This was an unprecedented and calculated move.
It came out of the blue and I really wonder why.
Perhaps not to infuriate people for too long and have some impulsive sales instead of having the forums explode for a month or two?
Speculate away, I would love to hear your theories.
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I imagine they were wanting to avoid the outrage that they are currently experiencing. Having that reaction back then would have forced them to make changes to the pack. Now they’ve resorted to misleading people.
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What exactly do you find misleading?
Oh wait, no... that's not it.
This tweet right here. The pet is one thing, it just comes in different colors. That’s like saying Cats and Dogs came with dozens of different animals - it did not it came with cats and dogs. The pattern variations are minuscule differences that only affect their outward appearance. Not enough to classify something as entirely different. So yes I find this tweet very misleading.
SMH... this is a new low, even for EA...
It is and it is sad to see this happening.
2. they wanted to give us as little opportunity as possible to express our outrage before the stuff pack is out.
There.
I think this is the REAL reason. How did they expect people to react? They knew people would be annoyed. If they had put this in the quarterly teaser people would be complaining for months, and they didn't want that.
Ok but we don’t know yet if these different rodents have exclusive behaviour/interactivity, so until we find out it’s not misleading.
We know now, they don't.
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The Obvious Conclusion I came come up is either their losing profit or really really desperate for money.
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As I said filipomel his tweet was misleading. He was trying to make it out like there were more to this pack than one hamster with different color swatches.
Yet they still haven't given an explanation???
They have. You'll find it all here: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16364234/#Comment_16364234
Ok there's one question answered, was his wording misleading? Perhaps a little, but I don't think it's something to make a fuss over, we're getting a new pet and it has some variety in its appearance.
I will kindly ask that you don’t determine what is worthy of “making a fuss over” for other people. The SimGurus are an official source of information about upcoming releases, when they tweet information that has intentionally misleading verbiage I will call it like I see it. It doesn’t matter to me how you feel on the matter, some of us take these things rather seriously.