Simms 44 rent: Deceptive advertising

ReflectedLight · December 2023

Everyone knows a "lot" is one location you load entirely and access all of it. So they advertise "multiple families on one lot" making people think they'll be dealing with multiple families on one loaded lot simultaneously, only to find out they put separate sub-lots on one lot, like apartments in the city, and you have to load each sub lot like you used to load one lot.

Claiming "multiple families on one lot" is flat out deceptive advertising.

usualsuspect · December 2023

Respectfully, I will have to disagree. You can have multiple families living on one lot. They made it very clear jn their live stream and through social media that there would be load screens playing other families on the same lot.

LolaLuvsSims · December 2023

I have to agree with @usualsuspect

Simmingal · December 2023

I mean it would just sound kind of weird to write ''multiple lots for your families on one lot''
so to me it works to just say multiple families on one lot

greydonn · December 2023

I mean, they made it pretty clear that there would be loading screens. It might suck, but it's not false advertising.

EgonVM · December 2023

I went with "How it was in The Sims 2 Apartment Life" interpretation: multiple families live in one lot, but only one is active at the time.

I think that depends on how familiar is the player with The Sims games. For those like me who are well familiar with The Sims games, we'd see that one lot contains more than one household, and only one household is active at the time. For those not, maybe, but the other sims living in different units do come out from time to time to do stuff.

Oh, and also, those who have played City Living or Eco Lifestyle should also be familiar with this.

Oh, reading it again, oh no, I disagree. I am pretty bad at reading between the lines though...

Simpatsyann · December 2023

I’ve found it pretty clear right from the start how it was going to work and in no way found it deceptive.

friendlysimmers · December 2023

i also agree with @usualsuspect and i also create multiple familys in game so its not deceptive

RedDestiny92 · December 2023

People tend to take wording a little too literally, just like when they have a live stream there is always someone who thinks it'll be a gameplay thing like any lets play. Just because they have one family active of a time doesn't mean it's not still multiple families on one lot it just doesn't work that way. Now if they said something like, for the first time bringing sims together that would be more of an issue but it was clear.

pvrescue1 · December 2023

ReflectedLight wrote: »

Claiming "multiple families on one lot" is flat out deceptive advertising.

How, when that's quite literally how it is?

Iceman_ · December 2023

They did it as I interpreted it and as I expected. In fact, I would have been surprised if it were as you describe it.

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