Let's watch: Maxis Monthly - Episode 1

"keekee53;c-16757173" wrote:

"Sigzy05;c-16757153" wrote:
No offense intended, but that was so lame.

A fashion influencer career? Maxis you can do better. That was just so so lame......I'm so sad...TS4 just really isn't coming through.

It's not a modelling career, it's not a stylist career, it's another stupid instagram career. I like the new digital art sketch pad, but you can't even do fashion sketches, so....what the actual..... There's no fabric sampling, no sewing machine, no catwalk, just writing more articles on the computer....how fun. And the animations look like they are straight out of the Sims Mobile, so disappointing. I thought it was going to be a better update.

ALso, the digital art sketch pad does everything an easel does....it's a cool object but really, why are we getting another object that does everything we already can do in the game? TS4 can't afford that luxury with it's lack of content. So disappointed.

THIS^^

I agree as well. They could have done so much more with this kind of career. Also, i'm glad we got terrain tools back for the builders out there but I don't really build a lot so its not my thing. I would much rather have had a patch this month that fixed some of the many bugs people have been having since we didn't get one last month. Guess we'll be waiting another month.

"Sigzy05;c-16757153" wrote:
No offense intended, but that was so lame.

A fashion influencer career? Maxis you can do better. That was just so so lame......I'm so sad...TS4 just really isn't coming through.

It's not a modelling career, it's not a stylist career, it's another stupid instagram career. I like the new digital art sketch pad, but you can't even do fashion sketches, so....what the actual..... There's no fabric sampling, no sewing machine, no catwalk, just writing more articles on the computer....how fun. And the animations look like they are straight out of the Sims Mobile, so disappointing. I thought it was going to be a better update. A lot of people have been asking for a personality update and we are getting a lame career....

Also, the digital art sketch pad does everything an easel does....it's a cool object but really, why are we getting another object that does everything we already can do in the game? TS4 can't afford that luxury with it's lack of content. So disappointed.

It may not make sense to you, but I predict a lot of players will appreciate and enjoy it. And the ability to change townie outfits without using cheats is going to be a Big Plumming Deal to a lot of players. I've added GT closets to a lot of venues for fixing fashion disasters...now the closets can resume their proper function, places for making out and Woohoo. >:) People have been asking for new careers, now we get one and it's free.

As for the sketchpad, I'm looking forward to that the most. I love doing Paint by Reference paintings, but it can be hard to figure out where to put the easel to get the right angle, and some places you can't easily fit an easel (like if you're in the middle of the rope bridge in the Selvadoradan jungle). And since it's in personal inventory it'll be a great gift for artist Sims.

Finally, though they didn't go into much detail, the terrain tools they were showing at the end looked awesome. I can't build worth a lick but I'm looking forward to seeing what sort of builds end up on the Gallery using the tools.

At least I don't have to pay for it

"stilljustme2;c-16757217" wrote:

"MizoreYukii;c-16757179" wrote:
Wow, that's pretty awesome. I thought they said terrain tools weren't possible though? Does this mean the other stuff they said wasn't possible is now possible? Maybe I'm remembering wrong. But either way, very excited and I don't even build anymore. xD Can't wait to see what gets made with the new tools though!

Remember, Things Change (tm). As they learn more and more about the capabilities of the game/game engine, they're making new discoveries.

Speaking of things changing, they might still be able to add a multiplayer option...but I still don't want one, and here's why: Multiplayer games rely heavily on microtransactions to finance their servers. Multiplayer games generally do not allow cheating (and I always have cheated in every single player Sims game to date, usually with the money cheat). Finally, I already play similar multiplayer games, like Avakin Life and City Girl Life. I have a Facebook gaming account for the latter with about 600 Facebook friends....and at least 400 are players of the same Facebook games I play. Social networking games encourage the player to "friend" everyone who asks to be a Facebook friend whether you know them in real life or not. And sometimes that way, you get plumholes. (And yes, I just deliberately self-censored.) These people are rotten plums, as opposed to tasty edible plums which I enjoy very much, thank you.

WOW, this is awesome! Fashion career is something a lot of people have been asking for, so hooray that they will get to do this! And I like the idea of having far-reaching influence as a stylist by setting trends that could spread through the neighbourhood (though I sort of wish you could customize which Sims are likely to jump on trends and which aren't, which doesn't seem super likely). But then WOW, terrain tools, can't wait!!!!!

Agreed. It doesn't even seem like a proper career, it sounds more like what young instagrammers would dream about. "I wish I could talk about fashion all day and give people makeovers and be paid for it".
This new career doesn't interest me at all.
But I am very glad about the terrain tools <3

The new career and digital sketch pad are ok. The new terrain tools look great. But none of it was worth a hyped-up live stream. They could have mentioned that stuff in a simple blog post with a few pics and wasted a lot less of people's time..... not to mention .... emotional interests.

They made it sound like everyone on planet earth should tune in to see their mind-blowing announcement ...... of what turned out to be just ........ a digital easle. Oh yea. Lets not forget the new Mr. Dressup career.

Tell me you're kidding me. Tell me I didn't wait around the last few days for THAT.

Seriously?????

Well, I like the terrain tools. But that still could have been shared via blog post.

"muzickmage;c-16757282" wrote:
The new career and digital sketch pad are ok. The new terrain tools look great. But none of it was worth a hyped-up live stream. They could have mentioned that stuff in a simple blog post with a few pics and wasted a lot less of people's time..... not to mention .... emotional interests.

They made it sound like everyone on planet earth should tune in to see their mind-blowing announcement ...... of what turned out to be just ........ a digital easle. Oh yea. Lets not forget the new Mr. Dressup career.

Tell me you're kidding me. Tell me I didn't wait around the last few days for THAT.

Seriously?????

Well, I like the terrain tools. But that still could have been shared via blog post.

This. Thank you for this.

Well I'm super excited. I've been hoping for terrain tools since I first learned S4 didn't have them <3 And while the career isn't ground breaking I think it's a nice addition. I have a sim or two who will make use of it :)

"muzickmage;c-16757282" wrote:
The new career and digital sketch pad are ok. The new terrain tools look great. But none of it was worth a hyped-up live stream. They could have mentioned that stuff in a simple blog post with a few pics and wasted a lot less of people's time..... not to mention .... emotional interests.

They made it sound like everyone on planet earth should tune in to see their mind-blowing announcement ...... of what turned out to be just ........ a digital easle. Oh yea. Lets not forget the new Mr. Dressup career.

Tell me you're kidding me. Tell me I didn't wait around the last few days for THAT.

Seriously?????

Well, I like the terrain tools. But that still could have been shared via blog post.

They could have, but I liked actually seeing how smoothly it worked in the video. Would like to see and know more, but this was just a tease.