"IceyJ;c-16533389" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16533303" wrote:
"IceyJ;c-16533260" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16532622" wrote:
"IceyJ;c-16532578" wrote:
@Erpe "Also the reason why people kept asking about TS4 being over was because they expected TS5 soon to be announced and therefore doubted that TS4 really would get many more packs."
No, this wasn't the reason. It's because of the panic that ensued when a previous Guru on Reddit claimed that there was no development on The Sims 5 and that EA was shifting The Sims towards mobile. The natural assumption was that the game was ending. It didn't help that during that time, several gurus were fired, some were moved to mobile and EA wasn't communicating with us due to not having a community manager. That's when Graham stepped in to calm things down, and eventually Grant.
The Reddit message was obviously from a simmer and not from a former guru! That was easy to see by the way it was written. So I doubt that this false message really created much panic.
Also it would have been much easier for Grant and the gurus to just state that the reddit message was false instead of writing a huge number of messages on twitter about TS4 still getting a lot more new content (and even for years).
But the gurus had to make simmers believe that TS4 isn’t over when TS5 (or what it will be called) soon will be announced. The problem wasn’t mainly the hardcore simmers in this forum though but the millions of casual simmers elsewhere. Therefore the gurus went on twitter to prepare all those simmers for the announcement of a new big Sims game hoping that they then would spread the information that TS4 isn’t over anyway.
If you were online at all during that time, you would know that the message did create much panic. But it wasn't just the message alone, it was a combination of things.
Maybe they didn't state that it was false because it wasn't? If you check the Reddit user's history, you'll see that he had some inside knowledge about the game. I believe him.
All I can say is, start preparing those excuses you're going to need when The Sims 5 does not get announced. :*
There are several things to notice:
1. He didn’t ever tell anything about the development teams or critizised how they worked or were made.
2. He didn’t describe or critizise in any way the different stages in the game’s development.
3. He wrote that EA is stopping with PC games to concentrate on only mobile games even though that isn’t true at all! (But apparently he was angry because EA had made the Sims Mobile too when he wanted all the money used on TS4 instead because that was the game he played.)
He wrote that he was a former SimGuru. But not that he was a former employer or developer in EA which I don’t think that he ever was. Most like he just meant that he was one of the earlier tech experts who gave advice in this forum and knew more about the game than most simmers.
The devs usually play other and very different games instead when they aren’t at work. Their education is general and they can make all kinds of games. So usually it was just some random things that caused them to become Sims game developers at all. (The devs who make the Sims Freeplay made almost only racing games until EA suddenly chose them to make the Sims Freeplay too. And the devs in Salt Lake City made a lot of Tiger Woods golf games until EA suddenly chose them to make EPs for TS3!) Therefore a real earlier SimGuru (who also was a developer) would be very unlikely to talk just like a disappointed Sims fan and not as a developer instead!
I don’t know exactly why he suddenly wrote that he was a former SimGuru. But it wasn’t true. He was just a long time fan of the Sims game instead (and maybe felt that he knew enough about the Sims games to see himself as some kind of guru).
Why always focus on what 'didn't' happen rather than what did? Did you see the part about him posting inside knowledge of the game? No? Speculating about what he didn't say makes no sense at all. Anyway, the point was that his statement plus the other things that were going on is what ultimately led to Gurus debunking the rumors.
No. He didn’t post any inside information from the game which we didn’t know already. But his lack of inside information from both the work in the Sims studio and his confusion about EA’s future plans revealed that he never worked in the current Sims studio as a developer (at least not under the Sims 4).
If you really want me to be positive then just maybe he could have had a job as a student for a few months in the former Sims 3 studio. (But I doubt it!)
