Swimming Pools And More Are Coming as Free DLC For The Sims 4
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Why should we give praise when someone does what they should have in the first place? It's all well and good but it doesn't earn them any brownie points or undo their fuckups. Well done, you gave us back something that had no good reason to be removed in the first place. How about all that other stuff (talking actual features and not simply furniture)you took out? No? That's what I thought.Imperioratorex Caprae said:
You want recognition for this EA, here's a silver star sticker for you...now fuck off.
Once again, I have to explain something that should be obvious... Where in the hell did I say anything about praising EA?gamegod25 said:
All my point is that people are mad that they put something in the game that people were mad that they didn't put in the game. How contradictory is that? Skip the reasons because you folks don't need any, just be mad because its EA, and be honest about it instead of picking every move they make as another reason to be mad. Its disingenuous at best.
Seriously.
Look at it like this: Game is released without content, people are mad because content is not there (and lots of wild theories about it being locked behind a paywall abound). Then patch (DLC) is announced that puts said missing content in for free and people are mad that the content is being put in for free. Thats really odd to hold onto anger for so long and when you get what you want (for free!) you're too cynical to let go of anger and are now mad because you got what you wanted? Or do you want EA to bend the laws of time and space and put the content in the game before it was released?
Just more proof that "gamers" are angry and entitled whiners. Never happy and always whining, I couldn't care less about the Sims so this doesn't affect me in the slightest but it is nice to see a company trying to fix their mistakes (because the gamers where totally entitled to their pools because they are special snowflakes so not being able to get them in at launch was a mistake right?). EA doesn't deserve "praise" for this but neither do they deserve all this bitterness, "gamers" are never happy and always find something to whine and rage about.Imperioratorex Caprae said:
I often feel ashamed to admit I play games any more, I never felt that way before but with all this anger, rage, bitterness and death threats over the slightest thing they don't like all over the internet makes me feel dirty being associated with "gamers".
Eh, I'm thinking they were hoping the outcry wouldn't be so bad and they'd charge for it, this is damage control.ron1n said:
See I just pity them, I don't feel ashamed of being associated with them because I'm comfortable in my own skin. I can't understand living life being so negatively charged over these things. There is the part of me that wishes folks could be a bit less negative and a hell of a lot more constructive but "wish in one hand, shit in the other..." yadda-yadda-yadda.J Tyran said:
*shrug*
So the tech demo is finally getting some meat on it's bones free of charge...
I highly suspect that they initially wanted to charge for each bit of DLC but they needed something to make up for the fact that they released a $60 tech demo, not a $60 game
I highly suspect that they initially wanted to charge for each bit of DLC but they needed something to make up for the fact that they released a $60 tech demo, not a $60 game
I think EA is deliberately trolling and trying to make itself seem worse than it actually is.
They could have won huge brownie points and had people sucking them off if they'd been down to earth and let everyone know that these free dlcs would be coming out, instead they went out of their to do the worst of both worlds: Giving into people after they know they won't gain much being doing this and losing money on top of that.
In a way I'd have respected EA more if they'd charged money for these. Better for one to stick to their guns than come off weak and indecisive.
They could have won huge brownie points and had people sucking them off if they'd been down to earth and let everyone know that these free dlcs would be coming out, instead they went out of their to do the worst of both worlds: Giving into people after they know they won't gain much being doing this and losing money on top of that.
In a way I'd have respected EA more if they'd charged money for these. Better for one to stick to their guns than come off weak and indecisive.
If they had the patches almost complete, why didn't they just delay the release until the full vanilla game was complete? Did EA really earn more or save on development time by pushing an unfinished product out? Making it part of free patches rather than paid DLC isn't going to buy back the good will they lost, and i'm still convinced the original plan WAS to charge for the items.
I guess it's good they're putting that stuff back in and for free, but it really should've been there to begin with. One step forward after taking a step back. Puts them back where they started in my opinion of them.
The catch (for EA) is that nobody is buying the Sims 4 so instead of leveraging all that cut content for DLC sales now they're having to leverage that cut content for initial sales. I doubt very much that this was part of the original plan, regardless of what representatives will say in the coming weeks (much the same way I doubt rebuilding the entire of Battlefield 4 from the server information transfer rate up was part of the plan).Thorn14 said:
However, in the long term it might be good for the consumer, EA has been pushing how far they can go with content sales even more than usual in the last two years, with this, Titanfall and Sim City EA might be gradually figuring out that there is a limit to this.
Let's face it, EA are only doing this because of the backlash resulting in these features not being in the game to begin with. If there wasn't so much complaining about it, they probably would have charged us for them. They're probably only doing this to make themselves look good. I suppose it's good that they are correcting the mistakes, and for free no less, but these features should have been in the game in the first place.
