TheSims.ea.com Exchange Rip

 

Despite EA's big talk about player creation and their love of using their fan's creativity to sell their games, they don't seem to actually respect our creations very much, do they? Not that every story, piece of custom content, and mod is a work of art but you'd think they'd at least not mass delete thousands of creations without allowing us get them first... or you know, archive them with Archive.org.

 

 

 

 

 

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Fortunately, despite their best attempts to make us forget that every sims game except their newest projects exist by wiping the official sites from the internet, Wayback Machine did have some of the content from the story exchange. While it wasn't able to grab custom content from the exchange due to how the older exchanges worked it seems to have gotten several stories. It rarely had full stories )and all the pictures need to correctly display them) but it grabbed bits and pieces.

Another issue is that WBM's archives are a bitch to navigate and often archive content that you literally cannot get to due to errors. However, using a terminal program I've scraped all content that can be found on TheSims.ea.com. I found lots of interesting things but one of my favorite discoveries was that Archive.org had automatically divided all the exchange stories and photos that it had by user!

That's right, if you had an account with TheSims.ea.com before it was shutdown I might have some of your stories. It's going to take a while to compile all the content but I'll make it available on a subpage. In the meantime, I've chosen some photos from exchange stories that I think are interesting which you can see below!