SimGuruNinja

I also get frustrated and upset when people harass/bully the sim Gurus. I didn't even really care about the theme of this pack but I bought it on release anyways because the Gurus seemed so excited.  I think the L&D pack is wonderful. I hope the community starts treating the Gurus with a little more empathy and respect in the future. 

The studio need a safe place where they could interact with the community and hear the feedback without violence, The Sims Discord might be more appropriate for this purpose.

For example InZOI developers only use discord to talk with the community.

I don't follow the social medias that closely, but I've seen him many times on the forums. Earlier this year there was some toxicity directed at mod creators too. It seems to be a thing of the times... that we forget there are actual human beings behind the internet names and behave in inexcusable ways. 

I echo your sentiment OP! Thank you Simguru Ninja (and others ofc!) for your hard work!

Thank you for not condemning the whole simming community over a few angry people on Twitter. 

This is a much more tasteful approach in expressing your distaste in what happened on Twitter along with showing your appreciation towards the gurus and EA team.

I was horrified to read that one of the sims team members had to step away from Twitter bc of harassment. I hope he is or will be alright. 

I agree with you. There's more to love about this game than not. The bugs are for the most part nothing more than quirks. 

I'm really sorry that happened. It seems that our society has become more inclined to be childish brats when they don't get what they want or their way. It is horrifying that people don't take the old addage, 'Do unto others as you would have done unto you' as a motto. I hope that SimGuruNinja knows how much appreciation there is for him too.

I have been playing The Sims for almost 20 years now. 

That being said, I am quite familiar with all the controversies, etc. 

However, in this case, I do not see what is the problem. Let me explain:

I saw the original snow tweet and Ninja's response. In response to his tweet, most simmers, including myself expressed disappointment because when we bought seasons, it was said that new worlds will support that EP properly, which isn't the case anymore. 

Most simmers in the replies simply pointed that out and that we feel disappointed because that is something that should be doable, or at least enabled/disabled in the settings, but at least give us the option to turn on snow. 

Ninja's reasoning was just not something it made sense when it comes to 1000$ we spent on this game, and we should have the option to enable/disable certain features if we don't like them. 

His DMs were closed, so he certainly didn't get any threats that way, and I have not seen in replies anyone mentioning to harm him or something like that, which leads me to my point: devs need to learn to accept valid feedback and criticism. Not everything they do is perfect, which is completely normal. But they can listen to feedback and try to improve features/content/DLCs that way.

If I were in Ninja's place, I would tweet something like this:

We are sorry, but we simply didn't get enough time to introduce snow in Ravenwood for release. This is something we are working on, and it will be available in one of the next few patches! 

That's it. Don't give us some lazy excuse. 

I know some simmers still won't agree with me, but those are the facts, because in the end of the day we are customers, and we deserve to get our money's value, while of course being respectful to developers.

Out of curiosity what were they saying?

Anyone who would threaten someone over a video game needs to get a life or seek medical help! Good grief!