Actor not famous?

"JoAnne65;c-16851516" wrote:

"Reksoh;c-16851108" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16851085" wrote:
I have played Get Famous courtesy of my friend. It was my experience after a considerable amount of time the quickest way to build fame is to become a blogger or youtuber. It will be almost necessary even if your sim is an actor which doesn’t feel realistic to me. There are plenty of famous people in their respective fields who don’t rely on social media to boost their fame.

Sure social media helps, but to say its "almost necessary" is dramatic. I have made several 4 or 5 star celebrities now without using social media or any of the influencer perks (because I hate them) and its not that bad at all.

Maybe what is meant here, is that it’s almost necessary when you want to get them famous within an acceptable amount of time, in comparison to YouTubers? Or actors who are using social media in the game? This ingredient should be a possibility in the game, not something the player is almost forced to turn to if they want to achieve what they want to achieve (suggesting it’s very important for actors to do this, it’s almost insulting and downplaying their job). I compare it to the ‘playing social games’ in Sims 3. When a sim feels miserable, sure I can make them read (fun bar will fill up real slowly; the creators seem to have this issue with reading somehow), I can make them play a computer game (a faster way, very educational: playing games is so much more fun than reading) OR (boost boost boost) I can make them play a social game on their tablet. As a player, when filling that bar is needed to be able to start doing other things with my sims, I always choose the latter. Funny detail, the tablet and the social games option was added to the game around the time they started experimenting with simport and developing Sims 4.

It’s just poor designing choice to force players to ride the creator’s hobby horses.

It doesn't take much longer without social media than it does with it. I think people are assuming they can just do any interaction that says +fame even if their sim is just sitting at home and it will make them famous. But that is not the case. Once you get your sims out to those crowded venues and make them perform or send them out to charity events to socialize with celebrities, they get fame just as good as a social media star would.

I don't like the social media aspect of the pack at all, but when people say the only way to get famous is by social media or that social media is the only reasonable way to do it it's far from the truth.