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It has been over a month now and our new Sims 3 forum is still a hot mess. Notifications are broken, no custom avatars, and no subcategories (at least for Sims 3). We have been told there won't be pa...
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My hope here is that most of the issues raised about this site will be addressed, soon-ish if not soon. I don't know that they will be, but reading between the lines of various posts from EA_Nils et al, many of the problems would take real time (conversations with the forum host, dev time, testing) to solve. Some features may have to be built from scratch. The fact that we haven't seen changes yet doesn't mean those changes are off the table. And this site is new, and many new projects don't start out with the full complement of features even when those features are anticipated well in advance.
I'm not suggesting that people keep using this site in the interim if it doesn't feel good, or right, or fun. But I do hope that people looking for a Sims forum experience will at least check back here and there to see how this site evolves as time goes by, if it becomes a place worth using again.
The worst outcome I can see would be that everyone gives up and stops advocating for the features we know we want, and EA doesn't implement those features because it appears that no one still around considers them important. So for everyone uncomfortable and unhappy here, please keep having these conversations, even if it's for the moment the only reason you show up at all.
Well said puzzlezaddict 👍🏻 ⭐ I feel the same. 😊
puzzlezaddict Thanks for your input. Maybe I don't understand the politics or mechanics of getting changes made. It seems like all our concerns are being completely disregarded. And (to me) it seems sim friends are disappearing due to the difficulty of navigating here.
My main concern is pages. Even if they decide to fix the avatars, the 'most liked' hated feature, the glitchiness of notifications and trying to load (and reload) threads, we really need pages for story telling. That we've been told that feature is not possible makes me want to find another place to tell stories. But yes, I will probably still check back here occasionally to see if any old friends are still around. 😪
ZeeGee1Your concerns ARE probably being disregarded. I have said it many, MANY times. EA don't care about us, they don't care about this forum, and they're not going to hurry to make an effort to make this forum something that we like, and / or are used to. I don't claim to know the ins / outs about why they suddenly decided to ditch the vanilla boards, but if setting up these boards are "so much trouble" then why did they even freakin' bother?
It's nice that people are still holding out hope, but that's all it is. Nothing is going to eventuate, and in six months this forum will probably still be in the exact same state as it is now.
Personally I think we're all better off over at MTS or NRAAS. At least the ( those ) forum is taken care of, it isn't moderated in an overly draconian fashion, and they're still quite active.
I wont be coming back here. Its horrible here, and the community seems fractured by the move. I'm sometimes active on Tumblr, and I post at MTS, but not here any more.
Its been nice interacting with the majority of you guys for the last 15 years, I wish you all the best, and take care ❤️
P.S - if you do decide where most of you will go, or find a new home, please drop me a PM at MTS or message me on Tumblr and let me know 😘
Hello Fellow Simmers!
Just thought I would pop through to see what the future forums for the Sims looked like and how it functions. It's not very organized. Hopefully in the near future that will change.
puzzlezaddict - I agree with everything you have said about this being a new site and the potential for future feature developments taking time to implement (if they are even considered for development at all). This is all true.
Although it doesn't matter now, it is my humble opinion something as necessary and important as organizing the site into user-friendly, visually easy to understand sections should have been a part of the initial planning process. It escapes me as to how it wasn't! After all this isn't 'Answers HQ' where the readers already know that the subject of everyone's post is mainly about seeking some sort of game help.
This is supposed to be a multi-topic forum dedicated to our beloved game.
Two forums ago when the Sims 3 was new, that forum had easily identifiable sections. Last forum (since it is now marked as 'read only'), was also sorted by easily identifiable sections. Unfortunately, currently this forum closely resembles the 'sort' folder I keep on my PC to throw random items in until I am able to put them where they belong.
While I wouldn't want people to give up on the hope of having an "official" forum to post on. I do believe it might be in the simmers best interest to begin branching out to other places or developing other means of sharing content. In the meantime, the best suggestion I can think of for those who follow storyline threads on this forum is to make good use of your browser's 'bookmarking' feature. Until this site/forum updates or implements any form of organization, you are going to have to do it yourself.
Good Luck!
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