The Sims Team has updated their policy for Mods/CC to allow early access as long as the time frame is “reasonable”. There is again, a lot of grey area here with this as some creators may stretch early access to being MONTHS early, and claim as “reasonable”.
Some simmers are even speculating that the initial answer from EA support that early access to mods/cc is NOT allowed was possibly reversed due to backlash.
What do you think?
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