Sims 4's development is ending?
So, I heard from people that the Sims series kind of has a "schedule" to the release of sequels. Once every four years or something like that. We are already in the fourth year, which means that the S...
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Fun times with the official Sims twitter feed...
So the official Twitter feed posts a tweet showing off the Noctis outfit being added to the Gallery for the cross promotional tie in with Final Fantasy 15
Tweet gets deleted.
Another tweet is posted with the correct information. The first response to that corrected tweet is...
https://twitter.com/travisteaspoon/status/968919625260990468
Kind of hard for anyone who clicks on the new corrected tweet to not see the first response made so the official Twitter feed responds
https://twitter.com/TheSims/status/968920238589845504
The official Twitter feed rarely responds to anyone if you look over it's feed...
https://twitter.com/TheSims/with_replies
...so I was impressed seeing that they admitted to the mistake, although given that someone exposed their mistake with the first reply to that new corrected tweet they maybe felt like they had to respond.
Now here's where things get a little more interesting. The corrected tweet get deleted. The responses to it still exists as shown above. The official feed then reposts the corrected tweet a second time so that the response pointing out the mistake is no longer attached to that message. Clever.
Later the official feed posts this "mysterious" tweet
https://twitter.com/TheSims/status/969354942979891200
The first response to it is by the SimsVIP official twitter feed
https://twitter.com/SimsVIP/status/969351760329498624
There are then more responses posting the same picture that the SimsVIP posted asking "Why are you acting this is a mystery? Isn't this info already out?"
https://twitter.com/Sameer2T1/status/969203845757849600
That original mobile tease tweet gets deleted and then immediately reposted. Most likely so that the first responses people see who click aren't it aren't the pictures exposing the reveal, but then that repost is just followed up by...
https://twitter.com/travisteaspoon/status/969357111854542848
https://twitter.com/davimachaado/status/969362096277413888
They then seem to stop deleting tweets. It's probably frustrating for the marketing team but at the same time it also looks shady/bad/dishonest for them to be doing it.
Given the leaky nature of The Sims franchise you'd think that the team would have learned to maybe to lean into that, ie post pics/GIFs of things like leaky faucets on their Twitter feed when something gets out there that shouldn't have, etc.
So the official Twitter feed posts a tweet showing off the Noctis outfit being added to the Gallery for the cross promotional tie in with Final Fantasy 15
Tweet gets deleted.
Another tweet is posted with the correct information. The first response to that corrected tweet is...
https://twitter.com/travisteaspoon/status/968919625260990468
Kind of hard for anyone who clicks on the new corrected tweet to not see the first response made so the official Twitter feed responds
https://twitter.com/TheSims/status/968920238589845504
The official Twitter feed rarely responds to anyone if you look over it's feed...
https://twitter.com/TheSims/with_replies
...so I was impressed seeing that they admitted to the mistake, although given that someone exposed their mistake with the first reply to that new corrected tweet they maybe felt like they had to respond.
Now here's where things get a little more interesting. The corrected tweet get deleted. The responses to it still exists as shown above. The official feed then reposts the corrected tweet a second time so that the response pointing out the mistake is no longer attached to that message. Clever.
Later the official feed posts this "mysterious" tweet
https://twitter.com/TheSims/status/969354942979891200
The first response to it is by the SimsVIP official twitter feed
https://twitter.com/SimsVIP/status/969351760329498624
There are then more responses posting the same picture that the SimsVIP posted asking "Why are you acting this is a mystery? Isn't this info already out?"
https://twitter.com/Sameer2T1/status/969203845757849600
That original mobile tease tweet gets deleted and then immediately reposted. Most likely so that the first responses people see who click aren't it aren't the pictures exposing the reveal, but then that repost is just followed up by...
https://twitter.com/travisteaspoon/status/969357111854542848
https://twitter.com/davimachaado/status/969362096277413888
They then seem to stop deleting tweets. It's probably frustrating for the marketing team but at the same time it also looks shady/bad/dishonest for them to be doing it.
Given the leaky nature of The Sims franchise you'd think that the team would have learned to maybe to lean into that, ie post pics/GIFs of things like leaky faucets on their Twitter feed when something gets out there that shouldn't have, etc.
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