Too many ADS!

"Simburian;c-17342442" wrote:
?. When I opened each box containing a new pack CD for Sims 1 and 2 it usually had an flyer to buy the next pack. Times change. It's only one page after all so ignore it. I find it useful as it sometimes has nice lots to look for in the Gallery.

A flyer I wouldn't mind, because you can throw that away, this is something I'm going to see constantly whenever i open the game and it's only purpose is to get me to buy more titles instead of letting me enjoy the ones I've already got. I can't ignore it when it covers the majority of the screen & that's why it's done that way, so it's in people's face

"Babykittyjade;c-17342645" wrote:
I HATE ads but sims is the one exception. It doesn't bother me at all and I'm always excited for more packs, so I actually like the advertising. Plus I only see that screen for all of 2 seconds then I actually play the game lol.

Usually I do too but I noticed the change, I was all up for playing it but after seeing how saturated it was in marketing it just put me off, to me it just feels like they're more concerned with selling more games than the experience of playing what you have. I'd like to point out ts3 had to put in a feature at the end to turn off certain expansion packs because they didn't optimise the ones people already bought.

"Sk8rblaze;c-17342685" wrote:
I just find it even more disappointing that they changed the look and layout of the main menu, if I remember correctly, 3 times now, each time changing the location of the play button.

Between that and the whole "rebranding" of The Sims 4, I really wonder if EA is paying the wrong departments too much money, as it seems they have nothing else to do. How about giving those resources and funding to 3D modelers and animations so the next time we get a camping pack that is separate from a decent vacation pack, we can actually get real bears and animals with more than 3 polygons?

THIS! & principleofentropy, that's exactly my point.. it's almost like the sims is the new cash cow, when I played ts1 the whole point was to be innovative and do new things, now it's just to see how much money they can get out of the player.

I know some people have said this is just in the title screen and I know that's my main issue, but don't forget there's advertisement for packs in the world select and also in the in game gallery, I know ts3 had buy/build mode that you could spend money to buy new content, I'm not sure if that's in ts4 but I wouldn't be surprised and I've just had it turned off all this time.

But just dial down on the advertising. I know people say it's their marketing to make more money but I think it equally turns people off, I was actually looking at buying a bundle of ts4 till I opened the new menu, after seeing that it's more in my face It put me off, it's basically turned into opening a store menu and not a game.