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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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Skyrim hasn't got an expensive forum with uploads and downloads as what Sims 2 had. Sims 2 custom content could be uploaded to the BBS directly from the game, as well as the stories, which were probably the worst for bandwidth, then which required moderation ... imagine that! All kinds of inappropriate things. Then there was the star ratings system which got very competitive and ... nasty, which also required moderation. And this was at a time when the internet was not quite as worked out with its speed, efficiency and economics yet, so even with the addition of what they said were advertisements on the BSS but as far as I could see were only in-house advertisements, like from EA about their off-shoot games, I get why it became necessary to shut that down and try to make people move on. As great as it was when it was good, for us the players.
If the forum had membership fees, that would be different. If the game had ongoing subscription fees, that would be different. But since it's a one-off purchase, even with the expansions, the up-keep of a forum would need to be kept in check. The Store on Sims 3 probably helped. Hey that one's still going. You don't need a Commerce degree like mine to understand companies need profitability and profit growth. They can't keep running without it, as much as they love us. Otherwise we would have to be cave-people.
You can actually get the complete suite of The Sims 2 by the way.
True, most games with heavy modding seem to revolve around Nexus, Tumblr, etc. Don't mention forums having fees!! They'll get ideas! 😄 I wonder how expensive keeping up our beloved Sims forum was, to a big ol' company like EA though?
(And yeah, I recently "found" Sims 2, so I have it on my new computer. Whew.)
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