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Horrorgirl6
5 years agoSeasoned Hotshot
"Pamtastic72;c-17636173" wrote:"MLadyAzzera;c-17636160" wrote:"Pamtastic72;c-17635986" wrote:"KaeChan2089;c-17635975" wrote:"Gordy;c-17635974" wrote:
Can someone give me the tl;dr? I'm sure this lady is cool, but I'd rather not spend 17 minutes watching a video that may or may not just summarize what we already know/suspect.
Same, I was not going to sit through 17 minutes of her defending EA.
Also with a dang title like that turned tail quickly.
Then you’re complaining simply for the sake of complaining because it’s not a defense of EA, it an inside baseball if you will, peek behind the scenes of how this theme may have come to be from someone who actually worked in a video game company for awhile. She never once says EA made the right call here, she explains why they made this call, based on the potential for huge profits with two huge franchises merging in this pack.
I think what people are having issues with is that she just accepts that the way EA behaves as "just the way it is because of late stage capitalism", rather than calling out on how it is hurting the long term for short term profit, rooting for change back to fans first, and how designing for stock holders will ultimately lead to less of a loyal fan base who buys every EP/GP/SP on release day. Before EA bought Maxis, they made so much money from listening to fans that they needed EA's resources to keep up.
If EA has to sacrifice it's best selling PC game to pay back Disney, then maybe EA shouldn't be managing the sims. Every fan based idea/pack have in general sold better than those the community didn't ask for.
Since they botched the release of Sims 4, they lost millions of dollars for poor execution, and now us players must sit through Star Wars for them to make money back.
Sounds to me like EA cannot properly handle the franchise, as they lost more money than they know by lowering quality and community interaction.
Maybe someday they will either sell or a better competitor comes along and takes the majority of it's fan base. Then tell me how much money they'll be making by the potential of possibly attaining new players to pay their shareholders versus a buy every pack day 1 loyal fan.
EA didn’t just pull this idea out of their back...door. They ran demographic data, and probably focus groups and other analytics to be sure they have a good chance to make profits off this pack theme. If they thought they were making a sacrifice they wouldn’t be doing it. Something in their pre-pack concept analysis tells them there is good money to be made here, new eyes to bring into the game.
Something says they will have new people buying this pack who hadn’t played Sims before and in order to do that they will also have to buy the base game and that’s a fat sack of loot on the table. Now there’s still no guarantee they will succeed but businesses don’t generally take blind risks they try to mitigate as much as they can. If they’re doing this it’s because their feelers tell them there is a trove of new simmers to be had, and maybe some old ones to be brought back by something fresh and untried before. Claire is right, this is how companies work, think, strategize, and make decisions. These forums, and Twitter combined are but a speck of the current audience and don’t make a drop in the ocean for potential new players.
They won't have new people buying the pack.Do you really honestly believe.That people would pay 40.00 dollars for a base game .That they never had interested in.Just to get a new pack.I doubt it.
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