"SimGuruBChick;12997960" wrote:
Hello everyone. I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that we are watching this thread and taking your comments and feedback very seriously. The reason behind not commenting is that we have nothing to say yet. We are working on the game constantly. We are improving and enhancing content every day. And, we do take everyone's feedback into consideration.
This is the reality of game development. You can't make everything for everyone. What you can do is have a design vision and then make your decisions based on that vision. The vision for The Sims 4 was to refocus attention on the Sims. What makes them intriguing? How to make them feel more alive? How to bring the inner Sim to the surface? Not all the decisions the studio make will be popular with all the players. That's a universal truth.
And, as we have said all along is, this is just the beginning. A Sims game is a massive undertaking. The base game is the foundation for everything that follows. Look back at The Sims 3 or The Sims 2 when the base games first launched. Then look at them again after 5 years of added content. They are so different at the end of that journey from when they started.
Please, know this. The team working on The Sims cares deeply about the game they are making and the people who play it. We are not ignoring you.
Thank you for popping in and saying you are listening, it helps a little.
I understand the decisions you have to make but I know I'm not the only one who feels like you guys said stuff was missing-purely because your vision wasn't realised by release date and so we have an unfinished base game. Toddlers is hardly an obscure element to the sims-it's an integral life state given we've had it since 2. And why did they add it in 2? I think because they realised how weird and jarring it is to have a baby jump into a fully grown child. So for many of us it seems like 4 has taken a huge step backwards. It's not like we are asking for seasons, or university or pets. This is a whole life state of a sim! So for me I just don't see the focus on the sim part of what you said-a sim is a sim from cradle to grave, not from child to death (given babies count as objects!)
I could understand if you had said you were focusing on a young adult/adult sim and the dating scene, because that's sort of what it feels like so far from playing. But then I wish you had called it something else-calling it sims4 you expect, as a customer and a player, a certain level of content and quality from base. Sims4 is missing this base content. So as a customer I'm very disappointed that players like me can't play because instead of joy we have had from sims since sims1 there's a tang of disenchantment. That's heartbreaking to me. I couldn't have supported the sims series any more over the years and I feel let down.
