"EveryDaySim;c-16504738" wrote:
I'm usually just a lurker who only ever reads posts, but I had to log in and respond to this post because I've been following this fiasco as well.
Different games will make different design choices. They can and will differ from iteration to iteration. What a game "has" to be or "has" to have is never, ever written in stone. What timeline they "have" to have or schedule they follow, is up to them to manage or change as needed also.
Lately in gaming, there seems to have arisen a new type of players who basically conduct themselves as self-appointed arbiters, and attempt to enforce their demands by behaving, basically, as "righteousness bullies". The level of intolerance displayed by many of these types towards both the game devs and fellow community members has reached a level of toxicity I had thought couldn't possibly top what gamers are already able to do. And yet some have managed. Some of them genuinely seem to be on the verge of an actual mental breakdown - over what? How deep the snow is in a winter scene in a video game. Which, after all, is a matter of both design choice and individual preference. Yet, look at the level of alternating hysteria and hostility applied by some of these individuals. You would think somebody had just slaughtered a village or something.
Designers are going to make design choices, people are going to have preferences, some things will be for you and some things won't. As has been said many times before, what it comes down to is individual choice. But when people are unable to apply reason and maturity to their thought processes and behavior, it's a good way to drive everyone away and make them stop caring. At this point, the devs can't ever win with people like this. And if I were having to consider making a Sims 5 and having to deal with this all over again, there's no way I would be interested in doing that.
There are many problems that we all see with this game, and many improvements that we would all like to have. But if this is the way people are going to be about it, over things like simple cosmetic preferences, then I am afraid we may all lose in the end.
I hope that the community can find its way back to rationality and reason again, because right now I am starting to feel like some people want to kill the game for everyone if it can't be custom made just for them.
People criticizing games is not new at all. I remember, back in the Sims 3 days, people around me complained about teleporting into cars and burrito babies, two aspects I didn’t care about at all and to this very day I don’t. I have always considered those decisions (especially the teleporting) as a developer’s decision that was quite defensible, just like the flat snow decision probably is. Still people were allowed to regret it and prefer Sims 2 cars and babies, like they are allowed to regret no snow depth now.
