"Erpe;c-16429974" wrote:
"cactusjuice;c-16429946" wrote:
But MFP and it's backlash has been in media and you honestly cant tell me they haven't a clue of the hornets nest they poked when they released MFP
I think that they badly needed an idea for the next SP and then read threads like https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/925515/small-pets/p1 Then they likely realized that small pets would be ideal for the new gameplay in a SP and Pets has always been very popular in Sims games. Also simmers who didn’t care about cats and dogs wouldn’t likely buy such a SP anyway. So they likely just decided to make MFP as an exception even though they usually won’t make SPs that depend on earlier packs.
I expect most simmers to buy MFP anyway because I don’t think that simmers are unhappy because they got more pets and more pets stuff but just a little angry because they were disappointed that this SP wasn’t just included as a part of Cats&Dogs. But simmers likely need to adjust to the fact that EA won’t make huge EPs anymore but likely soon won’t make any packs that are bigger than a GP. So it is IMO just a lot of fuss about nothing.
Because they weren’t familiar yet with the concept small animal for the game, sure ;) Sorry but I don’t believe it for a split second.
“Oh, that’s right, we could also add other animals to this game than cats and dogs alone, why didn’t we think of that!? Good thing we have a community to point that out to us.”"Erpe;c-16430022" wrote:
"cactusjuice;c-16429988" wrote:
No they would plan SP's many many months ahead with concept, design, legals, testing, promotion, press releases etc. They had this as part of C&D and decided to release it separately. Even if I were to entertain the dubious possibility that it wasn't planned then its too late to sway the bad press they generated
Remember the votings about the next SP? Those votings didn’t happen very long before the SPs that won most votes were released. EA changes plans much more often than simmers usually think and also many times while a new game is under development. This has been the case both for the basegames, the packs and also for the Sims Mobile while it was soft launched and we therefore could observe all the many changes. So EA just experiments a lot instead of following some long time plans.
Voting for Laundry day (initially Recycling) started about 9 months before that pack was released.
"Writin_Reg;c-16430729" wrote:
Not every body feels this pack is a bad pack - keep that in mind.
Which is part of the problem for those who do. Because it’s more than just a matter of different taste in this case. Discussing that doesn’t mean we don’t allow you that other opinion. It just means we want to talk about it. “But I love the pack and so do other anonymous loads of simmers that don’t come here.” That’s nice but off topic in this case.
