EA got a kpop singer to make a TS4 music video

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17753578" wrote:
The video used the singing animations from city living. It had people sitting in what looks like a school setting, which we can not do in-game. As soon as I saw that, It did not matter, as the "collab" just became a video of lies.

Yeah, it was pretty deceptive. They showed a classroom at a school, which isn't in game. They also had a concert venue shown with screaming fans, probably more than 20 sims in the crowd. Everything is reused to advertise the game with features that it doesn't have.

EA seriously has to be the one company that puts more money into their marketing than the development. I would say Activision was the champ at this considering there was a while where every Call of Duty commercial would feature whatever A-List star they could focus on.....But even then Activision was pouring money into the development of Call of Duty at the same time. Whereas EA throws all their money at their marketing team and gives the developers about a thousand dollars and says "Try and do something with this."

EA want to promote worldwide for obvious reasons, so this doesn't really surprise me.

Personally, I used to be a k-pop fan back in the day (TVXQ are still my favourite group ever <3 see my sig...), and I still like listening to those old albums - Super Junior, Girls Generation, Big Bang, 2ne1 etc. So I wouldn't mind a bit of k-pop in the Sims, though I'm not familiar with a lot of the groups around currently. An idol career path would be fun too.

The collab makes sense k-pop is very popular at the moment in the age demographic ea aim at. I wonder if it may be linked to the next stuff or game pack as it would be a big seller for ea and would make more sense then the Star Wars collab and even moschino. Personally I don’t get the hype with k-pop it sounds like normal pop music and some of it sounds awful. Most current music to me sounds awful so it’s not just k-pop I think it’s because I’m getting older. The fan base on social media reminds me a lot of when one direction were big and everyone was a stan and way ott with everything and any criticism.

As long as this collab doesn’t take over the ENTIRE THEME of a pack, I’m not bothered. I wasn’t bothered by the free Star Wars stuff. I even used the costumes for Spooky Day sometimes. But ever since JtB, I pretend they don’t exist.

Glitchy background. Weirdly low budget production imo. Don’t like the song, but I’m not a fan of kpop. The visuals are subpar compared to the other ads they make for this game. It looks like a fan made it.

"drakharis;c-17753744" wrote:

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17753483" wrote:
Saw on twitter that they did another collab with another k-pop person that I really don't care about. It is like they are trying to appeal to a new audience. Fixing core issues with gameplay features instead would be a better way to gain more players, but that would just be common sense.

As much as I love J-Pop K-Pop etc I agree fixing issues in the game will win over more players. Fix what is broken first then worry about adding in content for a niche crowd. I really love K-Pop and J-Pop but it should have been something in the "Get Famous" pack that cost too much for so very little. I could rant on but I won't.

Wait...so you're saying you think this should have been behind a paywall instead of being in a free patch? :open_mouth: Now I've heard everything.

When people start saying Sims 4 content shouldn't be free, things stop making sense.

"bixters;c-17753752" wrote:

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17753578" wrote:
The video used the singing animations from city living. It had people sitting in what looks like a school setting, which we can not do in-game. As soon as I saw that, It did not matter, as the "collab" just became a video of lies.

Yeah, it was pretty deceptive. They showed a classroom at a school, which isn't in game. They also had a concert venue shown with screaming fans, probably more than 20 sims in the crowd. Everything is reused to advertise the game with features that it doesn't have.

It is all possible just exaggerated.(like all ads) I have classrooms in the highschool I built and I use clubs to make it into a class.
The platforms act as stages and I manually bring in tons of sims to get more crowds.

But yes I can see as someone who doesn't know about sims and are buying based on the ad may be a bit dissapointed it doesn't happen as effortlessly as they show it lol ?
But also It's definitely not like those other ads like the underwater one where it doesn't exist at all so I give it a pass ?

Though I still think the fact that they linked it to a high school student in uniform sitting in class is a hint ?

"LiELF;c-17754013" wrote:

"drakharis;c-17753744" wrote:

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17753483" wrote:
Saw on twitter that they did another collab with another k-pop person that I really don't care about. It is like they are trying to appeal to a new audience. Fixing core issues with gameplay features instead would be a better way to gain more players, but that would just be common sense.

As much as I love J-Pop K-Pop etc I agree fixing issues in the game will win over more players. Fix what is broken first then worry about adding in content for a niche crowd. I really love K-Pop and J-Pop but it should have been something in the "Get Famous" pack that cost too much for so very little. I could rant on but I won't.

Wait...so you're saying you think this should have been behind a paywall instead of being in a free patch? :open_mouth: Now I've heard everything.

When people start saying Sims 4 content shouldn't be free, things stop making sense.

I mean it is in both. Sims 4 City Living is full of K-Pop songs and a super popular pack.