"Anavastia;12998361" wrote:
"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.
I appreciate what you're saying and that you're trying to keep many of us from walking out on this series all together. However when some dev's can't even understand why we would be upset about the family play being stripped. It builds a gap between us. The further they build that gap the more we don't feel you listen. We were alienated as players from the choices you made. This goes beyond just not being able to please someone in the game. You're fanbase is a versatile one who thrive on core features of your game. If you remove those features than naturally sales will drop because you removed the features that players use of interest.
So to me if this is truly about bringing life back to the sim, why have dev's than stripped this simulation game of his family life? Why has the game stripped the ability to build character background of that sim in detail? The part to playing sims is to simulate that life for them. Life doesn't begin at adulthood it begins at birth. For years family players have waited, and waited for the guru's to understand why we play this game, making requests, and suggestions. For years the most improvement we got was a stroller and a rocking chair. To see what sims 4 has done to family play became a slap in the face for most of these players. You have literally been begging and pleading with you for decades to improve the simulation to family play. We honestly feel you heard us but you did not listen. Listening means that you heard and you acted upon it. Not you heard and than did nothing. That was where we feel you did not listen and sims 4 to us showed you no longer cared.
As far as it being a massive undertaking, whether you invest the time into the game and resources at the base game as a foundation or not, is not any of the players problem. It was not our fault you made these choices with sims 4. You are a business we are your customer if you no longer supply the product, we no longer supply our money. Not everyone like to be strung along for years. A base game is to build a foundation and expand upon the game. Not to build a foundation and then repair that foundation with expansions through out time. So no, not everyone likes this expensive journey you wish for us to travel. I rather not be strung along for 5 years only to find myself feeling resentful and disappointed at the end of it.
Yes I agree @Anavastia. I'd be far less annoyed had the base game been intact-yes they may have focused of linear task orientated play too much for my liking and other things like no dishwashers and hardly any NPCs, but the thing that really gets to me is they gave us the excuse that 4 didn't have toddlers because they ran out of time and it was too hard. We are now three months in so we've patiently been waiting on you to finish the base. That might be an inconvenient truth but it's the truth none the less. Had they never intended to provide us with family play then say it-instead we were told we would see all previous game life states! Only to be told two months before release that 'things change'. We understand you guys had an unrealistic budget and time but as a customer I don't feel we should be penalised for decisions out of our control. We paid a premium price for this game-they didn't say at the time 'hey guys we aren't sure if you'll ever get the content you are crying out for so don't buy yet' they told us to trust them and buy into sims 4. That's why a lot of people feel let down-there was an expectation that if it was a time issue then it would be worked on. But the further from release we get and some of the responses from EA worry us because of the tone. Sometimes it's like we are asking too much and are made to feel like less of a valued customer as other groups.
I still live in hope but there is a point where not only do we lose out like we have already, we continue to watch by the sidelines while everyone else whose play styles were respected get to have a wonderful time with exciting new content that means little or nothing to us because the fundamentals just don't exist in 4 for us. That's bound to cause resentment and it's already happening-we have players in this thread who logged in, built a pool and then meh so logged out. I did that too. Because as awesome as pools are the entire game feels hollow and shallow if you play as I do.
