I have noticed that majority of the EA game changers have been overly positive about the new game pack. Noticed Deligracy has deactivated her twitter account for lecturing people who have given a negative response to the new game pack.
It is very unusual to have a game changer who hasn't been negative about the lack of features especially for a game pack that wasn't highly requested compared to other features. Isn't that the definition of "Game-Changer" pointing out what the game needs? Are they speaking for what the community has wanted?
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The alternative is no communication at all though so I think that it is still good that we have them. But when they say things like "don't like it don't buy it" or "I don't care, I love X" I do wonder how much feedback that they actually are providing.
They're not all positive either, I've seen a few on Twitter now voice concerns and displeasure with this particular announcement. I've seen some be more critical in the past too.
Also they might be scared to lose their game changer status if they criticize too much.
In order for them to continue receiving perks, they HAVE to remain positive in their opinions about TS4 and its packs. So really, they may look like us as regular simmers, but bottom line they speak for EAxis. And because of that, I don't trust any of them.
It's just all so strange! The previous iterations were amazing with gameplay and content. They all sold well without any of these game changers or polls - even without these things, the packs were still able to draw so many different types of simmers.
For TS5, I don't want them at all. I want EAxis to take our direct feedback from here and the various social media they are on. WE are the ones buying their games and funding development of their projects and paying their salaries. They should be listening to us. We don't need the extra layer of game changers that EAxis hides behind.
It's almost like the GC have forgotten they used to be regular players like the rest of us, that they had the same complaints as us, that they felt as unimportant to the dev team as the rest of us... But now, they have been afforded privileges that mean they no longer view The Sims through the lens of the common player.
It's easy to forgive something, when you have no investment in it. For GC it's easy for them to be remain positive or forgive the multitude of sins the game has, when they are essentially; given the game for free, given early access to the game, are given some level of involvement in the game, given access to the team/devs, and are indirectly making money of the game.
And as for them saying 'don't like it, don't buy it' or similar sentiments if just reeks of 'celebrities' who tell the common working individual how they should feel/react etc... while sitting in their multi million dollar home. Extreme comparison I know but the underlying reasoning is the same.
I think the angry mob is just expecting them to grab pitchforks and torches and lead the riots when they're actually doing better by being more mature about feedback and going into details about the whys and hows and what could have been done better. Or just stating when something doesn't suit their personal preferences.
They're also generally better about keeping their perceptions in context; that it's just a game and content is not always going to be what they were hoping for.
I agree with this. Game changers don’t speak for me. There are ones that agree with me but say nothing or water their thoughts down to avoid negative backlash and the ones who want to keep on the right side of EA to keep getting free packs, other merchandise and free trips across the world will gush.
The game changer programme should be dumped, it should have been dumped after the controversy it had. All it does is divide the community into important people (as decided by the EA) and non important people. The non important people who are spending their hard earned cash on the products are being ignored while the important people who get everything for free and then some are held up to speak for us. Well I’m sorry, it’s not personal to game changers but they don’t speak for me.
This. To elaborate on this, if you don't have a significant following in Social Media, YT or the gallery or can show that in some other way you have a forum to communicate with a large part of the community, you cannot become a Game Changer. So these Simmers didn't just appear out of nowhere, they have a following. Whether you want a GC to speak for you is besides the point. They have influence in the community that's how they got the "job".
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If we assume that by 'us' you mean 'everyone who plays sims games', that is such a varied group of people and preferences that no matter what a game changer would say, there'd be a huge amount of simmers not agreeing with them.
They are -- as pointed out -- obvious marketing tool, them playing the packs early, making let's plays, showing off CAS and build mode in more detail is wonderful and thorough way for us to see what is in each pack. It's a well-working system, offering us full details preview.
They also each have their own audiences, and through their feedback and comments or stream-chat, they tend to have a good view on what their audience likes or doesn't like in the sims, which they can allegedly forward to the devs in an easy way, but that feedback is just from the audience of that particular game changer. Not even all the simmers that watch youtube or streaming, just that particular audience. That leaves out the simmers who only speak on forums, or don't speak out anywhere and just play.
It is already logistically impossible to 'speak for us', let alone find anything all the simmers would agree on. So they play the sims, and say what they like and don't like, and since they -are- simmers, sim fans, loving the franchise so much that they've dedicated years of their life to playing and streaming and editing and producing content about the sims, it's of course both to be expected and understandable that they -like- sims.
So no, they do not speak for us, nor could they even if they tried. They have early access to content and show what it's like, and beyond that they're simmers, just like us. They like some things, they don't like some things.
"Game Changers is EA’s community partnership program that fuses content creators and expert players directly into the game development process enabling early collaborative feedback for improvements. We also empower innovative storytelling by granting creators early access to gameplay capture."
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It's interesting how we are reading this so differently. To me the bolded parts mean that EA gets feedback from GCs as representatives of the community, which means that they represent the community in their communication with EA. At least that's how I understand part of the purpose of this program.
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Ok, I see where we lose each other. To me 'speak for' and 'represent' are synonymous in this context. I mean, of course I speak for myself but if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound ...?
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they may influence their fans opinions but that again does not mean whole community shares that opinion
and lastly i feel like many gamechangers have too similar opinions on few things and its really just one part of players talking
and i do not often agree with that part
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Plumbella is my favourite GC so I'm interested to hear her opinion. She's never afraid to criticise a pack when it deserves it but her feedback is always constructive. As a family-oriented Simmer I'd love to know what she thinks of this mess.
I would like to know too! I’m not sure if she’s a Star Wars fan. But then the English Simmer loves Star Wars and even she had some nit picks about the trailer. (Re used animations etc)