"JoAnne65;c-17276261" wrote:
If only the middle would be a safe spot ;) Nobody actually believes it’s exists, understanding and appreciating both sides or at least wanting to try. “If you’re not with me you’re against me” is a very popular idea in Polarization Land. Which makes the person in the middle the ‘enemy’ for both ends of the spectrum.
*not just referring to Sims here
Yeah I am realizing that. No wonder coming into the internet can be like a war zone and why parents are scared to let kids be online. Thank goodness for friends both in the Sims community and out of it. It would be a very lonely life being in a bandwagon instead of forming valuable friendships. Yeah I remember how a Simmer pointed out the Sims community reflects the schism in society today. I had an interesting conversation with my family too how the default mood online is aggression. Even had interesting conversations with co-workers too before how they use social media to prove they are right on politics. One of my best friends who works in gaming said to another friend who asked why people hate her so much and why she kept losing friends and he put it simply, "Do you want to be right or do you want to loved because you can't have both?". I think people are just scared of change.
I know I was thinking Sims CM posting thinking of just the Sims 4 ended up being for the mobile division. I don't think there is any iteration where Simmers were ready to move onto the next iteration. To me I have been with the Sims games long enough that five years was always the norm with how long Sims games lasted. It is a concept that newer Simmers haven't experienced yet. So it is like ok Sims 4 has covered pretty much all the themes past iterations have covered and with many Simmers claiming they don't play or that game changers don't play occult, development seems done. So maybe it isn't hope I have lost but the realization that Sims 4 has run its course and done its 5 years. It is no longer a baby Sims game anymore. What is in there now is what we got and with performance issues maxing out on several computers, not like current players can handle more DLC on their computers anyways. With more DLC will come more bugs as Gurus have pointed out in interviews and of course will take up more memory on computers. I can run all 3 Sims games fine on my gaming rig, but learning majority cannot afford to. How much more DLC can they afford if their computer house is already maxed out? Why I hope the Sims 5 moves into cloud based gaming. It will save the Sims having performance issues and take out the limits that Sims can only run on one device at a time.