World Explorers - Chapter 4
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Definitely know what you mean - the "unknown" even in games can be intimidating Rukaya.
Well as far as the Sims 2 store you really didn't miss much - as it was nothing much like Sims 3 store. When it first started it was more of a way to get stuff packs a piece or two at a time - as they mostly had stuff pack item in there - that way you could just buy the things you wanted to from Stuff packs. The pricing was fair as they took the price of the stuff pack and divided it fairly equal for each item - that way you never got stuff in a stuff pack you didn't want. Also in the beginning of Sims 2 we did not have the Sims 2 store - if I recall I believe it started up about the time John Ricitiello started as CEO - as I always associated it as his idea to start getting us to buying virtual content. He had that insight from the time he started here as Ceo about EA going all online and I think he played on our weaknesses. It was only after the store had been out a while they offered a few new items that could only be gotten through the store - like the infant baby stuff and a few hairs both of which they seemed to know Simmers just had to have. But by then the store had been around for sometime. I am not positive but I think that the baby stuff showed up like the last year of Sims 2 as it was that and the hair style that finally drew me in. I had no use for buying stuff pack stuff in the store seeing I always bought the full stuff packs when they came out. So although I knew of the store - I really didn't use it before the baby stuff came out. I recall it was a baby swing and the baby gym that got me - as the baby gym was just too adorable for words. The sims though were very annoying as far as using the content. Everytime I would put an infant in the baby gym and got the baby playing with it, a sim would come and pick them up. Just about annoyed me senseless.
But the store was really not much of a deal back in Sims 2.
In Sims 3 when they started up the store right off the bat with a piece of clothing at a time it did attract my attention for the fact it was content we could not get anywhere else. I guess EA learned from all our reactions to the baby stuff in Sims 2 to tease us with content we could only get at the store.
But it is very understandable why you didn't know much about the Sims 2 store. Never mind the fact that Sims 2 had like twice the stuff packs as Sims 3 had and for the money they had lots of stuff in them in comparison. The Sims 2 stuff packs tended to cover the whole family a lot better than Sims 3 has. I believe that is another reason a lot of Simmers have been upset with Sims 3 - as they seem to mainly concentrate on the YA age.
I do believe Sims 4 big draw is going to be that they are perhaps going back to that format and enticing simmers through Sims kids. It is not so much as in what they are saying - but a feeling I have in between what little has been said about Sims 4. I see if they do what I think they are going to do, Simmers will flock to Sims 4 - perhaps not right off the bat, but if they concentrate on the young sims as much as the YA's - they are going to pull back in all the simmers who have grown weary of all they are missing from Sims 2. Of course it is a wait and see kind of thing and only an assumption of mine - but if they do use that strategy - I know a lot of simmers will be drawn to Sims 4.
Well as far as the Sims 2 store you really didn't miss much - as it was nothing much like Sims 3 store. When it first started it was more of a way to get stuff packs a piece or two at a time - as they mostly had stuff pack item in there - that way you could just buy the things you wanted to from Stuff packs. The pricing was fair as they took the price of the stuff pack and divided it fairly equal for each item - that way you never got stuff in a stuff pack you didn't want. Also in the beginning of Sims 2 we did not have the Sims 2 store - if I recall I believe it started up about the time John Ricitiello started as CEO - as I always associated it as his idea to start getting us to buying virtual content. He had that insight from the time he started here as Ceo about EA going all online and I think he played on our weaknesses. It was only after the store had been out a while they offered a few new items that could only be gotten through the store - like the infant baby stuff and a few hairs both of which they seemed to know Simmers just had to have. But by then the store had been around for sometime. I am not positive but I think that the baby stuff showed up like the last year of Sims 2 as it was that and the hair style that finally drew me in. I had no use for buying stuff pack stuff in the store seeing I always bought the full stuff packs when they came out. So although I knew of the store - I really didn't use it before the baby stuff came out. I recall it was a baby swing and the baby gym that got me - as the baby gym was just too adorable for words. The sims though were very annoying as far as using the content. Everytime I would put an infant in the baby gym and got the baby playing with it, a sim would come and pick them up. Just about annoyed me senseless.
But the store was really not much of a deal back in Sims 2.
In Sims 3 when they started up the store right off the bat with a piece of clothing at a time it did attract my attention for the fact it was content we could not get anywhere else. I guess EA learned from all our reactions to the baby stuff in Sims 2 to tease us with content we could only get at the store.
But it is very understandable why you didn't know much about the Sims 2 store. Never mind the fact that Sims 2 had like twice the stuff packs as Sims 3 had and for the money they had lots of stuff in them in comparison. The Sims 2 stuff packs tended to cover the whole family a lot better than Sims 3 has. I believe that is another reason a lot of Simmers have been upset with Sims 3 - as they seem to mainly concentrate on the YA age.
I do believe Sims 4 big draw is going to be that they are perhaps going back to that format and enticing simmers through Sims kids. It is not so much as in what they are saying - but a feeling I have in between what little has been said about Sims 4. I see if they do what I think they are going to do, Simmers will flock to Sims 4 - perhaps not right off the bat, but if they concentrate on the young sims as much as the YA's - they are going to pull back in all the simmers who have grown weary of all they are missing from Sims 2. Of course it is a wait and see kind of thing and only an assumption of mine - but if they do use that strategy - I know a lot of simmers will be drawn to Sims 4.
