The Sims 4 Online
Hold up . Don't shut me down before i've begun. I understand that there's a lot of personal opinions towards online multiplayer games. Eg. IMVU, second life etc. And a lot of hatred about these ty...
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I would never use it, but if it has absolutely zero impact on my game, (as in I am not at a detriment by not participating or not getting messages informing me of it's existence) I don't care.
I would prefer if it was just a spin off thing, then those who want it can pay for it and my main sims game can focus on other things.
I don't think that was what was trying to be implied...
However, we don't have a survey of any group of the fan base except twitter and on the forums here:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/934525/what-direction-would-you-like-to-see-the-sims-to-go/p1
So based on the one poll we have, it could be said most don't like online. This isn't the whole demographic but with out any other polls we have no evidence to support the wants of any others. Arguing that the unknown nonvocal group largely want online, is impossible to prove of disprove.
Ea I'm sure has done surveys and taken in feedback, the fact that there hasn't been a large online sims game yet, might indicate in and of itself the demographic isn't considered large enough to make a game for. That could very well change with newer generations and then I'm sure ea will re look into it's options.
I would prefer if it was just a spin off thing, then those who want it can pay for it and my main sims game can focus on other things.
"Zara;c-16332291" wrote:
@MadameLee The forum doesn't represent the entire Sims fanbase. Most of the Sims fanbase are not even on the forums. There are sims youtubers or people on twitter who like/enjoy the concept of a Sims multiplayer but I guess they aren't people too.. And I'm confused as to how or why you brought "special needs" Sims into this convo.
I don't think that was what was trying to be implied...
However, we don't have a survey of any group of the fan base except twitter and on the forums here:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/934525/what-direction-would-you-like-to-see-the-sims-to-go/p1
So based on the one poll we have, it could be said most don't like online. This isn't the whole demographic but with out any other polls we have no evidence to support the wants of any others. Arguing that the unknown nonvocal group largely want online, is impossible to prove of disprove.
Ea I'm sure has done surveys and taken in feedback, the fact that there hasn't been a large online sims game yet, might indicate in and of itself the demographic isn't considered large enough to make a game for. That could very well change with newer generations and then I'm sure ea will re look into it's options.
