In-Game Social Features Walkthrough! «123...Next Go

sims3jordan09

A video of the new social features being shown off that will be included in the Showtime patch.

Walkthrough - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzbNNEWKojc

TINA180

This was very Interesting! Thanks for the link

michellehilbrand

Thank you for the link.

Druscylla

Looks okay. I dunno, I get irritated by the constant memory spam enough to keep the notifications off. I bet getting 200+ status updates each time one of my friends sims burns food will get old.

I really hate it but I may end up paring down my friends list. With over 200 people I can see this becoming pretty terrifying. Even setting my own page to private I don't see any way to limit or turn these off if I am online which I always am >.<

monaduncan

Thank you very much for posting this Hmmmmm....good to know more about how it works, but I don't know how I feel about this.

Edit: I think I would feel really bad spamming pages with my Sims "progress." It is not exclusive to Showtime and it will be part of the next update. I don't think this is going to work out so well.

Jenieusa

Glic2003

I must say, I am disappointed they put so much effort into making the game function like Facebook/Twitter when there are so many other features players have been asking for.

angeldollxx

not crazy about it. at all.

Joel2810

It's coming in the update? NOOOOOO! :shock: :evil:

tallcoolone

Thank you sims3jordan09!

Katnap

Do that many people really care if someone else's Sim gets a promotion or has a baby? Really?

This is more like a FB for Sims instead of real people. IMO very lame, really. Like it was said above, I can't believe they spent so much effort, time, and money on developing this. There are existing bugs that players had to mod to fix that EA never did.

Thank goodness you can make it all private.

simbilN99

Katnap wrote:

Do that many people really care if someone else's Sim gets a promotion or has a baby? Really?

This is more like a FB for Sims instead of real people. IMO very lame, really. Like it was said above, I can't believe they spent so much effort, time, and money on developing this. There are existing bugs that players had to mod to fix that EA never did.

Thank goodness you can make it all private.

So true....but it seems the whole world had gone Facebook and Twitter crazy. Everybody seems to be jumping on this bandwagon so it's not surpising EA sees this as an oppurtunity.

simmiegirl25

Thanks for the link. It's good to see how the social features will work. I like that we can set it all on private. I'm not thrilled about the new social features but I'm not going to make a big deal about it. I like the other aspects of this pack, like the magician and acrobatics careers and some of the Sims 2 items finally coming back.

geminiagre

thank you for the link...Now if they only made a SimPort walkthrough like this one , so we'd finally find out how the heck it works

sims3jordan09

geminiagre wrote:

thank you for the link...Now if they only made a SimPort walkthrough like this one , so we'd finally find out how the heck it works

There is going to be a live chat this thursday that will show off the SimPort features.

geminiagre

sims3jordan09 wrote:

geminiagre wrote:

thank you for the link...Now if they only made a SimPort walkthrough like this one , so we'd finally find out how the heck it works

There is going to be a live chat this thursday that will show off the SimPort features.

Are we sure about that? I was expecting to see info on it during the first chat, but I was hoping for too much i guess

evclm6

Thanks for posting this link. I don't plan on using any of these social feaures. I agree with Katnap ....who really is super interested what anothers Sims does.

lilybob

Am I the only one who noticed that some of the avatars shown are ACTUAL Sims 3 Forum users? That's just creepy. :shock:

raraud

Thanks for the link!
Wish I could get excited about the game, but the social features look kinda lame. I mean, I do some lame achievements to get some lame badge that none of my friends want to see because it will spam their page. I'm just not feeling the fun here.

Panther00567

Glic2003 wrote:

I must say, I am disappointed they put so much effort into making the game function like Facebook/Twitter when there are so many other features players have been asking for.

So true. I'd prefer if they would have used all that effort to put in more cool things in the expansion pack rather than trying to put in some social feature stuff. I certainly won't be using the social features. :roll:

Nh6650

Thanks for sharing that.
I certainly won't be using the social features if I decided to get the update/game.

Daboogadie2

The Sims 3 is targeted toward a demographic that has yet to develop the ability to discern the difference between right and wrong under social pressure.
What is EA's responsibility to safeguard them against 'evil' friends that may use the game as a hunting ground?
If you want to continue to play the game, you have to accept the update.
If you accept the update, who is going to be there to push the privacy button?

Just the opinion of an old guy.

CK213

One thing is clear to me now.

I have waaayyy too many "friends" :P.

I'll see how it goes, but I may either be opting-out of it all, or deleting a lot of friends. It would be nice if I could filter out others so I can find simmers I regularly communicate with, but I think deleting others is the most sure way to do that. There might be hurt feelings though.

I've never been into game achievements. I tend to play my own way, so I certainly won't be going through all goals. It may be coincidence that I achieve any.

As far as following what other player's sims are doing, I think I would have to know a lot about the sim to even care what happens to them. I think I might use this system to give status updates of things I'm working on. I could be working on a house and us Avatar me to visit the lot, record a custom memory with picture, and then share it.

tallcoolone

Panther00567 wrote:

Glic2003 wrote:

I must say, I am disappointed they put so much effort into making the game function like Facebook/Twitter when there are so many other features players have been asking for.

So true. I'd prefer if they would have used all that effort to put in more cool things in the expansion pack rather than trying to put in some social feature stuff. I certainly won't be using the social features. :roll:

Opportunity cost if this isn't what the Facebook fans wanted, but some say it is what they wanted.

I like to hear about someone's REAL baby, REAL marriages, REAL life events. If someone's sim jumps off their screen and does something remarkable..I'd like to hear about that too, otherwise, uhhhh...not so much!

I'd of just been happy with a diving board or a retail simulator!

Katnap

simbilN99 wrote:

Katnap wrote:

Do that many people really care if someone else's Sim gets a promotion or has a baby? Really?

This is more like a FB for Sims instead of real people. IMO very lame, really. Like it was said above, I can't believe they spent so much effort, time, and money on developing this. There are existing bugs that players had to mod to fix that EA never did.

Thank goodness you can make it all private.

So true....but it seems the whole world had gone Facebook and Twitter crazy. Everybody seems to be jumping on this bandwagon so it's not surpising EA sees this as an oppurtunity.

I read a recent article based on the gallup poll that this is the first year that FB actually has lost users because a growing lack of faith in their ethics and safety. With the new rules stemming from the IPO, they may lose even more.

I for one don't use Twitter. I find it silly and pointless. That's me, but there are millions out there who feel the same. And how many people have signed up for Twitter only to find it's not for them, but don't delete their account but don't use it? Same with FB.

So numbers based off members of these places can be greatly skewed.

Katnap

geminiagre wrote:

sims3jordan09 wrote:

geminiagre wrote:

thank you for the link...Now if they only made a SimPort walkthrough like this one , so we'd finally find out how the heck it works

There is going to be a live chat this thursday that will show off the SimPort features.

Are we sure about that? I was expecting to see info on it during the first chat, but I was hoping for too much i guess

In the first video they said they'd be doing another chat with the main focus on Simport, and possibly other smaller things like objects (I think it was the gold thing, not sure) if there was time.