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Sims 4 selling well in Germany
alanmichael1
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The German fanpage Simtimes.de reports that TS4 has won the sales award in gold of the German Gaming Industry for selling more than 100.000 copies in the months of September:
simtimes.de/die-sims-4-gehoert-zu-den-erfolgreichsten-spielen-im-september-17376/
The most successful game in Germany was however FIFA soccer for playstation (also a game by EA, so you can be sure they are drinking champagne right now).
simtimes.de/die-sims-4-gehoert-zu-den-erfolgreichsten-spielen-im-september-17376/
The most successful game in Germany was however FIFA soccer for playstation (also a game by EA, so you can be sure they are drinking champagne right now).
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We're mostly happy with what we get
I went to Saturn this week (a big German electronic/games retailer) and looked at the PC games charts - Risen 3 was in second place behind TS4. Surprisingly, a Sims 3 "starter pack" (base game combined with Late Night and Luxury Accessoires) was still in 6th place and even sold out!
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You mean because we can't stand our defeat? Don't overestimate the political knowledge of young gamers
Selling so well that EA has been acting as though Sims never existed.
But it's odd really about Sims 4.
Risen 3 is:
- openworld huge game
- with brilliant graphics and unbeatable vistas I haven't seen anywhere else
- with total of 20 bugs nonnitpicking player probably won't even notice (check DS tech section for details)
- with horrible inventory system
Sims 4 is totally opposite except it has also a horrible inventory system just like Risen 3.
Either Germany decided to go casual or Deep Silver's marketing failed.
Sims 3 sold out is not surprising at all.
Past few years openworld games sell like a cure for cancer. Sims 3 is one, Skyrim is another, GTA whatever number also, etc.
Non violent games have a much higher probability to sell well in Germany as the extreme censoring has found ground in mainstream german consumerism... Which relates to my earlier remark about german simulators. They're the result of years of trying to eradicate all violence from electronic entertainment.
Ummm... Risen 3 and The Sims 4 are different games, from different genres.
Well... I really dunno why The Stick of Truth had to be censored for Germany, Austria, Australia and New Zealand. It's a satirical game based on satirical cartoon. And it's IMO a brilliant game and censoring anything inside just kills it.
I'd never buy censored versions of anything thus I believe you that it might be the cause.
@EsnesNommoc
It's not about the genre here. Traditionally german games should outsell everything else in Germany. Even if people are not into a genre, they'll buy/try it.
Well, then I guess The Sims 4 must be really good then, having outsold their own German game.
I think your analysis is right! But on the other hand, Sims 4 has the lowest rating (6+) of all countries in Germany because we are not afraid of gay relationships and invisible pixel-sex
To get back on topic... Um.... Well done Germans lol
If we get the "Tudor World" shown in a lot of screenshots, your Sims can feel like in Northwestern Germany
All I know is that most all of the german folk I know personally are far less prone to violence than I am, lol. How much of that is the result of cultural conditioning I dare not judge as I myself belong to a tribal people known as Dayaks. Peaceful coexistence is for my people a somewhat modern concept. ^^
Merkel should be a world president. Germany does things others don't even dare to think about, for example stepping on Steam's toe on the matter of reselling used games:
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Valve-Modifying-Steam-EULA-VZBV-Files-Complaint-With-Court-Berlin-52002.html
Also, how about this one:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/german-court-bans-internet-throttling-652128
This scale of protecting consumers is impossible to do outside of Germany.
And have you seen recent movements? Advertising a game as free while it contains pay2win stuff inside is on the edge to become (if it's not already) illegal business.
If there is antigerman sentiment, it comes from scamming companies.
And those who hate beer.
I agree that it is less about the war now than say, 10 years ago. The currency switch to the € has a lot to do with that, though the worth of the coin is now tied to the poorest country participating as opposed to the situation before, when many countries based the intrensic worth of their coin to the Mark. Historically, countries where wealthy by proximity to Germany.
Regardless, I think that it will take a few decades before the world reallys stops punishing Germany, but most importantly, the germans stop punishing themselves.
So we are almost neighbours, I live in Münster, just 70 km from the Dutch border
@alanmichael1 Münster is neat
That aside I am glad Sims 4 is doing well in Germany as over my years with Sims (since day 1 of it's existance) I have often sought out German sites when ever i was looking for good Holiday CC seeing they really are good at making Sims CC. I also love many of the Sims 3 Caw and Sims 2 template worlds made from European sites - especially Germany.
I think I am especially happy there are lots of Sims loving people in the world - if i can say nothing else about this game - I have learned the most because I am a simmer that people around the world are very much like me. The Sims game itself always showed a world with no violence (for the most part it was the player that mocked evil as there is no real evil in the Sims) and best of all no bigotry. It is a world I wish we lived in just because all the Sims take each other at face value and never judge.
One thing I have always done though before there was a Sims game is focus on the positive of all the worlds countries and all the things modern people have today thanks to the efforts of people and their determination to make the world in general a better place. It seems fitting a game like the Sims would do well regardless of what is or isn't missing in it. Just for what it stands for.
As an American whose family history is English on one side and Norweigan and Dutch on the other, and began with the founding of Jamestown - I am by all rights as American as one can get - hold no anx toward any people in the world, instead feel grateful to the worlds outstanding people who invented things, who found cures for things, the literature and arts - and of their non-warring years histories. I suppose it all depends on ones own focus in life. I will always be happy to see a little peaceful game like the Sims doing well. To me it is sort of the link that binds me to all my simming friends. To me it does not matter where you are from or where you live - I am just priviledged to know you all and I do thank the Sims games for making it all possible.
So yeah - I am very glad it is an award winning game in Germany.
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