"darrenfroggy;c-17275938" wrote:
@Felicity What I'm saying is that there are people who think and claim that what they're using is critical thinking: looking at something objectively and considering its good and bad points but what they're doing instead is nitpicking and finding the faults only. So they're not actually using critical thinking in the way you and I both define it.
The whole "winning" mentality isn't as strong here on the forums, I agree, though I do see signs of it at times, unfortunately. Maybe I'm a bit oversensitive to is since I had some rather epically bad experiences with it in the not-so-distant past. Some of it (for me) would be comments in the lines of "well, I know this is going to be bad" before we know anything about content that's coming. Along with "if X doesn't contain this thing, I'm not going to touch it" (paraphrasing here, obviously). But again, not as much of that on here as it would be elsewhere on social media.
Another thing is when something gets added, like the staircase tool, and you'll see responses like "yeah but it's not spiral staircases so what's the point".
As for the TS5/Freeplay thing, I didn't mean that it would be a mobile game. I meant more the way content is added: challenges and events that require constant play and legitimately timers to be able to hit the right marks, the store that offers tiny overpriced bundles of items, etc. Basically microtransactions and an in-game currency that pushes people into spending way more money than they need to.
I do think the tablet option is a possibility though, considering how much they can handle nowadays and how gaming is evolving. It would be interesting for sure, though I'd kind of hope, instead of optimizing for that kinda use (touchscreen, significantly lower specs) that they'd bring *some* aspects to tablets and make it a bonus rather than a standalone platform for the whole game.
Okay, gotcha. Yes, there are people who think their preferences are objective facts, and once you run into that, there's no point of further discussion.
My guess with Sims 5, along with what I said earlier, is that you're right. It will have a store much like the Sims 3, but that store will be in-game. I also think they are looking hard at Sims 3 because of its continued success and popularity despite there being a newer game which will tick off many Sims 4 players. The game I am hoping for will have the depth of Sims 2 sims, the depth of Sims 3 worlds and customization, and maybe the accessibility of Sims 4 -- and all of that on a stable foundation. However, I already know that's not the game I'm going to get.