The Sims 4 Maker Sets are already starting to sail the seven seas.
It’s only been 72 hours until the pirate community took the matter into their own hands and cracked The Sims 4 Marketplace.
What’s been known in The Sims 3 Store world as a “decrapified” package Store set is now also possible in the world of The Sims 4 Marketplace. We’re talking, of course, about illegally obtained versions of the Microtransaction sets.
Let’s see what this means for The Sims 4 Marketplace:
The Sims 4 Marketplace Is Cracked
Just two hours ago an announcement has been posted on a, what appears to be, a reputable Discord server. For legal reasons we won’t be linking any direct sources to this server, but we can show you what they’ve said about cracking up the Marketplace. Spoiler alert – not everything is available right away. And the person who did The Marketplace crack is asking for donations to release the entire thing – “because I invested around $100USD in cracking the full marketplace” they’ve stated.
Read the full message below:
I’ve been locked in for the last 72 hours, and I have some huge news: I’ve officially cracked the new Sims 4 Marketplace update. My goal is to make this content accessible to everyone eventually, but to keep this project sustainable, I’ve decided on a new release model that benefits the whole community:
THE WEEKLY DROPS
Starting now, I will release one free Marketplace kit every Thursday (between 16:00 and 18:00 CLT / GMT-3).
Why Thursday? So you can have everything ready and tested just in time for the weekend!
COMMUNITY QUEST: GLOBAL UNLOCK!
I know many of you want everything NOW —and that’s totally okay. That’s why I’m setting a Community Goal (because i invested around $100 USD in cracking the full marketplace):
I will release the FULL Marketplace for FREE immediately. No more waiting, no more weekly drops. Once the goal is met, the gates open for everyone, regardless of the day!
The first Marketplace Set that has been distributed out into the illegal streets is The Sims 4 Snazzy Living Room Set. “Fully cracked, tested, and ready for your game!” says the new Discord message. Providing a download link to a cracked .package file of the Set, possibly installing the same way as the decrapified sets for The Sims 3 Store.
EA currently hasn’t made any statements about the cracked versions of The Marketplace content for The Sims 4.
It was speculated in an Insider Rumor article last month that EA is “cracking down on piracy” with the attempts of releasing The Marketplace. But it took players less than a week to figure out how to distribute paid, Moola-exclusive content out for free. Illegally of course, which is why we don’t condone any of what was written about here.
I’ll leave this article with a quote from the great American poet and philosopher Sabrina Carpenter who stated the following:
Somewhere in the world, you got a robber and a bank And the bank robbed the people, so the people rob the bank And the police came to get him, but they let him get away ‘Cause they’re all just working to get paid the very same
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Lol, thank you for sharing about my accomplishment on the marketplace!
One of my discord users made me knew about this! i loved the poem at the end of your article!
I made myself a poem that i tought it would be awesome to share with you!
Digital Culture was born to be shared,
but the big companies locked it away.
Piracy is just the human gesture
of ensuring that culture remains accessible to everyone,
and not only to those who can afford the luxury of paying.
And honestly, already having to spend $1.500 USD for a game that breaks all your mods and save files (that you had from years) is honestly such a stealth… and now you want us to spend $100 USD more in future furniture and CAS objects?
You’ve fallen deep down EA…
Deep deep down…
WorstEnemy
2 hours ago
keep crying lmao
Bugfixes
2 hours ago
I don’t want anything from the marketplace, even for free, but I suppose it’s nice for some. Next week’s patch and I’m out, already have all DLC, going offline, no more shitshow for me.
sebastian
2 hours ago
gj
Eggy
1 hour ago
YARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
Mscrestlativity
1 hour ago
I think this is wrong.If this was company fine!Your also robbing from the creators who worked on these sets.So your not just hurting Ea.Your hurting cc creators themselves.
Yes,I am for real.The cc creators created this content and get paid by revenue.Putting there work out its not just punishing ea.Its punishing the creators too.
also almost no CC creators make a career out of it. many of them, even the big ones, have stated that they barely make anything out of it and that they have normal jobs in their lives too. i doubt the marketplace would give them the money to turn to CC-making full time. these sets are being sold for 2 to 5 dollars.
The argument is probably that they took part and enabled the marketplace. There are plenty of excellent creators who haven’t taken part and you can pay them directly. Infact the deal is better for them and you if you just go to their Patreon and subscribe to them. The marketplace does both the user and custom creators a disservice.
Yes and no. Because cc creators have been able to monetize their creations (in a much fairer way in terms of the amounts they receive, even) for many years now. Those who joined The Sims 4 Marketplace were already earning money for their creations through Patreon. But even so, they chose to join a company that, in addition to being greedy, is now governed by people and institutions that go against everything that most gamers stand for.
The person who is robbing them the most is EA itself. They take 70% of what is payed. Meaning for the 200 moola things, a creator only gets 0.60USD PLUS they can not release these sets anywhere else, like their patreon, where they would actually get a semi-livable contribution for their hard work.
So, taking this in good faith as someone who may actually be genuinely upset at the thought of creators being robbed blind, direct that anger at EA first and then go support the creators you like via other means because they will gain a lot more then they’d lose from this.
Mjrtt
46 minutes ago
Jovan you’re doing a great job giving us this good tea
Tracey
39 minutes ago
Market place needs to go, am not suprised someone decided to crack it.
Kiara
25 minutes ago
Its just not cool to take money from creators just because you hate change
UkrBabe
9 minutes ago
Pirates, you’re disgusting. You’re just stealing someone else’s work and trying to romanticize your crime. But in reality, you’re just thieves. If EA is an evil corporation, then be honest with yourselves and just stop using their product what’s the problem? You’re just pathetic.
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This entire marketplace situation is genuinely HILARIOUS. All the time and money they spent on greed and it’s all for nothing, love to see it
lol! Good
i dont think even if EA paid me to get marketplace sets i’d get them lmao
Hey! it’s me!
Lol, thank you for sharing about my accomplishment on the marketplace!
One of my discord users made me knew about this! i loved the poem at the end of your article!
I made myself a poem that i tought it would be awesome to share with you!
And honestly, already having to spend $1.500 USD for a game that breaks all your mods and save files (that you had from years) is honestly such a stealth… and now you want us to spend $100 USD more in future furniture and CAS objects?
You’ve fallen deep down EA…
Deep deep down…
keep crying lmao
I don’t want anything from the marketplace, even for free, but I suppose it’s nice for some. Next week’s patch and I’m out, already have all DLC, going offline, no more shitshow for me.
gj
YARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
I think this is wrong.If this was company fine!Your also robbing from the creators who worked on these sets.So your not just hurting Ea.Your hurting cc creators themselves.
Are you for real?
Yes,I am for real.The cc creators created this content and get paid by revenue.Putting there work out its not just punishing ea.Its punishing the creators too.
these creators have patreons that people pay for lmao. like oh no poor sixamcc, one of the most prolific sims 4 cc creators in the entire fandom :(((
Thats not my point.The point is your still robbing from them.
also almost no CC creators make a career out of it. many of them, even the big ones, have stated that they barely make anything out of it and that they have normal jobs in their lives too. i doubt the marketplace would give them the money to turn to CC-making full time. these sets are being sold for 2 to 5 dollars.
Thats not my point ,your still stealing from them.They work on thses sets.So your not just punishing Ea.Your punishing them too.
The argument is probably that they took part and enabled the marketplace. There are plenty of excellent creators who haven’t taken part and you can pay them directly. Infact the deal is better for them and you if you just go to their Patreon and subscribe to them. The marketplace does both the user and custom creators a disservice.
Yes and no. Because cc creators have been able to monetize their creations (in a much fairer way in terms of the amounts they receive, even) for many years now. Those who joined The Sims 4 Marketplace were already earning money for their creations through Patreon. But even so, they chose to join a company that, in addition to being greedy, is now governed by people and institutions that go against everything that most gamers stand for.
The person who is robbing them the most is EA itself. They take 70% of what is payed. Meaning for the 200 moola things, a creator only gets 0.60USD PLUS they can not release these sets anywhere else, like their patreon, where they would actually get a semi-livable contribution for their hard work.
So, taking this in good faith as someone who may actually be genuinely upset at the thought of creators being robbed blind, direct that anger at EA first and then go support the creators you like via other means because they will gain a lot more then they’d lose from this.
Jovan you’re doing a great job giving us this good tea
Market place needs to go, am not suprised someone decided to crack it.
Its just not cool to take money from creators just because you hate change
Pirates, you’re disgusting. You’re just stealing someone else’s work and trying to romanticize your crime. But in reality, you’re just thieves. If EA is an evil corporation, then be honest with yourselves and just stop using their product what’s the problem? You’re just pathetic.