HSY Feedback: Poor Programming Choice
I usually don't bother posting feedback on content I purchase because unless it's a glitch I feel like you made your choice and won't bother making any changes-- but I was thinking maybe, just maybe, feedback like this will make you think through a little better in the next release so I guess I'll weigh in. Maybe others agree with me, idk.
There are some choices you make for programming the game that really do ruin the fun. I guess it depends on how people like to play but I bet I'm not alone in feeling that everything does not have to be a win/lose plus/minus challenge in the game; that's not how life works and that's not how sandbox/dollhouse games should work.
So in HSY I REALLY LOVED that people could walk up and ask our Sims to prom, or ask them to be BFFs, etc.... I got excited about this feature-- till I saw it in-game. Now I hate it.
There REALLY should be more choices than "of course" and "no way!!!" It's like you're forcing me to ruin a relationship with a Sim-- either I reject a Sim and make them hold a grudge against me, or I accept and make another Sim hold a grudge against me (my previous BFF, or prom date, etc.).
There should be a freaking way to let Sims down easily... "I would love to go to prom with you as friends but I'm sorry, I already have a date!" You have almost zero charisma skill in High School as it is and building up multiple relationships gets slow and time-consuming (unless you wanna spend all your time texting them on social bunny) and then it's all ruined in one go because the grudges last such a long, long time.
It's as bad as the Parenthood "advice" system which it's completely useless-- you can't give your kid good advice & get a boost, or bad advice and get a negative (rendering your parenting skills and the way you wish your Sim to parent their children useless); you HAVE to give them advice that ups one trait AND lowers another, rendering the whole system useless and just plain annoying. The minute I see "ask for advice" come up in their queue I'm trying to click it off because I can't even plead the fifth. It sucks.
It's not that these things weren't good ideas, it's the way you execute them that can interfere with the way some of us play the game, and it makes the feature more frustrating than fun. I'd rather the feature be executed in a way that is more natural and fun, again idk how many other Simmers out there might agree.
Okay just venting, that's just my 2 cents for what it's worth. Thank you if you listened at all.
