"Evalen;c-17572048" wrote:
This is a advertisement to get people to buy the Sims 4, If they had taken all the money and time they spent on this and fixed sims 4, giving us open worlds, sliders for height, being able to build you own world, or add your own lots, teens that look like teens, and so much more it would be nice. In fact they would not have to make this AD, as the Game and Gamers themselves would pull in people as they talked about the game. Put the money into the game. Where is Sims 5 ? How about spending money on that. Give the simmers what they want, not a TV Show, so we watch TV instead of playing how funny is that.
In listening to the things I've heard on various "Playing with the developers" and interviews with the producers, they're probably not going to do TS5 any time soon. They would have continued with TS3 if it hadn't been that it was so hard on many computers. I build my own computers (and have since TS1 was ending and TS2 was about to start) that I generally don't have too much difficulty with either TS3 or TS4, but I do know that there are many people who had loads of problems with TS3 on their computer that don't have nearly as much difficulty with TS4.
There is still room to grow with TS4, so it's not likely that even if I had not heard the interviews that I would think that it would be a long time before we had TS5.
And as well as it looks like TS4 is doing for EA, I doubt they'd decrease the advertising budget to put into the development budget. That's not how most corporations work. If they can get more people to buy the game with advertising, they do so.
However, for all its bugs (and I had a doozy recently with the 134:b378c837 bug), they do give us patches *much* more quickly than they have in the past. It used to be several months before we'd get any patches. For instance, I bought SimCity 4 the same day I bought TS1. SimCity was unplayable for me for about 5 months (until they came out with SimCity Rush Hour) and *finally* patched it. (Fortunately, I had TS1 to keep me busy in the meantime.) And unfortunately, that was typical in those days (even when there was a The Sims bug.) But now we get bugs fixed on a monthly basis (although I suspect they still have to work on some.)
And we have far more presence of the SimGurus than we had in the old TS1 and TS2 days. Now we have EAMai and others coming on the forums regularly as well as reaching out through the EA GameChangers. And there are paid people handling forum problems like people acting out or otherwise breaking the rules. In the old days, the only people who had access to the SimGuru equivalents (like MaxisHydra, MaxisDrea and the others) were the SimMasters. And they were all volunteers (ie. unpaid help) who were expected to handle the forum problems *and* help people with their computers, game problems and the like.
For all our complaints, we Simmers have *much* better "customer support" than we had in the days of TS1 and TS2. No matter how well they do, there will always be more that can be done, but I'm grateful for the improvements they've made over the years!
EA Staff
