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Actually in the first episode one of the contestants called SimGuruNinja the Simon Cowell of the judges' team.
(Episode 2 spoiler below the thread)
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
If there is a second season with the contestants chosen from the Sparkd Challenges going on, they'll be able to sort out better who is a stylist, who is a builder and who is a storyteller so the teams will be more balanced. If you're a streamer you're pretty much Jack Of All Trades unless you simply do speed builds on YouTube or something similar. (I wouldn't mind being on the show -- I could add some age diversity since I'm older than dirt...
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
The contestants didn't get to chose their roles, they picked them out of a hat. I think they did that on purpose so people wouldn't just choose the part they are more comfortable with.
Whew I agree. Have any of you ever watched stop motion builders? the things they create with objects without cc. I believe their talent and skill is unmatched, as far as building goes.
To me it seemed like they left parts out of it as they didn't show anything what I was hoping to see
Will I watch episode 2 tomorrow night it depends if you tube will corporate and work instead of country warning errors which I have been getting on my fire kindle since Wednesday
What did you think of episode 2? xmiramira's storytelling and the team's voice acting amazing.
Except I don't think much, if any money, came from EA or Maxis for this. They're actually spending almost nothing to make this show. I'm pretty sure it was funded by the TV station it airs on and Buzzfeed and I think the prize money was from Buzzfeed. The only thing that I can see here that they might have paid for was SimGuru Ninja's wages but who knows? He very well might have filmed this outside of his office hours. Besides, one man not at work for a few days to film this would hardly make a dent in bug fixes or game quality.
The show was filmed during normal working hours and it took place in the lobby of the EA office building. It was not a side project that they did in their spare time. The TV station might have supplied the employees to do the show for no cost to EA, but I don't think they also supplied the prize money. Neither did Buzzfeed, they are already supplying Kelsey as a judge and with regular promo for the sims game on their channel. Since EA hired HollieBB to manage the challenges, it's safe to assume that this show is their brain child and they are also supplying the prize money for it. This is a big marketing drive disguised as small budget summer entertainment.
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Ok, fair enough. A little money went into it.
The lobby of a building that they're paying for anyways doesn't much concern me that they're taking anything away from the franchise in terms of money of bug fixes. I did forget about the hiring of HollieBB, however, that I should think would have come out of the marketing budget, not the bug fixes or development teams.
Of course the whole show is a marketing drive. As is the gallery contest. People might even buy extra packs to help their builds in the gallery contest for a chance of winning!
I still don't think it's taking anything away from development or fixes. That money was going to spent on marketing regardless and personally, I'd rather see all of this. It's slightly more entertaining for me personally than them just dropping $100k on some celebrity that I have never heard of for a 30 second ad to promote the game.
Very, very true.
100K is only the prize money for this season's contest. A lot more was spent on research and setting up the show. A whole lot of effort will go into sorting the gallery to find the winners and then set up the show for another season and more prize money. Maybe this money wouldn't have been spent on development anyway, but it shows where EA priorities are. Also, who know how this will influence the development of future sims games if they consider the show to be a hit.
It says it is sponsored by EA here (Look for italics):
https://www.eleague.com/sims-sparkd/news/reality-competition-show
I’m enjoying the show but a bit resentful they cut corners on this game and spend the money on marketing.
Thanks for the link!
I'm still of the mind that I'd rather them pay $100k to these winners than already millionaire celebrities.
I do wonder how much research went into this. I didn't see any surveys or any kind of trickle of hints that a TV show would be in the works. Competitions but not an actual show. Competitions can be run fairly cheaply in the gallery, as they are doing, but your right, it's going to be a task to sort that mess out later to find the winners. Some better filters are needed and some moderation for next time. I hope.
They do make research before they invest any serious time and money into any project, to see how well it might be received, and I don't mean the gameplay quizzes they put out every now and then. Even the game changers program wasn't born overnight and I understand HollieBB was a gamechanger so who knows how long this was in the works. They must have long term plans if they hired her AND another person to help her. It might not be that difficult to sort out winners, but they would need to change the coding to the gallery, then they will also need to make sure the winners are not underage to be able to go on the show. Moderation at this point is useless considering that the entire world is able to upload stuff and the only filter that seems to be in place is the one for the challenge tags.
EA's probably not spending that much money -- since it's presented by ELEAGUE they and TBS/Buzzfeed are probably fronting the lion's share of the investment. EA provides the packs (which already existed anyway), the space (right there at corporate; I heard it was filmed during the fall Sims Camp) and @SimGuruNinja time as a judge. It's a four-week series but the actual recording was likely done in the space of maybe a week at the most.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200708005318/en/Electronic-Arts-Creates-New-Reality-Competition-Show