I don't post as often as I used to, but seeing a big positive influence like Simguruninja delete his Twitter/X account over threats and abuse is beyond the pale. Seriously, anyone who posted death threats, or even threats in general, over something as simple as snow in Ravenwood is not a simmer. Noting in this game, or not in this game, is worth saying hurtful things to another person.
Yeah that is so sad. I feel bad for SimguruNinja but also all of the Simgurus who pour months into planning and developing DLC for this game only to be brutally criticized for everything they do. Simgurus probably aren't paid to engage on social media but they've been doing it since the early days of the Sims 4. Moreso than any other game in the franchise. Not having snow or all the seasons in 1 world is not a dealbreaker for most simmers and people always have the choice to refuse to purchase the game. I personally did not preorder the game to watch for Gamechangers early access to hear about bugs and things that weren't mentioned in the livestream or trailer. Snow is not a deal breaker for me, I can take my sims to Mt. Komo or another world where all seasons are enabled. Just like Sulani has permanent Summer, Ravenwood is in a permanent Fall. It works for the lore/story that they want. It was an intentional design and they explained it before the pack released that they wanted the world to be "stuck" between life and death.
Consumers always have a choice; you can not buy it, wait for a sale, see if a modder adds seasons, or if it gets patched in one day. But attacking another person on the internet until they disable their account is just a set back for the community. Simmers want our feedback to be heard and implemented but we are shutting down lines of communication by being a toxic community. Developers will be even less plugged in to hear us when they're leaving platforms or choosing not to interact.
You'll all be happy to know that SimGuruNinja is back! On Bluesky. Along with several of the other SimGurus.
Very happy! 🥰
Awesome! I was hoping they would all switch to a better platform! I might have to make an account!
Nice to see Ninja back. 😊 💜
Bluesky... Hmm... Interesting... I'll have to check it out far away first...
I have heard about it. It's simply terrible. Scary too as I plan to be a game developer myself...
Remember when Lovestruck released, one modder was targeted with hate because he couldn't update his biggest mod on time (he was on vacation)? Yeah... I wonder what happened to the TwitterX community...
Glad to see that this forums is mostly civil and positive. Haven't looked at Discord messages though: these move too fast.
That is super unhinged and disheartening to hear, but what can you expect from the toxicity on Twitter hive mind of nastiness?
SimguruNinja is definitely very kind and that's really awful to hear that. I severely hope the people that say such nasty things realize those are serious threats that can put you right in jail. Personal threats to someone over a game is a certain kind of nastiness for sure. You don't have to like the game and you can have grievances, but you absolutely should NOT harass the sims team in any sort of manner over it.
Truly disgusting. That's really the ugly part of the community.
DaniRose2143Having the simgurus on Twitter in the first place is a bad idea, unless they are specifically community managers or part of PR/marketing. Like a generic, "this is the Sims 4 official twitter."
Also, I'm not on twitter, so did people actually threaten him? If it's just a bunch of random people saying, "you suck; you can't make a good EP" or something, then what did you expect? But see my earlier point about why having direct access to specific employees who work on the game is a bad idea.
The internet is an ugly place you have to search for beauty and kindness. You won't find it on Twitter. I feel bad for the Guru but I would have been mum knowing what the new EP is all about. People are always angry and looking for someone to blame or let their frustrations out online.
I didn’t see any threats. Someone asked him about winter in the new world and he said that they chose to do forever autumn instead and talked about how good it was and that it was a design decision because death fits best in autumn or something like that.
He was a bit disregarding of them then the post got lynched by people calling the sims team lazy and that it was a rip off etc. Not saying he didn’t get threatened but I didn’t see anything personal against him. Just annoyed posts about the pack not having winter.
Interesting.
I bet the posts were deleted pretty fast.
I was so sad to hear this. The only reason I got a Twitter account was to follow the Sim gurus. Ninja is a favorite who has always been so kind to simmers. He is so dedicated to his job, and I love the packs he has helped develop. I wish people were kinder.
I’ve not long herd about it too and to be honest I’m disgusted at the behaviour I’m a little disappointed that there won’t be snow in the new world I’m sure it would have been beautiful but that’s not the vibe they where going for I’m old enough and mature enough to understand that I would love for them to patch it in but I hope they don’t otherwise that will just reward the behaviour of the people who made a sim guru leave blame EA they are the ones people should be mad at not a sim guru who was kind enough to take time out of there day to answer people’s questions now I know why the sim guru’s aren’t so transparent with some players
take care everyone
Hoping SimGuruNinja feels better soon and comes back. There has to be a line somewhere, right? Frustrations are understandable and civil criticism is helpful. However, this is not something to make threats over, right?
Edit: Just kinda shocked by all this. I know I used a question mark, but it was kinda rhetorical. Making threats over something like this is never okay.
No one should get death threats for any reason. People do have legitimate concerns about the game which they do spend a lot of money on and the sims team usually don’t handle these concerns very well in my opinion but it’s just a game and they’re just employees. Should never go that far.
Oh my goodness! This is terrible. I hope he's okay!
