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Too much silence
BrokenChaos69
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Some may think I feel entitled and am a whiner and that's fine but I feel like with the new whatever-it-was they implemented last year with the changing of the teams and such that there is just way too much silence now.
I love The Sims 4. I have bought every pack on day one or two, except for Strangerville. Still don't own it and I have no desire to purchase anymore packs for a game that is so dang silent and has fewer and fewer content additions. We can't even look forward to a patch every month anymore. I have completely lost interest in playing. The team has completely disengaged me from their game.
I know the devs speak on Twitter, and that's great but it really doesn't help the fact that the game is slowing down and growing stagnant.
My hope was for TS4 to continue on for a few more years but this new way of providing their live service just makes me not care anymore and take my wallet elsewhere. ):
I love The Sims 4. I have bought every pack on day one or two, except for Strangerville. Still don't own it and I have no desire to purchase anymore packs for a game that is so dang silent and has fewer and fewer content additions. We can't even look forward to a patch every month anymore. I have completely lost interest in playing. The team has completely disengaged me from their game.
I know the devs speak on Twitter, and that's great but it really doesn't help the fact that the game is slowing down and growing stagnant.
My hope was for TS4 to continue on for a few more years but this new way of providing their live service just makes me not care anymore and take my wallet elsewhere. ):
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I think it's a mix of bad marketing and poor shakeups in development with this franchise. We used to get a pack every 6 months, and in many instances, we would buy a pack already knowing what the next pack would be. This new model of getting an expansion whenever has proved itself to be non-beneficial to the quality of the expansion itself.
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Some people didn't buy Strangerville; just as the OP stated. So, for them, there hasn't been a pack to buy since Get Famous and that was in November. Now, while that doesn't mean that the developers have been quiet since November. But when you're not interested in a pack, the wait for the next thing is much more rough because you have to wait that much more longer to find out if the next pack is going to interest you, or not. And that could be even more waiting, if it's not something that you'd consider buying.
@ the OP: I can agree with your points. I know they need a break and all.. but I'll admit this silence is pretty bad in comparison to previous iterations. I miss getting those leaflets that announced the next expansion pack. Unfortunately those days are long gone, for some reason. It's not like EA has any competition, or has ever had, when it comes to The Sims. So for them to make the Developers be this quiet... is questionable to me. But it is what it is and we just have to continue waiting.
I'm thinking they'll be bringing us some streams in the next week or two. Whenever Lindsay gets back from vacation and they fix whatever they were working on that she didn't want to show until she got back. So... crossed fingers it's not too much longer. But then again, I think we may not see any paid content until after the Legacy Game is released. And that's not until sometime in June.
I didn't buy it either lol. But news that doesn't interest you (or me) isn't the same thing as "silence." It's like saying the tree that fell in the forest didn't make a noise.
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That's what I was saying. I mentioned that it doesn't mean that the developers are quiet, it's just from the time the last pack you bought to "now" seems like the wait for something new is so much longer. And that the OP was speaking generally about the silence, not just since Strangerville. Which was released on February 26th. So, if nothing is said this month, that'll be two months. Which is expected because they mentioned there would be quiet months. Doesn't mean it doesn't stink.
Although, considering how little this game achieved in 4 years, it's not surprising that people are angsty about more content. I totally understand that. TS3 and TS2 in 4 years were a gone and done deal whereas in TS4 we are still waiting on basic life simulation content. I think it's justified that people think the game is evolving in a very slow way, especially now that we're past the mark.
It might be that they are tweaking the engine to support more content, since they are shutting off the support for 32bit but I don't know.
I also have issues with how pretty much all communication happens on Twitter. Personally I don't have the time or patience to scroll through ten different Guru accounts and hope to find some actual information between Corgi pics or Youtuber discussions. I'm grateful for the fans here who actually let the official forum know about information, but that could easily be done by some Guru and would feel like they actually try to include their own official forum.
Unfortunately I agree.
I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but I personally find it annoying how it seems that everything happens on Twitter. Not all of us use Twitter or spend all day reading the team's tweets. So for those of us who don't, I can't help but feel a bit out of the loop with things. I never felt like that with previous iterations; why should I have to be glued to social media just to find out what's happening in a game I paid for? I'm not saying they should cease tweeting, but perhaps they could communicate with us more through other channels, too.
Its really irritating. You never see a Q&A on the official Forums, always on Twitter. The Gurus barely engage here, only on Twitter. Showing creations all the time from Game Changers and addressing their concerns, like lilsimsie does a rant and GuruKate is like: we love that constructive Critisism... how about you adress stuff from non Game Changers, and release it so everyone can see. The official EA Sims 4 Blog should adress a lot more, whats going on in the community, even when it is a Little bit negativ.
create a Blog where general Questions are beeing asked and answerd. Behind the Scenes stuff etc. so you dont always have to dig up on Twitter.
Like i didnt know there was this 🐸🐸🐸🐸 case going on. At least we have SimVip...
Right on. I don't even understand this game changer stuff, are they just people who essentially get paid to say nice things? That's the impression I get. I find everybody on YouTube incredibly annoying too, it's almost like a false positivity. LGR is the only one who doesn't grate on me.
It might stink, but I wasn't trying to go into whether or not it stinks at all. I think the OP's problem does not result from silence, but more from being told things they don't want to hear. I can relate to that, since Strangerville did not interest me nor am I pleased with the lack of bugfix patches in recent months. Still, these things have been communicated to us. We were told that developing time had been spent on Strangerville and we were told that patches would not be sent out on certain months. These were not things I wanted to hear but I didn't ignore them and disregard them as silence, they're very much influencing my opinion on the game (and whether or not I'll spend money on it) at the moment.
To put it more concisely, my point is that I would hope people are not ignoring what they're being told and anticipating something entirely different from it. I'd hope that people are instead taking that information and using it to make informed decisions about what they spend their money on, so that they won't be disappointed.
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Game Changers are a joke. I can't even stand watching their gameplay videos, they are all so one dimensional and cringy. I don't even understand why EA only listens to them but ok....
Also, agreed with the Twitter stuff. I can't stand it and don't use it ever, so it bugs me that a majority of the communication goes on over there instead of on official websites/forums. I think the thing that really annoyed me the most was when the gurus started giving away free packs on Twitter, meanwhile those of us on here or even on Facebook get totally left out of that stuff.