Lack of Long-term gameplay in TS4

"drake_mccarty;c-17560184" wrote:


The silent majority is a fallacy argument. Silence =/= happiness or discontent. If someone isn’t offering an opinion, one shouldn’t be assumed. That is one of the fundamental issues the community managers have had this go around, and they have embraced that flawed argument and encouraged it’s use in that specific context.

I’m in no position to say a majority of players are unhappy with the game. The facts however can’t be refuted, and the facts are that this game was largely unsuccessful for the first couple years following it’s release and that’s not because happy people were silently playing and spending lots of money. It wasn’t successful by today’s standards until EA started pushing a free trial, a permanent mark down, and a steady cycle of discounts for the base game + DLC. I could go into a huge long paragraph as to why this happened, how it was predictable, and how they could have gotten in front of it before it exploded, but I’ll condense it to: they stripped the game of it’s identity. It’s the easiest way to get the point across, even the developers continuously refer to Sims 4 as a different Sims game. So I’m not sure contradicting the developers is a good argument to use in this case.

It’s great you find long term play in this game, but your experience is yours. It’s exclusive to you. Just how my experience is exclusive to me.

The first part I disagree with, but it's off topic so I think we should drop it and just agree to disagree.

The bolded part I am in 100% agreement and exactly what I said too. This has long term play, but not for everyone. It's different for different individuals.