Do they really ‘listen’?

"jackjack_k;c-17049340" wrote:

"@Godleyjeans;d-958156" wrote:
Do they listen or do what THEY want?

Since City Living (according to SimGuruGrant, Sims 4 DLC was planned up until City Living pre-launch) and we have had:

- Toddlers (based on HUGE demand, and SimGuruLyndsay confirmed they had been working on them for years, I believe it was SimGuruGrant (correct me if I'm wrong) who said there was an issue with Sims holding other Sims/Pets that they had to work out how to fix).
- Vampires (the #1 demanded Life State at the time)
- Parenthood (based on demand from Family Players)
- Cats & Dogs (the #1 EP demanded at the time)
- Jungle Adventure (there was a lot of cult fans who wanted a World Adventures pack, and SimGuruGraham even acknowledged the demand for it, but it didn't do so well as an EP back in S3, so they made those Simmers happy with a GamePack)
- Laundry Day (fan voted)
- Seasons (the #1 demanded EP at the time)
- Get Famous (there was lots of demand for Celebrities, may not have been #1 at the time)
- Strangerville (again, based on a cult following for story based Sims games, a lot of fans and even EA Game Changers were asking for more spin-off/story based content)
- Other patch content like Terrain Tools and more Careers

The only pack that I would say fans didn't ask for is My First Pet Stuff.

BUT EVERY piece of content since City Living has been based on fan feedback.

THEY CANNOT RELEASE CONTENT ALL AT ONCE. But apart from My First Pet Stuff, NOTHING they have actually put out was stuff that wasn't in demand. Everything they have put out was in demand. They just can't cater to everyones demands all at once.

I am honestly so sick of people not listening when Devs say "they can only work as fast as they can" and yet claim that Devs "aren't listening"

SimGuruGraham just did a Podcast 2 days ago explaining what order packs come out in. Maybe people should "listen" to that.

Hahaha strangerville wasn’t demanded, grant himself said no one asked for or wanted it when they decided to make it and he had to override other people on the team who didn’t like the idea at all. So come again with the whole cult demand?

The studio does the worst job supplying demand. They clearly haven’t acted solely on demand or there wouldn’t be this constant concern over what they’re going to do with “X” or how they’re going to design “Y” to work. Nah, that concern comes from the fact the studio has repeatedly put out subpar packs that DONT actually provide what’s being asked for, but it’s always BETTER according to the studio than what people were asking for (1000% sarcasm obviously). Go ahead and try to tell me otherwise, if they were really releasing what was demanded (and doing a semi-decent job at it) then there wouldn’t be this high level of distrust, or dissatisfaction among so many players toward individuals or the studio collectively. They did this to themselves, the last thing they need is you returning to your roots to lie and abuse the font format buttons try make a fake news point.