"GreenTurtle;c-17890882" wrote:
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"SimmerGeorge;c-17890777" wrote:
Are they even doing anything else other than representation updates?
Yes. They've improved traits, added sentiments, introduced platforms, bunkbeds and done a fair amount of bug fixes within the last half year. (Granted, they've also introduced new bugs, but that's nothing new.) We've also been getting new packs with regularity; they've made happy haunts after so many people wanted it. They've mentioned the budget for free updates is bigger than ever. So, I honestly think they're doing all the representation updates on top of all the work they've already been doing. And if that's the case, we need to applaud them, because that's actually pretty great.
@GreenTurtle I will agree with everything you said except for this part. The free updates have so much representation work in them and so little actual gameplay improvements in comparison. The trait improvements were super minor code changes no overhaul, no new concepts, no progress, just tweaks that should have been at launch imo. The fair amount of bug fixes I don't personally view as a fair amount, if you look at the previous patch notes they fix so many minor bugs like some text issues for example. The bug report page is incredibly overcrowded with bugs that haven;t been fixed for several years now, with features in some packs being almost unplayable after years still.
Platforms and bunkbeds are a fair amount of work but if you think about it they have a huge amount of budget potential and staff and this is all they deliver. I mean in the first years of Maxis they were developing games with a group of 10-20 people. The indie-team from Paralives is this tiny development team and yet look at what they have been able to achieve in so little time. And then you have EA that made billions from this game taking 1 year to finish skintones and hairstyles.
The budget for the "free" updates is huge but I don't really see them as being that "free". The Sims 4 DLC is so overpriced I'm pretty sure we're paying for these updates in the DLC, actually judging by the amount of money we pay for DLC, we should actually be getting the double amount of free updates. It's like these sales at the supermarket "Buy 3 shampoos and get one free". Yet the one you get for free isn't really free, it's in the price. And if it's not in the price you have to ask yourself would I have bought 3 bottles of shampoo if I wasn't gonna get the 4th free? You probably would have only bought just one but you fell in the trap. It's marketing 101 to make the customer think they are getting free stuff with those kinds of traps. EA doesn't play when it comes to money.
