EA Play - New Sims 4 Experience Speculation
I've been thinking alot about what EA/Maxis is going to announce at EA play. Players are thinking it might be a Seasons expansion pack but when I hear "experience" I don't think about an EP. We alread...
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"IceyJ;c-16477678" wrote:"Erpe;c-16476941" wrote:"simgirl1010;c-16476914" wrote:"LiELF;c-16476854" wrote:"Erpe;c-16476841" wrote:
@LiELF The word apocalypse has different meanings as you can see on http://www.dictionary.com/browse/apocalypse But it usually means divine interference or in games more often universal destruction or disaster. It has more and more mainly come to mean the earth after a huge Third World War where all the nuclear weapons were used (a post apocalyptic world).
Believe me, as a longtime fan of apocalyptic and dystopian themes in fiction, I'm well aware. ;)
I was merely pointing out that artistically, it can be changed or expanded or focused to be whatever the creator wants.
Exactly. In fact there's a recently released movie that focuses on the aftermath of some type of apocalyptic event and no where in the movie is there any mention of exactly what happened.
This still doesn’t seem appropriate for the Sims games though. Also it would quite strongly contradict TS4’s main theme about (almost) eternal happiness.
Which EA might see as a good thing, since they've acknowledged that many of us DO NOT want eternal happiness.
As usual EA doesn’t care about simmers in this forum. (Otherwise EA wouldn’t even have released TS4 without toddlers, pools, CASt and several other popular things!) But TS4 is mainly targeted at 11-14 yrs old girls who EA doesn’t want to become scared or sad because there are bad things in the game.
TS1 wasn’t targeted at this type of simmers in the same way. But even since each new Sims game has been more and more targeted at those very young girls because EA apparently knows that they get more Sims games than anybody else. Therefore EA told the devs to focus on happiness and happy partying in TS4 and less on family play, jealousy, hate and similar things which such young girls likely don’t like very much anyway. The change from EPs to now mainly SPs was also done because the young simmers more easily can persuade their parents to pay for the cheap SPs and the free stuff each month was included to keep them interested between the packs.
So EA knows very well what it has been doing! ;)
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