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Would you pay for a Create a World tool?
keylimepiesims
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It’s been almost 4 years and we’re still without a CAW tool, SimGuruDrake recently tweeted that there isn’t even one in the works, so what’s the problem? I’m sure the dev team is fully aware that the community has been asking since the base game, that players want to be able to build their own worlds, not having to rely on the slow release schedule of the official worlds, yet nothing has been done to give us that option.
I think a possible reason is that the investment of dev time and resources that it would take to create a custom world tool isn’t worth the very small percentage of players that would actually use it, especially if they can’t make any revenue from it, and obviously they can’t just give public access to whatever program they use to create their official worlds.
But what if they could make a profit? If they released a Create a World pack for let’s say... $10, and it included a tool to create as many custom worlds as you want, a short tutorial on how to use the tool, and access to infinite player-made worlds on the gallery, would you buy it?
Even if you had no interest in using the tool, you would be getting as many custom worlds as you could possibly need, and wouldn’t be restricted to the few worlds we have now/the limited number of worlds we have left.
Would infinite custom worlds be worth $10 for you?
I think a possible reason is that the investment of dev time and resources that it would take to create a custom world tool isn’t worth the very small percentage of players that would actually use it, especially if they can’t make any revenue from it, and obviously they can’t just give public access to whatever program they use to create their official worlds.
But what if they could make a profit? If they released a Create a World pack for let’s say... $10, and it included a tool to create as many custom worlds as you want, a short tutorial on how to use the tool, and access to infinite player-made worlds on the gallery, would you buy it?
Even if you had no interest in using the tool, you would be getting as many custom worlds as you could possibly need, and wouldn’t be restricted to the few worlds we have now/the limited number of worlds we have left.
Would infinite custom worlds be worth $10 for you?
Would you pay for a Create a World tool? 250 votes
Yes I would happily pay $10 for a Create a World tool and access to custom worlds
62%
157 votes
No I would rather keep to the official worlds, I have no interest in making my own
21%
53 votes
I wouldn’t use the tool, but I would buy it just for access to player-made worlds
16%
40 votes
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Also I doubt it would be as simple as just downloading others worlds, for those that use cc and those that don’t there would be issues there not to mention potential issues with routing etc.
I’m sorry you feel that way, but I do politely disagree, they charged $20 for a single world on the sims 3 store, and people (myself included) gobbled those up like candy, so in my mind paying a single charge for access to thousands of community worlds, which many players argued were as good as the official store worlds in ts3 days, isn’t a crazy thing.
Maybe it’s just my desperation for more space to play in, but I would easily chose a one-off payment for as many worlds as I want, over $20 per world.
So my answer is I "might" buy it but not use it personally if that was the only way to access others work.
I agree the worlds could be expensive. I have all the worlds but thanks to sims points and birthdays I only paid for one world which was £15 and I think it was worth it as the world is unique.
I wouldn’t pay for something we got for free (create a world) and our own map creators in previous games. No way.
Plus you asked if we would pay for a create a world, that’s a different question to would you pay for more worlds made by EA. Not really comparable.
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Sims 4 uses neither of those tools so makes no point in asking for it - in order to build our own Sims 4 maps we'd need to each have our own map building dev - don't think they can make a tool for that. They do not use just 1 tool like they did in the earlier games or a specific world building program - there is free hand and a variety of tools used and additional programming specific to each world that we cannot duplicate (besides I am definitely not a C# or C++ programmer with just machine basic and dos knowledge in my background) - it is done individually - and based on the multi design is not even easily put into the game. Apparently the design itself does not support the users ability to add in anything more then they already allow. Look how difficult it is to even do anything outside of pre-designated lots even. So no - I cannot vote on a concept that is not possible no matter how badly I miss the creativity of using my own designs and builds in a map - especially some of the work many of my dear super talented friends like Ehaught and Rflong and others have done - I'd say there is no answer here that is chose-able as it does not at exist.
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That is, if they want the player-made worlds to function somewhat like official ones -- just adding a worldbuilder tool with terrain tools, objects, road and lot placement would be nice too. But that would probably deviate too much.
Honestly I'd just love to have more worlds to play with, player-made or not. And waiting for official ones takes literally forever.
TS3 had multiple nice Store worlds, why can't they release a bunch of random worlds for TS4 too? In addition to EPs, GPs and SPs, they could create WPs; World Packs. They'd be like stuff packs, but with nice worlds, which may include some new stuff in them. I'd gladly buy those.
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Not actually as this game has an issue with even the devs making alterations of the original maps - and requires new coding in order to not break saves. So that idea doesn't work in this game. I believe this smart technology game engine does not adapt to changes without also adding new code. We have no full access to code even if we are capable of doing code. In other words placement changes are not acceptable of this software apparently. It won't even allow the simple off on use of toggles that were not in the base game at the start - so editing the off lot hood is out of the question when the game eventually errors when one does so.
I just can't see any of that possible with this rather unique game engine no matter how badly I wish it wasn't the way it is.
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i think like that too. but if this would be the case then why dont they release more worlds for us?
(I think it’s not even possible by the way, a tool like that for Sims 4)
I’d want an option to at least being able to edit a world, not interested in CAW myself. I definitely wouldn’t pay for it though. I paid for Sims 3 worlds because they were worth it as a product, not the same thing as a tool.
Only would worth if a tool out of the game and you can place worlds at TS4 or directly upload to internet (no restricted to EA services)
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At TS3 it was from start, yes?
PD: I only had TS3 since heard rumors of TS4 development