The Sims 4 Spark'd? No thanks!!

"KawaiiFairyRainbows;c-17568931" wrote:
Is the things they kept spending the budget on? I mean :/ okay? But I'm not interested in stuff like this.

Exactly! Spending their budget on a reality competition? Pretty lame surprise.

I mean, it's an attempt to engage community members while they don't have anything to release yet. The challenges are also available for other players to do. Seems pretty standard from the Sims team

If you're not interested, you can just ignore it

"icmnfrsh;c-17568934" wrote:
I mean, it's an attempt to engage community members while they don't have anything to release yet. The challenges are also available for other players to do. Seems pretty standard from the Sims team

If you're not interested, you can just ignore it

I think the budget could have been used more productively, you know, for things like babies, cars, better personalities for our sims? And this whole thing looks so cringe.

gee, they used to invite some Simmers to Maxis Studios on Sims 3 time to create a lot of buildings and Sims for promotion and community activity. This reality could be something like that. I like the idea and don't think that the budget get ripped of by 100 thousand dollars because of it.

Yeah, I would prefer that Maxis stick to making games. Hopefully there are still a lot of people over at Maxis that still does that. Maxis is a large studio.

I also hope that they recorded this last year and not this year with the current pandemic...?

"LeGardePourpre;c-17568954" wrote:


Not exactly, it's a strategy to seduce a new kind of players.

Real TV show are still popular in the world, the investment could be profitable.

There are HUNDREDS of videos on Youtube that do the same thing. Who'd honestly gonna watch this?

I'm not interested in a reality tv show, I'm not going to watch it but they should do whatever they want. It's cool someone is going to win those 100.000 dollars.

I'm kinda exited about the tv show, but still think they could have better spent the budget on something else. It's kinda sad really. I know that a lot of people would have preferred something like a large basegame update to the Sims 4.

Edit: Me included.

"Flap;c-17568956" wrote:
gee, they used to invite some Simmers to Maxis Studios on Sims 3 time to create a lot of buildings and Sims for promotion and community activity. This reality could be something like that. I like the idea and don't think that the budget get ripped of by 100 thousand dollars because of it.

Except they are airing this on national TV, which costs a lot of money. TBS is a pretty popular station in the US. I'd say a million dollars. Why spend it on a TV show?

"bixters;c-17568947" wrote:

"icmnfrsh;c-17568934" wrote:
I mean, it's an attempt to engage community members while they don't have anything to release yet. The challenges are also available for other players to do. Seems pretty standard from the Sims team

If you're not interested, you can just ignore it

I think the budget could have been used more productively, you know, for things like babies, cars, better personalities for our sims? And this whole thing looks so cringe.

Marketing has its own team and budget. 100,000 is not much for a world famous franchise.