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spir-8385	Deller, Ruth	'More Awesome than Electronic Arts': resistance and appropriation in The Sims gaming communities	2013.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1525	82	64	Sims communities and players can be find on almost all blogging, forum and social media platforms – and appropriation and resistance form a key part of many gamers’ experiences, from their use of game mods and custom content, to the way they discuss the EA/Maxis created characters, worlds and scenarios and appropriate (or resist) these in their own gameplay, world building and story creation. The act of paid creation is controversial and some sites recirculate this content for free, arguing that charging for custom content contravenes the EA terms of service forbidding users to profit from EA content, as the items are based on EA meshes.	cache/spir-8385.pdf	txt/spir-8385.txt