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I'm wondering, if they are working on Toddlers (which why would they not?) then I feel like they may have gone into an "Overdrive" phase recently. Remember how they talked about how the Gender Patch took about a year to plan and finish, but they only started going full ham on it during January. They'd have time to gather ideas from the Toddler Idea thread, which they've just moved to Ideas, and we know that they've pretty much finished up on the EP, only having to polish it since it's been rated in Brazil, so we know the EP team don't much else to do, besides planning for EP4. Ugh... must... resist... Hype... Train...
Wish that I could actually play that hype train.
I'm literally fighting myself
Edit: in September it will be the anniversary of the sims 4, if there is not any announcement or even clue my pessimistic part will take the control
Me too. Then I'd seriously have to fight my husband for the PS4.
I posted some questions and was asking if they we're able to implement new life stages and life states into the game and I noticed that life stages was edited and crossed out but the other wasn't. Aren't they both considered future content? BTW, with life stages I wasn't just talking about toddlers. Someone asked about Preteens and it wasn't edited.
I'm just now seeing this comment. I though that was really odd that it was edited. I probably have my suspicions why it happened though...
Happy simming everyone..
It seriously surprises me that it's never happened. If they'd just come out and said something like this:
I don't think a lot of us would be as angry. It's just going to keep building until they acknowledge the elephant in the room. How are we supposed to have faith in and trust in EA/Maxis should there be a Sims 5 if this is how they treated us with the Sims 4.
I personally think an apology around the Sims 3 is owed as well because even though I had few problems doesn't mean there weren't serious problems. I though, 'How can I trust them to fix anything that may go wrong in TS4 if they haven't even fixed TS3.' If modders could unofficially fix routing issues, could EA/Maxis themselves officially fix it?
I actually plan on asking about Sims 3 in the Ask a Guru Game Development thread. It's past content, so we can discuss them maybe fixing it, right? Is that productive? Does that count as future content because they may plan on doing something about that past content in the future? One can never be sure but I definitely want to ask about TS3's routing and the attraction system. May even include the adventure board and the school/stadium.
It's too bad they can't discuss potential future content because while my interest in 4 has faded I'm still interested in a possible TS5 and I'd love to ask about large and open towns/cities in the future, that are "connected" through loading screens, a go between of click and pull and sliders in future CAS, and life stages. TS3 kind of did it with traveling to Uni or a foreign country but I feel they really missed an opportunity to let us travel between towns, work, build relationships and move without losing relationships. So much depth I can go into with that...
I feel bad. I feel bad because I'm so numb regarding The Sims. I was so deeply in love with the game as a child and I relied on it wholly in order to deal with so many garbage things that happened to me in my life. But you know what? Maybe The Sims just isn't for me anymore. I've tried making TS3 families and I can't get myself to stay attached to any of them for more than a week. I play TS2 and I miss features that came in later versions of the game, so I can't play that for very long either. And HA to TS4. So maybe that's it. Maybe I need to mod my other games to have Sims-esque features or find games from other companies that manage to scratch that itch I have.
I don't know. But I think I'm heading out? I'll pop my head in every once in a blue moon, maybe, but as it stands, I think....I think I'm good. I think I'm okay with putting the forums down. Years ago, I had a thread of mine hidden by Drake. It was about communication. I was never told why it was hidden, it was just...hidden away. No one could find it beyond the people that typed in it while it was still visible. I should have gone with my gut feeling back then that something was up, but I wanted to give the forum another chance because @sparkfairy1 made it seem like it was the right thing to do.
If there were a way to share it with all of you (without getting possibly banned from the forums and all of my games access HAHAHA), I would. But it was a thread so full of people wanting more from communications with EA. More transparency. More honesty. And it was hidden. Locked away for no one to ever see. I should have gone with my gut. I should have acknowledged the sign for what it was. These forums, to me, don't seem like a place where there's real and honest communication. It feels like the happy-go-lucky people are treated with love and care and pushed to the top while the reasonably upset people are shushed and "placated" by "maybe later, honey"s.
To those that visit this thread, you guys are great! You kept the positivity going. It's a lot of work to do that. But this forum as a whole...it's depressing. It's depressing. I'm depressed. As in "thinking about the facade that's so forcefully kept up by the Gurus and higher starts sliding me into depressive episodes". So I'm outtie 5000. Been real!
Good to se you back @sparkfairy1
I see "The thread" was deleted, what an anticlimax I had a small hope for, maybe not an apology, but some kind of recognition to people feeling so upset, but no.
@MzPigglyPooh so sorry about your laptop, I hope you can afford to replace it soon.
This place really is just too depressing now, even this thread has become so with all the people leaving. I think I'm going to just stay in ts2 forum for a while. I'll still be around but I just don't want to read anything to do with ts4 any more. I'm not even going to bother returning to that ask a guru thread, waste of space.
Hugs to all
Yeah that's what I meant. Sometimes, I feel like she's trying to strongly hint at the fact that they are future content. Plus, let's be honest, if they don't add toddlers, that'd be the worst business decision in the history of gaming lol. So maybe she's just tired of carefully phrasing why she cannot talk about them, but wants us to know that there's a very high chance that they will come, but that she isn't in the mood to lose her job over the fact she told us that. Who knows, who knows. Imagine ... maybe there'll be toddlers by Christmas (whoamIkidding..), it'd be great!
After all, what's city life without a whining toddler next door at 4 a.m.?
I doubt that, even if they add them, they'll announce them in September though, given that it still falls under the current quarter. Meaning, if they announce toddlers in September, we'll have to pay for them. So I'd rather they announce them come October lol
After all this time I can conclude that if The Sims 4 hadn't been published under the banner of "The Sims" I wouldn't feel so disappointed. On the otherhand, I doubt that I would have bought it without that banner. Well played, EA, well played.
- Froggie
WIP: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/851667/australian-world-version-1-0-uploaded/p1
Lol. Well said.
It's truly a joy to see ConsernedApe's honesty, and the fans/customers really appreciate it - blink blink at EA
Ikr, his latest blog post is so raw and honest. I think I might become his biggest fan. Indie developers are awesome.
“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.
Same, I don't even care how long he takes to deliver the update, I'm not posting threads everyday to ask. Because he's honest, he tells things how they are and this is really all that matters to me. Just knowing he's working on it and taking the time to make it awesome like everything he did so far is more than enough to keep my patience going.
My thoughts exactly! I just popped on to Steam and found it, think that will be my new addiction