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Saying "not to be rude", then blatently being rude does not excuse rude behavior.
That's way too many evers to hang on to hahaha. I can use that same logic in regards to winning the lotto, so I know where I stand. But I 100% appreciate your comment :-) Thanks for communicating with us.
SimGuruDrake confirmed they won't be talking about Toddlers on Tuesday.
Well you could pop in for 5 minutes to learn what GP03 is.
I know what you mean. Except for me unless it includes another life state, grungy build/buy or improvements to sand box play I won't be interested. I'm very tired of new and shiny things to add to a happy, happy, grinning la la land.
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> I thought they said that tax law agreement called something with an N but not NSA lol was the reason they can't talk about anything they are working on...if they can now, what changed? or is this just about an upcoming game pack of some sort?
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> Not sure where you read about this, but here's a super quick explanation... I'm simplifying or glossing over a lot of finer points here, but this is the crux of what we deal with. The issue relates to when we can count revenue on sales of a product.
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> For upcoming content that we plan to sell, we can announce it whenever we want and it doesn't impact our financials because you haven't had the opportunity to purchase it yet.
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> For upcoming content that's planned to be a free addition to a product that you've already purchased - for example, when pools were added to the game - then once we've announced that content, it needs to be made available to a consumer within the same financial quarter that we announced that content in. If that content does not launch within that quarter, then we can't recognize any of the revenue we've made on sales of the game until we deliver on the expectation we established.
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> That's is very interesting, thanks for explaining. :)
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> It doesn't explain the rigorous code of silence you guys have to deal with though, but that is probably part of things you can't discuss, so that's a topic for another time I suppose.
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> SO basically there is tons of stuff Maxis as a company could say, but haven't. Hopefully that will change going forward. @SimGuruDrake should have tons of props for hearing us, and also whoever made the decision inside Maxis (I'm not sure who's in charge for the sims these days). ;)
Its SimGuruLyndsey! Shes in charge of The Sims 4 but SImGuruRachel is the on that is in charge o TheSims
I haven't seen that post where she said that is it in this thread?
Saying "not to be rude", then blatently being rude does not excuse rude behavior.
The quote in also in toddler ideas threads, and Drake explained it a bit more.
Speaking about patches though, this thread is pretty cool of ideas Simmers want for them so far: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/883976/what-do-you-want-to-see-patched-in/p1
Sorry but they are not telling us ANYTHING. Free or not free, we are not getting any information from EA. So why is Graham saying they cannot talk about "Free Stuff"?
The fans and customers are kept in complete darkness. We have no idea where this game is heading.
Graham should talk in a way so that fans understand what he is trying to say. I find all the sentences are very vague. We are customers, normal fans. We are not another company that is trying to buy or make an acquisition of EA to understand its balance sheet or how the income channels are working.
The fans are asking for clear lines of communication. Something similar to the leaflets we used to get with TS2 packs!
The communication channels have increased in the past few years and they are free but EA is making things more difficult.
I don't like this.
@Cinebar Yeah I think how Maxis handles things and EA handles things seems to be different. Maxis seems to have more strict communication rules than what other EA games have which is odd.
I hope that this is a sign of change and until the 19th I am going to just be happy about it and hope that i'm not wrong.
Saying "not to be rude", then blatently being rude does not excuse rude behavior.
Seeing is believing with this company. And I see nothing has changed.
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Well I hope we get more then vague info Tuesday.