The Sims Spark'd - Challenges July 17
Sul sul Simmers! The time is here - our first The Sims Spark'd Challenges are waiting for you to jump in the game and get creative! Each Spark'd Challenge introduces a unique theme, ...
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Honestly, i'm trying to not let it bother me, but its just so frustrating. I was glad for the challenges personally because i've got some stuff going on IRL and regular gameplay wasn't really doing it for me. So the challenge/goal aspect was a big tick for me. But the way its being organised/presented by EA, and kinda abused by some players is just taking any kind of joy out of it.
As a Simmer, I was hoping to be able to find some really amazing builders/story creators to follow, but instead, every time I load the sparkd gallery, its literally like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack.
And as a builder, its pretty off-putting to submit something relevant to the challenge rules, that you've put energy into, and have it fully disappear in the gallery within about 25 mins, never to be seen by anyone, while generic and often stolen house builds are at the top of the pile with 1000+ downloads just because they've previously gathered a lot of followers... I just don't know who at EA thought this kind of community vote was ever going to work. It's pretty tricky to discover actual talent when you're *actually* running a popularity contest ?♀️ (IMO)
Not talking about myself there btw, the prospect of being on a TV show holds no interest for me whatsoever, I just shudder at all the amazing builds which have now been lost in the mass, I'm sad for the builders of these creations, A LOT will be feeling despondent if they've put time and love into something to have it not even seen, and selfishly I also want to be able to share this thing that took me such a long time and actually have people be able to see it ?♀️?
As a Simmer, I was hoping to be able to find some really amazing builders/story creators to follow, but instead, every time I load the sparkd gallery, its literally like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack.
And as a builder, its pretty off-putting to submit something relevant to the challenge rules, that you've put energy into, and have it fully disappear in the gallery within about 25 mins, never to be seen by anyone, while generic and often stolen house builds are at the top of the pile with 1000+ downloads just because they've previously gathered a lot of followers... I just don't know who at EA thought this kind of community vote was ever going to work. It's pretty tricky to discover actual talent when you're *actually* running a popularity contest ?♀️ (IMO)
Not talking about myself there btw, the prospect of being on a TV show holds no interest for me whatsoever, I just shudder at all the amazing builds which have now been lost in the mass, I'm sad for the builders of these creations, A LOT will be feeling despondent if they've put time and love into something to have it not even seen, and selfishly I also want to be able to share this thing that took me such a long time and actually have people be able to see it ?♀️?
