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I can only speak for myself, but it feels as if, from what I have been reading and also experiencing, that many of us feel unheard. That unless a bug is a major one, like with the aging, everything else is being ignored. We love this game, does what we feel and need to know not concern you EA? We aren't even told if something is being worked on, concerns don't seem to be acknowledged in any way whatsoever. Please, communication is good, not just occasional press releases that tell us very little. We need to know if what we are talking about here is taken seriously or should we give up and move on. I hope I don't get banned for this, as I am being sincere.
I've been told that I'm excessively sanguine about the whole thing, but...
In my don't-work-for-EA experience, they will likely have a series of meetings where they discuss our feedback, maybe send it back to software design for Wants and Fears and maybe send it to QA for bugs, schedule teams to work on creating a new set of functional requirements (assuming they decide to implement changes), and assign developers. This will not be a fast process.
I do believe that our feedback matters--unless they've decided that Haters Gonna Hate; I like to think that they know I'm not a hater by now! I also think it'll be slow. ☹️ The bigger the company, the slower and more risk-averse they tend to be.
Whatever you do, Sims Team, please hug your QA people (and maybe hire more, assuming budget).
Thank you, it's just that in my opinion, if we were clued in a bit on what's going on, it would help things greatly. (I'm trying to be optimistic, when there isn't much these days for me to feel that way about.)
I know. I understand that random employees can't speak on behalf of the company and make promises to us, and that official statements come slowly because that's kind of the nature of a big company that moves slowly, but also from a user standpoint it's kind of disheartening. ☹️
I keep thinking I'm focusing too much on my broken game when there are real life issues to worry about, but the fact is it's so much time, effort and money that's gone into it. Not to mention a LOT of devotion and creativity. The sheer cost of having most packs puts a massive pressure on me to play it, I feel like it's money wasted if I don't play it (during a national fiscal crisis). But for large parts of this year I've not been able to play it and right now I dare not even switch it on, it just crashes. So I'm playing a game that works instead but daily thinking do I play a game with no noticeable bugs, or do I battle the bugs in Sims 4 instead because Sims is more important to me.
So yes it is very disheartening.
I also don't want to be rough on the devs as I can see the love and effort that they put into it too and everyone wants to have pride in their product and doesn't want to have the internet mad at them. HSY was a really good idea and I steadfastly support their efforts regarding inclusivity and progress.
I'm trying to figure out the new changes from posts on here, for when I can actually play it and that's a really weird situation to be in after 20 years or so of playing. I've never known it to be in this state personally. I already hate Wants and Fears and I've not managed to play them yet.
I keep pinning my hopes on a massive bug fix but that was what I hoped the last patch would do and look where we are.
