mad I haven't played Sims 4 since the MWS debacle and this is making me want to figure out how to get these older versions on my game! I bet I could find the illegal packs too 🙃

  • @joslyndove
    @joslyndove 2 роки тому

    you said graft and i’m sorry now my brain is in love island

  • @relwalker6193
    @relwalker6193 2 роки тому

    Love you Plumbella !!

  • @iknownothing8829
    @iknownothing8829 2 роки тому

    Love the hair, Jesse! Very Narcissa-esque 😍✨

  • @thelostghoul5562
    @thelostghoul5562 2 роки тому

    Hell yeah still got my first original copy of that's life in original box back then you could say was hardcore player of the sims when I was younger remember my mum buying it for me in Woolworths shop which sadly no more in the uk for anyone out side the uk . I Remember when whsmith shop used sell pc games and was the old days when pc games came in big cardboard box before the days of dvd case. My mum got me the original Sims in WHSmith for £34.99 have still in the original pc box mint condition and Sims living it up in the original pc in the cardboard box .

  • @HardiSomal
    @HardiSomal 2 роки тому

    I love your dance moms references 😂😂🤣

  • @constantreader1422
    @constantreader1422 2 роки тому

    you saying "seven deadly sims" unlocked so many memories

  • @kaeldavies
    @kaeldavies 2 роки тому

    omfg in the background she has the heartstopper books?! akahskhskdjs

  • @vivalamew
    @vivalamew 2 роки тому +1

    I remember when those were in the stores! I also remember that even then it looked fishy lol

  • @kirstystebbings6959
    @kirstystebbings6959 2 роки тому

    the chances of watching this the morning of my graduation. in Middlesbrough too

  • @SailorYen89
    @SailorYen89 Рік тому

    I remember buying mine in GAME, it was definitely in stores.

  • @dalles14
    @dalles14 2 роки тому

    Amiga, eu sou brasileiro eu acompanho seus vídeos por muitos anos, provavelmente vc não vai entender nada, do que eu to falando, mas eu esperei demais por esse vídeo. Brasil te ama amoreh, please come to Brazil