The sims community is one of the most toxic communities out there, discuss.

"Huiiie_07;c-16647122" wrote:
Definitely agree. The forums are actually quiet a peaceful place compared to youtube, for example. As soon as a new trailer for a pack releases, especially for an expansion pack, you just have to facepalm after reading comments like "When do we get (insert random feature from previous games here)" or "Sims 3 was so much better lol."

The first example just shows how ungrateful this community is, especially the many small children who play this game who seem to have no clue how programming and developing a game works. When the City Living trailer released for example, they were constantly whining why no toddlers are in the game like adding them would only take 1 hour.

As for the second typical youtube comment, it's just stupid to even write this under a Sims 4 video. It seems like these Sims 3 lovers just click on the video to comment on how "good" Sims 3 was, like it is a fact and not an opinion.

These people are just the most disrespecful and stupid people I have ever seen online. It's true that the sims community is one of the most toxic, unthankful and whiny communities out there.

Agreed, this communities default reaction is hysteria.

You shouldn't generalize. Its not fair for anyone to harass the SimGurus (they don't deserve that ever), but thats a small portion of the community. The rest are just expressing excitement and disappointment, something we all have a right to do. To be mad at entire community for having different opinions seems a bit unfair.

"monkeypants1;c-16647128" wrote:

"CrystalAbyss1;c-16647101" wrote:
Clearly you haven’t seen other gaming communities, not justifying it but this isn’t even the tip of the iceberg compared to others

Mmm. I've played quite a few mmos actually, and the Sims communities are far more whiny, entitled and toxic.

Even those can be played off as the community being mean to each other, the sims community has an attitude of bite the hand that feeds them. They aren't immune from criticism but this community really does go in for the kill.

There are more toxic communities and less toxic communities but I agree that the Sims community has gotten progressively nastier regarding the way The Sims 4 is going. That live stream today was bogged down eith comments that came off extremely disrespectful to the Gurus. They explained the Gallery update and their plan to be more open going forward. They didn't have time to go over every single line of the patch notes but it seems like they're trying to fix things and improve things.

"MrSimmis;c-16647143" wrote:

"monkeypants1;c-16647128" wrote:

"CrystalAbyss1;c-16647101" wrote:
Clearly you haven’t seen other gaming communities, not justifying it but this isn’t even the tip of the iceberg compared to others

Mmm. I've played quite a few mmos actually, and the Sims communities are far more whiny, entitled and toxic.

Even those can be played off as the community being mean to each other, the sims community has an attitude of bite the hand that feeds them. They aren't immune from criticism but this community really does go in for the kill.

This is not the same as biting the hand that feeds. EA does not feed us, we in fact feed them. EA could not exist without gamers, gamers could exist without EA.

Hi folks,

I'm going to lock this thread here. I'm more than happy for Simmers to chat about the content and their experiences but I'm weary of threads and posts critiquing the community and player base. Much as discussing Gurus or devs, it's crossing over to a personal place and that's not really appropriate or fair to many. I don't believe that was the intention behind this and I hope you can understand my reasoning for this.

Thanks,

- Lanna

{edited: typos...:/}