"ts1depot;c-18291522" wrote:
As for the topic, the problem with TS4 is that it's a social media influencer game at this point. The previous iterations of The Sims emphasized creativity like machinima, stories, worldbuilding, etc. Now it just seems to be a game where the emphasis is on making videos and social media posts to gain clout, not be creative, so there's not really much to produce in the way of interesting content like in Sims 1-3.
Thank you so much for this context!
I am switching back and forth from watching Sims 3 videos to checking for new content videos for the new EP. One scheduled twitch stream that was supposed to start 2 hours ago was canceled.
I did a bit in Sims 3 a month or so ago after I bought in on sale. Then just got lazy and went back to Sims 4 because It is what I know best. Also there were some fun videos to watch and I expected to have even more to watch. Watching instead of playing is even lazier than playing what is most familiar just because it is familiar. I got hooked on watching videos meant to hook me into watching videos.
I really hadn't realized how much the videos were more advertisement than gameplay. None of us are being creative. It is like we are just buying new coloring books instead of drawing pictures. We barely even color in the coloring books, before we just watch more videos about the newer coloring book and then buy that new book. This has really woken me up to what I have been doing.
