The I'm Bored Thread

"hotshocolate;c-17299952" wrote:
sims 4 ruined the sims for me lol. i used to play for hours on end for years. now i just cannot even play, even with mods. in previous sims games i didnt have to try so hard to create gameplay, which i am then over in 20 minutes. it's sad because the sims is one of my favorite games and i just cant with sims 4 anymore

The game never actually had to be this boring, but with live service and this game now just a safespace and gameplay taking a back seat to actually building interactive games anymore, it's going to remain boring. You know I was thinking, how they are always saying they can't just cater to long time fans, and have to find new fans (consumers) all the time and keep growing. OK, I guess, depends on the greed, but anyway, they have actually forgotten it was their long time fans who rescued TS4 for them. It had a shaky start, and I would bet more than half of their long time buyers didn't buy it in 2014. I know thousands of TS3 players still won't touch it. But they may also be part of a group who started with TS3 and I can see why with no open world etc. However, if it had not been for long time players rescuing this game soon after release and it's poor start (sales) if they didn't think they were going to get pools, ghosts, toddlers, it would not even have lasted the first year. Those are just facts, that now that TS4 is doing well after hunting down new consumers to buy into it, they have forgotten already why TS4 is still alive and why they survived the first year.

They can brag all they want how they gain 35% 'new' players every year, maybe they do, but it's just a fact long time players felt some sort of loyalty to them after promising pools, maybe toddlers and of course ghosts, etc. and forked out some money to save their rear ends. Because they wouldn't even be here if that were not true, and all those new players wouldn't be here, either, if it had not been for long time players finally caving and giving them a boost the first year.

And Maxis we know you got a huge boost in pack sales after toddlers. That was your core fans putting money into your pockets, keep on ignoring them. No doubt they no longer feel any loyalty to the brand and won't be there at all for TS5.