Admittedly, I'm not a reality TV fan. But from the clip I saw on youtube... everything about this show was a bit painful and awkward to watch. I only saw some weird storytelling segment were they had to improv a real estate agent for a busted Sims house. What is the point of this show? Is it popular? If so why? Would love to hear from fans who can detail its merits as much as anyone who agrees with me.
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The Spark'd Show was just too boring.
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If I wanna watch stuff directly tied to my nerdy interests, Ive got the internet. Ive got people I follow that know their audience and tailor content for their audience. Not a tv network trying to be "relatable".
Let's make Liberty and Justice For All a reality.
As we all know, it can take MANY, MANY hours to create impressive builds, stories, etc. They would give creators like 30 minutes--which lead to understandably underwhelming results. Nothing was creative or inspiring. They also forced them to work on teams, which just dulled the creative process even further. It was so hard to take any of it seriously. I watch a lot of the creators who they featured on their respective youtube channels, and a lot of them are talented players with interesting personalities--- and none of that came through. They all seemed to take Spark'd as a joke because it was set-up to be one.
Plus, there's the sad added truth that there's only so much you can bring to the game without any CC at all. I really tried to sit through it all, but in the end I never did.
One, I've seen some of the people on it through their YouTube before the show, and they came off as bland on the show.
They gave the contestants such little time that the stories they came up with were limited or fairly bland. I felt like they were trying to emulate Face Off, Skin Wars, Project Runway when it came to limited time to do something. The Sims really can't do that.
Plus, they didn't focus on the game really at all, they had a goal, and that was it. It really would have been nice to see them cover the history of the game, and what made up the packs. Like, I was watching them create, and the game looks complete, which it isn't. They don't show the CAS, or anything else. People coming in would come in thinking what you see is what you get, not realizing the cost to get the whole game, and maybe not a clue on how to play the game.
So, long story short, never again should they do Spark'd.
I think they should have invested those resources into their bug forum, instead of relying on unpaid players to manage their issues. It would create a much more favourable impression.
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I doubt it'll be back for a second season, the final episode didn't even get 250k views. Plumbella was in the series and her YouTube videos pretty much all get more views than that within days. I really doubt they made any profit on the show at all, if anything they probably lost money from it.
So yeah, throw it on Youtube or Twitch and maybe this can work... Or maybe mix it up and extend it to 10 to 12 episodes with more people tournament style or something.
Idk just spit ballin'.
Either way, as it is right now... 4 episodes would be good as a mini-series on a streaming platform and is kinda odd on a cable channel.
In my opinion anyway. (=
The big critique I have is that it pitted creators against each other. Like others have pointed out The Sims is not a competitive game so to make a competition show out of it just seemed off. They would have been better getting all the creators together then for each episode give them all a collective challenge and see what they could come up with when you combine all that talent. Nobody was given a time to shine, it was all too quick. The majority of them came across as bland. We all know they're not but newcomers to the series would not have got that. I also found DrGluon to be very unlikeable on the show.
Do I think it will get a second season? Probably not. Do I think it should? Maybe... but they'd have to make some serious changes to the format for it to work.