Upper management does not really know about the game't features and ons, so which is exactly my point what stopped developer for carefully evaluting what features to add where saceifise have to be made. CL could have made apartments with stairs if they couldn't animate the elevators or made a better gameplay object to make up for the absent transporting object over a talking object. But anyway, should have could have would have - the game is still crappy and we can look forward same happening to TS5 Cheers!

I agree upper management in most corporations have very, very, very little involvement in what goes on on the "ground floor". Indeed, middle management is -- however, they answer to upper management. So, if something goes wrong and upper management gets wind of it, they ask, "What happened? Get it fixed now!" (Because, of course, they're only concerned about the bottom line.) And middle management says "Right, boss - I'm on it." And so they go to the floor and ask the same question "what happened? Get it fixed."

Now here's where I lose the logic in this concerning EA and Maxis. If middle management controls everything, why in the hell is so many things about the game so screwed up - since they must answer to upper management about it. I'm thinking about the Journey to Batuu debacle. I'm sure upper management asked lower management what happened. What answer do you think lower management gave them? "Oh, It was our fault, boss. We told them how to do it. Sorry 'bout that."

Now I would think that after something like that - for any corporation - lower management would try to get more up on their "P"s and "Q"s about what they say to the floor. I know, I know - if that was true, every corporation in the world would be running like a well oiled machine and investors everywhere would be rolling in the dough.

The corporation I worked for allowed suggestions from the floor. If something wasn't right, we told middle management, and tried to work with them to get it right. No, we didn't always succeed, but at least we wanted to. Just like our jobs (the floor) was on the line, we knew middle management's jobs were also on the line in many instances.

Do you think the "floor" at Maxis tells middle management what some of the problems with Sims 4 are? Do you honestly think middle management says "Get it fixed?"

Now . . . If they do, that busts the logic that The Sims 4 is still as buggy and messed up as it is. If middle management has been saying get it fixed, then why after all these years many things are still the same? If they've been saying in essence, I don't care what's wrong with the game, screw that and continue building it the way we told you to build it - then who the hell are they answering to in upper management? Satan?

Investors are rolling in dough, lots of it. EA did not make 6 billion last year from selling sims packs. Most of that came from stock. I'm not talking about EA employees putting money in their retirement accounts, I mean the big investment firms that sit on billions of dollars. Investors are not employees or in 'management', but as the following article points out, they are the ones that call all of shots when it comes to money at the end of the day. While I'm sure there are some people in the world of Wall Street that play video games in their spare time, their world is much different than the person that contemplates Maxis' color choices and or notices bugs in TS4.

Are Wall Street minions, Satan? I'll leave that question for each person to answer for themselves.

The following article is a boring read, I've picked out the relevant bits. The full article will be linked at the end.



https://www.gamesindustry.biz/artic...eek-in-business

Wall Street is running EA, not the people that work there.

I forgot the picnic basket was also in TS1. It defaulted to Sims sitting around it and eating.

I guess sitting and eating would require too many new animations.

I do not work at EA but my guess is the floor may tell of some problems or may not bother as knows goes nowhere. And middle management probably does not say spend time/resources to fix things unless something is so severe is a must do, as want the next things in the pipeline to be done. And I think upper management looks just at the numbers. If the numbers are good they want things to continue as is. The floor may or may not care at this point depending on morale. The middle management may care but knows the bosses above them just look at results and results keep them in their positions. So that is their priority.

This is one of the many reasons I don't like four. Sitting on a ground isn't a feature in the game Feels like animating a pinky would be too much for their resources and dedication.

Nor do the Simgurus.

Yup, you only have to watch any of the live streams and they will show they barely know the game.
Speaking of which, live stream tonight and embargo is lifted today for GC.

I'm watching the live stream, and I'm struggling to enjoy this. So much effort was spent befriending woodland creatures we can't have as pets.

Also, why are there quests (errands) in this?

Edit: Oh my goodness, foxes can kill rabbits. I'm surprised they got that approved!

Lactose Intolerance as a trait? Really? That makes even less sense than Vegetarian being a trait.

I hate that they're a town full of a "shops" and they STILL choose to use the market stalls. Have them walk inside of something.



They need to do to Sims traits what they did to lot traits: Traits for personalities, and traits for gameplay or special modifiers (like food preferences).

Imagine for a moment you try and make your Simself and your lactose intolerance counts as 33% of your personality.

I watched Carl's video and it left a bad taste in my mouth. There's a lot of emphasis on quests, tasks and progression system. Sometimes they're okay, but they seemed to be the meat of the pack. Once again, the aspiration is a step by step tutorial with GRINDY objectives. I think there's only ONE new skill. And... that's it. There wasn't much apart from the animals. Like, the animals are nice and all, but is there something to do apart from those tasks and trying out the lot challenges? It just feels like a game pack in terms of gameplay. I was already bored after watching him clean the cow shed for the third night in a row.

PS: Why is Agnes Crumplebottom a shopkeeper? She's RICH, for God's sake. She was also never into gardening. Her skills in The Sims 3 were painting and cooking.

The calendar system is becoming free for everyone.
https://simscommunity.info/2021/07/...h-improvements/

Build Buy is overwhelmingly bare. There's a lot of windows, though. A shockingly high amount of windows. A little more clutter than usual. I originally thought Snowy Escape had very few items, but this is VERY low. Very usable, but quite lot. There isn't even a single bed to match the double.

Typically, Build Buy will fill up an entire lot, but not this time.

Do you have a video where they showcase Build Buy? I've only seen CAS and gameplay in my feed.

Daaaaaaamn, this is so sad for an EP. There's barely ANYTHING in it!



WHERE ARE THE GAMEPLAY OBJECTS THOUGH? Like, other than the new garden patches and the animal sheds, there's NO OTHER INTERACTIBLE OBJECTS. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT? I'm SHOOK!

I may get this when half off, but sure as heck am not gonna pay full price for it.

What the heck?
I half listened/watched the stream whilst playing Sims 3.
What struck me was so much has been recycled. Like befriending birds? You can interact with bird in the bird feeder that came with backyard stuff. Birds can poop on you from Island living. It’s lame but it’s there.

I’m surprised they added foxes killing rabbits. I am calling it now it will get nerfed.
No real shops again? Colour me shocked.
More festivals that you go to once and never go to again. If you have all the packs theres a silly amount of festivals that do very little.

The animals are cute.

For the sake of comparison, I put down most BB objects included in TS3 Pets on a 64x64 lot. I did NOT include walls and floors (there's a ton of them due to the new barn designs), terrain paint, patterns, world objects, community lot only objects and rabbit holes. The picture also doesn't show all the horse jumping obstacles, as they occupy a lot of space.



It's an EP light in objects compared to others because most of the budget went to the pets (which as we all know are better and more numerous than in Sims 4). STILL it has more objects than Cottage Living. It has a full kitchen and bathroom set, three beds, two desks, two bookcases, a variety of seating arrangements, a ton of wall decor, three fireplaces, etc. It literally has at least ONE of each of everything except for a TV, stereo and computer. It includes 4 doors, 1 arch, 1 garage door, 4 two-storey barn doors/arches and 7 windows. There's also a bunch of trees not shown in the pic because they're waaaaay too big and would've made everything look tiny at this resolution.

Sims 3 EPs make Sims 4 EPs look extremely sad in both quantity and quality...

The "pets" don't even function as pets. While I'm sure the budget was spent on animation, I don't think resources were allocated properly as that doesn't even feet complete.




Well, there is one "shop." Sims can change their clothes at one. They don't even pay to use the interaction.

What happened here? These are socks.



https://youtu.be/we8oGqFzHrg?t=870

That's all of the content in the pack?



Not that I'm surprised.