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"Kerrigan;c-17640409" wrote:
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> I also have friends and family that play star wars games and are really big fans (as am I) and none of us including them said they have no intention of buying of playing this game. If they want to play a star wars game then they will play an actual game that is about star wars, not some side mission that has nothing really to do with star wars itself.
Which is the opposite of two of my friends who are Star Wars fans have said. They've never had interest in the Sims but this gives them a reason to buy it.
Sounds like me! I love playing KOTOR and KOTOR 2 at any time (TFU 1 & 2 kinda lost appeal because I'm sick of Starkiller). I haven't really touched Battlefront 2 for a while since I played all the way through (oh, Del. I liked you so) and don't really do the team raids or whatever they are. And I haven't acquired Fallen Order yet, but I'm looking forward to this. It's not gonna be mind-blowing, but it'll let me play the characters that a friend and I made when we were 13 and I can have fun with it. So I'm on board, ready to set hyperspace coordinates and jump FTL to Batuu aboard my YT-2400 (yeah, I stole your ship, Dash Rendar. :D)- @Mareah and @CAPTAIN_NXR7, thank you for your answers. That's the only instance that I could think of as well. Yet, that poll wasn't very long ago, was it? I don't remember.
More importantly, have the Gurus ever discussed the results of that poll? - LiELFSeasoned Veteran
"muzickmage;c-17640230" wrote:
"LiELF;c-17639770" wrote:
"j1z1;c-17639493" wrote:
"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17639040" wrote:
"Cynna;c-17639033" wrote:
"BrittanyChick22;c-17638790" wrote:
I know you already told me, the point is I'm pretty sure EA saw the poll and saw that Star wars was dead last and still went with it anyway.
Has EA/Maxis ever included a Star Wars theme in any oftheretheir surveys? Admittedly, I've taken a few of them, but not all. Has anything even close to a Star Wars theme been put up in a survey?
There was an open question in one of the surveys regarding which brand folks would like to see in the sims. Apparently that's where some would have filled in Star Wars. Possibly me included... ;)
Oh yeah, I remember that. I think I did too. Sorreh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ditto.
I'm going to pretend that no one else voted and blame it all on you.... lol.
In fact, i'm going to name my very first Star Wars character... "Little Elf".
Lol! I'm...honored?? :D
You probably should blame me. I'm known to lead content crusades for DLC that "no one asks for." - CAPTAIN_NXR7Seasoned Hotshot
"LiELF;c-17640605" wrote:
I'm known to lead content crusades for DLC that "no one asks for."
Keep it going. I’m with you all the way! - Fuck yes I'm salty. I would really like to be able to buy more packs and enjoy the game I've spent money on. Without the core pieces missing this game is essentially in the garbage can. There's no way they could top sims 2 or 3, but they could improve the core game play. A bit frustrating after 6 years.
- Beardedgeek72New SpectatorWe have to remember that EA has gotten away with worse and worse games. Build mode aside, which is VASTLY better than in earlier games, Sims 2 is objectively the best game in the series.
Sims 3 was dumbed down to accomodate for a very poorly optimized open world. Sims 4 was dumbed down even more to accomodate for a mandatory multiplayer / online experience that luckily never happened thanks to Sim City crashing and burning.
But that's why every bad decision was made from the beginning. Loading screens? To make low end computers handle 10-20 players in the same world at once. And so on.
I have over 2000 hours in Sims 4. But I am fully aware that EA has proven to themselves that they can release a sub par product and never actually fix it's flaws because enough people will buy it anyway.
And now they are really testing their theory by making US pay THEM for an ad. This is a product placement ad for an IRL amusement park. It is in no way based on the movies. "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.- This is such a tough pill to swallow but I understand the model. I suspected this to a degree but I guess the reality is that even if I don't buy this it does not matter to EA.....capitalism at it's worse unfortunately but if like me you've bought everything else then that's the only thing they will care about. £70 to bring in new Simmers interested in Star Wars primarily is way more worthwhile than someone who's choosing not to spend £20 to the £700 they've already spent. Harsh but true.
Thanks for sharing the video, I'm by no means happy but this should hopefully give context to a community frustrated and looking for answers....
I guess a saving grace to this is that it looks like most of the things on offer here are strictly related to Star Wars, in that if you don't buy it you aren't missing out on anything like laptops, decent hairs/piercings etc - Joanne_SnowRising 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. - Joanne_SnowRising TravelerAlso to the OP: I don't understand how people can be offended at this lol. She's not telling anyone not to be salty, she's not defending EA, she's just giving people a reality check. And keeps saying: OF COURSE you're angry and of course this isn't what TS needs rn, with so many other things still missing that used to be base game features, but it doesn't take away from the fact that none of our missing features keep EA execs awake at night, and none of our needs really matter as long as the cash flow stays in the green.
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