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Sorry totally off topic, but I love your avatar and siggy .
Some people don't play Sims 4, they play the previous games (myself included). Some people use mods to fix the issues and broken things and enjoy their game. Some people like or even love The Sims 4 despite it's issues. Some people, like yourself, have no issue and all is well. It's a mixed bag on the forums. And if you look at the OP, The Sims is what gets mentioned mostly, the 20 years the franchise has existed is even brought up. I thought this covered all Sims games over the 20 years or at least The Sims 1-The Sims 4 until near the end where they single out The Sims 4.
It's nice you don't have issues, I'm happy you don't, but that's clearly not the case for everyone based on the list of bugs and the complaints. What happens when those issues that aren't yours becomes issues of say 25% to 50% of new players coming in because of the game show? Not every single issue but some experience these two bugs, some experience this one bug, etc. Then those new players are suddenly here or on other platforms and annoyed with the game too. Wouldn't you want the team to fix those issue so everyone who isn't as lucky as you can enjoy it as well?
I'll try to watch it on Buzzfeed in the UK and make my own judgements then. I'm Just hoping that there won't be too much hysteria from the Simmers taking part. It's about time Simmers got some real challenges and we might all get some tips on building and gameplay. 👍❤
@Simburian It is still EA's budget though. They decide how much budget the marketing team will get and how much the development team will get and people are being negative because the development team is always complaining about having a limited budget and having to recycle a lot of things. Why won't they give the development team more budget to at least fix the bugs but the marketing team has enough money to get Vanessa Hudgens, Sabrina the teenage witch to do ads for them and now a reality show.
If you have money for a TV show you have money to fix the bugs! There is no excuse.
In EA's Q3 2020 Financial Report it shows TS4 has over 20 million unique players.
For perspective:
The Sims 1 – 11 million copies
The Sims 2 – 6 million copies
The Sims 3 – 7 million copies
I would think that somewhere there would be funds to keep those 20 million playing a good game. Don't get me wrong. I could spend hours in TS4 CAS. I think they did a brilliant job and I don't use brilliant often. Even though I enjoy building in TS3 more I can still spend a lot of time building in TS4. It's when it comes to actual game play that I spend....maybe an hour...and then turn the game off. I can't even begin to play without a pile of mods and cheats.
When I look back I know I was playing TS3 on a computer, that while good, that wasn't adequate. Just like everyone else I had crashes and bugs. Eventually I knew I loved the game enough to invest in it. My husband and I don't have a huge income so it took me three years to save enough for a good gaming computer with an SSD. But I saved and did it. TS3 now plays so well without crashes and so many problems I had previously. It's like playing a different game. I can honestly say that I have not had one game crash.
So am I! I saw on Twitter that there will be 4 episodes.
I am so confused!
What time?!
Also, what is Buzzfeed multiplayer? I've heard it's a youtube channel, is it?
Is that where we can see it for those of us who don't have tv service available?
But just like Sims 4 isn't a bug ridden, crashing mess for everyone neither is Sims 3. Just like I'm sure Sims 2 and Sims 1 weren't bug ridden, crashing messes for everyone either. There are people right now who if told they could join playing their preferred Sims game would probably join in and run those games flawlessly. And to me it'd be better, though not by much. Even though I know of and like a few of the game changers, this show is unnecessary to me, but it'd be better because Sims 4 lacks so much depth when it comes to gameplay and personalities. I'm sure you'd disagree though and that's fine.
And as has been said before in the past and even in this thread once or twice, maybe to do better for the game some adjustments in how much funding goes where is needed. Despite the fact that some of us have little to no problems with whatever Sims game(s), doesn't mean that no problems that need to be addressed exist.
Basegame has no lots that are 64x64.
I've been playing Sims since Sims 1 just came out, the basegame on pc is all I got, and it was given as a gift when Sims 4 just came out. Like me, there are good builders with no income, and yes, no way to earn an income. Life ain't fair, but could we at least be somewhat fair to all players in Sims?
I think it's on 11pm on Fridays, then repeated at 8am on Saturdays. Check your local listings, as they say in the ads.
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In listening to the things I've heard on various "Playing with the developers" and interviews with the producers, they're probably not going to do TS5 any time soon. They would have continued with TS3 if it hadn't been that it was so hard on many computers. I build my own computers (and have since TS1 was ending and TS2 was about to start) that I generally don't have too much difficulty with either TS3 or TS4, but I do know that there are many people who had loads of problems with TS3 on their computer that don't have nearly as much difficulty with TS4.
There is still room to grow with TS4, so it's not likely that even if I had not heard the interviews that I would think that it would be a long time before we had TS5.
And as well as it looks like TS4 is doing for EA, I doubt they'd decrease the advertising budget to put into the development budget. That's not how most corporations work. If they can get more people to buy the game with advertising, they do so.
However, for all its bugs (and I had a doozy recently with the 134:b378c837 bug), they do give us patches *much* more quickly than they have in the past. It used to be several months before we'd get any patches. For instance, I bought SimCity 4 the same day I bought TS1. SimCity was unplayable for me for about 5 months (until they came out with SimCity Rush Hour) and *finally* patched it. (Fortunately, I had TS1 to keep me busy in the meantime.) And unfortunately, that was typical in those days (even when there was a The Sims bug.) But now we get bugs fixed on a monthly basis (although I suspect they still have to work on some.)
And we have far more presence of the SimGurus than we had in the old TS1 and TS2 days. Now we have EAMai and others coming on the forums regularly as well as reaching out through the EA GameChangers. And there are paid people handling forum problems like people acting out or otherwise breaking the rules. In the old days, the only people who had access to the SimGuru equivalents (like MaxisHydra, MaxisDrea and the others) were the SimMasters. And they were all volunteers (ie. unpaid help) who were expected to handle the forum problems *and* help people with their computers, game problems and the like.
For all our complaints, we Simmers have *much* better "customer support" than we had in the days of TS1 and TS2. No matter how well they do, there will always be more that can be done, but I'm grateful for the improvements they've made over the years!
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I wouldn't mind having a go, the only thing putting me off is the having to show emotion on international TV. (I don't want to be filmed crying!) 😳
Is there anywhere online that people will be able to watch this? (I'm in the UK)
Magicomedies:https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1006334/magicomedies#latest
That's misleading, because the prize money will be divided among the winning team participants and then about half of that amount will be spent on US and UK taxes (or other country, depending on where you're from).