Sims 4 is the best selling base game of the franchise.

And millions of people watched Two and a Half Men every week. I hope they don’t wear this like a badge of honour.

And yet they aren't given a large enough budget to animate elevators properly. Lol.

It also helps that they gave out so many free and $5 copies of the game in an attempt to build some buzz. But either way that's cool considering the fact that everyone thought the game was a flop.

I told everyone since 2014 the Sims 4 has outsold all the Sims games combined. o:)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AXTQeSGJjGM

After the way they've been promoting the game, such as making it free for a week last year, I'm surprised this didn't come up sooner.

"Colton147147;c-17386582" wrote:
I told everyone since 2014 the Sims 4 has outsold all the Sims games combined. o:)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AXTQeSGJjGM

lol

"sam123;c-17386480" wrote:
And yet they aren't given a large enough budget to animate elevators properly. Lol.

That's what I'm wondering - if it's the "best-selling" game of the franchise then why all the cut corners?The budget seems so small.

They recycle a lot of content and animations too. I'm genuinely curious what's going on.

20 million unique players for the base game... yet it doesn't feel like they are really improving the game. They have to be working on something else besides the sims4.

I love the Sims 4, but I'm actually really surprised by this financial report. I thought they weren't doing as well as Sims 2 and Sims 3. Didn't the gurus say during the Tiny Living Livestream that they couldn't make bunk beds AND a murphy bed because it would be too expensive? I'm pretty sure I heard them say that bunk beds would be really expensive to add. Or maybe it was ladders. I can't remember exactly. But anyway, it sounded like they were in dire straights, and that's why they only made a murphy bed, just like they only made a camping tent without sleeping bags.

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Oh yes, it was bunk beds. From what I understand from the video, after investigation, bunk beds were found to be MORE expensive than murphy beds, like really expensive, and we couldn't have both, because they might have had to teleport Sims into the bunk beds or something to cut down on the cost.

So the Sims 4 has made over a billion dollars? I'm not very good at math. Does this report mean the murphy bed cost something like 999 million dollars to make and there was just nothing left over in the budget for a ladder?

Don't get me wrong, I love the game and I plan to buy the tiny living pack this week, but if they're doing so well, financially, then they should stop acting like starving street orphans straight out of a Charles Dickens novel and splurge a little on the objects they know we want. Just saying.

"Elliandre;c-17386640" wrote:
I love the Sims 4, but I'm actually really surprised by this financial report. I thought they weren't doing as well as Sims 2 and Sims 3. Didn't the gurus say during the Tiny Living Livestream that they couldn't make bunk beds AND a murphy bed because it would be too expensive? I'm pretty sure I heard them say that bunk beds would be really expensive to add. Or maybe it was ladders. I can't remember exactly. But anyway, it sounded like they were in dire straights, and that's why they only made a murphy bed, just like they only made a camping tent without sleeping bags.

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Oh yes, it was bunk beds. From what I understand from the video, after investigation, bunk beds were found to be MORE expensive than murphy beds, like really expensive, and we couldn't have both, because they might have had to teleport Sims into the bunk beds or something to cut down on the cost.

So the Sims 4 has made over a billion dollars? I'm not very good at math. Does this report mean the murphy bed cost something like 999 million dollars to make and there was just nothing left over in the budget for a ladder?

Don't get me wrong, I love the game and I plan to buy the tiny living pack this week, but if they're doing so well, financially, then they should stop acting like starving street orphans straight out of a Charles Dickens novel and splurge a little on the objects they know we want. Just saying.

It seems more likely that the parent company decides how and where revenue is allotted, and less likely that an in-game item required just shy of $1 billion US to develop.