How do you feel about The Sims coming to Alexa? Was this an exciting announcement for you?

"SimmerSam;c-16907331" wrote:

"drake_mccarty;c-16907076" wrote:
Are they trying to sell copies of The Sims 4 or Alexa enabled devices......? Either way this has nothing to do with the game. Not sure why they needed to live stream it as if it’s something important.

It isn’t technically the game, it’s just trivia and sims music that you can now access with Alexa

I know :smile:

I was being a little sarcastic with what they are pushing. To get any use out of what they were showing off you need a smart speaker, and not TS4. Realistically they should be plugging Sims 4 on these streams not A.I. smart speakers.

I know :smile:

I was being a little sarcastic with what they are pushing. To get any use out of what they were showing off you need a smart speaker, and not TS4. Realistically they should be plugging Sims 4 on these streams not A.I. smart speakers.

Sorry, I’m not the best at picking up on sarcasm! Haha. I appreciate all the work the team does to release content for us, but this did feel a bit like youtubers doing a paid promotion. Oh well, I’m sure there’s great stuff to come!

Pretty indifferent with it. I do have an echo dot and use it (not as much as my mom as it's far more useful to her), but can't say I see myself using for the sims really. Maybe there's some that might get some use and entertainment out of it, but I neither love it no hate it. Like the sandwich I ate earlier didn't love it didn't hate it, but hey it was food.

I do like Sims music though and that's about it.

Got my uncle a echo dot recently and he just loves playing witht he thing if he was into the sims he probably would like it.

I might try the trivia since I do have (but barely use) my Echo Dot.

I don't care at all. Not in the least. It was a side project, so good on them and I hope they had fun. I'd be upset if it was a main project, just because a) I personally don't see the point and b) I don't, and will never, own a smart speaker. I listen to sims music if I want to on Spotify, but even then not often...and look, I love the Sims, and if trivia is your jam, nice. Good on you, and I hope you have the best experience. But I cannot personally think of more boring way for me to spend my time than playing sims trivia with a robot...

Not to stray too far off topic or bring up negativity, but Kates tweets about the stream were intense. Were people truly that upset about a passion project? I caught a bit of the playback of the stream but not the whole thing, and didn’t watch the chat. Was the chat truly that awful? I just don’t get it.

"simmer_jay;c-16907381" wrote:
Not to stray too far off topic or bring up negativity, but Kates tweets about the stream were intense. Were people truly that upset about a passion project? I caught a bit of the playback of the stream but not the whole thing, and didn’t watch the chat. Was the chat truly that awful? I just don’t get it.

I wasn’t looking at the chat so I’m not sure how bad it was on there. I haven’t seen anyone on here or twitter being overly rude or hostile about it though, mostly just people saying it isn’t for them. I’m sure as always there were probably people annoyed that it was a pack.
I think Kate was speaking not only about the Alexa thing, but just in general. Some people do get pretty intense if the thing they want isn’t announced.

I don't have or will ever have one so it's not something I'll be using but I like that they're doing it. It's a shame they are getting a load of stick for it.

"applefeather2;c-16907091" wrote:
It's just another little amusement, so it's no problem for me. I don't have an Alexis so it's fine for those who want to use the feature on theirs.

This.

"simmer_jay;c-16907381" wrote:
Not to stray too far off topic or bring up negativity, but Kates tweets about the stream were intense. Were people truly that upset about a passion project? I caught a bit of the playback of the stream but not the whole thing, and didn’t watch the chat. Was the chat truly that awful? I just don’t get it.

I hope not. It is really such a little thing that only affects people that want to use it. Those that aren't interested like myself wont, in any way, be affected by it. There are those that do like to create drama out of a little thing though.