"MrCaptainPants;c-18078581" wrote:
As far as I was concerned, The Sims franchise *had* a great reputation... until they blew it by not apologizing for releasing My Wedding Stories in its unplayable condition.
For me, the reputation of a franchise can be ruined not by the mistakes it makes, but rather how it handles those mistakes in the aftermath. Sweeping everything under the rug without issuing a "Hey, we really messed up here, and we apologize" letter to the community has SEVERELY tarnished their reputation in my eyes.
A company with a level of hubris that does not allow them to admit fault and demonstrate enough respect for their customers to earnestly apologize is not a company that earns my loyalty or my financial support. I am so disappointed. I really thought better of them. And I thought that they thought better of US. ?
It's the EA-ification of the Maxis Studio. I'm not here to hate on EA just for being EA. But it's the bureaucracy of a Fortune 500 company that results in extreme outbound communication control.
