"Writin_Reg;12997877" wrote:
"AnaCecilia63;12997733" wrote:
Two questions:
1. If management is going to say no to the things most people want in the game, why does it keep on sending the gurus for feedback? They already know what we want by now, don't they?
2. If management doesn't send the gurus for feedback but they're asking for themselves, what's the point if they know well that management has set its limits. Why ask the same question over and over again if they know by now what are things that'll never return, because managemente has told them so? Why create debate at the forums, why create the forums for that matter? As I see things, the 'feedback department' isn't working. At least not that I know.
I know those were more than 2 questions, lol, but they're all about the same. Why ask the customers what they want on a product, why all those surveys full of wonderful descriptions of possible amazing EPs if they know they can't give us what we really want. Example, the pools. They patched the pools in without the diving boards. Why? Was it so difficult to include one single object? And those pre-patch pictures in Twitter, they made the people think there were going to be diving boards. Again, why? Why put our hopes up with each hint if in the end diving boards weren't going to be. Another example: careers. They keep on saying there are two careers on the next patch. People is asking if that will be all, they don't give a proper answer. They either keep silence or say things like, 'those two are the ones we are working on". Why not say the truth, that it will be only two careers this time. No, they rather make the people believe there's more so they remain hooked. So it's either a lot of hype about nothing or a complete silence. Either way things are never ever clear.
You know, at this point I don't believe absolutely anything of what EA says, even worse I don't care anymore. I play Sims 4 as well as 2 and 3. I play 4 as it is, knowing that it won't be improved. Things will be added, shiny new objects and stuff that will probably add to the gameplay, but the things we are repeatedly asking, yelling for? I don't think so.
I may as well play Sims 5 IF it's ever released and if it is taken care of by people who love the sims as much as I do. And they will need to have a better and straightforward PR team. I'm sorry, but EA's silence isn't gonna sell EPs, if anything it will keep on making things unclear and dissappointing their customers. We want the truth and nothing but the truth.
Well the diving board object is not a feasible or useable item with out the animations required. What if they had placed a diving board in that pool that was just a single object and like decor had no real value because it had no animation. Every time the devs engage the programming engineers for a single object it cost the company money because it often pulls them off of a much longer and involved programming job to animate that object and add in the animation on all the sims that are expected to use that object. It is easy to ask for a simple design object - but one that requires animations for both the object and the characters that are to use them is a whole other subject. It is never as simple as it looks if the item you are wanting has animations and it is placed in the game with uses more than just viewing. Did you know that the diving board also requires work on all the spaces around this object and under this object in order for sims to just dive off the board or perhaps jump off the board into the air first or possibly a skilled diver may have even more animations off that board like the Sims did in Sims 2. your sims also must be able to swim under the board but not go through it or say climb out of the pool from under it in order for it have a realistic look to having it in your pool. Because of animations and expectations to do with a diving board object they are most usually added to the game with an ep where the animators and programmers are already animating and programming object like that already. Then there is not a disruption in the much larger project they are already working on. They become more acceptable cost wise to the people who hold the Maxis teams purse strings.
Well, being the diving board an object that has been present through the whole series (Sims 1, 2 and 3), you would think they know by heart how to get it to work and at what cost. They have done it three times already for
3 other sims games. In fact, the swimming pools alone should've been there from the start.
I agree with you to an extent. Game objects take time to be designed and animated, I don't need to be a programmer or a game expert to know, but my point wasn't the diving board. I'm not in a hurry to get one, I know it will be included sooner or later. I can wait. My point was, and still is: why have they been so unclear to their customers regarding The Sims 4 future content? I used diving boards as an example of how EA spokesmen (or women) made simmers speculate by the way they presented the pool picture. You can even check the pic again in Twitter -if it is still there that is. People theorized for days if the sim was jumping from a diving board or simply from the edge of the pool. It was obvious that was the latter. But the way the EA team showcased it wasn't clear. I don't know if this was on purpose or was just a poor advertising job. Again, why not be frank to their customers with something like: 'Sorry, no diving board included this time, but we're working on it'. I repeat myself, it's just words. Words won't bite them, much less if they are to tell the truth. That was really my point, but thank you for the explanation. :)
Edited 'cause of my bad English.
