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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"Zara;c-16332437" wrote:
@BejaWa If you actually looked at that twitter poll, 67% actually favored multiplayer online (I'm including the people who said "combination" of single and multi). I honestly think it depends where you survey. Most of the people on this forum like the game to be very traditional and have been playing for a while whilst the people on twitter tend to be younger newer players and more socially inclined. So since the majority of people on the forums don't want multiplayer and a majority of people on twitter don't mind it, then there's really no conclusion that can be drawn about the fanbase as a WHOLE.
I don't think combining the two is fair, there could be many interpretations of how they would be combined, and at what level of involvement. I mean it could be argued that my method of it existing but not being required at all is a combination, but then that doesn't mean I would use online play. So if ea did surveys and found most people indifferent or disliked it they wouldn't add the feature.
We don't have a way of testing a larger audience so we have no way of arguing anything else, the only evidence we do have suggests that most players aren't interested (roughly 28% are interested even including the combination votes, if you combine both polls). Is it complete evidence? Not at all, only 150 some people responded in total, that is an extremely small sample.
There are people interested in multiplayer, the question is if it is enough. So far ea hasn't really gone that way and the only poll, as limited in scope as it is, also indicates limited interest, so we don't know what the whole fan base wants but it seems that it is at best a controversial move for ea to make, and that might just be something they are not willing to take with their main sims title.
Again things change, times go on, for ts5 ea might get enough evidence to support online. I maintain that I don't care as long as I don't have to use it in any way.
Also, I know there are many people on here who are younger (including myself, who just turned YA), and that many forum users have twitter. They obviously poll differently, but I would not say it is based on people being younger or older.
