TS4 Just Acting EP?

"bixters;c-16773047" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16773030" wrote:
The ratio of singers who get to the point of being represented by an agency and get to record albums is very small compared to the number of singers out there. Not everyone makes it big or even average. Most struggle.

As for a real career, if the info is telling them that players don't use the interactions for singing/music that are already provided, why would they expand on it? It would be, to them, throwing good money after bad. Why make a greater mistake when you can try something else that more players might be interested in?

Where is the info saying not many people played with music/singing? If they're talking about the Sims 4, people probably don't use singing/music because there's no consequences to any of it. The most you can do with singing is win a karaoke contest. As far as other instruments, there's no dedicated venue for your sims to perform, and the entertainer career is just a generic rabbit hole career with nothing special about it. Both of these could have been improved with this pack. Not choosing to improve them because players didn't play them enough is foolish.

Exactly. EA and interpreting telemetry doesn’t always go well we’ve noticed before. Is there a confirmation about this by the way, have they said info is telling them that? Or is that speculation (info might tell them that)?

"filipomel;c-16773201" wrote:

"bixters;c-16773146" wrote:

"filipomel;c-16773119" wrote:

The acting career in Sims 3 was a rabbit hole career. the acting career in Sims 4 is an active career that from that sixty second staged trailer looks very detailed and fun. I think it's safe to assume in this case that one is clearly better than the other. But who knows, maybe I'm wrong, perhaps that rabbit hole career from Sims 3 really is the better feature compared to 4's iteration.

The Sims 4 acting career may be better than all the past iterations, but is it worth $40 for 1 career, 1 world and a fame mechanic? That's the question. In the past we got more content for paying less.

I'd much rather get 3 really in depth game features than 30 features I wish were more fleshed out. To me, depth = content, more depth means more content I'm getting. Main reason why I prefer Sims 4 over 3.

Me too, which in fact is why I still prefer Sims 3 over 4. Shall we restrain from turning this into yet another comparison thread?
(I agree about the actor’s career being mostly rh was a let down by the way, though it also contains acting out in the open, but not with an actual stage)

P.s. And what @MidnightAura says. If it will be all checklists again and long, repetitive animations, I don’t even know if I’ll prefer that to a rh.

"Dannydanbo;c-16773258" wrote:

"bixters;c-16773047" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16773030" wrote:
The ratio of singers who get to the point of being represented by an agency and get to record albums is very small compared to the number of singers out there. Not everyone makes it big or even average. Most struggle.

As for a real career, if the info is telling them that players don't use the interactions for singing/music that are already provided, why would they expand on it? It would be, to them, throwing good money after bad. Why make a greater mistake when you can try something else that more players might be interested in?

Where is the info saying not many people played with music/singing? If they're talking about the Sims 4, people probably don't use singing/music because there's no consequences to any of it. The most you can do with singing is win a karaoke contest. As far as other instruments, there's no dedicated venue for your sims to perform, and the entertainer career is just a generic rabbit hole career with nothing special about it. Both of these could have been improved with this pack. Not choosing to improve them because players didn't play them enough is foolish.

Firstly, I said if, so calm down.

Secondly, they rely on the telemetry thing to make some decisions. So if it says you
are not using the music career or busking, why would they expand it?
That's just common sense.

For the same reason they did toddlers after all. If telemetry tells you people aren’t playing it, wonder why that is and improve the feature. Don’t remove it.

"Dannydanbo;c-16773784" wrote:
They gave us the Entertainment career with music and I don't remember anyone raving about their musician sims, do you? Then, they improved it by adding singing with CL. Still, no ravings about adding singing and busking being a great, welcome idea. So, oddly enough, they focused GF on acting. Doesn't take a lot of brain power to figure this out, but it does take some.

I thought the singing skill was great but I have no interest in Sims busking never seen anyone request that either its really not a feature that's worth raving over. I want bands with stages that can play in my clubs not a sim who plays on the street begging for change.

"ChadSims2;c-16773853" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16773784" wrote:
They gave us the Entertainment career with music and I don't remember anyone raving about their musician sims, do you? Then, they improved it by adding singing with CL. Still, no ravings about adding singing and busking being a great, welcome idea. So, oddly enough, they focused GF on acting. Doesn't take a lot of brain power to figure this out, but it does take some.

I thought the singing skill was great but I have no interest in Sims busking never seen anyone request that either its really not a feature that's worth raving over. I want bands with stages that can play in my clubs not a sim who plays on the street begging for change.

Exactly! Just because people aren't playing it cause it's boring rn doesn't mean people don't want to create pop superstars or singer-songwriters or whatever now that fame/Hollywood's in the game. Based on what I've seen from Get Famous, I love that they fleshed out acting fully. I just hope one day they'll do the same for singers specifically at the heart of a music GP.

"Eliharb;c-16773970" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-16773853" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16773784" wrote:
They gave us the Entertainment career with music and I don't remember anyone raving about their musician sims, do you? Then, they improved it by adding singing with CL. Still, no ravings about adding singing and busking being a great, welcome idea. So, oddly enough, they focused GF on acting. Doesn't take a lot of brain power to figure this out, but it does take some.

I thought the singing skill was great but I have no interest in Sims busking never seen anyone request that either its really not a feature that's worth raving over. I want bands with stages that can play in my clubs not a sim who plays on the street begging for change.

Exactly! Just because people aren't playing it cause it's boring rn doesn't mean people don't want to create pop superstars or singer-songwriters or whatever now that fame/Hollywood's in the game. Based on what I've seen from Get Famous, I love that they fleshed out acting fully. I just hope one day they'll do the same for singers specifically at the heart of a music GP.

well it looks like its going to be one of the smallest expansions ever, if its only big features are fame and acting.

this game as a game pack would be great but as a expansion pack, just seems far too small.

if they are adding more to the older careers, we already have a celebrity chef

"marcel21;c-16773976" wrote:


well it looks like its going to be one of the smallest expansions ever, if its only big features are fame and acting.

this game as a game pack would be great but as a expansion pack, just seems far too small.

if they are adding more to the older careers, we already have a celebrity chef

I don't think it will be small. There's a world included so I'm hoping it's a big one.

"Eliharb;c-16773983" wrote:

"marcel21;c-16773976" wrote:


well it looks like its going to be one of the smallest expansions ever, if its only big features are fame and acting.

this game as a game pack would be great but as a expansion pack, just seems far too small.

if they are adding more to the older careers, we already have a celebrity chef

I don't think it will be small. There's a world included so I'm hoping it's a big one.

you misunderstood me, I said it seems small.

I Mean small on game play

"Eliharb;c-16774001" wrote:

"marcel21;c-16773986" wrote:


I Mean small on game play

I hope not. We haven't seen much.

me to. and no we haven't.
what really annoys me are they did a survey on this pack and singing was included :s
is it any wonder some of us isn't happy.

"Dannydanbo;c-16774323" wrote:
Those survey's are years old. If they checked the telemetry and saw that almost no one was using the music career or singing skill, why would they be motivated to add to it with more gameplay that players might not use when they could create gameplay players will use? If you want a singing career and a recording studio and a stage to preform on, then get busy using the music career and singing skill.

That's like saying no one was playing toddlers because they actually didn't exist in this game. Why would anyone want to play a singing career without the recording studio and or agent to book gigs and or a stage? It's a merry-go-round.

"Dannydanbo;c-16774323" wrote:
Those survey's are years old. If they checked the telemetry and saw that almost no one was using the music career or singing skill, why would they be motivated to add to it with more gameplay that players might not use when they could create gameplay players will use? If you want a singing career and a recording studio and a stage to preform on, then get busy using the music career and singing skill.

Dannydanbo

how do you know nobody was using the singing skill or music career?
you sure must get around a lot to know that :p
singing was popular in the past games. like a lot of things with the sims 4 they went backwards with singing in city living.
Why don't you take your own advice and go get busy with your own game.
so do you think its pointless for people asking for the singing skill, or bands, so we should get busy with what we already have?