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Good grief, I feel like I must have had my sense of 'humor' surgically removed or something, ffs. Am I the only one that sees this as just a little bit short-sighted and mean?
How quickly would you subscribe to a game if you were snubbed by players who are obviously the ones that know the ropes best and have been there the longest? We *need* these newbies, even the ditzy ones, for the survival of this game! I've spent alot of time in TC3 recently, which obviously mostly has newbies as its' constant and consistent players, and in that time I've met dozens to 50+ newbies at least, and can literally count on one hand the ones that have been 'nerve grinding'.....the others are either eager to learn and catch on fast, are a little bit slow and need just an extra bit of patience, or don't have English as their first language so need just a little bit MORE patience but yet still aren't idiots so that if you can manage to cobble enough words together in their language, accompanied by the ones they know from English, before you know it they are on the path to understanding and then they are SO grateful that somebody took the time to explain things a little further rather than passing them off as illiterate dumbasses. Just last night I had an attack of insomnia and this morning met a sim each from Portuguese, Vietnam, Hungary, and one even from Czechoslovakia! I don't remember ever meeting as many people from such a wide range of foreign countries, and certainly not all in one evening. Only one of those knew such little English that she could *not* communicate other than 'need food please' type of requests, and 'can't speak English' when she received PMs from people, and I felt bad that I didn't know anything other than babblefish that could come close to helping me communicate.
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I mainly play in Ea Land abd have a store that I go to most of the time. Just this week I havehad all kinds but the worst one was and i'm guessing at the age but i'd have to say early teens. This girl ask me for a loan and I told her no becasue I needed my money. She then said "well wat u need it for?" I told her I needed it for food and repairs. I was also playing my husbands sim at the time and she went and got nekkid and stood in front of him. I didn't say another word to her. The last 2 nights have been bad as well since they come it accompanied by 5 or 6 others and around like kids out for recess. I play to RELAX, not entertain the kids. Oh, I almost forgot, thier language was just disgusting and would have been rated X.
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Those are sims that I too would ban whether they are free or premium, based on that kind of behavior. Nobody's saying, at least I'm not, that you oughtta have to put up with behavior that you find abhorrant from ANY sim, free or premium, but you didn't know how those sims were going to act *before* you came in contact with you, and I don't think it's OK to say that *all* free accounts are going to behave like this, because that just hasn't been my experience. When I meet a jerk, they are a jerk, and I don't much care what kind of account they are on.....likewise for the nice guys. If they are kind, polite, and respectful then insofar as my willingness to do whatever I can to make them feel welcome, whether or not EA is getting any money from them is really not any of my concern. Another thought that comes to mind, is that the institution of such a broad-scale banning seems like it would necessitate being able to view at a glance which accounts are paid and which ones are free, which again I don't think is anybody else's business. There's enough 'lines in the sand' between us vs. them, and this is a time for us to come together as a community, not be separated by economic lines like this. There's far too many negatives with only one potential positive....the saving of 2 seconds that it will take you to b/b/i any player that becomes rude in a manner that you find unacceptable.
