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People need to remember we've all been burned by E.A. before. None of us have actually played the game yet, so we dont know how good, detailed and interesting the game play will turn out. Open for business was my favourite expansion so i hope this one will deliver. I'm not going to get my hopes up though only to be disappointed when I get it. Remember EA have a great advertising department.
As for those who are thinking of pre-ordering, i'd advise not to, unless absolutely necessary. Pre-Ordering comes from the days when you'd buy a physical copy from the shop and you wanted to guarantee a copy on day one. Now a days a lot of people get digital copies, this means shops rarely sell out of physical copies and well there is an unlimited supply of digital copies. So unless you are ordering a physical copy from amazon or something and you want to receive your game day one, then really there is not much benefit to pre ordering. As for pre order bonus, these are usually objects that are in the game and then taken out and set aside for those who pre-order. Its a pretty plum practice. We all pay the same price (some pay more) for the game we should all get the same content. Pre ordering is great for EA but bad for every consumer. If enough people buy the game before release then it doesnt really matter how good the game. We've seen the quality of EA games drop over the years. If more people bought games after the release and after reviews then EA would have to make sure they are releasing a good game if they want to be successful.
That's just my two cents. While the game looks great in pictures and trailers, it's far from guaranteed this will be a good game. Looking at the standard of games EA and Maxis has released in the pasts few years and I know its best to air on the side of caution.
As for those who are thinking of pre-ordering, i'd advise not to, unless absolutely necessary. Pre-Ordering comes from the days when you'd buy a physical copy from the shop and you wanted to guarantee a copy on day one. Now a days a lot of people get digital copies, this means shops rarely sell out of physical copies and well there is an unlimited supply of digital copies. So unless you are ordering a physical copy from amazon or something and you want to receive your game day one, then really there is not much benefit to pre ordering. As for pre order bonus, these are usually objects that are in the game and then taken out and set aside for those who pre-order. Its a pretty plum practice. We all pay the same price (some pay more) for the game we should all get the same content. Pre ordering is great for EA but bad for every consumer. If enough people buy the game before release then it doesnt really matter how good the game. We've seen the quality of EA games drop over the years. If more people bought games after the release and after reviews then EA would have to make sure they are releasing a good game if they want to be successful.
That's just my two cents. While the game looks great in pictures and trailers, it's far from guaranteed this will be a good game. Looking at the standard of games EA and Maxis has released in the pasts few years and I know its best to air on the side of caution.
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When that day comes, I'd be hiding in my small, but cozy bunker as the forum turns into a battlefield, descending into utter chaos and bloodshed.
I can't help but to be a little excited for this ep though....
Not everyone.
Playing the sims since 2012
Well, with The Sims 4 trailers, they've been pretty much "what you see is what you get". When you look at the Outdoor Retreat trailer, NOTHING was shown that we couldn't do in-game.
Same with the Sims 4 trailers.
The Sims 3 was the game where EA made the game look better than it was, ESPECIALLY with Picture advertising.
But with the Sims 4, it's been a very honest marketing campaign, and nothing I've seen in a trailer wasn't in the game.
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Completely agree with this!!! At least with this game its been very honest in advertising and I have enjoyed the base game and game pack. Excited to be able to open a shop again.
Hum no food fights in TS4, you can't shove people in the pool, I really don't see anything in this trailer you can actually do except the very first thing OH wait nope they don't kiss like that either!
I realize that it says trailer but it's more of a commercial and we all know it. It's different because it's real people.
Oh thanks I didn't know that! Then that does make a difference!
That's displaying what the concept of the Sims is, and what the point of the game is.
It's not saying what's in the game. That's a completely different type of trailer.
If it used in-game Sims doing those actions, then it would be different. The trailer is just trying to show the new generation what kind of game The Sims is.
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I agree. The trailer above me could be what is coming up, I hope. If you look at the site's front page, we don't have beaches ect., but all of these must be clues as to what is coming. I think some type of Seasons as many agree that these should be added soon. Don't get me wrong, I want toddlers, vampires, and farming, but I do think weather should be present at the beginning as well as toddlers and pets.
As for S3 and anything to do with that, it was understood that the S3 engine was messed up and that some fixes just were either difficult or they couldn't be done. Maxis wasn't even with S3 until the end, so I think S4 is a different story. They have a whole section set up to report problems not counting the bugs and technical forums and they are actively trying to fix bugs. It may not be fair to compare a simulation game like this to a regular game as the two don't have the same gameplay. I think they have improved things and are trying.
Adverts are adverts. I'm pretty sure some don't think to themselves 'oh this trailer will have nothing to do with real game play-it's a concept' and if that's the idea it should be stated so at the start of the advert-like you see on many games adverts *just to avoid the confusion issues*
@davina1221 I appreciate your excitement and hope for the future
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/forums/list.page there's a technical section, and a possible bugs section further down too
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I didn't know it if Origin gave Crinrict a personal page for S3 bugs on the Origin site; to my knowledge there wasn't, if so, then I just never saw it. Can you give me the link to the S3 Origins game bug site?. This wouldn't be on the S3 site at all, but somewhere else. I saw a S3 forum for bugs, but not what they have set up for S4. I think even Crinrict mention being excited about this new spot for making posts about bugs. It isn't the two set up here for S4, but takes you off this site.
I believe you are correct about some things not being fixed. Not sure they fixed fountains for example.
All I know is the proof of what I saw. After taking out cc and not ever having mods, my game never messed up. I took cc out before Supernatural came out and never had issues after that; ever. I think mods/cc and the fact that the engine was flawed to begin with was the problem. It was also the first question asked when you called for customer service. Was there things that they could've done? Maybe, but by then, they knew S4 was coming and S3 was flawed and some things couldn't be accomplished. I won't answer back on this post as they will take it off and put us both in quarantine, but as we are neither a team or EA official, then I guess we will just have to wait and see.
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Firstly, I want to point out that I do not have the game, and that I've never played it myself. I have, however, watched some gameplay videos.
So, I'll have to disagree with you. I feel like there are many things in the sims 4 trailers, that are a bit "different" in the actual game. For instance, in the original trailer for the basegame, Obama photobombed a couple taking a selfie. Maybe I'm incorrect, but I believe there is no such thing as photobombing in the base game. And also, how can we forget the staged photo of a sim holding a baby (with the bassinet thoughtfully cropped out)?
I was actually kind of irked to see a semblance of all my favourite careers in the trailor and seeing the sims actually playing those roles. I was kind of hoping to just have those careers back; not to have my sim play them out. This could just be fancy advertising though, and maybe it's nothing like it seems.
This is exactly what happened with the base game, actually. My expectations were low, and I wound up really liking it. Either way, I'm just not really excited about it. I wasn't excited about OR either, which I still haven't gotten, but that might change once I get back to playing on the weekend. I think all my excitement was pretty much K.O'd after S3 came out. I just got used to being disappointed.