Do you think The Sims 4 = Failure?
I've seen forum replies (and YouTube comments) where people say these six things about The Sims 4: 1. Rename the game to "The Sims 0.5," "The Sims 1.5," or "The Sims 2.5" 2. Say they were disapp...
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I think they knew right from the get go that they made a game that would not be widely accepted as the previous series. That is why we got the 'things change', telemetry, the remark about older simmers, and etc.. They knew..It was them covering for the lack luster mobile app at the price of an AAA game.. Business tactic..won't go into detail..
To me it is a failure to the series, they changed it so much they had to call it a different genre to explain its existence..
To me it appeals to people that need to be told what to do and have an over easy game to play.. I see it now more than ever games dumbing down to appeal to the new set of players (WoW anyone?) at the cost of losing long time players/customers.. I see it in forums of Early Access games.. The I want it simple crowd against us remaining hardcore gamers or gamers that don't want dumb down games..
To me it is a failure because of the above and I am old school and want games not to hold my hand and be so overly easy a child of 6 can pick it up and catch on..
And it is not my fault because they decided to try and make 4 an online game out pure greed (MMOs do make a killing off micro transactions).. They should of delayed the game for making that mistake on online.. And very few games from EA online are a success.. Because they do not want to put in $$$ to make them work successfully and want to charge over the top prices for cheap games..
But I am old school and tell it like it is.. I even recently told the devs of Ark Survival Evolved that I found something they did was bad and deleting post was like another company I knew and I thought they were better than that.. So, it isn't just EA I will crit on..
They had 15 years of data to read on and collect for 4... They chose simple, cheap, and reconstruct on an online game that they KNEW would not be accepted.. To me it is a whole lot of dancing around the mistakes they made.. and trying to cover up the fail..
To me it is a failure to the series, they changed it so much they had to call it a different genre to explain its existence..
To me it appeals to people that need to be told what to do and have an over easy game to play.. I see it now more than ever games dumbing down to appeal to the new set of players (WoW anyone?) at the cost of losing long time players/customers.. I see it in forums of Early Access games.. The I want it simple crowd against us remaining hardcore gamers or gamers that don't want dumb down games..
To me it is a failure because of the above and I am old school and want games not to hold my hand and be so overly easy a child of 6 can pick it up and catch on..
And it is not my fault because they decided to try and make 4 an online game out pure greed (MMOs do make a killing off micro transactions).. They should of delayed the game for making that mistake on online.. And very few games from EA online are a success.. Because they do not want to put in $$$ to make them work successfully and want to charge over the top prices for cheap games..
But I am old school and tell it like it is.. I even recently told the devs of Ark Survival Evolved that I found something they did was bad and deleting post was like another company I knew and I thought they were better than that.. So, it isn't just EA I will crit on..
They had 15 years of data to read on and collect for 4... They chose simple, cheap, and reconstruct on an online game that they KNEW would not be accepted.. To me it is a whole lot of dancing around the mistakes they made.. and trying to cover up the fail..
