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Joanne_Snow
5 years agoRising Traveler
"Cinebar;c-17645749" wrote:"logion;c-17636006" wrote:
I watched the video.
The thing is that even if EA doesn't care, that still does not explain the decisions they took with the sims4, and I think that's what is starting to make people angry. People have asked for certain things for 6 years, hoping that EA and Maxis will listen, and instead we have gotten things that have not been highly requested and people are getting fed up with it.
It's not about the money that went to make Star Wars: Journey to Batuu, it's that money did not go to anything else. I heard the same argument about Spark'd. "Lol, that is a completly different budget" ok? but what did the other budget go to? oh right. Star Wars. "Lol, that is also a different budget" oh ok again, what else did you make? Eco Lifestyle. But that EP is full of bugs! "Oh, you have to wait until they fix them, by the way, buy our next pack."
I'm done buying half-finished buggy packs that are lacking in content. And I think people have a right to complain when that is only what they are offering.
Agree. It's funny EA didn't care back twenty years ago, either, but somehow those teams at Maxis was able to build robust games full of gameplay and vision of where they were going and why. Funny how that was possible if every thing is always EA's fault. No one ever has to look any higher than at the president of Maxis.
Because these things tend to be progressive. EA is always testing the waters of incremental monetization, that's kinda their jam. They've done it with other franchises as well, and they only backpedal when the outcry & negative press become too massive to ignore. But that rarely happens for the sims because let's face it, most gamers don't care about the sims.
Still, even in TS3 you can find a lot of cut corners, broken features, gameplay that isn't thought-through at all. It's been a slow but steady descent with TS2 reeling in a massive fanbase as it was so innovative compared to its predecessor, and EA using the next two iterations to figure out just how and how well they can make money off of the franchise.
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