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chrisauh
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There are two kinds of people here.
-The people who bought the game and are disappointed by it, in which I'll call the "buyers".
-The people who waited for other people to buy it, saw their reactions, and did not buy it. I'll call them the "restrainers".
The more money EA & Maxis makes with a video game, the more they feel accomplished. Buyers support the company, rewarding their behavior and decision making. Restrainers do not support the company or there decisions.
If you are clearly upset by this game, then why are you planning on buying future expansions? You only motivate EA & Maxis to keep this behavior up.
Games in series should build on what the previous game had made, not remove half the features. With such a large company like EA & Maxis, they clearly have enough resources to create a bigger game than this. Even COD builds on their past games...they don't remove half the features the past game implemented into the series.
Who on earth thought putting more loading screens and removing the open world was a good idea? How on earth is removing toddlers a good idea/ Instead of adding new ideas, they focused on removing everything. The only thing they added was emotions to the game. Emotions are just a spin off of moodlets in TS3. They could have added more in depth personality types, traits that connect to other traits to create an ultimate trait with unique effects, get rid of ratholes, improve the career system (10 promotions, more decisions, situations, etc.), the ability to create realistic looking Sims (I mean it's 2015 already), implement a in-game user-friendly system to create mods for ultimate customization, upon plenty others. It's a life stimulation game, the potential for creativity is endless.
-The people who bought the game and are disappointed by it, in which I'll call the "buyers".
-The people who waited for other people to buy it, saw their reactions, and did not buy it. I'll call them the "restrainers".
The more money EA & Maxis makes with a video game, the more they feel accomplished. Buyers support the company, rewarding their behavior and decision making. Restrainers do not support the company or there decisions.
If you are clearly upset by this game, then why are you planning on buying future expansions? You only motivate EA & Maxis to keep this behavior up.
Games in series should build on what the previous game had made, not remove half the features. With such a large company like EA & Maxis, they clearly have enough resources to create a bigger game than this. Even COD builds on their past games...they don't remove half the features the past game implemented into the series.
Who on earth thought putting more loading screens and removing the open world was a good idea? How on earth is removing toddlers a good idea/ Instead of adding new ideas, they focused on removing everything. The only thing they added was emotions to the game. Emotions are just a spin off of moodlets in TS3. They could have added more in depth personality types, traits that connect to other traits to create an ultimate trait with unique effects, get rid of ratholes, improve the career system (10 promotions, more decisions, situations, etc.), the ability to create realistic looking Sims (I mean it's 2015 already), implement a in-game user-friendly system to create mods for ultimate customization, upon plenty others. It's a life stimulation game, the potential for creativity is endless.
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My current feelings about The Sims 4. Here is hoping The Sims 5 can restore The Sims franchise.
and welcome to the forums
> I will forever enable EA because I happen to enjoy this game.
You are entitled to your own opinion. Just be aware, you are promoting the lack of innovation into future Sim games.
You bet, because I want this game to be as successful it has great potential to be.
Of course not.
OP while I understand what you are saying it dismisses the complexity of the situation. I'm already boycotting further until I see much better from EA but I say this now:
EA I want you to reward our loyalty by showing us only the best that you and your talented team can create. I'm not interested in excuses-they don't win me over I am afraid. If you invest sufficiently and woo me as a customer I will reward you with riches-as will the community! But if we see more of this 'its too expensive' or 'too hard' people will think your product is too expensive and too difficult to bother with so youll lose us. Many of us have been your loyal customers for 15 years. That deserves proper respect and so does every single customer who has ever bought a sims game-from 15 years through to today.
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I got burned with TS2 Bon Voyage and SC2013 (never forget), so I don't trust anything.
Unfortunately though, I don't think my personal restraint has done a thing for innovation because I sure don't see them trying to win me back with TS4.
I enjoy it too. I don't buy what I don't think I'll like anyway...and because of that, I've never regretted buying a game. Do your research before you buy. Always.
do they even have a "talented team" anymore? i thought that they fired a bunch of their staff. i wonder if they outsourced the programming to some bizarre place thinking that they could save alot of money.
This!!
I will never buy or not buy something just because someone tells me to/not to. I will do my research myself and make that decision on my own. Never understand these threads
All of the SimGurus are talented.
Yeah I agree on the boycotting Sims 4. But like I said, I still want the sims 3 expansions I lack just to finish the collection. Sims 4 can go burn in a fire for all I care. I will wait till they decide to re-earn their fan-base back with a proper sims title. And to express my boycott, my signature is my protest to The Sims 4.
My current feelings about The Sims 4. Here is hoping The Sims 5 can restore The Sims franchise.
I think you should invest in ts3 if you enjoy it @nilanius. Why deprive yourself? They will have to ask themselves why you are choosing to spend with ts3 over ts4. You could even come to feedback and tell them exactly why when you do.
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Wonder what my title might be then in this case lol
Maybe at the end of it's days when it's on sale for 5 dollars and the CC community has flourished with realistic defaults I might buy it
No, they didn't. They closed down one of their studios (the one in Salt Lake, which had only made a couple EPs for TS3 and some mobile games) and consolidated the sims staff into one building.
I have been playing for 15 years. Still love it.
I've played The Sims since day one. I don't think it has anything to do with whether you're a new fan or someone who has been with the franchise right from the start - I think it's all down to what your own individual expectations from the franchise were and how well the game caters to that.
They just enjoy pulling their games when we stop buying and then sitting on them so no one else can make them -
Now that strategy may work on Rockstar and Ubisoft but not so well on EA.
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