Silence is annoying

"filipomel;c-16450626" wrote:
I get inpatient too, but the Sims Community is spoiled when it comes to news. Some games out there don't get any news of any sorts for looooong periods of time *cough* Kingdom Hearts 3 *cough*.

Well, it would help if they actually had released a finished game :cough: Then maybe we wouldn't be so impatient for future content, and be so "spoiled."

Yeah, I don't like this silence either. Everyday I check to see if there is any news. There is no other game other than TS4 do I get this excited for new content!

"bixters;c-16450792" wrote:

"filipomel;c-16450626" wrote:
I get inpatient too, but the Sims Community is spoiled when it comes to news. Some games out there don't get any news of any sorts for looooong periods of time *cough* Kingdom Hearts 3 *cough*.

Well, it would help if they actually had released a finished game :cough: Then maybe we wouldn't be so impatient for future content, and be so "spoiled."

The Sims has never been a finished game not from conception. If that is what you are looking for - then the Sims really isn't your game. I like the way sims is and how it slowly builds - been here since the beginning and I would never expect or enjoy a finished Sims game when each one came out. It's part of what makes it the game it is.

By the way I have boxes of finished games that sit in the attic - I played them once or twice and they were the same old game - never changing - and always ended. Sims is what you choose it to be by what you add to it. And even what you add to it - is ever changing. You make it's stories - it does not make it for you. It is never ending unless you choose it to be. Whats more all the Sims games I have are not in a box in the attic. Every pc we build for me - they are the only games that are automatically always the first games put on my new computers. They have endless playability and can easily draw me back into anyone of the Sims games I have. Heck I find it sad my sims 1 won't play on my high end pc - but I still have Sims 2,3, and 4 - and never once do I feel unsatisfied after playing any one of them.

Totally finished games always forces a direction toward the end of the thing - and almost always contain things in them I don't like and cannot do a thing about them. Some of them progress too fast through the fun areas and too slow through the horrid ones - never mind get harder and harder to play as one goes up the levels. It's like some one cracking a whip over your head and shouting MUSH, MUSH constantly. That is not my idea of fun. That is about as much fun as spring cleaning, It may be rewarding to get the job or game done - but to play the game over or to do the spring cleaning that comes around every year - it the same old grunge work. I never feel like that in the Sims. It is truly fun and always laughing and seeing the every changing even when the content stops coming is why I am a Simmer first.

They've literally been spamming us with Sims 4 news being at EA Play.
We've also had guru's like SimGuruKate etc. reassure us they are catering to all platforms, not just Mobile.

Silence is annoying, but a lot of people are choosing to block out the noise as well.

"Writin_Reg;c-16450811" wrote:

The Sims has never been a finished game not from conception. If that is what you are looking for - then the Sims really isn't your game. I like the way sims is and how it slowly builds - been here since the beginning and I would never expect or enjoy a finished Sims game when each one came out. It's part of what makes it the game it is.

Really? I've been playing the Sims since the Sims 1, so I don't think you're in any position to tell me the Sims isn't "my type of game." I think each of the base games, Sims 1-Sims3, have been more or less a complete games. In other words, people could enjoy them with or without the extra content provided from EPs, SPs and GPs. The Sims 4, however, was the very first base game to receive mixed to negative reviews from both fans and critics alike. It was so stripped completely of content that there is still content missing from the Sims 4 (with all the SPs,GPs and EPs) that was originally in the base games of the Sims 1-3. That is what I mean by a FINISHED GAME. Waiting was bearable in other games because they had a FINISHED base game. Unfortunately, that is not the case in The Sims 4, and people are getting sick of it. You may enjoy waiting, but most people do not.

"@bixters;c-16450820" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-16450811" wrote:

The Sims has never been a finished game not from conception. If that is what you are looking for - then the Sims really isn't your game. I like the way sims is and how it slowly builds - been here since the beginning and I would never expect or enjoy a finished Sims game when each one came out. It's part of what makes it the game it is.

Really? I've been playing the Sims since the Sims 1, so I don't think you're in any position to tell me the Sims isn't "my type of game." I think each of the base games, Sims 1-Sims3, have been more or less a complete games. In other words, people could enjoy them with or without the extra content provided from EPs, SPs and GPs. The Sims 4, however, was the very first base game to receive mixed to negative reviews from both fans and critics alike. It was so stripped completely of content that there is still content missing from the Sims 4 (with all the SPs,GPs and EPs) that was originally in the base games of the Sims 1-3. That is what I mean by a FINISHED GAME. Waiting was bearable in other games because they had a FINISHED base game. Unfortunately, that is not the case in The Sims 4, and people are getting sick of it. You may enjoy waiting, but most people do not.

I think people look back through rose tinted glasses.

The Sims 3 base game is very bare. People complained because there was almost no family content, and most venues were Rabbit holes. The only non-rabbit hole venues behaved no different to houses (Park, Pool, Library, Gym). There were only a small handful of hobbies (Painting, Guitar, Gardening, Fishing, Writing).

It's a decent base, but a complete game it is not.

I don't think there was anyone who be happy with just the Sims 1 base game either. There was next to nothing in that game, just a concept.

The Sims 2 base game is probably the most full, and the only base game where I could see people being happy for a long time without DLC.

I actually played Sims 3 base for quite a while with no DLC's and enjoyed it (mostly because I could create any neighborhood with patterns etc). A sims game certainly has the history of DLC's made for augmenting the base game but shouldn't require excessive amounts of money to "complete" it, plus the DLC's should be able to tide you over to the next installment, not have people clamoring for something new because they are bored already

"jackjack_k;c-16450825" wrote:

"@bixters;c-16450820" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-16450811" wrote:

The Sims has never been a finished game not from conception. If that is what you are looking for - then the Sims really isn't your game. I like the way sims is and how it slowly builds - been here since the beginning and I would never expect or enjoy a finished Sims game when each one came out. It's part of what makes it the game it is.

Really? I've been playing the Sims since the Sims 1, so I don't think you're in any position to tell me the Sims isn't "my type of game." I think each of the base games, Sims 1-Sims3, have been more or less a complete games. In other words, people could enjoy them with or without the extra content provided from EPs, SPs and GPs. The Sims 4, however, was the very first base game to receive mixed to negative reviews from both fans and critics alike. It was so stripped completely of content that there is still content missing from the Sims 4 (with all the SPs,GPs and EPs) that was originally in the base games of the Sims 1-3. That is what I mean by a FINISHED GAME. Waiting was bearable in other games because they had a FINISHED base game. Unfortunately, that is not the case in The Sims 4, and people are getting sick of it. You may enjoy waiting, but most people do not.

I think people look back through rose tinted glasses.

The Sims 3 base game is very bare. People complained because there was almost no family content, and most venues were Rabbit holes. The only non-rabbit hole venues behaved no different to houses (Park, Pool, Library, Gym). There were only a small handful of hobbies (Painting, Guitar, Gardening, Fishing, Writing).

It's a decent base, but a complete game it is not.

I don't think there was anyone who be happy with just the Sims 1 base game either. There was next to nothing in that game, just a concept.

The Sims 2 base game is probably the most full, and the only base game where I could see people being happy for a long time without DLC.

Exactly.
But I agree Sims 4 did get pushed into the market obviously lacking some things - but they eventually rectified it and what we are waiting for now are things we waited for in all the sims games - weather, supernaturals, University (although Sims 2 offered it really early) - so sort of nuts to still hash out what was in 2014 and what it is now. The missing is not missing now. Believe me I am a family player so not having toddlers was harsh - but that was then - and not a part of now.

I never waited for packs - all through the games I pre-ordered every thing until Sims 4.

"bixters;c-16450820" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-16450811" wrote:

The Sims has never been a finished game not from conception. If that is what you are looking for - then the Sims really isn't your game. I like the way sims is and how it slowly builds - been here since the beginning and I would never expect or enjoy a finished Sims game when each one came out. It's part of what makes it the game it is.

Really? I've been playing the Sims since the Sims 1, so I don't think you're in any position to tell me the Sims isn't "my type of game." I think each of the base games, Sims 1-Sims3, have been more or less a complete games. In other words, people could enjoy them with or without the extra content provided from EPs, SPs and GPs. The Sims 4, however, was the very first base game to receive mixed to negative reviews from both fans and critics alike. It was so stripped completely of content that there is still content missing from the Sims 4 (with all the SPs,GPs and EPs) that was originally in the base games of the Sims 1-3. That is what I mean by a FINISHED GAME. Waiting was bearable in other games because they had a FINISHED base game. Unfortunately, that is not the case in The Sims 4, and people are getting sick of it. You may enjoy waiting, but most people do not.

Well I never said I was - but there are people who come here expecting the game to look like they do at the end of development. How am I to read your mind. When people say finished game I think of Baldars Gate, Diablo, Need for Spreed, Dragon Age... not the sims that are never a finished game until the last pack made for the game comes out.

I've waited for packs and any news of them, and it seems others are waiting too, and in between waiting, the silence is getting annoying