Do you think The Sims 4 = Failure?

"Darleymikey;14233532" wrote:
Funny thing is, other compan

"LeGardePourpre;14232597" wrote:

"@Darleymikey;14232061" wrote:
Maxis heard, but it didn't listen. Players complained about the problems with open world, not open world itself (ok, I'm sure a few did, but then some people prefer AM radio to FM or satellite). Same thing with CASt. Instead of doing what a normal company would do, like fixing the code, Maxis decided 'that's too hard'. Hey, I agree: Coding for CASt and Open World has to be a lot more challenging that animating a bear.

Seriously how they could solve all the problems in 1 year when they were not able to solve them in 5 years ?

I think you overestimate their skills. If Maxis had magical powers, I think we already know it, don't you think ?

Right now, removing CASt/Open World was the best thing to do in order to remove the problems.

One year? Where do you get that the complaints have been only going on for a year? That would mean that Sims 4 originally HAD Open World/CASt, and that they scrapped them to make it run smoother. There's nothing to suggest that's the case.

Sims 4 has been in development for four or five years, not one year. Maxis heard complaints about Sims 3 (you even admit this) with it's Open World and CASt. People weren't saying they don't like the idea of Open World or CASt, they were saying they wanted them to work with fewer hiccups. They've been saying that for the past five years, not one year. This is the kind of reaction (Maxis just removing the feature) I'd expect from fly-by-night game makers, not professionals supported by one (if not the) of biggest players in the business.

People were not complaining about Open World/CASt, they were complaining about the way these features affected the performance of the game. People wanted a performance fix, not a feature cut.

I agree with everything you said here, except Sims 4 was not in development for 5 years. Sims Olympus was in development for like 3 years and when Sims City flopped they were like well crap and then changed Sims Olympus to Sims 4 which is why the game is lackluster and a piece of junk compared to what we could have and should have gotten. They figured simmers would just eat up the next Sims game because it has a 4 at the end and would assume it was better than Sims 3.