Indifferent. I don't have an Alexa, but I'm sure some players will find it fun, and making it was probably a good creativity & technical boost for some people in-house, which will be to my benefit eventually.
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I still don’t completely understand the point of those devices in the first place!? I guess it’s a side effect of getting old.. anyway I’m sure someone will enjoy it.
I still don’t completely understand the point of those devices in the first place!? I guess it’s a side effect of getting old.. anyway I’m sure someone will enjoy it.
It's for lazy people who don't want to go through the work of unlocking their phone or turn on their computer and put some music on youtube, simple.
Someday we will all have an app that opens our eyelids for us.
I don't have an Alexa, because it does not make sense for me. And the Sims app or skill doesn't add anything exciting. I don't listen to TS music outside of the game, I am not interested in answering trivia questions about The Sims (and my friends even less so) and I don't need a robotic voice telling me about the history of The Sims by asking me every 20 seconds whether I wish to hear more. So yeah, I guess I don't get it. I am more confused than anything else.
I don't have an Alexa, but it sounds like it'll be interesting for the people that use one. It was a passion project that didn't take away anything from future content so I don't understand why people are so angry.
I don't have an Alexa but kind of interested for music. So who knows in the next year or so I might get with the program. I think it's nice that it reaches out to that market/population though. I agree too if it's a passion project it's a good thing. Welcome to @SimGuru0x00 also!
People want to have a device that listens to every word in its range to play sims music and play trivia... Do I really need to explain why thats a silly thing to have regardless of taste?
Are they trying to sell copies of The Sims 4 or Alexa enabled devices......? Either way this has nothing to do with the game. Not sure why they needed to live stream it as if it’s something important.
I dont have an alexa, i have gone down the google home route instead. I think maybe if the video had felt more like a normal maxis monthly, which had updates from each sims platform and what is being cooked up for the future, and then ended the stream with a focus on this fun new side project and if hey had revealed that it was also being released as an app for IOS and Android devices too, then i think it would maybe have been received slightly differently.
Im indifferent because it simply isnt relevant to me- just like i am indifferent to news on the sims mobile etc because i play the sims 4 on PC.
If you want to manage those expectations about the maxis monthly segments i think it would be wise to keep a more solid format each month with news updates from the 3 different platforms followed by a spotlight segment on something new for the sims empire/one of those platforms. That way people get what they are craving each time- an update on the platform that they use and then they can choose to stick around to hear about the spotlight item if it feels of interest to them. That might control some of the hype and the dissapointment and frustration they are experiencing in chat.
To be honest having watched about half of the video i turned off because it felt too strongly like a massive advert for alexa. I know it wasnt meant to be but thats honestly how it came across. I think maybe a little less focus on the idea as a whole and round ups for the platforms coming first (i currently have no idea if they mentionned the other platforms at all because i gave up watching in the end) would have lessened that feeling, and also mentionning from the outset that it is available as an app on other platforms so everyone can access the content would have really helped more people feel like it was relevant to them and just understanding that the idea was originally sparked around alexa and built in the devs own time as a fun project for everyone to play with, but was being demo'd on an alexa to show it to its full potential.
I feel like they could have just posted 'the sims is coming to alexa' on the forums, twitter etc instead of a livestream. I think people wouldn't have gotten so angry if they just said whatever it was in a quick, simple way rather than 'hyping' things through the stream (which now apparently isn't going to share any upcoming info, announcements for sims 4, which a lot of people only watch for those.. so bit pointless now I suppose, the time spent there could be used elsewhere regardless of whether they say it doesn't take away from the game, I believe it does )
Just want to note that "excited" sits at 8% right now. Not bad considering 11% of Americans apparently own an Alexa device. (Might be a bit higher as that was as of a year ago.) FWIW, if I did have one I'd probably only use it to check the weather and change the music, but if half or more of Simmers owning one are into Sims-related use, that's a decent number.
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It has nothing to do with the game itself so.....whatever.
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It's for lazy people who don't want to go through the work of unlocking their phone or turn on their computer and put some music on youtube, simple.
Someday we will all have an app that opens our eyelids for us.
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Like I just don't care in the slightest.
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But if someone enjoys it, more power to them.
Im indifferent because it simply isnt relevant to me- just like i am indifferent to news on the sims mobile etc because i play the sims 4 on PC.
If you want to manage those expectations about the maxis monthly segments i think it would be wise to keep a more solid format each month with news updates from the 3 different platforms followed by a spotlight segment on something new for the sims empire/one of those platforms. That way people get what they are craving each time- an update on the platform that they use and then they can choose to stick around to hear about the spotlight item if it feels of interest to them. That might control some of the hype and the dissapointment and frustration they are experiencing in chat.
To be honest having watched about half of the video i turned off because it felt too strongly like a massive advert for alexa. I know it wasnt meant to be but thats honestly how it came across. I think maybe a little less focus on the idea as a whole and round ups for the platforms coming first (i currently have no idea if they mentionned the other platforms at all because i gave up watching in the end) would have lessened that feeling, and also mentionning from the outset that it is available as an app on other platforms so everyone can access the content would have really helped more people feel like it was relevant to them and just understanding that the idea was originally sparked around alexa and built in the devs own time as a fun project for everyone to play with, but was being demo'd on an alexa to show it to its full potential.
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