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If I enjoy a Sims YT channel, I watch their content. It never mattered to me if someone was a gamechanger, and I think it is a very Instagram Influencer type title that doesn't really mean anything.
EA does feel more pressured to listen to them than the general playerbase, though. Game Changers are probably the main reason we got the skintone update, sadly. Little Simsy is why we can name Cowplants, and Plumbella had a massive influence on Bonehilda making a comeback. I don't see any of these as negatives.
However - the average playerbase feels ignored. The game is sorely lacking many, many features and depth, but our pleas to get our money's worth seem to fall on deaf ears. We keep on spending hundreds of dollars, hoping that a shiny new pack will temporarily provide some distraction, but we don't feel like our voices count - it only counts that we give our money. Then we see something relatively insignificant being added just bc a Game Changer asked for it, or we feel unrepresented (like with the skin colours) for years, only to get ignored in masses until some Game Changers speak up about it. This can increase outrage and hostility towards the game and the Game Changers. Negative press is still press, though, right!
I thoroughly enjoy a few of the Game Changers' content. My disapproval comes when EA gets involved. They often act like TS4 is a reality show and the Game Changers are the darlings. Sparked sounded great to me. I was very excited to see some talented and entertaining creators compete to create fantastic builds and stories. That isn't what happened, though. The presenters/judges took the whole thing way too seriously and cuthroat, as if they were on Masterchef or something, and deliberately caused drama between peaceful and lovely people who were just there bc they loved the game. That is what I feel EA wants Game Changers to be: social media stars who have drama with each other to attract viewers.
I think that there are many ridiculously talented people on YT/social platforms who 100% deserve recognition by The Sims Team. I don't think calling them Game Changers is the best way to go at it, though. Many of them do, like you say, post a lot of relatively boring/repetitive challenges and builds just to continue putting out content, since they are forced to stay advertising the game now that they are "official representatives." It often takes away a lot of what they originally made their channels for, since they must now produce what the people want to watch rather than what they want to make. Pleasant Sims recently gave up on what she loves most, Let's Plays, since no-one watches it anymore. She gets the most views from comparing TS4 to previous titles and complaining about it, which also says a lot about the state of the game and its players. People are frustrated and want to watch someone more "official" than them complain. Public figures playing the game and actually enjoying it, like it always was, is no longer entertaining.
EA does feel more pressured to listen to them than the general playerbase, though. Game Changers are probably the main reason we got the skintone update, sadly. Little Simsy is why we can name Cowplants, and Plumbella had a massive influence on Bonehilda making a comeback. I don't see any of these as negatives.
However - the average playerbase feels ignored. The game is sorely lacking many, many features and depth, but our pleas to get our money's worth seem to fall on deaf ears. We keep on spending hundreds of dollars, hoping that a shiny new pack will temporarily provide some distraction, but we don't feel like our voices count - it only counts that we give our money. Then we see something relatively insignificant being added just bc a Game Changer asked for it, or we feel unrepresented (like with the skin colours) for years, only to get ignored in masses until some Game Changers speak up about it. This can increase outrage and hostility towards the game and the Game Changers. Negative press is still press, though, right!
I thoroughly enjoy a few of the Game Changers' content. My disapproval comes when EA gets involved. They often act like TS4 is a reality show and the Game Changers are the darlings. Sparked sounded great to me. I was very excited to see some talented and entertaining creators compete to create fantastic builds and stories. That isn't what happened, though. The presenters/judges took the whole thing way too seriously and cuthroat, as if they were on Masterchef or something, and deliberately caused drama between peaceful and lovely people who were just there bc they loved the game. That is what I feel EA wants Game Changers to be: social media stars who have drama with each other to attract viewers.
I think that there are many ridiculously talented people on YT/social platforms who 100% deserve recognition by The Sims Team. I don't think calling them Game Changers is the best way to go at it, though. Many of them do, like you say, post a lot of relatively boring/repetitive challenges and builds just to continue putting out content, since they are forced to stay advertising the game now that they are "official representatives." It often takes away a lot of what they originally made their channels for, since they must now produce what the people want to watch rather than what they want to make. Pleasant Sims recently gave up on what she loves most, Let's Plays, since no-one watches it anymore. She gets the most views from comparing TS4 to previous titles and complaining about it, which also says a lot about the state of the game and its players. People are frustrated and want to watch someone more "official" than them complain. Public figures playing the game and actually enjoying it, like it always was, is no longer entertaining.
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