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This may not be a popular opinion but here goes, "All Free Players should be NEW Accounts-Not Subscribers". I am hoping that EA will not allow history (Bad History) to repeat itself and allow subscribing accounts to continue to use and abuse Free Accounts. I have read many posting on here regarding "free accounts" coming into a house and literally trashing it out by not cleaning dishes, eating food, clogging toilets, and not speaking,(the ppl I have meet from other countries do speak). This all sounds too familiar to the "Tagging" of the old days. The people in the forum who reported these things said, "I don't want to even open my house." wasn't that the purpose of "Tagging" to get you to close up. I have also heard numerous people in game state that they are being harrassed constantly be free accounts or 0-10 day accounts coming in to their houses calling them vulgar names. (ik use the filter but then only your guest will know what you are being called!) Again these ppl report that they are not opening their houses! And some have or are on the verge of quitting the game. The point is this is old, old, old and has no place in the new world. <As I see it, even if you have just one paid account you have 8 avatars to choose from. When all accounts go through the process of amnesty I can not image that anyone will want to delete an account and loose locks.("Good Job")> So take away their last weapon, being anonymous is powerful to cowards, let them put their subscribing "Premium Accounts" on the line, let their be consequences to their actions. And let the people who play this game for fun and friendship ultimately set the course of its future. Because we know the future of where "the Cowards" will take us, back to empty cities.
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Have you actually yourself had personal exprience of this? Because reading between the lines of your post, you are just quoting 'what other people say'.
I love the free players, I built a welcome house especially for them, and im having the best time with it.
I love this line from your post
"I have read many posting on here regarding "free accounts" coming into a house and literally trashing it out by not cleaning dishes, eating food, clogging toilets, and not speaking"
Trashing a house by eating food, not cleaning plates, clogging toilets and NOT speaking??? Get real, please, skill houses are full of em, and they aint free players.
As i said, its mostly free players that visit me and guess what, most of them pick up their plates, even though i tell them not to bother. I pay the maid to do that, I dont expect my visitors to do it.
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I think you misunderstood the post. She was stating that people who already have paid accounts and who are also using free accounts isn't right and I have to agree with her. I believe those free accounts were meant for players who didn't have any account at all.
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I have to admit I found this comment from the original post a bit confusing "This may not be a popular opinion but here goes, "All Free Players should be NEW Accounts-Not Subscribers".
Does anyone seriously believe that subscribers should NOT be allowed to open free accounts? If EA made that a rule then there would be a major outcry from paying players. I have 6 paid accounts, and when free accounts became available I made about 10 free accounts, although I actually only use 1 of them to keep a store open with, so that my paid accounts can be out and about making money to subsidise my welcome house.
I would be very unhappy having shelled out $60 a month to be told I cant have free accounts as well, when someone else paying nothing to play can get as many free accounts as they wish.
What EA need to do is limit the number of free accounts that any one person can have, but how they would actually do that, without tracing IP addresses of each account is beyond me and probably beyond EA.
There have always been troublesome players in the game, both free and paid, and there always will be. You have to chill out a bit and learn to live with it.
I know that by opening a house for free accounts , that I have set myself up for some problems, but I can ban and ignore the worst ones. 2 roomies I took on this week spring to mind, 1 of them decided it was fun to kick all the visitors and the other was a complete nightmare when she visited other houses. I just kicked and banned both of them, but no doubt they will be back with another sim at some point. Its all part of the fun of the game