Forum Discussion
6 years ago
I think this type of brand isn't a healthy thing to promote. I have my own reasons for saying that, it's not healthy for people to bury their heads in the sand and stay within a virtual world. This doesn't help coping skills, nor does it help people socialize nor does it help feel connected to a real human being in the room. We all had problems, have problems or dealt something within our lives. EA boasting their games help you avoid, hide behind, live inside their games isn't a good thing, in my opinion. From my own life I know very well how much I have lost and the time I have lost I will never get back because I chose to avoid reality and or not to deal with it and just stayed in a virtual world. This is not a healthy nor productive thing to do. The brand of The Sims before was, it was a hobby. And yes, it was. Now, it's a place to go hide and feel safe. Sad.
I just want to add this, hobby EA, hobby. It should never be boasted it's a separate reality like some parallel world people can use to avoid their own lives. Nor should it be encouraged to go in there and never come out. Nor to sell products to people that with the way they are released and or handled it makes them live inside the games and not be able to carry on until they get the next new shiny. This sort of manipulation is not something I would want to be known for if I were EA.
Explaning: If people are miserable for whatever reason then waiting on a company as if they were god, to fill that need with live service, is not something EA should be doing. But they seem( with this ad )to be very happy to pretend they are and taking all the credit for it. But none of this actually helped a person deal with something for real, but only play out a situation in revenge or whatever, and that's not healthy, either. Nor is it healthy to live in a happy, happy pretend world. It's only going to make the real one seem very unable to bear. The real world is outside your door. Waiting to be discovered.
I just want to add this, hobby EA, hobby. It should never be boasted it's a separate reality like some parallel world people can use to avoid their own lives. Nor should it be encouraged to go in there and never come out. Nor to sell products to people that with the way they are released and or handled it makes them live inside the games and not be able to carry on until they get the next new shiny. This sort of manipulation is not something I would want to be known for if I were EA.
Explaning: If people are miserable for whatever reason then waiting on a company as if they were god, to fill that need with live service, is not something EA should be doing. But they seem( with this ad )to be very happy to pretend they are and taking all the credit for it. But none of this actually helped a person deal with something for real, but only play out a situation in revenge or whatever, and that's not healthy, either. Nor is it healthy to live in a happy, happy pretend world. It's only going to make the real one seem very unable to bear. The real world is outside your door. Waiting to be discovered.