"Nindessa;c-16669308" wrote:
@FruUtter I'm not disagreeing with ANYTHING you said; you made several valid points. However, you've been a top creator for a while, yes? And I know I've seen Maxis favorite a few of your things.
I'm not saying you don't deserve that; your creations are pretty amazing, imo. But, you kind of demonstrate what we're talking about, that this update benefits those who were popular before the update, and that many won't bother to switch the tabs to look for creations.
Before the update, though I didn't get many downloads, I did consistantly have about 5 within the first day of posting something. Now I'm lucky to get 2, and those are probably from followers. It IS causing harm to many who are "in the middle," i.e. not a complete nobody, but not getting enough downloads to even touch "Popular Now".
But, as you said, it could be that player's aren't used to the system. It could be that people just don't care to change tabs and look for something different. But, one thing's for sure, this system doesn't seem to be giving many small creators a chance.[/quot"Nindessa;c-16669308" wrote:
@FruUtter I'm not disagreeing with ANYTHING you said; you made several valid points. However, you've been a top creator for a while, yes? And I know I've seen Maxis favorite a few of your things.
I'm not saying you don't deserve that; your creations are pretty amazing, imo. But, you kind of demonstrate what we're talking about, that this update benefits those who were popular before the update, and that many won't bother to switch the tabs to look for creations.
Before the update, though I didn't get many downloads, I did consistantly have about 5 within the first day of posting something. Now I'm lucky to get 2, and those are probably from followers. It IS causing harm to many who are "in the middle," i.e. not a complete nobody, but not getting enough downloads to even touch "Popular Now".
But, as you said, it could be that player's aren't used to the system. It could be that people just don't care to change tabs and look for something different. But, one thing's for sure, this system doesn't seem to be giving many small creators a chance.
Hi Nidessa!
I see what you are saying. And once again I wish to point out that the UI and also GUI has some significant changes which many players have not yet understood how to benefit from them. That is WHY players are getting too few DLs at the moment (if my theory is true that is).
Another aspect of this problem is the social one. My point is this, if one looks carefully at the example I uploaded with the two different girls and IF you READ the COMMENTS one will see that the two creations were NOT that popular aong my peers. In January 2018 I had 200 followers. I worked pretty hard (!) in order to come up to 949 date 2018-07-18. And if you look at the number of "hearts" I am getting for my creations it is suprisingly low - sometimes 0. And that could be explained by low social capital due to concurrence or simply because ppl do not like what I do.
When I reuploaded the same sims AFTER the patch the picture suddenly changed. Those sims are NOT from the old system they started from 0. So they had just as low chances as everyone else here. What is totally new to me as a player is the comment section (compare the comment section in before and after) and the number of DL as well as number of followers reached what is a top for me.
Here are some numbers:
nr of folowers 1172 date 2018-08-01
nr of folowers 1603 date 2018-08-11
Indeed, I have four Maxis favs which I am most greatful for. However, if you look the the number of DLs it is pretty low which also reflected on the number of followers. Does that mean my creations are bad? No, ofc not it means that less ppl hade need for them. As an example, take a look at my Coco and Modo household. The comment section was FILLED with sometimes hateful comments since the sim does not look feminine enough (ofc I deleted those).
My example shows that the system does work as I guess it is intended to work, nevertheless we players still think in the old patterns. As I said, the examples show before the patch and after patch and the after patch upload was a fresh one.
