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Strangerville selling better than Island Living & Get Famous, surprised?
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Just checked Origin’s most popular games, and Strangerville is the #1 selling Sims game at the moment, doing better than Get Famous (which was released 2 months or so before), and Island Living which was just released.
It’s also doing better than the Base Game but 7 million people just downloaded it so I imagine it would be a while before it gets popular again for sales.
Does this surprise you guys?
Are you surprised a Linear story pack is doing so well?
Do you think Maxis will make more of these packs now?
It’s also doing better than the Base Game but 7 million people just downloaded it so I imagine it would be a while before it gets popular again for sales.
Does this surprise you guys?
Are you surprised a Linear story pack is doing so well?
Do you think Maxis will make more of these packs now?
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Just because some people rail against it here means absolutely nothing. It's funny when people assume and pontificate that if they don't like something and the group they listen to doesn't like it no one will or should.
I personally still haven't used it as a linear pack... I don't even think about it that way. I haven't finished the story as intended yet either.. as in beating the mother because I've only had sims join her when I played that far into it. I just play with the features often and merge them and the build/buy into my game play on their own. The possession is a funny/slightly creepy addition now you don't need to play out the story to have use of it. The military career is a staple. That wonderful but kind of strange world is just fun to live in and tell my sims stories from. The build/buy has merged nicely also into my game at this point. Not sure I can do without the juke box or training bot especially but I could go on about what I enjoy in this pack. So yeah... no not surprised in the least that it's selling well. The devs seemed super excited about it and it shows in the details for me when I play with it.
It is my favorite gamepack so far ... although Realm of Magic might push it down a notch soon since I've been waiting for Witches since day one.
There are loads of other simmers out there who enjoy playing occults and enjoy having more unusual things in their game. I like a mix of reality and sci-fi. I'm glad to hear the pack is doing well!
As for IL, that's easily explained by the period of availability, cost differences, and sales (which haven't affect IL yet to my knowledge)
So no, I'm not surprised it's currently the most popular. I don't see this as evidence that the pack is doing particularly well compared to others though. That said, this isn't something I study or pay attention to. I wouldn't know whether or not a similar trend existed with other game packs in the past.
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The mystery was a ton of fun for me because i had a Sim who was a retired scientist that would have been in the military if I had it back when she was a YA. She was the perfect person to fight the Mother and she rocked it out. Then married one of the military guys who she got info from 😃
I found the pack a breath of fresh air with the different gameplay. I do see it as something I can do again in other saves with different Sims taking different angles for defeating the Mother (or not 😉).
The cheapest pack wins?
Other than that, if SV really is selling well, I'm not that surprised. The """"story"""" is total garbage, but it has excellent BB items, gave Sims 4 the much-requested laptops, includes an appealing (if small) neighborhood, brings back one of the most popular careers, and offers something other than the ocean of SoL packs we've been getting, while also giving people options to ignore those spooky elements. Story aside, it's a really well-done pack.
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
Is that the annoying thing they do when they bounce up and down trying to get other sims excited?
I do really like island living pack. But after 2-3 days of playing it, I lost some interest. The game play gets verrrry repetitive after a bit of time.
I feel like Get Famous could be a really great pack, but celebrities are soooo buggy. I can understand why that’d put off some players.
Nope, that's annoying too though. It's the wave they do to paparazzi I think... It's what scam was showing in currently running autonomy at least... That's incite cheers, already disabled the autonomy for it. Fans are annoying too, that's why I got Lilith Vatore (the celebrity in question) manipulate emotions to make them all uncomfortable.
It's probably doing well now because of "word of mouth" type recommendations, ignoring the critics. It just takes a bit longer to take off that's all.
I hope they do. A few of the devs have talked a bit about what some of us would like to see in another pack like this one. People sound excited on twitter anyway. I'd definitely buy more like this style. I like variety and it reminds me a lot of the first Sims game that had side stories in the eps. Making Magic had a number of good side stories.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
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Ooh how did you disable autonomy for incite cheers? I hate it.