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Realm of Magic: will they listen?
LSM36
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Like many simmers here, I've been waiting for a Supernatural pack, forever. I even made multiple posts about what we need in the pack. Same for general ideas.
(General https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/953652/what-we-want-to-see-in-2019/p1 )
(Worlds https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/962815/i-dream-of-worlds-2019-goals#latest )
(Supernatural https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/947085/ideas-for-a-new-supes-pack#latest )
Some of that seemed like they took our ideas on notice. But they've been giving us more things that we never asked for. Like oddly controlling stories in CAS, recolors of things we already paid for, the rebranding.
I'm a bit concerned that they're gonna just do whatever they want with RoM, and leave us all very disappointed.
What do you guys think? What do you think needs to be in it? What do you think they'll actually give us.
(General https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/953652/what-we-want-to-see-in-2019/p1 )
(Worlds https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/962815/i-dream-of-worlds-2019-goals#latest )
(Supernatural https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/947085/ideas-for-a-new-supes-pack#latest )
Some of that seemed like they took our ideas on notice. But they've been giving us more things that we never asked for. Like oddly controlling stories in CAS, recolors of things we already paid for, the rebranding.
I'm a bit concerned that they're gonna just do whatever they want with RoM, and leave us all very disappointed.
What do you guys think? What do you think needs to be in it? What do you think they'll actually give us.
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Realm of Magic: will they listen? 82 votes
They listened and will deliver
8%
7 votes
They sort of listened, and we're getting Supes like we got CAS stories
9%
8 votes
They've ignored us before, but it might be a pleasant surprise
32%
27 votes
We're screwed
17%
14 votes
Other (and I'll explain below)
31%
26 votes
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TS4 has like 20 million players. They’re making the best game for the entire player base. Their priority is never listening to what a vocal minority on the forums want.
I know that what I do expect is not what other people expect, and what I hope for is not what other people hope for. I know there are some suggestions out there that I really hope they did not listen to (pretty much anything that was over complicated and detailed, or that mimicked some other magic media too closely (i.e. Harry Potter knockoffs)). And there are others that I hope they did. (Anything that allowed for variable types of magic, like different elemental types or branching spell progression.)
What are we going to get? probably not everything I want. Certainly not what everyone wants - because everyone wants something slightly different. (I mean, the magic system I really want is more or less impossible within any computer game, because there are just too many variables for a program to handle it.) I just hope that it's close enough for enough people - and that doesn't have to include me.
I didn't realize that rebranding was something people wanted....people have been asking to have University,and we get a pointless rebranding. I've seen a lot of people who want game-breaking bugs fixed,and we et a Moschino pack instead. EA
Rebranding is not done within Maxis; it's done by EA marketing. And since when is their job to make only what we ask them to make? I'm not a game designer, just a consumer of games. I don't tell movie makers what to make or clothes designers what to make me. Why should I think that game designers aren't supposed to also actually create?
As to "Will they listen", I assume that a basic part of starting out a concept is to look at previous feedback. I also know that "listening" does not actually mean "doing what they're told to do by the speaker". Will they listen? Sure. But that might not mean what you think it ought to mean.
You have no idea what everyone wants. The vast majority of player do not participate in the online discussion of the game in any way whatsoever. It’s laughable to assume nobody wants something just because you’ve never seen anyone requesting it.
EA themselves, however, have access to things like past sales data of which packs sold the best/worst, and telemetry data of how everyone plays their game. They also hire research firms to study market trends, do feature testing through focus groups, etc. They know what the players want far, far better than you do.
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Honestly, there are too many ideas for this pack, they can't use them all AND make everyone happy. There are many ideas for a magic pack that I saw floating around that I don't want in my game.
And they also made the Vampire and Mermaid appearances linkable in the same patch! Which is AMAZING and I’ve wanted forever.
But regardless, I’m approaching realm of magic with high hopes that I’m desperately trying to wrangle to realism. Would I die of happiness if they gave us fairies AND witches AND werewolves? Yes. Yes I would. But more likely we are getting just witches. And a whole new world with some AWESOME CAS and build/buy items and a new magic skill, bare minimum. (At least from the screenies they have already released they are exceeding my expectations on that front).
Now, do I tentatively hope and think they MIGHT give us fairies, and some form of genies, too? Yes. But considering this is already looking more developed than the vampire stuff pack I won’t be too bummed if we don’t get them.
Honestly, I’ll only be bummed if they just make magic a skill with only one branch and don’t give witches the in depth take similar to vampires. I was fine with mermaids being fairly simple- they don’t have the wild variance in powers and myths like vampires do- but witches absolutely need something like different branches of magic or different types of magic skills. However, I would forgive this if they did both witches and fairies and if the usable items were nice enough.
Heck, I don't even know what I'd like the pack to be like.
I also like wandering the hills.
Sims 4 has been really disappointing for me.
Sims 3 was far better, better game play, more to do and even the sims themselves looked better and I loved the sims 3 store.
Sims 1: Hot Date
Sims 2: Seasons
Sims 2: Happy Holiday Stuff
Sims 3: Seasons
Sims 3: 70's, 80's, & 90's Stuff
Sims 4: Seasons
Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff
Sims 4: Strangerville Game Pack
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
90% things no one talked about and sims team just thought would be cool to make for game
10% ''oh wait this is what people talk about on forums??? why didn't we think of this'' small additions
I don't think its going to be ''forum perfect'' pack
but I do feel it could still be cool though in its own way
just hope that 10% is spicy and they didn't go too one genre
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