Wait, Windows 8 can run games? I thought it was for people who wanted to turn their expensive computers into iPads but with a shittier app store.

Your interpretation of that source hurts my soul, and I'll never forgive you. Never, never, never. Actually, I'm not convinced that The Sims is a "tiny dent." However, a piece of the pie still makes the whole pie bigger. Isn't the whole point of owning many developers is so that EA can move on up to the East side to a deluxe mega-corporation in the sky? Get rid of The Sims and other games have to pick up the slack and fill the void just to break even.

Also, according to this source...:
http://honeywellsims4news.tumblr.co...s-what-happened

...EA loves to piss off its fans because they "equate outrage with sales."


There's also more stuff in that link about why they cut features and also how TS4 may have only been in development since late 2013 because the online version of TS4 was a management disaster. So they did pour money into TS4, I'll give you that.

That source specifically refers only to EA's Sports franchises, not all best selling franchises in all genres. And The Sims franchise is more than a little dent in balance sheet if it were lost completely. It's the old "a billion here, and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money". When TS3 was released back in 2009, it was one of EA's blockbusters, with 3.4 million units sold when it first came out. More units than any other game in the same period.

Here's a fun quote from 2010:

source http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...-Sims-Turns-Ten to celebrate the franchise turning 10 that year.

125 million units sold over 10 years. "The best selling PC game in nearly every video game market worldwide". That doesn't sound like a franchise you would deliberately choose to kill off now, does it?

Despite typically shitting all over boycott topics, I actually see why this is happening. EA are shafting a lot of fans with TS4.

To be fair, was TS3 base game really that great either? Yeah, I mean, it had tons of cool features, CASt, the open world... actually, thats kind of it for me, but I'm sure other people liked more about the base game. Anyways, even after people accepted defeat and bought it, they still had to fight with a game that was ridden with bugs, scripting issues, memory issues, and overall bad programming and optimization. And EA did nothing to fix most of the performance issues, and even some of the simple bugs like sims getting stuck in interactions. They didn't even try.

I still know people who to this day have not and will not play The Sims 3. They didn't like the idea of the rabbit holes, and they didn't like the look of the sims at all. I still personally have issues getting past the dead eyes that the sims in TS3 have.

This is the same story, but this time it really seems that a lot more people are genuinely upset over what has been taken out and the fact that they're trying to sell emotions as if they're some sort of big new thing that was never in a Sims game before. EA have messed up A LOT lately when you think about it. The massive issues that The Sims 3 had at launch, and the fact that some of those problems from a game thats several years old now are still there rearing their ugly heads. Then there's the SimCity 2013 fiasco. They took out the always online requirement and that game still sucks compared to even SimCity 4 if you ask me (I'm a SC2000 guy). You can't even build up huge cities and keep them for too long, everything goes to hell no matter what you do.

In my opinion, people have some pretty damn good reasons to be pissed. They know the companies past, they know what they like to do to nickle and dime customers, and they know how lackluster a lot of their efforts in recent years have been. The fact that EA are removing features that are arguably essential to gameplay (toddlers) is gonna make people pretty angry. I'm one of them.

You deserve a drink for this post

The same could be about TS4.

When EA decides to pull the plug on TS4 (whenever that that may be) there is no guarantee that there will not be issues with activation codes later on. it goes along with the chatter with the gaming industry in general that have been arguing about games being sold in resale shops or places that take used games like Game Stop. There is one side that says that this should not be allowed, while the other says that this would be a huge hit to the industry in general.

It's a slippery slope.