The Sims 4 lacks story and depth
After playing Realm of Magic for an interminable amount of time, I have finally been able to piece together what was wrong with the pack and why it left me with such a despondent outlook on the Sims 4...
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@NoTalent I appreciate your last post, even if I did scroll down to find my name LOL. I made a TL:dr in the Ideas Corner that almost no one read where I outlined ways they could make us really happy with very little effort but they seem to have forgotten what the word 'simulation' means.
Knowing business, I can tell from the results we're getting that their development process is highly bureaucratic with a lot of territorial posturing and and certain members of the staff have too much power as well as closed minds. Combining that with the weak game engine, I fear we're not likely to see a change any time soon unless there is some unexpected turnover.
Pretending to be a fly on the wall, I imagine one of their meetings where an intern pipes up and says they've done an efficiency analysis and can streamline the dev process to the point where Maxis can now include 50 build/buy items per stuff pack at the same cost of the old 30-35. Next one of the 3d modelers says, oh yeah, I had an extra 30 minutes so I made a counter version and a 2-tiled centered version of that one window, we could include that. The dude at the head of the table says, absolutely not. That would make all the previous packs (and my own job performance) look bad, I don't need that kind of aggravation.
I'm pretty sure that happens regularly.
Knowing business, I can tell from the results we're getting that their development process is highly bureaucratic with a lot of territorial posturing and and certain members of the staff have too much power as well as closed minds. Combining that with the weak game engine, I fear we're not likely to see a change any time soon unless there is some unexpected turnover.
Pretending to be a fly on the wall, I imagine one of their meetings where an intern pipes up and says they've done an efficiency analysis and can streamline the dev process to the point where Maxis can now include 50 build/buy items per stuff pack at the same cost of the old 30-35. Next one of the 3d modelers says, oh yeah, I had an extra 30 minutes so I made a counter version and a 2-tiled centered version of that one window, we could include that. The dude at the head of the table says, absolutely not. That would make all the previous packs (and my own job performance) look bad, I don't need that kind of aggravation.
I'm pretty sure that happens regularly.
