"Uzone27;15367416" wrote:
I'm getting the sense that some of the stuff they are doing in this game is karmic feedback. (totally intentional and totally cynical)
Some of the stuff they are doing seems a bit too ironic to be totally unintentional.
I won't derail the thread with too many specifics, but it should suffice to say that the ability to turn this stuff on or off is already in the game, and it would have been no sweat off their brow to leave it optional everywhere.
So now this forces me to consider the reasons why they didn't....and some of the scenarios I am coming up with aren't pretty.
One of those scenarios involve the constant whining on this forum over the tiniest of things, and how they just might be sick of it...and it's starting to show up in their work.
Yeah Maxis has an agenda. They want their game to be played a specific way, and they make that blatantly obvious.
Remember when they added the horrific TV blur + screech for speeds 2 & 3? That's their way of saying "Play on speed 1" because that's the only speed it doesn't happen on. No amount of feedback has changed this whatsoever, because it's what *they* want.
Apartments are barely editable. You are stuck with what they give you, because they created them using tools we do not have access to. They were largely dismissive of the entire ordeal. The highly promoted "lot traits" are fixed to specific lots. Which is mind boggling because it looks like a modder already unlocked them for regular lots.
Maxis makes what Maxis wants. They ignore feedback, dismiss criticism, but expect a round of applause whenever they come out with something. Their latest EP offers zero creative control over the new features added, and half of the features look so watered down that it amazes me people will pay $40 for them. I don't know what they spent so much time on, because CL is a total fail IMO.
