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“Prior to this re-branding, each expansion had its own feel and look to it. We could easily tell which expansions gave us which objects in buy/build mode just by seeing the icon color. That won't be the case anymore. Now I will have to use a magnifying glass while playing just to see which EP it is since it won't be distinctive by color.“
Yeah, this is the thing. What color it has on the front page? Who gives a... ? But when I look for Island Living or Get Famous building stuff? I am looking for a warm yellow or a dark reddish-purple dot. Now I will have to put on my reading glasses and try to determine if that's a palm tree or not.
It's called memory. You should try it. Plus the icons are different.
100% intentional I'd say.
People with colorblindness already couldn't use pack colour for distinguishing (and none of us could use pack colour to distinguish between different GPs or SPs, only EPs). They can still use the image design, as before, and the filtering system, as before. I do think there are legit concerns with the loading screen, based on what some people have said. Personally, I prefer *any* blue to white for not triggering/worsening my migraines -- the contrast between the game's blueness and the white loading screen is migraine-triggering, like suddenly walking into bright sunshine, which this blue won't do (the change to make it not solid white helped somewhat but not completely) -- but would prefer it more for that if it were broken up/textured, not solidly one colour.
Why, btw, does the "Filter for pack" on build items "stick", but get reset on CAS items immediately?
Personally, I don't care overmuch, but the the new colors for the icons will make it harder for me to distinguish between packs, and like you mentioned, the expansion and game pack colors are virtually identical. Like, why even have different colors at that point, just make everything the same shade of blue and be done with it. My glasses prescription is a bit behind, and let me tell you, I'm already having trouble reading those new icons without squinting.
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I'll be a sheep with you. I love it too! To be fair, the fact you and i both love occults also makes us the black sheep of this forum, seeing how many HATE anything occult. At least we like the update, so no need for us to be upset about it, which is nice.
They finished the gay pride rainbow colors. That was the target.
It's called being sarcastic. You completely are missing my point. Maybe you should try actually reading. How is this so hard to understand, and why is nobody still answering my questions? WHY do you need to have a different color for every expansion BUT NOT FOR game and stuff packs? OP was complaining about expansions being a different color as if they themselves couldn't memorize the stupid icons either.
I hate it most.
Here are the reasons why I hate it.
1. Sims looks too similar. They lack characters. They are all young adult and have the same figure.
2. Lesbian couple are being lampooned .
That purple hair girl looks evil and dressed like a gold digger. Another girl just looks stupid.
3. I don’t know why they put a sim in cook uniform in the middle. There are so many jobs in the base game and they just choose this one?
4. The Sims 4 title is entirely white. That makes no sense. Are they trying to use The Sims 4 to represent the whole sims franchise? 4 should be colored different with The Sims title in my opinion.
The Dark Teal and the Blue between expansion packs and game packs remind me of the Dilbert strip where Wally changes "Red, Green, Yellow" for alarm colors in the office to "Eggshell, off-white and cream".
How do you mean? I don't get that sense, at all.
Considering that the ability to even have same-sex couples was unprecedented when The Sims launched, and the franchise went on to become an enormous commercial success defying (persistent) conventional wisdom which says "you can't put that in a game or it won't sell", I'd say what they are actually doing is putting their longstanding, ongoing support - which has not been static, but consistently improved over the life of the franchise - front and center on the cover of the game.
How is that "being lampooned"?
Could we stand more age diversity and body diversity? Sure.
Is it a crime against art? No.
2. This... just doesn't make sense. Explain, please?
2.5? Purple hair... that you think she looks like a gold digger says more about you than her or the cover. Seems you have issues with women dressing how they want to.
I promise I support women rights and I believe a woman can wear what she wants.
It’s just the facial expression they showed on the cover gives me that feeling.
It looks like she is scheming some evil plans.
And the other girl’s pupil could be enlarged to avoid a stupid look.
Maybe I just thought too much. My bad.
The position of the icons in the start up screen is an improvement but that is about the only positive change.
The old icons look better than the new ones. I can see why they want to settle on one colour for all EP's but if you only have 3 colours for the different pack types they should be clearly distinguishable. The full colour background in the old style made them easy to recognise.
The new start up screen looks too flashy and aggressive to appeal to me. I hope I won't get a headache from the very frequent loading screen after the update. but this complaint is personal preference, I suppose.
As for the box art, with digital copies it is completely irrelevant to me.
I missed the presentation yesterday, and watched the edited version today. I must thank you for posting these images. They didn't talk about that in the part I saw. Blue being my all-time favorite color, I really can't complain too much.
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Plus they can use different shades of the same color.
Yeah that's weird. I didn't think of it until you said it but it is both more stylized and more complicated than the old one. Which seems like a failure to me.