Dissapointment with latest sims interview

I was waiting for someone to post about this topic because I don't know how to post links so hopefully someone will link the article.

But yesterday simguruduke posted a link to an article from vice games called:20 Years of ‘The Sims’ Keeping Up With Our Bizarre Reality

And simgurugrant talks about the direction of the franchise as I understand it.
I became greatly disappointed after reading it because I see they still plan to drive this game along with the youngest people and latest trends. And as a young person myself that's just not what I want to see for this game.

I understand a company has to keep up for business purposes but there's a reason I just installed sims 3 (an old game full of old trends) and I'm having a blast with it, along side sims 4.

And I have noted MANY young people who love the older games as well. I personally think they are still headed in the wrong direction. Maybe I am wrong but I don't believe young people care about the latest trends in a video game as much as the sims company think they do.
Grant even stated that people are still angry about not having newspapers, and from my understanding they "could have" added them for freedom of choice but chose not to.

I feel like they should stop trying to be so trendy and inclusive to everybody because it's negativley affecting the gamE. Just focus on having great gameplay. It just cannot be the perfect space for everybody in the world, nor should it try to be. I absolutely hate that my sims take selfies all day, technology addict, and behave so narcissisticly in general.

This won't stop me from loving or playing the sims 4 but I just wanted to Express my disappointment. Another reason I hope this game goes on for years because I can only imagine what sims 5 would be like. 😔

Link added that was easy lol

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74zk4/20-years-of-the-sims-keeping-up-with-our-bizarre-reality

feedback

Hoverael
5 years ago
Unfortunate that Maxis is driving a political correctness campaign for their future endeavours (if true, need this source web link). Trends come and go, but what doesn't come and go is what life is, this game is a life simulator. the developers need to respect that and stop hiding the aspects they don't like to include for their young audience and adding silly little things that doesn't matter at all.

If no one is going to tell them to stop travelling down this path and relent, they'll keep going and before you know it, sarcasm or not, this game will be so dumbed down, so inaccurate with what life is in order for children to play it, that it intentionally gives the wrong idea of what a life simulator is.
texxx78
5 years ago
I would like to read it.
But about your words on it i agree. Being so worried about new trends and bla bla is killing the game. It has no humour anymore, it lacks on some great lifestyles (like you said, not everyone is a tech adict and i still subscribe newspapers and paper mags). Ok im on my 40s. But my 14 yo daughter is all in for paper mags too and also even film photography. The board needs to understand that old stuff is also a trend now if not just a lifestyle choice...
logionX
Seasoned Hotshot
5 years ago
Here is the article: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74zk4/20-years-of-the-sims-keeping-up-with-our-bizarre-reality

I feel that the article mostly talks about how the sims changes with the times, how in the first games we had jobs like law enforcement, firefighter etc. people subscribed to newspapers and had larger blackberry phones, we didn't talk so much about representation and how to express ourselves.
In the sims4 you can do things like being a freelancer, style influencer, internet personality and you have more options in how you can choose to express yourself, we have more gender options, more culture influences etc.

I think the article is okay, however I agree that they need to focus on how to reflect this when it comes to gameplay, the internet personality career is so bad when it comes to earning money for example and I don't see the point in adding clothing from other culture if the game is just gonna randomize the outfits into a mess for all the townies anyway.

Their focus of these trends and them trying to appeal to everyone takes away from what people liked with the old games as well. We still have no burglars or firefighters for example.
fullspiral
5 years ago
I still dislike that my sims HAVE to have a cell phone. I would like home phones back. I don't have a cell phone irl and don't feel my sims should be forced to. What's wrong with adding a home phone back in? And a phone booth for us to place on community lots for travel? Or just have us click on our sim to go home and let them travel that way?

It's not about forcing the changing world on us as players, it should be about options for us to play our own ways.
Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
The good thing about this is that what is super trendy this year, will be extremely not-so-trendy next year.

I too wish the set up for the game could have been a little more flexible, I was so happy that we got a feature like the off-grid. The game is still locked to a modern civilization, I miss a way to play middle-age or stranded on an island, like we could in TS3.
LiELF
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
From life simulator to trend simulator.

How the mighty have fallen. :'(
fullspiral
5 years ago
"LiELF;c-17411142" wrote:
From life simulator to trend simulator.

How the mighty have fallen. :'(

It's sad, really. I've said before that Sims 4 is nothing but restrictions on top of limitations. And their selling line of "You Rule" and "play with Life" is false advertising because we don't rule anything in this game. We can't even rule the clothing choices we make because the game overrides them.

This game forces the social aspect of these sims which is a false dichotomy of the real world we live in as it is lived on line through the computer. People aren't actually social in the real world. And the lives they present on line on their simstagrams are mostly fake stories. I guess maybe that's why these sims seem so fake and shallow....
OEII1001
New Spectator
5 years ago
I think that people are conflating the fact that the world of 2000 is different than that of 2014 or 2020 with the game not having features they would prefer. Is it your stance that The Sims 4 is inferior because of the gender patch, a reflection of the decline of print media, or an increase of dark skin tones; or is it your stance that The Sims 4 is inferior because it doesn't have the gameplay features you seek? I think the pearl clutching over "PC" is misplaced.
Purrloin9
5 years ago
I 100% agree on that. I made a post about it a while ago in another thread. The developers focus way too much on modern lifestyles and trends and barely anything on the aspect of life. All sims shouldn't automatically own cellphones, take selfies, gain fun from technology, etc. There are too many jobs that require the use of a computer and really shouldn't. I'm still disgusted with the fact that in the acting career in GF, there are literally actions on your daily checklist that include posting to social media as if every single celeb in into that stuff. I'm tired of being forced to live in an overly modern world where the focus is only on one young adult sim. I want newspapers, home phones, more antique clothing and objects, blue collar jobs, outdoor activities for all ages, family gameplay, LIFE.

Incorporating all of this trendy trash is going to make this game dated af by the time it ends. Trends are fleeting and my biggest issue with it is that it's also very alienating. Just because something is trendy, doesn't mean everyone cares about or likes it. It's extremely off-putting and ironic for a team that claims to be oh so inclusive to add in so many things a large part of their community can't relate to.
fullspiral
5 years ago
"OEII1001;c-17411178" wrote:
I think that people are conflating the fact that the world of 2000 is different than that of 2014 or 2020 with the game not having features they would prefer. Is it your stance that The Sims 4 is inferior because of the gender patch, a reflection of the decline of print media, or an increase of dark skin tones; or is it your stance that The Sims 4 is inferior because it doesn't have the gameplay features you seek? I think the pearl clutching over "PC" is misplaced.

I love the gender patch, myself. What I don't love is that none of it transfers over in to actual game play. Creating diverse sims who all act the same, play the same, and have nothing unique about them is the problem with Sims 4.