SimGuryLyndsey Addresses Skintones

"Atreya33;c-17613853" wrote:

"Camkat;c-17613117" wrote:
I agree that they should post all the same announcements here as on twitter. However, I do have to agree with @Netzspannung as well. I've never once thought the forums were a place for me to connect with Guru's but rather a service provided to us to connect with other simmers. We don't even bug report here! That goes to EA. I've always thought of it as more a treat if a Guru shows up in a thread! They do read the feedback section though, even if they're not always commenting on it and I see them often in the bug reports over at EA AnswersHQ.

There's not enough time in a day for them to work their full time job working on the game, read all the forums and answer everything, and other social medias. It would be unreasonable to expect them to do any of this outside office hours, although I do suspect that some do. Personally, I'd rather them keep working on the game and updates and bug fixes than answering my post on here.

Interesting to read how you see this forum. I always thought it was a little bit of both, a place for simmers to connect to each other and to communicate with Maxis. But I think you are right, it probably is not supposed to be about the latter. Which is a bit sad because after all this is the official forum. People here post because they really care about the game.

About the bug report, we don't report bugs here because we are not allowed. Posts about bugs get shot down. We are forced to go to the bug report section at EA for that. I wish we could report them here.

I was thinking about it further and I'm sure I remember it being a little more like how you think, but that was all some time ago. Back in the Sims 2 days and the BBS, I'm sure I remember seeing SimGuru's there a lot more and commenting on our stories and such. I never do remember anyone being transparent on what they're working on with the game, but they were there commenting on our bug reports and helping with solutions. Pretty sure. Much like they do over at EA Answers HQ.

I think it makes some sense for them in a business sense to keep all of their games in one place. Makes it a little easier on the people working to fix bugs and broken games to only need to check one forum instead of two. It doesn't make it easier for us though. I'm pretty sure when they first set this site up, and moved all the TS3 and TS2 stuff here, that we could report bugs here as well.

While I don't expect them to comment on everything (or much of anything anymore), I'd just like all announcements on social media be posted here as well as the other sites so I didn't have to hunt for everything. This time it was, but that's a pretty rare thing. :/