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Aaron Houts Hints a Good Week Ahead
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SimGuruHouts recently posted on Twitter:
It could just be some random tweet, but it could also be a hint of The Sims 4 news coming this week. They've already released a lot of stuff recently, so it's highly possible.
EDIT: I just want to point out that SimGuruHouts is a The Sims 4 guru, not a The Sims 3 one, so this is likely not about the store content.
@SimGuruHouts wrote:Best wishes for a good week ahead, fellow Simmers!
It could just be some random tweet, but it could also be a hint of The Sims 4 news coming this week. They've already released a lot of stuff recently, so it's highly possible.
EDIT: I just want to point out that SimGuruHouts is a The Sims 4 guru, not a The Sims 3 one, so this is likely not about the store content.
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I think we will get something before E3. That is in early to middlish June, which doesn't give them much time for marketing.
Whether we get something this week or not...I wouldn't get my hopes up because then you have reason to be disappointed if we don't. They have been starting to generate some buzz lately with the survey, abby road pic and new render from today, so I think we will get some news sooner rather then later.
Even if we get some new info before, maybe a couple of LBs or stuff like that, I still think it could be at E3 that they launch the full marketing campaign - the one aimed at a whole general audience, not just the current fans like the LBs are.
Is 3 months enough time to properly advertise a video game? If we have radio silence until e3 which is June 10-12th and the release if it continues to be close to Sept 15-26, that's about 3 months time.
We'll likely get live broadcasts every month until its released and likely some Sim Thursdays featuring new content. Along with an assumed TV spot maybe 2-3 weeks out and banners/promotions in stores close to then.
Is that enough time? Say the bulk of people pre-order 2 weeks to a month before the game is released. Do you think you'll know enough if you've only seen 3 months worth of hype?
Friday then?
I personally think we're overlooking what we have been seeing, which of course isn't a lot, but it is still new and newsworthy. (speaking about the images)
People are gonna be hard against TS4 until they see what they want. No doubt about that, but we have seen new things and they're sprinkling new things in the past few days which leads me to believe that we will see stuff soon. It's too much of a coincidence that tomorrow we flip to the new fiscal year which would allow for more marketing from a business perspective.
I've also noticed they keep releasing renders.
I can't stand that whole "yibsims" thing. So lame.
Howdy! That was me who wrote that article, not Alexis lol. I'm not a YibSim. I came across the article by chance when I was looking to figure out what ambient occlusion actually is and if that was the lighting system used in The Sims 3. It was when I was reading some of the posts that I came across SimGuruMeatball's comments about it and made a little post on it.
While there hasn't been much talk about the new engine being used, I thought it might be interesting for people who were wanting to know how The Sims 4 graphics actually is superior to The Sims 3's graphics and why. As far as I know all the information that YibSims have been given was given to them at Gamescom and they have released it all now.
Heck, I said it to my dentist's office staff as I went out the door. It's just saying 'have a good week! we really do need to stop grasping at straws. Not everything is about The Sims.
I'm sorry.
Technically that's today, but it's unlikely they'll release any serious information today on account of it being April Fools.
Last comment ever. Goodbye and hope everyone enjoys the game and gets all the info they want.
Not sure if this is an April Fool's-... or... the real thing.
I have a love/hate relationship with the 1st of April. I can never understand whether anyone is telling the truth or just joking around.
This is for real my last post and I wish I could stay with the community but apparently everyone here is rude and ready to gang up on one person's comment as if they were the entire community.
Wish they'd say sorry but they won't. So I'm saying goodbye. Hope this is a cautionary tale for whoever says something out of turn or else you'll be humiliated and spoken ill of on twitter. I'm sorry.
You're right, it IS rude to gang up on people, and that is exactly what we were complaining about! Inadvertently, we did this to you.
Twitter is an odd place, and I only saw the conversation from my own side (the people I follow and communicate with). So, you may have seen a different angle on the conversation. I can't speak for everyone, but the conversation from my side was actually quite constructive and definitely not intending to attack anyone.
I'll admit guilt when I know I've done something wrong. I did notice your comment, and I'll admit it rankled a bit because I dislike the conspiracy theories that float around. I speak to some of the people who were invited to the TS4 event, people who may or may not be considered 'yibsims' (a term we were debating the meaning of, agreeing it should apply to ALL the fans) and they are kind, good, friendly, helpful, warm, funny, genuine PEOPLE who give up a lot of their time to help the community. So, yes, I stick up for people I like when I feel people are being unfair to them. So that is why I said I liked Weealbet's comment.
Nothing else I said was aimed at you. I was talking about the negativity in general n the community. I'm upset that we upset you, because that was definitely NOT my intention.
Of course you can say whatever you want to say! But the thing about saying something on a public forum, is that people have the right to disagree with you.
I can understand why you feel like you were ganged up against. I'm happy to talk about it if you want to. I'm a bit sad that you feel pushed out of the community.
I was mostly upset being targeted by the two people who run the SimsVIP website especially since they have a really large twitter base. Anyone could easily come and trace the initial post that sparked the fire to me so it felt like the finger was pointed at me and continued to be perpetuated that I was the bad guy for it.
I already closed my twitter account and I am still leaving the community. I feel really hurt doing all of this because I looked up to every one of the users that singled out the post. So much for feeling like you're an equal.
Either way. Cheers.
There have always been community events where selected fans were invited to. SimsCamp was really no different than any of those.