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AJroxs18
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Why do you think our opinions, feedback, and overall pleas for the Sims 4 are ignored and not acknowledged? Why do you think EA doesn't listen to us?
Honestly it's kind of disappointing to me to see all of these family players, storywriters, and just regular gamers being ignored and even punished for voicing their opinions and suggestions on here.
The forums are for communicating with other players, asking about bugs/issues, and most importantly asking EA for content to better our gameplay. Yeah, I know, this sounds needy, but all we really want is to better this game, right? We all want the best for this game, and I'm sure none of us want it to fail or die off. We want the game to be entertaining and better for ourselves. By listening to us, EA can make The Sims 4 become a great game, just like all three past installments.
So I really hope that after Get Together is released that the Sims team and EA get their stuff together and listen to us. Just a little bit? At the least? Maybe? Because if they do, they just might make the Sims 4 even better, because in my eyes, it has some really great content. Oh yeah, and a better game means more money for them, right? So it's a win-win, EA gets money and we get a great game. Tell me what you think
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Honestly it's kind of disappointing to me to see all of these family players, storywriters, and just regular gamers being ignored and even punished for voicing their opinions and suggestions on here.
The forums are for communicating with other players, asking about bugs/issues, and most importantly asking EA for content to better our gameplay. Yeah, I know, this sounds needy, but all we really want is to better this game, right? We all want the best for this game, and I'm sure none of us want it to fail or die off. We want the game to be entertaining and better for ourselves. By listening to us, EA can make The Sims 4 become a great game, just like all three past installments.
So I really hope that after Get Together is released that the Sims team and EA get their stuff together and listen to us. Just a little bit? At the least? Maybe? Because if they do, they just might make the Sims 4 even better, because in my eyes, it has some really great content. Oh yeah, and a better game means more money for them, right? So it's a win-win, EA gets money and we get a great game. Tell me what you think
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I think there are too many people expecting instant results when development of some features can take years.
We are being ignored. They could at least acknowledge us and say "We are working on _________!". Instead we are met with absolutely no word on anything.
What feedback should they listen to?
From which group of players?
Why that group of players?
What makes their feedback any more important than anybody else's?
Why should they appease anybody?
Why do you believe this?
Do you realise what a mess of a game we would have if they listened to everyone? We would have a more sandbox...more goal driven game...without goals....but with goals...that has adjustable everything....or adjustable nothing....that's better for the family players/builders/storytellers/general gamers. It might even be worse for all those groups. More like The Sims, The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 combined....but less like them too.
They can't listen to everyone. They can't please everyone. Perhaps they should just do what they do and design and build a game, and we should decide if we like it or not when we buy it, if we buy it. We're not their bosses.
What feedback should they listen to? From which group of players? Why that group of players?
The players feedback in the feedback section! Because they are the hardcore players who have reasons and aren't just plum-ing on Twitter!
What makes their feedback any more important than anybody else's?
It's the general public's feedback, what most people say! Theirs is most important
Why should they appease anybody?
Because we bough the game and should get what we ask for in the game.
'Most' people who play the game don't use the forums. It's probably more of a minority. What's wrong with everyone else's feedback? (and it gets posted everywhere, all over the internet). It's one person's opinion usually, each thread, of which there is a few thousand threads (slight underestimation), at last glance. It's not feasible to add in everyone's ideas, thoughts and feedback.
Exactly so you take a main site (whether that be the forums, Twitter, or otherwise), see what they mostly want, and go from there, and create those things! Obviously, right now, it would be toddlers, and a Generations EP!
I totally agree, and wouldn't even call hiding everything from the fans a "marketing style", just them not being smart at all with the way they are handling their game.
I completely understand but maybe just if someone said "We're not doing this yet because..." or give a reason.
If they had stuck to what has worked all these years, then we would have had a wonderful Sims 4 game. Instead they wanted to push their "vision" on all players, and if we didn't fit the mold that they wanted then we don't count. The Sims have never been linear or goal heavy in play. Yet this is the road they took this time. The Sims has always been a life simulator. This time around it's more of the single party life simulator. And there is hardly no sandbox at all.
If they had listened to us then all of what made the previous games so awesome would still be included, and no matter what your style of play is (family style, legacy, story telling, house building, or single life, etc.) it would have been all inclusive. If you don't like playing with toddlers then just age them up like in previous games. That option has been taken away from us. If you like being creative coloring a whole living room in purple polka dots and yellow picture frames, you could do that with CASt. But they even took the ability of unlimited creativity away.
I'm veering away from the topic. The fact is - at least to me - they have been ignoring us since the birth of Olympus, later changed to Sims 4.
You make a really good point and I hope I didn't upset you... I'm aware they can't please everyone but just to acknowledge or say why they can or cannot do this or that, would be nice.
You are completely right and I should rephrase "ignore" somehow... Thanks for your thoughts
Very possible. Also, thank you for your input above, it's completely true and what I *tried* to say my original post.
I don't know what that means for the future of TS4. I am sympathetic to the fact that they have issues to deal with and that they can't just add things overnight. However, none of that saves the game for me as it is now at this moment. I think that they're listening, and I think that they know what fans want, but I don't know that I think that they're going to do much with that knowledge. It'll be business as usual, lots of expansions, and some random stuff to throw on top. But, I think that after a year it's becoming obvious that there won't be any big changes to the game's core experience.
Back in Sims 1 days, as well as Sims 2, when you would by an EP there would be a little brochure in there announcing the next EP. And you could get on the forums and ask questions about the up coming one. They would share with us little bits and pictures. It was awesome! I really miss those days.
As @GoldenBuffy said above
The way I see it is, there was a plan before TS4, the so called 'vision' as they call it, but really it was a plan. This plan was to reuse some of the pre developed content and animations from the Olympus days of development and this content was going to be released as EPs, GPs or SPs first and despite the fact that content might not be what players want, that was the route that was being taken.
I could be wrong of course but I am feeling like a lot of content is literally being recycled and that is possibly why players who want something else are being 'ignored' as what they want does not fit in with the plan
I think your theory is right, as do the other 5 likers before me. So thank you for your input
OP is the 'original poster' thus the person who started the thread. Must be an old internet term by now
and then it's given with a song and a dance and a smile and with a straight face because they don't think you're smart enough to realize you've just been given a re-gifted package.
but... never forget... you rule.
Like the fruitcake nobody wants?
I keep trying with Sims 4 but with so much missing that should have been in from the start I am finding it hard to enjoy
Sometimes your creativity is limited where you use it most, but you can use those limitations to inspire new forms of creativity you may never have thought of beforehand.