"Renato10;c-17572679" wrote:
"SimAlexandria;c-17572649" wrote:
"Renato10;c-17572565" wrote:
"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17571926" wrote:
"@Renato10;c-17571852" wrote:
I'm excited for Paralives and I'll never be hard on them. Frankly, everything that was confirmed and revealed to the public is already way better than anything that came out from The Sims franchise in the past 6 years..
I understand Paralives looks promising, but did you get to test play it yet?
The reason I'm asking is that with such high level of expectation there is no room for disappointment.
I do hope it's the game for you if and when it will be released.
If you like the game go play it!
I don't understand why people who like the game bother so much with the "negative" opinions. You are not the ones in this community who feel unhappy and have to rely on the old games that have literally no attention from the company anymore!
Are we a threat to The Sims? Why are some players so defensive? Maybe because we have a point and you are affraid of consequences. I can tell the SimCity disaster in 2013 caused some fear in the simming community.
And I have to make it clear that I'm talking about valid opinions! I'm not talk about hating! Hate we can all easly ignore!
I just wish I could feel integrated in this gaming community again like I was since The Sims 1 to The Sims 3 cycles. It is the franchise I love and still admire the most (of its past obviously) and it is very frustrating to not be able to enjoy being part of this sims experience even when I tried so hard during so many times. 6 years is a lot and as time passes I feel more and more disconnected and less engaged in this community.
Maybe as someone who likes the game, I can explain that last part.
I love the game and love feeling like I am integrated in a gaming community too, like it sounds like you did with sims 1-3. But we want that for Sims 4 too. A place where we can just come and play and chat about the game without others attacking whenever we post about the good things in the game, without anyone coming in to the positive threads saying how horrid it is, how we should like previous versions better, etc. A forum where every day there aren't several new threads asking when we can get rid of the game that we love etc. Constructive criticism is fine, no one minds when it's given, but there's far too much bashing on people that enjoy the game on these forums. So yes, we WANT to just play but we can't, not without being asked to defend our game/opinions/write explanations as to why we prefer it which are then tossed out as being "wrong" etc on a regular basis.
As a Sims 4 fan who probably will never move on to sims 5, or if I do I'll wait a few years til it's on sale really cheap and that only if it looks fantastic, I keep hoping it'll be announced soon so they can open a Sims 5 forum and the Sims 4 players can just play in peace like 1-3 do now.
THe second reason I bother is because I want to make sure my opinion is heard too. If EA sees a thread with everyone asking for some feature, example a colour wheel or attraction system, they might want to implement it into sims 4 and I dont want those type of things in my game, so yes I'll bother posting that I don't want it and why, just in case anyone important is reading it. I post my opinions both what I want and what I don't, just in case. Of course I can't have my own way in the game's creation and don't expect to, but if anyone is looking, I like my opinions ad ideas heard too.
Well. Thats fair enough and I respect that.
On the other side and for what you describe we have a different view on the franchise. You seem to be a fan of The Sims 4 only (I can be wrong but it is what I understood). I am a fan of the entire franchise and I was always excited to see what was next. There was always something that keeped me interested on moving from 1 to 2 and then to 3! This time it was proved to me that I had absolutly no reason to move on! (I'm talking personally but I'm sure Im not alone on feeling this).
By this I think we sometimes act in a way that also portrays a fear of the future. And if The Sims that I used to love will never return?
It is me? I used to think that as I grew up I lost the interest in the game but I came back to the previous and I still love playing it. At the same time for us Its hard to understand how something we find so dreadfull can be so praised and loved. Where those people find so much positivity? Believe me that I actually hate being on this side and sometimes I feel like a bad person for being here but I simply can't engage with The Sims 4.
I think now things are on EA side. Everyone is different and they will decide the future. If they want to keep some long term fans they will have to find a middle ground on the next game. If not, I am sure thats why a lot of people are planning to move for a different game, even if it doesn't fulfill what they're expecting.
And that's why competition is good and we should not put a lot of pressure in Paralives!
Sorry about my englis. Its obviously not my first language!
Yes you are wrong, I like the other games too and am also excited to see what comes next even though, I love Sims 4 so much more I probably won't be willing to spend the money to start over again at this point. I've played since Sims 1 and sim city before that, over 20years now, I just didn't know there was an online community at that point so never got the chance to join it. I always just quietly played myself. I didn't find out about that until after playing sims 4 for awhile and doing a google search to find out features of packs as I wanted to buy a new one. I really loved the other games, at the time, I just can't go back to them anymore because I don't like them COMPARED to sims 4. (I"ve tried several times but after Sims 4 they aren't enjoyable anymore) But I have happy memories of playing older versions and if Sims 4 ceased to exist I would play them and enjoy. (except 1 because i no longer own that version).
My not wanting to move on to Sims 5 one day is because I love 4 so much, I have played the same family with aging on SUPER SLOW for almost 4 years, I don't want to give up the save and pay money to start over when I already ahve a game I love so much and only limited time to play games. I'm a single parent, I can't play games for hours on end every day, as much as that'd be great sometimes haha! So adding another game to the mix would just cut into my sims 4 time. It'll probably be a good game too, and I am eager to learn more about it even if right now, I won't get it haha. Because maybe if it's great (for my playstyle) I will. Right now we know nothing about it so I can't judge it haha.
And I should say that as long as you ARE understanding that others like different things from you, myself and many others are perfectly fine with criticisms of the game being posted. It's when people are not understanding that it becomes a problem. I've been told that my enjoyment of the game is "Wrong because the things you find important in the game aren't really important" etc. People ask why I like Sims 4 better and I'm happy to tell them if it's a civil conversation, but when people ask and say that if I like Sims 4 better I "Better have a good reason" and that I "have to explain myself because otherwise you are just a liar who doesn't really play" and this happens on a regular basis, then yeah I get upset and just want to revert to "because I do". I'm done "explaining" after this has happened over and over on these forums to me. I've told people my reason for liking it only to have them tell me that the other games are better for ME and what I want to to personally play, and I think after having played them all, I'd know what I prefer. It gets really frustrating.
Hope that makes sense. And your English is great! I had no trouble with it.
I also don't put pressure on Paralives. I'm not sure yet if it's going to be a game for me. I don't have much gaming time so it'd have to be really great, but I AM watching it. If it looks like something I'd love and it isn't too expensive, I'll buy and enjoy. If not, I won't, but I won't bash it, I'll just assume it's not the game for me and stick with my Sims 4. I'm undecided yet from what's been released, but I'm watching haha!.
