*grabs pom pom*
go dev team go!
so here is how i look at this situation.
You can be reactive, or proactive. You may say that there are cheerleaders, what is wrong with that? Yes we are "paying" the dev team. But we are also paying to play the game that already exists, they are just adding on to it. And custom content was pretty much invented by maxis. The Sims was one of the first (correct me if im wrong) if not, than the most popular custom content machine when it came out.
It was only a matter of time until the online version got on board. So what if the competition had done it first. So does There.com and other various online games. EALand is just catching up, which is smart in the marketing persepective..to be competitive to competition.
Ive always been a chearleader and tried to get people to see the bright side. But i have also gone on Wiki and created a few ideas of my own. The wiki site is brilliant, I dont know if second life has that kind of site (probably dont need to since the players already create the game inside itself) but i think tehy are doing a great job.
On the note about cheerleaders not using logic, well most complainers dont either. If you dont want to pay during beta, dont make a post about it, just play for free and leave it at that. There is no logic in EA making EALand a completely free game during beta, it just doesnt have any logic, they need money and we are paying for the game not only for now, but for its future.