Do you think The Sims 4 = Failure?

"Lonnehart;14225788" wrote:
I don't think it's a failure. I'm pretty sure it'll get better though as it's built on a custom engine which they can improve over time (and if they have enough funding).

With people claiming they will buy every expansion and Stuffs packs, they will have the funding.

"Darleymikey;14230610" wrote:
You can't look at how many people are playing the game at one time, compare it to the number of unhappy posts on the forums, and draw conclusions that comport with reality. Imagine concluding that, because one victim reports surviving a 10,000 ft. fall and no victims report dying in a like fall, that it's safe to jump out of an airplane at 10k ft. plus.

You have to include the players who chose not to buy Sims 4/not play it if you want to get a cleared picture of the true proportion of happy vs sad simmers.

You can't just make a valid statement of a general opinion towards The Sims 4 over unhappy posts + people who didn't buy it VS people playing the game, you actually have to go into detail and look at their opinion of the game, whether they like, don't or even knows of it's existence or if they've even formed an opinion on it.

"gamekitten;14230749" wrote:

"LeGardePourpre;14230741" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;14230642" wrote:
I think having OVER 15 years experience (I pretested the Sims in November of 1999) in Sims makes me a fair judge (and TRUE Simmer) on what makes for a good Sims series game - and believe me this is not it!

Now you understand why The Sims 4 design for the kids... Maxis renew their too old simmers :p

Got no problem they made a game for 6 years old. Means I can spend extra money elsewhere. And if you want to go there, I'll say they should just tell old simmers to go away and there will be no toddlers.. Let's see how well the game does when all the real simmers up and leave this kid game..

This isn't a Childs game when it contains multiple Adult Rated aspects, also who are you to decide who is a 'real' Simmer and who isn't? I dislike how people seem to think there are 'true' fans or 'real' Simmers when we're all just fans and Simmers regardless.

"KhyanLeikas;14230910" wrote:

"SweetieKaye;14229709" wrote:
"A unique game with unique gameplay"

Yeah, linear gameplay is so unique. You know what other game series directs me and tells me what I need to do? Pokémon!

Even pokemon is less linear. :|

Yet I find it interesting that games that are often seen as linear are some of the biggest selling games in history.

"Prink34320;14231188" wrote:

"Darleymikey;14230610" wrote:
You can't look at how many people are playing the game at one time, compare it to the number of unhappy posts on the forums, and draw conclusions that comport with reality. Imagine concluding that, because one victim reports surviving a 10,000 ft. fall and no victims report dying in a like fall, that it's safe to jump out of an airplane at 10k ft. plus.

You have to include the players who chose not to buy Sims 4/not play it if you want to get a cleared picture of the true proportion of happy vs sad simmers.

You can't just make a valid statement of a general opinion towards The Sims 4 over unhappy posts + people who didn't buy it VS people playing the game, you actually have to go into detail and look at their opinion of the game, whether they like, don't or even knows of it's existence or if they've even formed an opinion on it.

I know there's a lot more to it than that. You left out a lot as well. How many respondents? How were they chosen? Do selected respondents own computers? Specs of computer? Which OS? Does the population of respondents even play computer games? Check game purchases-console, computer (PC/MAC) as well other entertainment purchases. Maybe respondent doesn't play/buy Sims 4 because he's just gotten a girl-friend, and has been using disposable income to buy her stuff. We could go into more detail of course, checking gender, age group, income levels (as well as disposable income), sex (gender and sex are not the same thing, though for most purposes, they are assumed to be such), nationality, country, region of country, city, employment history, criminal record, psychiatric diagnosis, health status, etc. Of course there should be follow-up interviews as well, to check/cross check answers. I'm sure I've left out quite a bit. At some point the categories add little or nothing to the results, and getting that specific may be hard, or even impossible.

My intention was not to lay out the entire basis for an accurate poll, my point was only that OP cannot draw valid conclusions from his sample. You would agree with me on this, wouldn't you?

The Sims 4 is obviously not a failure for EA. It's still profitable, and has fans that still pay for every DLC released. The community creates lots of custom content, players share their stories... It's an awesome community! The developers are always doing things to make the game better, and they've done so much yet that there are only big things to tackle next. Maybe it's a failure in the sense that it shook the player base and made lots of people dislike it, but lots like it as well! Some people here think that just because they dislike it the game is that bad, that's okay, but remember lots of people like it and are playing it right now, and the game won't go anywhere. How many games are forgotten one year after release? The Sims 4 is still going strong, always fresh! If you think it doesn't appeal to you, give it time! it will only get better! I didn't like The Sims 3 at first, and just didn't play it. Years later, after seeing so many interesting content, I got into it, and I still like it! The bottom like is, The Sims 4 is NOT a failure, but it CAN be a failure to YOU.

"Prink34320;14231191" wrote:

"KhyanLeikas;14230910" wrote:

"SweetieKaye;14229709" wrote:
"A unique game with unique gameplay"

Yeah, linear gameplay is so unique. You know what other game series directs me and tells me what I need to do? Pokémon!

Even pokemon is less linear. :|

Yet I find it interesting that games that are often seen as linear are some of the biggest selling games in history.

But they started out that way. They didn't convert to a different genre along the path.

(Also, Pokémon just plain does their games right!)

Topic asks for Opinions.... To me.... which this is an opinion based topic- the game fails.

They were only able to release 1, considered full, expansion the first year. Hmmm.

Add toddlers, add more family play, add more parties- the game will still fail for me.

One of the biggest fails in history. It's like a dead body they're trying to make it looks like it's still alive. But it's dead and rotten, and also smells really bad. LOL.
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"LeGardePourpre;14230402" wrote:

"@Writin_Reg;14230164" wrote:
Go to some of the other Sims sites - it is doing far worse then here (well except for SimsVIP, and they sort of frown on you posting negatives about it there) - as most other sites I have checked lately - they are not saying anything positive at all.

Without forgetting the 36k players online... sure it's very impressive these 78 posts (0,2% of 36k players) :p... as much as the 558 pledges of nanashi-sims (1,5% of 36k players)

As I said the minority is very noisy but they stay a tiny minority :p

I don't think somewhere there are more than 10k of simmers who hate the game.

Given this games age and pedigree, 36k is fairly pathetic.

Civilization V gets that. It came out in 2010 and you'll never find an installment of the series in a list of best selling PC games of all time.