"MadameLee;c-17605964" wrote:
"drake_mccarty;c-17605622" wrote:
Sims is a AAA game funded by one of the largest video game publishers. The fact that people want to judge a patreon-funded indie game against Sims 4 should give people a pretty good idea of how badly the developers are handling Sims 4. Honesty EA needs to get new staff for the future Sims games because the people they have now are not getting it right. They are probably more suited for less complex games. Not saying that as an insult, just an observation since they really try to keep everything as simple and watered down as possible which has led to a boring gameplay experience that the developers find acceptable.
don't blame the stuff blame the coperate for wanting to give them deadlines which give us half-packs
I will absolutely blame the staff. They are the one’s actually making this stuff and decide what is or is not acceptable for release. Deadlines have always been a thing if their issue is having a deadline then that just proves my point that management can’t handle the job. When we get features that lack the depth players want (and usually provided lots of details for) it’s not like it’s a deadline that caused that; it’s management not understanding what is being asked for and thinking an inferior idea is good enough or even the same thing. That’s the issue here. EA is problematic, for sure, but that corporation isn’t making the same choices for the game that Maxis staff are; and Maxis has a bad habit of making bad decisions that result in forgettable gimmicks with little replay value.
