"adduapina;c-17848153" wrote:
"ZhakiraP;c-17848127" wrote:
"adduapina;c-17847331" wrote:
"ZhakiraP;c-17847217" wrote:
I really don´t think there is any need for being "grateful" at all.
EA is a company, the sims game is a product.
You are a customer.
They are not improving the game out of sheer generosity, but for profit.
It should be in their own interest to try and keep the player base as happy as possible.
So don´t be grateful.
@ZhakiraP
I am a happier customer now that my feedback has been heard and there has been an improvement.
Are you not ever satisfied as a customer? If someone serves you well, are you not grateful, because they get paid?
People should be more thankful and grateful in general in this world. We need that a lot more than negativity.
If I were to agree with you that people could be nicer in general, I think gratitude towards profit driven companies is misguided.
I am a satisfied customer in several instances with other products, I am NOT however, grateful.
If I am grateful, it is towards someone who did something nice for me that I appreciated that that someone did not have to do. That for me does not apply to EA or Maxis. Or any other profit driven company or game developer, for instance.
I am a bit confused as to why you feel you need to be grateful in order not to be negative.
@ZhakiraP
Where did I state that one needs to be grateful in order to not be negative?
I am a bit confused why my thankfulness on something this trivial that I feel I personally helped to achieve is an issue for you.
I feel that my previous posts on this thread explain already my point. But for clearance; I practice gratitude on a daily basis and I don't have such criteria as you seem to have on what to be thankful for.
As with any other learning or growth process I believe that positive reinforcement is a key factor if you wish for a change. That goes with all animals, humans included, and the employees of this capitalistic, profit driven mega corporation that we're discussing about are humans like you and me and when you give feedback that's been taken into consideration and made a real thing - well, my parents have taught me it's just plain politeness to give thanks.
I totally understand if you don't feel _you_ need to be grateful for this. You do you. But why would anyone ever tell someone "don't be thankful" is beyond my comprehension.
Don't worry. You can be as grateful as you like. It's your own opinion and nice to read these days.
I'm grateful for EA for having faith in the original game to go ahead with it and I doubt if any other company would have a similar game now if they hadn't, judging from the general amusement at the time from other game makers. It took a Sims lesbian kiss to make them the talk of a computer show at the time. I actually like Sims 4 gradually rolling out and building the game and they have sorted out a request for me too and I'm grateful for that too.
I'm even grateful to another company making huge profits and greatly abused for it, Amazon who have been making my life bearable in Lockdown the last year. Making profits is not a bad thing. As long as they pay their taxes.
