5 years ago

The Discover University Livestream was a dissapointment.

As the titles says this presentation of the pack was uninspiring, chaotic and boring. I was excited about the pack but because of the stream i think it looks terrible.

The Lady with the curly hair was annoying. She seemed bored and was all over the place. Did barely pay attention and got distracted way too much.
They would forget answering questions, which becomes annoying, when you consider that there was so much silence. It was really unprofessional and quiet hard to sit trough and pay attention. Awkward pauses... ''Hmm what should we show now'' questions
Really?! They litteraly didnt know what to do after one hour. A 2h Livestream like that is tiresome and i learned my lesson.

The promotion for this Uni Pack is all over the place... silence... gameplay trailer, that doesnt really show the features... no date for when the embargo lifts for the game changers... its ''on the weekend'' ... we dont know when the patch arrives...

I miss the trailers from get to work. Behind the scenes from artists that did simlish versions of theyre song, or even some ads like the stillLife trailer.

They should just do a producer walktrough that is maybe 10 minutes, highlights the features and tells the story. Does anyone remember These trailers?

An Q&A Blog about the most asked questions and leave the showcasing part up to the game changers. At this point they are doing it waaay better then the gurus themselves anyway.

I do find it irritating that you never see SimGuruFrost in the streams. Why is there litteraly someone that has to pay attention to the questions from the fast twitch community chat, when this is someting the Community Manager could do. Why isnt he the one asking the most common questions. Also why didnt they used the other room.

But at least the one in the middle was enthusiastic... even though the robotic talk got kinda annoying. I know they arent professional streamers and arent used to be live in front of 1000 of people...
At the same time one would think a billion company studio would get theyre stuff together after 5years, but okay.

So how do you feel about the Livestream and the pack presentation and what could of been improved?

dianed485
Seasoned Traveler
5 years ago
The cas was shown a bit too quickly and the build/buy wasn’t shown really. I know the game changers will do it but it’s still important to see. Then I would have liked to know more about the careers.

I’m disappointed that there’s no new trait because we desperately need more traits!!

The livestream was informative but a bit all over the place.
DoloresGrey
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
Unfortunatelly I have to agree with you 100%. It was really chaotic, no order, only a few questions were answered.

I hope we can see more Simguru Azure, in the lead! She was really awesome, great, fun, sweet,... :)
astridentanja
5 years ago
Surprised by this post. Haven’t seen any of it but I actually see a lot of enthousiasm among simmers.
Peapod79
5 years ago
I 100% agree with everything you've said. I realize they're not professionals being used to being on camera, but even so... they were completely unprepared. They could have at least had a script, timeline and gathered questions from the forums, Twitter, Instagram, the most commonly asked ones and showed those aspects and answered those. I left this stream feeling bored and had even more questions than actual answers.

Simguru Azure should have had the keyboard control as she seemed to be at least the only one who really knew how to play and I found it frustrating having to watch her teach the other how to play...

The sims didn't do as they were told many times and it was frustrating to see them tired all of the time or having to pee, just cheat the needs for the stream at least!

It was all around pretty terrible and made me actually not want to buy it.

The robots were great IMO, but I'm not paying $40 for just those...
mariefoxprice83
New Adventurer
5 years ago
I like the pack and the gurus seemed enthusiastic but the stream was definitely chaotic. Some more structure would have been ideal. I definitely agree that cheating the needs of the played sims would have been a good idea.
Peapod79
5 years ago
"Jordan061102;c-17305184" wrote:
Oh so I'm not the only one thinking it was chaotic. I also think the curly girl was unprofessional and quite annoying while the one in the middle was pleasing. And yeah they showed us everything it has to offer in about 1hour and a half.

I kind of disagree. There was more to show and a bunch of questions left, they just didn't know where to go after that first 1.5 hours because they were unprepared. They could have shown something about the repo man. How the end of term works and starting another. They should have sims played and ready to graduate to show where they can start in careers after. They could show sims failing and what happens then. There was more they could have done to use the time better but they weren't in the least prepared to do this. Despite us all knowing the date of this thing, it's like they didn't know who would be doing it and they just threw those poor people in at the 10 minutes to launch mark. Really unprofessional.

When they did ROM the guru's were excited and actually ran out of time...

All of this makes me think that this pack was rushed and not well thought out.
Joanne_Snow
Rising Traveler
5 years ago
They should just learn to work with a script, maybe ask their gamechangers how to do it xD Instead of always trying to "wing it". But to be quite honest, I'm not a fan of whatever the woman on the right was called (I always forget her name). She's never great in streams and just seems to want to rush through things ("this is already old news to us!" - yeah, no kidding, didn't you help make it?) or kind of "enforce" her way of looking at the game ("I always play in speed 3, I'm more of a builder" - fantbaulous, but can we get back to the point of showing us gameplay?). I love what's in this pack, I do, and I do think the stream showed me a lot of things I needed to see to feel excited. But they have to stop letting that woman participate in so many streams. SimGuruAzure was a lot more collected and fun and clearly engaged with the content. I know not everyone's born to be behind the camera, which is cool - neither am I. But because I'm not, I would just let someone else handle it.

ETA: also, I had the feeling there were parts of the game she didn't know anything about at all? Like that awkward moment with the "cramming sessions" that could happen in the library? Idk she seemed to answer as if that's the first she's heard of it and I felt the Guru on the left was a bit flustered by her responses. ^^
RoseOfMontana
New Traveler
5 years ago
I will be waiting until this pack goes on sale to purchse. I love the way our sims look and how easy it is to build, but game play is always lacking.
keekee53
New Spectator
5 years ago
I knew from the opening it was going to be bad. They just sort of jumped in and started clicking on the computer to send sims to school. Ok, this is how you get there... I don't cares from one guru..I believe about 2 of those and yeah it shows you don't care by these terrible games you guys are putting out. My favorite part was when they didn't know what the tattoo was on the back of the neck HAHAHAH Yeah I fell out of my chair laughing on that one. If you guys don't know, what makes you think we are going to know or even want it in our game. Oh and that one point where she said it was a bug and just to ignore it...LMAO Yeah I just can't. I wish Graham did these livestreams more, he is my favorite.

I literally learned nothing I wanted to know. I wanted to know about rotational gameplay. I wanted to know if I could send sims from different households to the same dorm one by one or at the same time. When people are looking forward to the toilets and CAS the most, Houston we have a problem. They didn't even go through the build\buy items and spread them out on a lot...UGH
Simburian
New Rookie
5 years ago
I enjoyed it on the whole and watched all two hours but kept thinking that they should turn those little robots off as they were distracting after a while. They all appear to work on different aspects of the game so should have moved the controls over when explaining their own work. Maybe split the stream into small parts. Robots needed their own half hour I thought. I hope they show the new build and buy objects soon.