Looking for a pair of lost men's boots
A few months ago I began playing The Sims 3 in earnest again and, to my dismay, my favorite pair of men's boots had vanished! Since I have all the Expansion/Stuff Packs installed that I had before as ...
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@pax1sw. I'm a relative newcomer to Sims3. Only started playing Sims (any of the versions) in January of 2017...and joined the forums in March of 2017... and ended up addicted to the game.
I think it got sold and catered to the corporate investors and went with the "lowest common denominator" for lowest amount of "investment" - highest return = highest profit margins. At least that's what my cynical side of me says. I had the choice between Sims 3 and Sims 4...and was warned off by a friend of mine that Sims 3 was the way to go...so I chose 3 as my game and don't regret it in the slightest.
As I said in another post a while back, As an investor, I'm looking for the highest dividends possible from my investment, whereas as a gamer, I'd like to see some effort put into the development of the game - and well...most times those two needs don't mesh. When you're looking at things like stocks and dividends, you're wanting to see as much ROI as you can get. Unfortunately it seems that corporate solvency and profit is the main objective in any corporation. thus we see the end-result of such in games such as TS4 which is minimal investment in the development team and them being told to meet incredibly tighter and tighter development deadlines on a shoe-string budget.
Luckily we have tools like CAW and TSRW and creatives developers/gamers who use Blender and Milkshape to create fantastic creations to help flesh out our games in the way that we want to go. I think Sims 3 will have a longer life than any of the management in EA ever had in their wildest imagination and they may be regretting the decision that they meant to go the way that they did, sooner than later, especially with the major fall-out...everytime another TS4 expansion pack comes out, which I'm sorry to say is just a thinly disguised LOOT-crate disguised as a stuff-pack.
I think it got sold and catered to the corporate investors and went with the "lowest common denominator" for lowest amount of "investment" - highest return = highest profit margins. At least that's what my cynical side of me says. I had the choice between Sims 3 and Sims 4...and was warned off by a friend of mine that Sims 3 was the way to go...so I chose 3 as my game and don't regret it in the slightest.
As I said in another post a while back, As an investor, I'm looking for the highest dividends possible from my investment, whereas as a gamer, I'd like to see some effort put into the development of the game - and well...most times those two needs don't mesh. When you're looking at things like stocks and dividends, you're wanting to see as much ROI as you can get. Unfortunately it seems that corporate solvency and profit is the main objective in any corporation. thus we see the end-result of such in games such as TS4 which is minimal investment in the development team and them being told to meet incredibly tighter and tighter development deadlines on a shoe-string budget.
Luckily we have tools like CAW and TSRW and creatives developers/gamers who use Blender and Milkshape to create fantastic creations to help flesh out our games in the way that we want to go. I think Sims 3 will have a longer life than any of the management in EA ever had in their wildest imagination and they may be regretting the decision that they meant to go the way that they did, sooner than later, especially with the major fall-out...everytime another TS4 expansion pack comes out, which I'm sorry to say is just a thinly disguised LOOT-crate disguised as a stuff-pack.
