Introducing The Sims Direct

This is awesome.

Except for those of us who do not use Twitter or any sort of social media since it tends to be a toxic cesspool, please don't do away with the forum and other methods of communicating. (I use Patreon and get my updates from there....so maybe that is social media? Social media lite? LOL).

Are you guys saying that the wants/fears still won't stay turned off? GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today's patch discussion.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1003467/patch-now-available-9-13#latest

I just hope this'll be an actual improvement on communication, rather than just the current level of communication moved to a new account. Some things we need from this:

• Regular updates on the biggest issues (even at the earliest stages). Literally just "we are aware of this issue and are looking into it" is all that's needed, it doesn't need to be almost fixed and there doesn't need to be an ETA for a fix for something like this to be said.
  
• Acknowledgement of a lot of issues (not just the biggest ones), just because an issue isn't the biggest issue in the game doesn't mean players don't need an update on it. Some things affect some players a lot more than others, so just because there isn't hundreds of people screaming about an issue doesn't mean people don't care about it or don't want to know what's going on
  
• Sharing bug reports if more information is needed or so people can "me too" them
  

I am still confused by the word account? This is a new twitter account? So just something else to add to clutter in following news for a game.

Just as a matter of curiosity and assuming I have really bad FOMO, how many twitter accounts would I have to follow to get all Sims 4 news?

Not that I use twitter anyway - the main reason being I can't view tweets at all unless I myself create a twitter account and am logged in so essentially EA is sharing my interest in a game with a third party company.

I suppose if everything keeps up like this, we may as well throw in the towel and do away with all official websites and web software that offer ordered structured information that is persistent over time with a single infinitely scrollable page. Bit like transferring all the books in the Library of Congress to an infinite toilet roll.

I follow on Twitter and use social media, so I'm glad they are designating a place to get info. But, I never engage the Sims Team there because it's pretty much a Wild West free for all in the responses. I know forums are considered out of date and secondary to social media these days, but I really wish the devs would at least post here some. Even a once-a-month Q&A would be nice. They might get more actual feedback with less noise, if they did.

@ModerateOsprey possibly just two.

The Sims
https://twitter.com/TheSims?t=LxZI2qx8jse_80fkdrv8_A&s=09

The Sims Direct
https://twitter.com/TheSimsDirect?t=AQodWLpKIJE8dswM5vBcxQ&s=09

@simgirl1010

ta :smile:

@simgirl1010 You're on top of these things. My friend just showed me a twitter post saying that Sims 4 will be free across all platforms on October 18th. That there is more information coming soon at a special Behind the Sims stream.

I'm scared. LOL

"Never look a gift horse in the mouth...."

"CarpeNocheSims;c-18182141" wrote:
@simgirl1010 You're on top of these things. My friend just showed me a twitter post saying that Sims 4 will be free across all platforms on October 18th. That there is more information coming soon at a special Behind the Sims stream.

I'm scared. LOL

"Never look a gift horse in the mouth...."

I'm excited. ?
I just wish we didn't have to wait an entire month. There'll be endless speculation.

"simgirl1010;c-18182154" wrote:

"CarpeNocheSims;c-18182141" wrote:
@simgirl1010 You're on top of these things. My friend just showed me a twitter post saying that Sims 4 will be free across all platforms on October 18th. That there is more information coming soon at a special Behind the Sims stream.

I'm scared. LOL

"Never look a gift horse in the mouth...."

I'm excited. ?
I just wish we didn't have to wait an entire month. There'll be endless speculation.

You're one of those, aren't you? The glass is always half full? Makes me want to dump the glass on you. KIDDING! LOL I was mostly joking anyways about being scared. More like nervous. Like waiting for the other shoe to drop...."here...have all this free stuff as we skip out the door and turn the lights off". I'd cry, as much as I'm mad about this patch, I'd cry.