SimGuru Silence on Twitter: When Will They Respond?

"simmerorigin;c-18071605" wrote:

"logion;c-18070944" wrote:
That's the risk with becoming an "official spokesperson" for a game. Which the simgurus turned into. And it's sad that it turned into this.

It's true. They did become official spokespeople, even answering specific questions about game features that are nowhere else to be found but their own replies. I never liked this because it's not accessible to people who are not on Twitter or who are blocked by the SimGurus. Thankfully, people like simgirl1010 made a record of their interactions here. But I think there needs to be a rethinking of how the Sims team handles social engagement.

Yeah, I think the problem with that is that people started asking them about everything, and sometimes they responded, with answers or just hints.

I'm pretty sure they prefer twitter because it's used by everyone and you can reach out to a large number of people with just a tweet. The issue is that twitter encourages mob mentality and twitter will give you feed and followers based on what you tweet, doesn't matter if it's positive or negative. So in this case where MWS didn't turn out so great, it was not a few people who ended up getting angry, it was a lot of people, an entire mob, because twitter made it "trendy". That's the bad side with using twitter and becoming spokespersons instead of using official channels.

I didn't mind the simgurus using twitter, but when they used their accounts to tweet out information about the game that I would have wanted to know, then it was a bit annoying that I had to look for people who saw their random replies in their feed.