in my opinion only EA who owns the rights to the Sims series should profit from any CC they own it inless turbo and the others are paying ea royalties which I doubt
This whole thing lives in a grey area; I'm fairly certain it's an exploitation of a loophole, their EULA not expressly, specifically prohibiting the "paid early access to publicly released mods", and EA is begrudgingly allowing it because it IS generating interest in the game & revenue, just not 100% for them. Begrudgingly allowing it by not slamming the loophole shut with a EULA update in one of their patches, at least yet. But on that note, if they officially charge them royalties, they're also essentially officially endorsing it & giving it much more permanence, making it harder to shut it down whenever they need or want to.
Given the content of these mods it's a fucking PR nuke for them to officially endorse it in any way. Us as players, mod devs like Turbo, EA, we're all kind of lucky this shit hasn't gone viral & triggered the internet outrage culture; it'd be fucking over & done with. That's primarily IMO why they want the instant cutoff switch to remain an option & for all of this to stay in this grey area. Considering all that, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if there were some backdoor "unofficial" monetary arrangements with the bigger ones like Turbo, Deaderpool, Oniki, etc.
100% opinion & pure guesswork & speculation on my part. Please don't break my legs guys.