I agree. I only found out yesterday he blocked me. I have never tweeted him. (Or any of the Gurus) It’s obvious from my account I’m a Simmer so I think he just blocks anyone with that association.

He evidently does, but then he should either make his account private, or else stop tweeting about the Sims. I think he must be clueless as to how rude his behavior comes across. I also don't care for the vibe he puts off in streams. He does not come across as a people person. I'd love to see how he'd be working in a service position, like retail. He wouldn't last one day, I bet. Speaking from several years of experience in retail sales, there's no way I'd hire him to represent my store.

I do wonder If EA will still manage to thrive through the years with an upcoming fifth expansion pack. Will they manage to keep the franchise alive with the heavily request comeback - Seasons, as the upcoming one - or will that make a decision for half of the majority players to stop purchasing as that would make their collection of TS4 experience "complete". Or will they put on hold after other upcoming packs which also as a dilemma to being able to keep the fan base well-nourished because it would be a big gamble to try something new that isn't gonna do well on pleasing the fanbase? Either way, their content is still gonna stick out with controversy over shitty quality they put their sweaty hands in I'm really looking forward to TS4 to be eliminated a slowly but painful from my own sadistic pleasure death

If you've seen some of the things I've said on the official forum that got me warnings for "Casting Aspersions" towards the gurus, you'd know Drake is probably the last one to crack down on any of them for anything. She probably thinks the shit Grant does is cute.

*Sigh* These are the people in charge of the Sims now -___-



Have we learned nothing from Battlefront? EA thrives off of bad PR. They love it, for some reason.

Not only is he rude, he’s not funny. His humor doesn’t translate into the game well at all. Raccoon suits? A talking toilet? He doesn’t appear to have a solid vision or grasp of what he’s trying to sell, even after having worked on the series for so long.

Compared to someone like Graham who gets it. Grant emphasized their shortcoming during city living, boasting about a city Sims could not touch, insulting everyone who asked for actual features (alongside other employees about other features). Graham emphasized trying to do the most with the least, petting dryer being a death trap and adding as much gameplay into a stuff pack as possible (though, the stuff pack team don’t always nail it).

The two are night and day, and definitely need to switch, but imagine Grant’s stuff packs.

I don't think I've been to these forums since last May... I hate to say it, but it doesn't seem like I missed too much.

Who was the Sim Guru that said on stream they didn't want pet houses in TS4 because they think it's animal abuse?

Grant maybe?

Definately Grant.

That kind of douchery is literally only something Grant would say

It was Grant.

It was Grant.

Dog houses are cruel and you are a bad pet owner was the comment I think,

But dressing your pet up in a taco outfit with a unicorn horn is...

If you live in Florida, the inside of your house is probably only for hurricanes and sleeping. How can a pethouse outside be animal cruelty? You have your chair and the pet has it's house, equality I would say.

Thanks for the answer. To be honest, I'm between 3 choices :

1) If they didn't had the budget (as the pet beds look like garbage) to do pet houses, just say it instead of finding stupid excuses.
2) What if it's not an excuse and he really believes this, what I said in 1) is fucked up, then.
3) If it's not an excuse : Is this really okay to have such a personal specific belief (that only 1 dev has) be in such a huge game?

It's 1), isn't it...

I think it's mostly 1 with a hint of 3. They push personal agendas In the game quite a bit. Look at no burglars, no repo men and a gender update that a lot of people were upset to have in their game.

Grant also said in the same stream in response to why there are no three legged pets was because it was depressing. He then went on to add that it was to do with animation restrictions, why not just say the latter? Calling it depressing was unnecessary the same way criticising people who use dog houses. I don't use one in real life as my climate is far too cold but not everyone has that joy. It was a stupid thing for him to say. His personal beliefs should not be coming into it. But in streams they do.

That really comes across as being unprofessional. How about just sticking with talking about the game and not what his opinion about things are. Pretty much everyone has an opinion about things, but in a job, you don't say to a client what your negative opinions of some things people do.

(Hope those sentences made sense, I have a bad cold atm, my head is only half functioning.)

The EP team always misuses the budget. To admit that would be too much of an ego killer. The fan base is adults. We can quite easily understand what a budget is. However, the EP seems to focus on miniscule, light additions than anything of value.

They could have cut basketball, festivals, traffic, and the talking toilet and focused on enhancing apartments living/building, mixed with different kinds of people who reside in the apartments, with regards to art, culture, food, fashion, class, etc.

In defense of the gender update:

1. They made it very clear from the get go that you wouldn't see any transgendered sims in your game unless you made them yourself. It's not like they forced it on people.

and

2. It's helped me make some very...interesting looking sims

Honestly, removing the gender restrictions on clothes and hair styles was one of the best updates they've given us.

I was about to say the same thing about gender patch. As from what I observe, it's quite opposite: many LOVED the gender patch. It was adored a lot from the fanbase. Only one or two people that hated it.

One or two? Ahahahahaha

The transphobes came all out of the woodwork. It was great to have Sims wear whatever. Especially make up and hair.

One was homophobic, other claimed to experience a bug issue that townies generated in transgender fashion even though the customizations options of its weren't touched.

That is really sad. I had a three-legged cat (rest in peace, my sweet one :lovestruc) who moved so fast you never knew he was missing a leg. He was the most adventurous fellow, he adored heights and loved leaping off of tables and bookcases. Nothing ever slowed him down. Now I have a blind cat who zooms through the house so gracefully that you'd never even think she was blind until you looked at where her eyes should be (one was surgically removed). I have never found either of my beloved kits to be anything other than inspiring.

I understand why they don't put such things in TS4, but come on...
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." ~Mary Engelbreit

Oh I like it! I think it’s great and being able to use any item of clothing on sim is great but I remember the uproar on the official forums because EA had the audacity to implement it before toddlers.

By the way, the idea of ​​a competitor of The Sims is not only the wish of the fans. Will Wright wished that the competitor of The Sims appeared and was disappointed that it was not. It was in 2008.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...ng-of-the-sims/

EA customer service has confirmed that Seasons for The Sims 4 is in development. It will most likely be this year's expansion, and will probably be revealed at this year's EA Play event in June. (The Sims France tweeted out a couple days ago that they will have an announcement at EA Play regarding "The Sims's future", so it's probably about Seasons)