do the gurus actually look at this forum?

"Zasz;c-16819239" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-16819181" wrote:
Twitter and facebook are also listed as Official now. So they are as Official as this forum

But they arent the same nor do all three serve the same purpose. And the facebook page is dead while spamming useless things just like on twitter. Thats not communicating at all.

"Writin_Reg;c-16819181" wrote:
As you can only speak English here - it is not required on twitter and facebook - those are world wide.

Nope, they are exclusively in english. You think a mandarin speaking simmer gets a reply on the official english speaking twitter feed?

"Writin_Reg;c-16819181" wrote:
Non-english speaking simmers do have some official forums as well - but not all simmers have them. So twitter and Facebook ends up the only places where all simmers can interact with the people who actually make the game - directly.

ALL simmers can access this forum. English is pretty much a must have for communication on the internet and international gaming. And you learn it in pretty much every 1st world country as the first 2nd language. Diverting communication to any outside place is bad because its not communicating. Especially twitter because its more spam than anything else.

"Writin_Reg;c-16819181" wrote:
Think about it - a Guru poll on twitter can get 7000 replies from simmers in 24 hours where as here on these forum they are lucky to get 400-600 replies in a week. You tell me where they are going to seek answers from - the 7000 or just 400.

Which doesnt tell you anything. How many of the simmers dont have twitter or even knew about that poll? If announced ingame or in the origin client you could do polls here where EVERY simmer because it doesnt require anything but the already existing login name and password. And 7.000 simmers on twitter is nothing compared to the amount of people who didnt know about the poll.

I have been told by people who experienced these things on this forum.

I have seen posts on twitter to the Guru's in other language myself. So don't tell me English only. Yes the Guru's would rather they used English as not all speak other language - but they post on the twitter poster tweet that they do not speak that language.

Not having twitter is your own fault - it takes no time to sign up to twitter. It is easy as pie. So don't give that excuse.

I post here and I post on twitter. It is not hard to do.

But one thing I know - you want to be heard you have to go where they go - regardless of how you feel about it. We can talk til we are blue in the face here and if it never gets seen by those we need to see it - what is the point?

If I dislike something or like something I will post in both places and in particular to the Guru I think who needs to see it. I almost never not get a reply either on their thread or sent to my own twitter.