Should EA mention what is broken on each expansion/stuff/game pack before selling.

Such product shouldn't be able to buy in the first place. It is like selling a burnt stove. Sorry not sorry.

I don't know how they would do that.

There are some things that are broken on specific platforms: something that works just fine on PC but doesn't on Mac even, let alone between those and console. Sometimes things break because of a combination of packs that someone has.

The QA team at the moment doesn't have a connection to the sales front. What already is there is Answers HQ and the lovely folks there who are maintaining the known bugs list. So we already have a way to check if there are any major bugs in a pack before purchase.

The bugs are annoying (and at times game-breaking) but realistically, maintaining that sort of information doesn't seem viable due to the sheer variety of reasons for the bugs.

It would help. Hard to tell what will break when any game goes live. I have found bugs months before other Simmers noticed them with the base game. There are still base game bugs that have needed to be fixed for six years now.

"Finbar659;d-975634" wrote:
I have recently purchased Moschino Stuff Pack with no knowledge that the freelance photography wasn't working correctly. The task/actions bar don't show a task that is completed even though it has been done. Like uploading a photograph to simstagram - that approved photograph is now gone, I can't reupload it to simstagram.

I basically purchased myself a pack that isn't 100% working and possibly have to wait a month for this to be fixed.

Do you think EA should advertise whatever is currently broken on the pack - some of these features are the main gameplay of the pack. If it is broken? What's the point in selling something that is faulty without the costumer's knowledge? Even if it is going to be fixed in a monthly update.

Although it is ideal for us, but it is a bad move for any company to tell the consumers/customers that they're selling a "broken" product. They're not only selling a product, but they are also forming a trust between seller & buyer. Towards the end, whenever any brands are selling their products, they believe that the products are of the highest quality, set by the company. Once the product is released to the market, the best thing that they could do is, to acknowledge any problem arise & try to solve it ASAP, just like what they're currently practise.

Just wondering, would you be okay to buy IF they're promoting the pack by saying, "The Moschino pack has a lot of interesting features, but the photography career is not working properly, hence, purchase at your own risk". ;)

Anywho, as a consumer/customer, we should be able to tell & perhaps do a little bit of research before we purchased the product so that we won't be disappointed. Moreover, the bugs are known, hence those who purchased it later should be aware of the consequences when they bought the product.

The closest thing we have are reviews that we can post on steam, if we could get something similar for origin that might help. They have a system to show if reviews have changed to negative recently so that people can't abuse it too much. It's very useful actually when you are considering buying a game and you can look at the recent reviews and see people post things. For example people often change their review score to negative if the developers released an update that made the game worse, like causing a lot of bugs.

If nothing else, I think at least their marketing should be aware, I was pretty annoyed when their twitter had this advertising thing with celebrities recently and they showed animations from get famous, a pack where the career does not work.

That is just like shooting themselves in the foot

They could give us a warning for buyer beware.

Hmmm.. Obviously it would be marketing suicide as everybody has mentioned, but I think what OP is getting at, is that it’s kinda scammy to sell faulty products?

Interesting point to think about really.. I guess the fact they have an ongoing bug team gives them a grey area, as surely there’s laws about this kind of stuff?

"ddd994;c-17497112" wrote:
Hmmm.. Obviously it would be marketing suicide as everybody has mentioned, but I think what OP is getting at, is that it’s kinda scammy to sell faulty products?

Interesting point to think about really.. I guess the fact they have an ongoing bug team gives them a grey area, as surely there’s laws about this kind of stuff?

Indeed. The best course of action would be to not release a product/service that has bugs and to resolve to fix them when they do arise.

What if they aren't broken when EA puts them out?