"Chicklet453681;c-18187983" wrote:
The more I think about it, I'm leaning towards it being talk about TS4 going free to play (and why) and the upcoming roadmap and possibly some more inclusive things being added to the basegame.
Or maybe some big (or more appropriately "big in their eyes") basegame update.
They could also be collaborating with some big company again and need to hype that up.
And knowing how they like to hype everything to the max and then when we actually find out, we're all like "Really? This was what all the hype was for?" (Which just gets some people overly excited about all these great things they imagine it could be only to be disappointed for what it really is).
From a PR standpoint, the hype DOES get people talking and/or obsessing about it though.
But for me, as always ...... my expectations for "Big News" is wayyyyyyy downnnn lowwww.
What I'm not expecting to hear about (which are all things I'd be super excited about):
- Free'd Babies
- Cars
- Swimming in All Worlds
- Some type of CAW or Editable World Capabilities
- Buildable Apartments
- Official TS5 Announcement
In my opinion, they need to win back the trust for people who have played their game already for a while, because if they will focus on a new market (people who don't have the game) they will divide their player base who is already pretty divided, market the game being free to play to us who already own and play the game is pointless. I don't think a lot of people will care either if they rebrand the game again to make it seem fresh and new, when we know it isn't.
It feels like the latest wants and fears update also left a lot of people not happy, so the last thing people want is another big update that messes things up and frankly, I'm not sure how effective their marketing about talking about how inclusive they are will work for them either when they already have the pronouns update for the other languages left to complete in their backlog.
They actually have to start showing some actual development and new content besides just pretty words and visuals, otherwise I don't think this will work out.