Carl's take of ways for improvement.

"Felicity;c-17273137" wrote:


The video by Torulf Jernström which CK213 has linked there, if you haven't seen it, is really very important to watch if you're a gamer. You need to understand what the devs are doing. The manipulation is unreal, and it is deliberate, and knowing the techniques makes it easier to not fall for them.

Here's another link to the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4

Edit: To get back OT (sorry) it's important that all voices feel that they're heard. I think acknowledging that there is a schism in the community is important. I don't recall him taking sides or anything. The thing is, the people who are 100% happy with the game as is, that side is known. We all know the game. But people who have issues or who are unsatisfied, we don't feel heard nor responded to.

Yeah sadly it has crept into gaming a lot. I've dealt with the whole gamification thing before and story about that can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ch0bmz/forum_site_gaia_online_and_how_management/

Pretty much management described customers as lab rats and then as soon as he had enough, he took off with the money and old founders had to buy the company back from him. There was a schism when I joined forums in 2015 too and it just felt like Romeo and Juliet. So true, doesn't help that one side tends to be heard and it is really noticeable with the Sims streams. Poor new Simmer was being scared off by so called "fans" and honestly they just needed to be told where to report bugs which SimGuruFrost did. I've seen ugly on both sides and I've been trolled by both sides which is why I remain in the neutral zone. I may not agree with everyone, but at least I have my own mind about things. The censorship fans have done over the past five years hasn't helped the game and I think it is only now they are realizing how wrong they were about DLC not improving the base game. I tried to warn people but yes like you said, never was heard. I've experienced divided communities before. Makes me think of Roman history, "The Empire had become too large to rule effectively. The outer provinces were pretty much doing whatever they wanted. Emperor Diocletian was looking for a way to fix this and other problems. He decided that the only thing to do was to actually break the empire into two pieces." That is why there are the sayings "divide and conquer" and the saying "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". If anything will end the Sims series is what ended SimCity is the schism of the community. So Simmers are welcome to scare fellow customers and take money out of the Gurus pockets doing so. They are only hurting themselves and the Gurus. If Simmers truly want to save the game they care about so much and help the Gurus and their fellow Simmers out, they need to put differences aside and come up with compromises. Because if they don't, well look what happened to Rome and to the site I was on Gaiaonline. It ended up in failure and continued division.