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Mine stayed size 8, but that was 6 weeks ago---
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See, this is what I think it is. Those who have sizes 2 and above get grandfathered in once they become free accounts and get to keep their lots. However, newly free account wouldnt be able to do it. However, I wonder how taht would affect trading deeds.
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They should automatically change to a size 1. Might be a bug.
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IMO, I think that if they were a paying account and went to a free account but had a size 8 lot, they should be able to keep it. They paid money to upgrade the lot, no need to punish them further because they decidedto go free.
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Key word in your post bolded. If a person DECIDES to go free, then IMO they should be prepared to accept the consequences that go along with withdrawing their financial support to the game? Why do I feel this way? Because if this isn't a bug and this is the way things are supposed to be, then I see a bunch of people getting free accounts, making them premium for a month and then cancelling when they've got the lot up to the size they want it. Those who want to run a skill or money house could not exploit the system this way, sure but those who wanted to do service lots or stores sure could, and that would not be fair to all of us that have supported the game on an extended basis.
To that end I think the only ones who should be 'grandfathered' in this way as somebody else put it is someone who has 6 months or 1 year entitlement days on their account. That will weed out the ones who are just paying premium for a month to be able to keep those advantages when they go back to free, the same as I saw people doing when we had the bug that allowed free players to play with 3 of the sims they created in each city while they were premium instead of the way it is now fixed where you can only access 1 sim per city. There's got to be enough benefit to becoming premium and *staying* premium over being free to keep people paying and playing....over and over it's been proven that very few will keep supporting the game just for the sake of suppporting it.