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Should they hold contests to determine future sims 4 packs?
111sungirl111
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What if, instead of having surveys, they held actual contests to see which sims 4 packs they should release in the future? Maybe each contestant can enter up to 2 or 3 ideas for a future pack, and the pack(s) that come in the highest place(s) are chosen (or have the highest chances of being chosen) for future packs.
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It's a mixture of two or three if I'm remembering rightly.
@111sungirl111 it won't make much, if any difference. They'll still make what they make.
That is a matter of opinion
The first part? That's not so much opinion as fact. It's very hard to get into the business; demonstration of creativity is a basic part of getting in. My son's looking at post-high school training to get him partway to working in gaming. The program he's most interested in asks for a background that includes programming and art, as well as history and/or philosophy and/or languages and/or classical civilization and/or... Another program requires an extensive portfolio, representing many kinds of creative output, with the options ranging from game mods to sculpture. Every program requires an actual game proposal: one you came up with, not one someone else came up with for you. After that, for getting a job? He'll need a strong portfolio... of things that he did, using his own creativity.
As for the other part, yes, that is exactly my opinion. I work with creative people: it's what I do for a living. They don't do their best work when it's just typing up someone else's laundry list. Their best work happens when they're permitted to use the creativity that got them there in the first place.
I want my game to represent these people's best work. And that is my opinion, based on my years of personal experience in the creative sector.
Oh sorry I misread it
Toddlers don't smell if you care for them.
It's almost like saying the audience isn't creative. When we know developers are amazed by what players do with their games that are very different than they intended for them to play with the content, or within the confines of the game, and are amazed at modders who can do even better. I think it's a matter of perspective. Any artist can sit down and draw your interpretation of a story. You just tell them and they can do it. Thinking what to do in a game has to come from it's audience as we can see not that many people here love collecting fests. But some developers and producers do, so there we have it, collecting fests when players are begging for simulation. Creativity is not just because someone entered a field. You don't have to be an artist to imagine or work on a game to explain what you want and why it's not working.
ETA: OT, no there shouldn't be contests. They should refocus to a life simulator and stop the rpgness and it will succeed better than it has.
Your posts are so optimistic about the sims 4 they are just a little bit delusional and scary.
LOL. We must be the sponsors, then.
Whereas if you ran a competition to decide EPs, people would feel pressured to come up with fresh new ideas, meaning that they'd try to avoid the obvious EPs - the ones that we most want, in place of diverse hit or miss EPs. I think this would be a good thing after the main EPs are out of the way, and they can let their creativity fly, but not when it could hinder getting what we actually want.
Would you rather
A: Sims make store purchases at a cash register
B: Sims are chased around the store with a tablet
I actually think the majority of the surveys ideas they have put out have been great but they never follow through and cut out everything that got me excited about that survey idea in the first place.
I'm sure the Sims team knows that's what the audience wants first, but a whole assortment of factors go into which EPs get developed first which they've explained before. Obviously audience responses are a large element but not the defining one.
We'll get those EPs when we get them. A contest is just overkill hahaha.
I would rather that sims go to a cash register.
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Oh yes:)) they like to tempt with ideas to just keep the hopes up:))
Survey: apartments with city living, creating your own apartments blah blah blah
Players : awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Ea announcing CL with an amazing trailer.
Players: awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww <333333333333 some pre-order EP.
Gurus starting to answer questions.
some players: awwwwwwwwwwwwww
some player : what the ****
some players ????
some players what?
some players ok I can live with that but meh...
some players quitting
some players ehh I wonder what they will cut next
one just needs to love EA's ideas;)
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