You do plan to move sims 3 builder threads here, RIGHT?!

ciane

I love the idea of sims 3 in its own forum, but where are the old threads? We were actively engaged in building and sharing on the old creative corner builders forums. I see that the sims 4 forum is full of old threads. Did you lose ours? Or have you just not gotten there yet?



I do hope that the old threads can be resurrected. All this disappearing forum stuff is so unfair, especially when it comes without a notice of intention so individuals can backup their threads.

creativemetaphor

Would it even be feasible to try to separate them out? It's really a shame if we lose them but from a practical standpoint I'm not sure they could really split that forum without each person who had a thread in it categorizing it as T3 and T4 and that probably wasn't going to happen.

ciane

BUT, the old threads are NOT in the sims 4 forum. So... they must have went somewhere! WHERE?

Julyvee94

SimGuruDrake said they're investigating the missing thread issue. I'm sure they'll restore them soon. Every company makes backups before maintenance or updates like this.

ciane

I certainly hope so. Last time they redid the forums was a real headache and the old links no longer go to individual threads, but to the main forum page. It was a real challenge to navigate to the old threads then and I'm sure it'll be even more difficult now. Bookmarks that go no where and internet searches that take you to a main forum page are NOT helpful. Just a heads up of intentions, more than posting a generic maintenance notice a few hours in advance would have been more helpful.

Kgaff

Once again it wasn't broken and they went and fixed it. Why?

FairyGodMother

ciane wrote: »

BUT, the old threads are NOT in the sims 4 forum. So... they must have went somewhere! WHERE?

I know I was just thinking of myself, when the forums came back. I wanted to rush to the DNA Request Team thread and to the builder (can't remember the spelling of her name, ramaje1?) and there was nothing. Everything was gone! I checked my wall, under comments, and nothing there!

I remember on Drakes twitter site, she said forums would be down for maintenance "Don't Panic" LOL. Well, my saying is "Panic Attack" OMG I hope they can revive the threads!

@Julyvee94 Thanks for letting us know that they are investigating the missing thread!

Julyvee94

More info:

https://twitter.com/julyveegaming/status/861970756279861248

Look at this on Twitter and read the replies

seems like the posts will be moved here soon.

ciane

Stories and builds... gone! I predict frustration will reach new levels soon. I'm off to the real world.

soocoolsim

I'm still keeping faith they'll restore everything shortly and not let us down.

MiaSkywalker

Julyvee94 wrote: »

More info:

Look at this on Twitter and read the replies

seems like the posts will be moved here soon.

I didn't see a single reply by anyone from EA. That's just one Simmer's twitter feed, so far as I can tell, and a few of her followers replying. It means nothing, if no EA personnel has responded.

But then, I don't twit, so I don't have a twitter account, and maybe I can't see that far without it. No idea.

@socoolsim: At the moment I'm cynical. They put all the appropriate threads from the various Creative forums into the Sims 4 forums, but have ignored everything from Sims 3. Forgive me for being cynical, but I don't think they're going to fix it. Has no one noticed, they just don't CARE about us?

jazen

ciane wrote: »

BUT, the old threads are NOT in the sims 4 forum. So... they must have went somewhere! WHERE?

I never understood why they combined S3 and S4 creative corners in the first place last time the did a 'maintenance'. Now they are going back and separating them again, so it just seems like extra work that could have been avoided by leaving them separate to begin with. The fact that they have NOTHING under the creative corner is very concerning. Players have spent years cultivating threads and now they are just wiped out with little word as to when/if they'll be back.

creativemetaphor

@MiaSkywalker

I didn't see a single reply by anyone from EA. That's just one Simmer's twitter feed, so far as I can tell, and a few of her followers replying. It means nothing, if no EA personnel has responded

I think this is was was being referenced:

https://twitter.com/SimGuruDrake/with_replies A few posts down seems to talk about restoring the missing threads.

lisasc360

jazen wrote: »

ciane wrote: »

BUT, the old threads are NOT in the sims 4 forum. So... they must have went somewhere! WHERE?

I never understood why they combined S3 and S4 creative corners in the first place last time the did a 'maintenance'. Now they are going back and separating them again, so it just seems like extra work that could have been avoided by leaving them separate to begin with. The fact that they have NOTHING under the creative corner is very concerning. Players have spent years cultivating threads and now they are just wiped out with little word as to when/if they'll be back.

Well actually the Creative Corner for TS3 was just called Creative Corner and not The Sims 3 Creative Corner which was probably why they moved it out of the TS3 section since it didn't have TS3 in it's title. But yet when they moved it, TS4 still had their own Creative Corner in the TS4 section. So that meant TS4 players had 2 places to share their stories, builds and creations whereas the TS3 players had to share the CC section that also the TS2/TS4 players used.

ciane

@SimGuruDrake mentions the possibility of just moving out the sims 3 thread from what was in the top creative corner before. Hopefully this will be done and the same will be done for the stories and legacies, sims and modeling, and worlds. And, of course, hopefully, it'll get started before too long.

Julyvee94

MiaSkywalker wrote: »

Julyvee94 wrote: »

More info:

Look at this on Twitter and read the replies

seems like the posts will be moved here soon.

I didn't see a single reply by anyone from EA. That's just one Simmer's twitter feed, so far as I can tell, and a few of her followers replying. It means nothing, if no EA personnel has responded.

@MiaSkywalker SimGuruDrake has replied to it (purple hair avatar) and she is official personnel of EA and the manager of the forums. Maybe this link makes things more clear since twitter can be wonky sometimes with showing all replies. But yeah that's not just one simmer's feed.

suzses

I think when they did the combined creative corner section when Sims 4 was newer, there were a lot of people creating for both games, and it seemed to make sense. That appears less true now. We had a group asking for a separate Sims 3 creative corner because it had become so difficult to find Sims 3 things in the combined section, and so they've responded by creating one for us. As to where the old posts went, I do hope they find them and can get them over here.

lisasc360

They have fixed the issue now with the old threads as they now have shown up in their proper sections....
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/stories-and-legacies

FairyGodMother

lisasc360 wrote: »

They have fixed the issue now with the old threads as they now have shown up in their proper sections....
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/stories-and-legacies

Thank you! Yea, the threads are back

lisasc360

You are quite welcome @charlotteprice...