While I know virtually nothing about makeup, I have seen some controversy with the new Sims 4 X Mac collaboration. Apparently the makeup they released is an old product with a Sims 4 box. It got me wondering, do you feel The Sims 4 should stop spending money with other companies for these frivolous collaborations?I'm purposely leaving out a neutral stance because people tend to lean slightly more to one side and answering Yes or No will provide clear data. Also with the franchises collaboration track record, l don't expect any future collaborations would be anything better than what we've seen in the past.

I think they better stop for the following reasons :1. the company/brand they work with matters. If it is something I like, I will probably like the pack but if it is something I don't care about... This is a personal preference for every single player and I doubt I will always like the company or brand. The only collaboration in sims I actually liked was the H&M collab in sims 2. But this is a brand I actually used in real life (never heard of Mac or mochino before and I won't be buying their products because of the collab) and this pack integrated nicely with open for business with more CAS and BB items to run your own clothing store, with or without H&M written on the building. The sims 4 collabs never made as much sense as this one from 2007. 2. mixed results with the recent collaborations - mochino : I think the brand adds too little to the pack to give its name to the pack. What is worse is that I like this pack because the brand is not prominent in the pack.. I like the photography and the furniture and the windows. But I have yet to use the CAS. There is also very little clothes for a collab with a fashion brand. - Mac make up: it rarely looked good on sims at release. I have mainly be building since the patch to add opacity sliders so I don't know it's current state. But a brand make up should have looked better than regular make up, not worse, definitely at the moment it was patched in. - Star wars : never seen so much hate and controversy around a pack so I don't think it is a success. Where mochino felt like it was not represented enough in its pack, star wars feels like the opposite. I like the theme but dislike how they intentionally prevented integration with other packs. Why are droids just toys at home, why can't we dress in regular clothes on batuu, why is there no weather on batuu why no supernatural powers on batuu,... ? You either play 100% star wars on batuu or no star wars at home. It is difficult to integrate with regular gameplay. This would have been better as a stand alone like sims medieval.

I loved the H&M, Ikea and Diesel stuff in TS2. Don't remember if there were any other collabs there. Was so fun to make shops with these things also, back when retail was actually enjoyable. But not getting into THAT discussion.....I have no clue about Mac and Moschino, never heard of them before they were introduced to my sims. I've disabled most of the Mac makeup (thank the Watcher for mods!), but have used some of it. I've used almost all the Moschino stuff, both Build/buy and CAS. Have not used the Photo stuff yet. Star Wars? Could have been a lot more to it. I do love some of the BB. The clothes are too "spesific", and I feel only looks appropriate in Batuu.This is a global game, its played in all corners of the world. A collab with a company that is well known globally would be welcome. I think the collabs they have done, are too narrow. They are of course directed at their target audience, which I believe are young females. I seriously doubt that audience is the majority of their players. Not everyone is that interested in makeup and fashion. It seems pretty shallow.

cause they fail to make cool things come out of these collabs.I wouldn't complain if it resulted in cute merch and cool game content but according to track record it does not and they just adding plumbob stickers to things to pretend they somehow relate to sims at this pointi dont want sims to be known for making lame things with plumbob logo

I picked no cuz it doesn't really affect me in any way. Most of the collabs they do in-game is free (for example, Moschino one) and even if it's paid, if I don't like the CAS object or whatever, I just don't use it. There's a lot of original Maxis CAS items that I don't like too which I don't use, so to me, they're all the same thing.Even if they spend a lot of money to collaborate with these other companies, it's not like we can control where they would spend the money on, if they don't.

I have never been a fan of collabs in any of the sims games. My biggest thing is that this is a game and supposed to be a life simulation. Not real life exactly and more of a parody. If I want real life things, I'll go get and do those real life things. I prefer my game to be a game and stay a game and have nothing to do with real life. It's a break from my real life. I get enough advertising daily without seeing in my game as well. It blurs the line between real and fake. Also, as someone else said, brands matter and it is very much a very personal preference. I think it's best to just leave branding to the CC creators. That said though, I do prefer if they are going to do this, that they do leave it to stuff packs that we can choose to buy or not rather than like they did with the MAC and patch into the base game. I can see how they want to do this from a marketing perspective, but there are so many ways to market, I don't really feel like the Sims series needs this or that they ever did need it.

Should The Sims Stop Collaborating?

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xijet
5 years ago
It's just blatant promotion - ads you pay for
TruthGamer96
5 years ago
When I'm playing Sims, I'm doing it to escape the real world--so it frustrates me sometimes to see real world things seeping into my game. I was especially annoyed by the Star Wars pack and refused to buy it (my poor completionist heart). I would much rather EA explored parody options of real-world fandoms than trying to combine the universes. For example, Henry Puffer (Sims' Harry Potter knockoff). One genius modder gave us the gift of the Pufferhead Stuff Pack, creating an entire fictional pocket universe in the Sims' reality that had enough echoes of Harry Potter to satisfy fans such as myself while still maintaining the integrity of the Sims' world. (If you haven't downloaded this pack yet...fly, you fools, and give your Sims' kids a chance to blossom as the wizard nerds they are!) Why, oh why, was a pack such as this beyond EA's capabilities? I'd love to see a Sims twist on Star Wars/Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, etc. EA can't be this lacking in creativity that their only option is real-world collabs to make Sims more interesting, right?
texxx78
5 years ago
I don't know if they should stop or not. I do know those are my least favourite packs.
ChadSims2
Seasoned Novice
5 years ago
Seeing the brands they have been collaborating I'd rather they not Star Wars and Moschino just horrible I did like H&M though it had normal clothing you would actually see people wear and Sims 4 is in desperate need of that.
YorksRob
New Vanguard
5 years ago
For me EA seem to try and do a collaboration with niche groups rather than mainstream ones that are more popular and normally make a complete pigs ear of it
Or do silly ones like the Katy Perry pack

Then you get ones like the Star Wars one simply because EA paid a fortune for the rights and need to claw back money any way they can
Scobren
4 years ago
"ChadSims2;c-17776288" wrote:
Seeing the brands they have been collaborating I'd rather they not Star Wars and Moschino just horrible I did like H&M though it had normal clothing you would actually see people wear and Sims 4 is in desperate need of that.

Yeah I think so too. Sims franchise has never been a snob entitled game. It has always been a franchise for the underdog. Sims 4 marketing has really been bad in that it feels like they are randomly trying to reach out towards rich households where parents hand their children money on a silver platter. If anything the past year has proven is that is a poor choice of marketing and will end up hurting the franchise more than helping it. Then again they are selling a $790 game to Simmers too making the Sims 4 one of the most expensive games on the market now which also doesn't help things as well when Simmers don't have the financial means to support the packs as it is.
Ellupelluellu
Hero
4 years ago
"Scobre;c-17776930" wrote:
$790 game to Simmers too making the Sims 4 one of the most expensive games on the market

Well, if thinking how many sales there are, only if you buy all at release, you hardly have to pay that much. I sure did not.

And about collabs, I did and DO overuse IKEA at TS2.
Scobren
4 years ago
"Ellupelluellu;c-17776937" wrote:
"Scobre;c-17776930" wrote:
$790 game to Simmers too making the Sims 4 one of the most expensive games on the market

Well, if thinking how many sales there are, only if you buy all at release, you hardly have to pay that much. I sure did not.

And about collabs, I did and DO overuse IKEA at TS2.

Yeah that is full retail price. Getting sales it reduces to about half which I still think was too much. H&M and IKEA collabs I didn't mind. Discover University has a lot of IKEA style with the pack. Sims has had a bunch a collabs with celebrities over the years just with music, so hard to do away with it completely.

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