Maxis Monthly May 7th No New Content To Be Announced

"PlayerSinger2010;c-17053207" wrote:

"rudy8292;c-17053004" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-17052996" wrote:
That tweet specifically says they aren’t going to be showing new content?

I predict it will just be a case of chat spamming university, university, university over and over. A well known game changer will be in the chat and people will be excited about that.

The devs will answer questions about their favourite dlc, favourite sims game, snark lightly on sims 3 and talk about their favourite breakfast food. Also throw in a vague statement about how they are soooo excited for whatever they are working on right now but can’t talk about anyway. Cue more spam in chat about university.


I really don’t see the point of the MM. it’s not personal to the Gurus I’m sure they are all nice people but the time surely could be better spent elsewhere?

Exactly. They are pointless.

If they have nothing to show/announce, why even bother with it.

Patches seem to become lesser and less, they cannot talk about anything future game related thing, so what's the point really.

Fan interaction, which is something people seem to complain about no matter what?

I think what some are looking for is a sense of direction and meaningful interaction with the community in relation to the game, concerning things like bug fixes, a timeline of things to come, etc. Of course meaningful interaction has different meanings for each person, but this is the “vibe” (I guess?) I’ve gotten over the past few months.

On top of being extremely tight-lipped about upcoming content and sometimes even patches, the gurus have been very cheeky about things this go round imo. Like, posting an up close photo of an untextured object on twitter in the name of “fan interaction” does not get me excited about the game. It just makes me roll my eyes and click off to go do or play something else. And the ever persistent “we literally can’t tell you anything about this thing, but it’s gonna be sooooo great! when is it coming? we can’t say that either but it’ll be Soon(tm)!” or being really vague on livestreams and in Q&A is kind of frustrating too, so I sort of get where people are coming from.

As others have said, I’m sure the gurus are nice people, but I have zero interest in their personal lives as it doesn’t pertain to the game. And (again imo) it just adds more empty fan interaction that people seem to not like.

Side note: I’ve always been puzzled by the fact that Maxis has such strict rules about what they can say about upcoming content when BioWare, another EA studio, has a roadmap for their game Anthem, and I believe there was also one done for Mass Effect: Andromeda (don’t quote me). It just seems weird to me that if EA is breathing down the devs’ necks to not say anything less than super vague regarding the future of the game that they would do so inequitably among their studios.