The Sims 4 Won't Have Pools Because its Too Much Work, Says EA
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It seems like, "It's too much work" is becoming the new slogan for a lot of game companies. Probably not the best attitude to have.
To be fair, while you're right about pools being in The Sims 1, toddlers weren't added till Sims 2. Not saying there excuse isn't bullshit, it is and they really need to just shut the fuck up and make games more than market them now.Ultratwinkie said:
I mean...come on EA, I defended you for so long, and now you go and do this!
I'm fairly certain Rachel Franklin is a 'she' [http://www.ea.com/news/author/rachel+franklin].Steven Bogos said:
That aside, it very much sounds as though the game's launch date was decided before its scope. This practice is sadly common in the AAA world, but it's still really shitty. An extra $50,000 budget and a two week delay should be easily more than enough to add these features. If it needs more than that, you've got a production pipeline problem that really needs worked out.
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Unfortunately the amount of ardent, passionate fans of the series -- the kind who are up in arms about this decision -- is almost certainly vastly outweighed by ordinary users who have no idea at all about this furor and will lap it up.BiH-Kira said:
This.Kungfu_Teddybear said:
Also, everyone saying "Modders will fix it in a day" make me sad. Clearly, none of you have ever interacted with the massive fart joke that is the Sims Modding scene.
My god they really do think we are idiots. O wells here's hoping the game bombs.
I have no investment in this franchise so i would be a non-factor in its success or hopefully lack there of.
I have no investment in this franchise so i would be a non-factor in its success or hopefully lack there of.
Well then, I guess The Sims 4 isn't worth an early purchase, or until it drops to twenty or thirty bucks with an expansion pack included. I've got The Sims 3 with over half the interesting expansions to keep me occupied.
They try to hide behind "too much work", but well all know why they're doing this. They gotta make their cash-cow even more fatter.
They try to hide behind "too much work", but well all know why they're doing this. They gotta make their cash-cow even more fatter.
EA's production strategy is interesting. It seems to be do whatever the hell you want until release date and everything we do after that is dlc
Guys its pools and toddlers, yes they will sell them back later as that is how the sims works and always has been, but sometimes things do actually get cut to allow development to focus on things that matter. so unless these items are secretly super high demand in the sims and EA knows they have a cash cow I am giving them this one. I know your all conditioned to treat a standard PR response as bull shit but sometime they are true I mean its freaking pools and toddlers.
EA should drop the 4 just like they dropped the number off of Simcity. Because you know it is going to be a broken piece of crap when it comes out. And the "New Tech" is going to get blamed for that too.
awwww... poor itty bitty EA, it is indeed too much work for good little EA, afterall they are only the biggest fucking third party publisher around
too much work? more like, not enough day one DLC
too much work? more like, not enough day one DLC
"The fact is, we owe you a clearer explanation for why pools and toddlers will not be in The Sims 4 at launch," executive producer Rachel Franklin wrote in a new blog post.
"It begins with the fact that we think we can make a fuck-ton more money releasing these features to you in expansion packs."
"So the bottom line is that when we sat down and looked at everything we wanted to do for this game, we realized we wanted to do the same shit we'd been doing since the first Sims game, dick on the consumer base because we can and ultimately do as little work as possible".
Fixed some of the quotes for you
"It begins with the fact that we think we can make a fuck-ton more money releasing these features to you in expansion packs."
"So the bottom line is that when we sat down and looked at everything we wanted to do for this game, we realized we wanted to do the same shit we'd been doing since the first Sims game, dick on the consumer base because we can and ultimately do as little work as possible".
Fixed some of the quotes for you
A lot of developers apparently have decided that doing their job is just too hard nowdays haven't they?
"The fact is, we owe you a clearer explanation for why pools and toddlers will not be in The Sims 4 at launch, [and that explanation is that we didn't finish the game in time LOL.]"
So basically: "we know that you guys really liked having these features before, but we think there'd be too much value in the game if we didn't charge you for them separately now."
Watch it be on-disk DLC. Oh I would laugh...
I've never cared about these games, but this really is bullshit. Charging for new things that have never been in the games previously is fine, but charging for something that you've had before seems ludicrous.
Watch it be on-disk DLC. Oh I would laugh...
I've never cared about these games, but this really is bullshit. Charging for new things that have never been in the games previously is fine, but charging for something that you've had before seems ludicrous.