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

I will never own Alexa so I couldn't care less

I have an Alexa but to be honest, I only use it for music or some quick information here and there but not nearly as much as I thought I would when I first got it. So I don't know if this would be something I would use with Sims. Thus far, it doesn't sound too interesting.

I had to google Alexa to know what it is. I don't see myself getting one at all. So I'm indifferent to Alexa as a product.
But I'm disappointed EA feels the need to invest time and money in these kind of things which feel useless to me. For example: I have the sims 4 music in origin and have not yet heard a single note from them.

If this is meant to trigger us to buy Alexa (not available in my language, btw), it is not working. Just like I'm even less likely to go listen to Baby Ariel since EA expects us to be totally hyped about her.

Edit: Just found out about the whole passion project explanation. If I had known earlier they didn't take away time or energy for creating game content, I would have chosen indifferent.

"PlayerSinger2010;c-16907689" wrote:

"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.

It was that bad, yeah. I was there. There were death threats, people screaming that this was a waste of time and money, that they could be doing something more important, etc.

It was awful.

WOW! What the plum is wrong with people these days? I agree with the others who say if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. There was no reason to threaten the developers. The comments weren't even that bad when they introduced First Person Camera last year. And that was also done on the developers' own time, if I remember correctly.

"3KNPen;c-16907715" wrote:

"PlayerSinger2010;c-16907689" wrote:

"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.

It was that bad, yeah. I was there. There were death threats, people screaming that this was a waste of time and money, that they could be doing something more important, etc.

It was awful.

Seriously death threats over a video game? Over not getting some feature you want in a video game? Over the devs showing off something in a stream that they enjoyed rather then giving details about features in video game?

This community is the most entitled, ridiculous group on the planet. I think if a video game can drive you into such a fit of rage that you’re threatening people over it it’s probably time to find a different game.

I have absolutely no interest in this feature. I won’t use it. But it existing doesn’t hurt me or the game.

Oh trust me when I say that there are communities that are much, much worse. Death threats aren't even that surprising nowadays. People become borderline sociopathic behind a computer screen, especially when it comes to content creators. It doesn't even really matter what the content is. Like, I've seen this behavior towards people who write fanfiction, which is literally just a hobby that no one gets paid for.

There are people who feel entitled to content and, because they're so disconnected from the creators, it is easy for them to dehumanize the person actually giving them content. I'm sure that the people throwing around death threats see the developers as little more than Sims themselves.

It feels like a joke honestly :#

"EricasFreePlay;c-16907737" wrote:

"PlayerSinger2010;c-16907689" wrote:

"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.

It was that bad, yeah. I was there. There were death threats, people screaming that this was a waste of time and money, that they could be doing something more important, etc.

It was awful.

WOW! What the plum is wrong with people these days? I agree with the others who say if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. There was no reason to threaten the developers. The comments weren't even that bad when they introduced First Person Camera last year. And that was also done on the developers' own time, if I remember correctly.

"EricasFreePlay;c-16907737" wrote:

"PlayerSinger2010;c-16907689" wrote:

"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.

It was that bad, yeah. I was there. There were death threats, people screaming that this was a waste of time and money, that they could be doing something more important, etc.

It was awful.

WOW! What the plum is wrong with people these days? I agree with the others who say if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. There was no reason to threaten the developers. The comments weren't even that bad when they introduced First Person Camera last year. And that was also done on the developers' own time, if I remember correctly.

Atleast their blocking and banning these people. Kate said she was blocking them and banning them. I'm assuming she meant by banning if their on these forums.

I have an Echo so this should be interesting...

I am not interest, wow, I can't believe that this was a side project, they have time for a side project and no time to tell us anything about sims 5, even when it will be out, how sad is that. this project to me has nothing to do with the sims game.

"3KNPen;c-16907715" wrote:

"PlayerSinger2010;c-16907689" wrote:

"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.

It was that bad, yeah. I was there. There were death threats, people screaming that this was a waste of time and money, that they could be doing something more important, etc.

It was awful.

Seriously death threats over a video game? Over not getting some feature you want in a video game? Over the devs showing off something in a stream that they enjoyed rather then giving details about features in video game?

This community is the most entitled, ridiculous group on the planet. I think if a video game can drive you into such a fit of rage that you’re threatening people over it it’s probably time to find a different game.

I have absolutely no interest in this feature. I won’t use it. But it existing doesn’t hurt me or the game.

Agreed, it is unbelievable that this had happened. I didn't expect this to occur. For me, if they created a feature that dosen't fit my playstyle, then I would be happy since I know that someone will use it. I can see how it can make someone who loves the sims, can relax with this app. Its even shocking when people are calling the devs that creating something that is "useless" instead of something want, even if we know that they are working on the content that they wanted. Its just that game development takes time. They had a schedule to follow. So if they never intent to release a pack this January, then of course, there will be never be a pack in January since content is planned a years before it happened. Its sad that this has happened. I am happy that here at forums, we never do those death threats, while there are times that discussion becomes heated, I am happy how we try to think other people feeling when posting at the forums.