This silent treatment is the worst

"Grynn;c-17419503" wrote:

To begin with almost every dev out there in 2020 keep dev logs where they showcase things at a very early concept stage for players to show feedback, it's not that hard and it really does wonders to help boost sales, nowadays when I discover a new game I always check to see if the devs have one to see if the game is still active, if it's in a final state (because let's be real, no game ever releases in a finished state nowadays) or if it has been "abandoned".

As someone who mainly follows the sims this sounds to good to be true. I think being open about their development would be good for both sides. We can better understand the design choices and see how much work everything takes and keep expectations realistic, and in return they get early feedback through us in a stage where some things can still be changed. The community stuff pack that is going on now is the only thing that comes close to this scenario and I like it.

"Luxury;c-17419811" wrote:
I agree, I think that their marketing model of literally not saying anything then stringing stuff on us is annoying and gets old very quickly. The sims team is very bad at communication and I think it's a partial reason as to why the game suffers so much. I'm still pretty new to the sims scene but even I find it sort of ridiculous that the Offical Sims Forum gets ignored in favor of twitter! As much as I didn't like or watch MM they were at least a step in the right direction for communication because at least then they were engaging with the games community, now every month on twitter people have to ask a million times if there's gonna be a MM in that month bc otherwise there just would be an announcement.


Alas, all we can do is vote with our wallets and hope that there's enough of us doing so to make a difference.

I completely agree. This should be one of the first place for them to contact us, not an afterthought.