Are you happy Quarterly Teasers are gone?

Honestly, the months before Seasons were probably the worst months we’ve had, only because everyone went all doom and gloom, and were still doing that even when Grant and Kate were being active on Twitter. It only turned around when the Seasons teaser was posted.

2016 was bad, even with the addition of Quarterly Teasers. (Who remembers the wait for Dine Out?)

Gurus have to remember why they introduced them in the first place, because not knowing whether something is coming or not makes me lose interest.

I’ll just constantly check for news and if I don’t get any, I’ll just lose complete interest and it will be harder for them to reel me back in.

I can play the game without new content BUT it’s harder when you don’t know whether or not new content is coming.

I'm honestly not sure why we need 9 separate posts dedicated to this topic...

As long as they continue with the communication they've been giving us lately (I'm not really on twitter but I can understand why they chose that as their medium) and give packs at least as much lead up to a pack being dropped as they did seasons I'm fine with it. They provided open communication and helpful pack information. It's not their fault that the community reacted the way the community almost always does by jumping straight into drama-land.

At the end of the day the teasers felt pointless to me. They were too short and didn't show/explain anything anyway so as a communication tool they didn't really serve their purpose.

For me, the worst part was the huge negative cloud that descended over this whole forum and even after Seasons coming out, you've still got folks convinced the end is near for the Sims universe. I don't need the quarterly teasers. although I enjoyed them, but I would like some kind of heads up in advance on what to expect or what might be coming.

I don't care one way or the other. I'm not just here sitting around waiting for content to be released for this game. Either something gets announced or it doesn't. Either EA wants my money or they don't. If not, I'm happy to spend it elsewhere.

The teasers really made no difference to this for me.

I enjoyed the one-month-only lead-up to Seasons, though I'd have preferred another couple of weeks for more videos. The energy in the community was great. It was definitely better than the wild speculation that has happened when packs are teased in advance. It's a nice-to-have heads-up for people who really need to set money aside *and* also don't want to wait till after a pack is announced to find the money, but other than that, I don't see that it was better. It led to a lot of people getting themselves all worked up and then ending up disappointed because they'd imagined what the pack would be before it was announced.

I picked No I'm Not Happy I like to know what's coming in advance. I'm also not happy that we'll be getting less stuffpacks.

"jackjack_k;c-16584760" wrote:
Honestly, the months before Seasons were probably the worst months we’ve had, only because everyone went all doom and gloom, and were still doing that even when Grant and Kate were being active on Twitter. It only turned around when the Seasons teaser was posted.

2016 was bad, even with the addition of Quarterly Teasers. (Who remembers the wait for Dine Out?)

Gurus have to remember why they introduced them in the first place, because not knowing whether something is coming or not makes me lose interest.

I’ll just constantly check for news and if I don’t get any, I’ll just lose complete interest and it will be harder for them to reel me back in.

I can play the game without new content BUT it’s harder when you don’t know whether or not new content is coming.

I agree with this 100%. Everything you said here is how I feel and they already lost me when I had too wait too long. I agree 2016 was awful waiting on DO. And I voted they should have expanded on the teasers instead of dropping them.

I want to know the themes of what is coming up, at the very least. :frowning:

All too often, the teasers only ever seemed to give the drama queens a stick to beat everything with. Then the blanks would start getting filled in with made-up stories from things that people imagined, and it only got worse from there.

I think the gurus need to be able to work with whatever time frame is best for the current project, and they shouldn't have to worry about having to hold the hands of masses of people who have whipped themselves up into a frenzy because of what their overactive imaginations have deduced from a picture or 30 second video.

I'm more than fine with teasers going away, as long as we still get the regular standard announcement whenever the release is ready to be announced.

"EveryDaySim;c-16586365" wrote:
All too often, the teasers only ever seemed to give the drama queens a stick to beat everything with. Then the blanks would start getting filled in with made-up stories from things that people imagined, and it only got worse from there.

I think the gurus need to be able to work with whatever time frame is best for the current project, and they shouldn't have to worry about having to hold the hands of masses of people who have whipped themselves up into a frenzy because of what their overactive imaginations have deduced from a picture or 30 second video.

I'm more than fine with teasers going away, as long as we still get the regular standard announcement whenever the release is ready to be announced.

Eh, some of us save up for something new or don't spend our game money on a different game if we think we would be more interested in what The Sims is offering in a few weeks or months/quarter. So, not knowing we might go spend that money somewhere else and forget about this game. Or maybe some wouldn't be able to go ahead and buy it later if they spent their gaming money. It's all relevant in my eyes. For the producers/EA if someone spent their game money on something else instead of waiting to find out what they were going to release. But then EA probably might not care gamers do budget their money sometimes, they are probably depending on those who have it to throw around.

ETA: It was hardly drama queens who were unhappy with the ball pit.