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Hi Simmers,
We've split some posts from the Hello From Your New Community Manager! thread with SimGuruKate. Many posts had some feedback/asked questions for @SimGuruKate and we felt they were too important to not have their own space. So please use this thread to continue that conversation.
We've split some posts from the Hello From Your New Community Manager! thread with SimGuruKate. Many posts had some feedback/asked questions for @SimGuruKate and we felt they were too important to not have their own space. So please use this thread to continue that conversation.
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Either way congrats on the new job! hoping to see a turn around for the better.
Agreed about the Ideas Corner.
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> I am so looking forward to working together with the Development Team to bring a deeper level of communication and excitement to The Sims 4. We have some amazing things coming this year and I cant wait for you to experience it all. The The Sims 4 is far from over, there are still so many more stories to tell.
First of all, Congrats!!!
Then hopefully you will change the way EA and the Sims communicate with the gamers and push more information to the net. So a weekly report would be the best way to do.
Till then Dag Dag!
Even if we just get the quarterly teasers back that will be a big improvement. I'm hoping to see one in July.
That was a thoughtful post, and I came in here after the mess in the autumn of 2014 that gave rise to the restrictions, but I learned quickly after joining and by way of a refresher, those restrictions were implemented not so much because of spam as it was trolls Persons with precious little to do with their time than to open accounts and post as much harassing and downright objectionable material, signatures, avatars as they possibly could, knowing that a fair share of the population would see their rubbish well before administrators had a chance to delete the posts. So by putting the restrictions in place, the administrators at the time made it difficult for the trolls to get the instant gratification they craved.
Indeed it did not do away with trolling completely but the more twisted of the bunch were not patient enough to go through the restrictive "New Member" stage and went on to disrupt some other place where one could open an account and be a menace right away.
I do have some questions regarding TS3, however. In your thread opening message, you mention to be the new Community manager, to then specify for TS4. What will happen with TS3? Whenever any of us ask EA support about it, we get the same lines that new development could happen any time now, and, at the release of 1.69, some sources mentioned one last Stuff Pack and one last Expansion Pack were to come, but there hasn’t been anything released since, with the exception of the CAW update. All this despite some issues having remained unfixed literally for years now, and some recent bugs with thesims3.com haven’t been addressed, even with your periodical maintenance downtimes. It really looks like EA is just trying to patch the major issues with the store but won’t touch anything else, resulting in problems like: Weekly deals being frozen for two years now, The Exchange Featured Item being frozen for over a year (after having unfrozen once during a maintenance), and many items that were supposed to soon be eligible for the CYS loyalty discount have yet to be eligible. For having a lot of relatives working IT, I know that everything I just mentioned could be fixed by a single person in a matter of two or three hours, which tends to support that EA has no intention on fixing it. However, hundreds of new TS3 copies are sold every weeks on eBay and Amazon, and, last time I chitchatted with the manager of my local EB Games store, he was positive about selling a lot more of TS3 games (Base, EP and SP combined) than TS4 (again, everything combined). Regarding thesims3.com online store, tons and tons of content exist, and could be rereleased, for people like me that missed some. That wouldn’t involve any development at all. Yet, again, nothing is done.
I know, Maxis made the business decision to focus on TS4, but both titles can coexist.
So, will thesims3.com be fixed soon? Or will EA officially discontinue TS3?
Thanks for your time.
My Traits: Socially Awkward / Artistic / Family Oriented / Hopelessly Romantic / Absent Minded
Academic Trait: Adventurous
Social Group Trait (Should I ever become "Nerd" enough): Computer Whiz
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“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.” Will Wright
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." Cpt. Edward A. Murphy Jr, USAF
So the game has all the same things as the Sims 4 has and the playing style is same BUT!, there could be included first person playing style.
- First person playing is where you could move your sim freely with movement buttons like ASDW or with controller.
as first person you can interact with objects and other sims freely as your self.
like if you want to paint, you can actually paint it yourself manually.
also VR could be included perhaps?
of course if you have other Sims you have made. you can jump to another Sim to control Him/Her.
Remember that you still can play the game as the same way you can play the Sims 4, so you can jump in to the first person and Sims 4 style.
So tell me if you like the idea or do you hate it? what would you like to have included?
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My Traits: Socially Awkward / Artistic / Family Oriented / Hopelessly Romantic / Absent Minded
Academic Trait: Adventurous
Social Group Trait (Should I ever become "Nerd" enough): Computer Whiz
______
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.” Will Wright
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." Cpt. Edward A. Murphy Jr, USAF
* owning everything in a set doesn't translate in owning the set
* gifting something to someone is a fail most of the time, and we do not even have an error message when our gift wasn't received at the other end. It's jarring to receive thoughtful gifts messages with no gifts attached and we can't even reply to the gifter to let them be aware it failed. Please add a clear error message so the gifter can know!
These two bugs don't even translate in any change in policy regarding CYS or content; there is no strategic decision to be made, it only need to be fixed.
"If you build it, they will come." - Movie: Field of Dreams
She's got an EP coming out to support communication for and EA Play coming up. There was a long weekend. She posted on Twitter that today is Report Day so she wouldn't be online much. There's not been this one bit of communication, but this isn't the only thing on her plate communication-wise.
Then, maybe they should have put off posting this until after EA Play?
"If you build it, they will come." - Movie: Field of Dreams
I dont want it to seem like I am just being a hater or critical of a product because I dont respect the work that goes into it. I have been a consumer of EA for nearly 30yrs. The EA logo when it popped on said "challenge everything" was classic then your game theme music would start and you would get excited. I no longer feel that way. I want this game to be great. I want to look forward to dropping 50 bucks on an expansion or new title. The fan base is hungry and wants to be fed and not fast food games. We want the meat and potatoes with the veggies that we grew up on.
So in short you dont have to be bad. You know how to be sucessful so please be so. Dont just think we will continue to plop money down for a product that simply doesnt make us excited about the games we once loved.
That was so well said! First of all, that's basically one of the reasons I stuck to TS3 and never played TS4. I even still have a play-for-free-for-48h version of TS4 that I never downloaded and activated in my Origin account. Second, we have a similar problem with TS3. They kept coming out with new store content nonstop for years, while plenty were extremely buggy (like "Dirty No More"), yet they never even fixed any bugs even from the very first expansion that came out. Then, all in a sudden, they stopped all together to focus on TS4. It’s all a little like overwritting an essay, never rereading nor checking grammar, and then hand it in while you were in the middle of a sentence. Even if it has the potential for a Nobel prize, it will be incomplete and likely filled with typos and grammar mistakes. “My cats likkes sumthing that barks but I forgot how its called. Thiss something need walking. The end.”
However, most recent Maxis games are like that: unfinished work in progress with great potential (latest Sim City for example).
My Traits: Socially Awkward / Artistic / Family Oriented / Hopelessly Romantic / Absent Minded
Academic Trait: Adventurous
Social Group Trait (Should I ever become "Nerd" enough): Computer Whiz
______
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.” Will Wright
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." Cpt. Edward A. Murphy Jr, USAF
Add Manage Neighbourhood Options - assign your own Sim to NPC jobs!
The Problems with Death in The Sims 4
Distinguish Elder gameplay with Elder-only reward traits
Filter Rugs by Room Size