EA Ratings Withdrawal Raises New Questions During The Buyout

EA doesn’t own life sims???

Not sure what you’re on about as to Paralives. Could you elaborate? Because in my experience, it’s nothing like Sims.

Really weird, BellaDonGone. Paying money to corps isn’t a moral virtue, being a bootlicker doesn’t have to be your whole personality, and EA don’t own the genre either. They didn’t even invent it. This is how I can tell someone only got into lifesims via The Sims vs those of us who actually enjoyed it as a genre even before the first Sims game.

There’s honestly so much wrong with this comment that it’s hard to know whether it’s a joke or not.
1. “Probably the same type of people that claim to hate the use of AI images OR the same people that use AI to create bad images”
This is irrelevent to the conversation, as neither game uses gen ai (to public knowledge).
2.”EA cant do anything right by simmers so I think theyve given up trying”
They couldn’t ‘do right by simmers’ ’cause they only care about money, and it’s not just the sims, it’s ALL of their games. To say they gave up because of expectations being too high is just another fallacy. You can make that case for Maxis but not Electronic Arts.
3. “id sell out to if the majority of my audience was a bumch of whiney cry babies threatening to use a different game becsuse they dont think the lore is correct or the dynamics are worth a scrap of patience to understand.”
There’s a lot I disagree with in this statement, but just to touch on the most important in my mind. ‘I’d sell out too…’ is a statement that disgusts me, no matter what comes after it. As an artist of many things, I’d rather die than make my art worse simply because it would make me money in the short term. (yes, games can be art) To relate to someone who lacks these morals or integrity is, as you say, ‘embarrassing‘ and ‘says a lot about your character‘
4. “i think its embarrassing that so many simmers are dropping to go and play that instead.. Simmers are some of the worst gamers holding zero morals and loyalties to franchises that create their beloved games.”
No, the worst gamers are ones who continue to spend their time defending corporations actively making modern games worse and more expensive, instead of zipping it and playing the games they like. You don’t see Paralives people getting mad at simmers who don’t switch, now do you? You don’t see the Harvestmoon developer suing the crap out of Concerned ape, the creator of Stardew Valley, for making a more popular game that arguably has the same similarity to it’s predecessor as Paralives does to the sims. Vintage Story used to be a minecraft mod before it became it’s own game, do you think Minecraft owns ‘3d block game’? You don’t see Candy Crush suing all those games on your phone that are the same god damn game with a skin, or Monster Legends beefing with Dragon City, or LOL having problems with DOTA, SMITE and every other game in the genre. It’s even been declared on a legal level with Pokemon and Palworld.
I left the sims 4 not exclusively to ‘stick it to the corp’, but because I find the art style more appealing, I find the ability to place not on a grid perfect for someone like me who doesn’t want to spend money on an architectural program that I’ll have to learn like a second job just to make a pretty house. It was the reason I bought Hometopia (abandoned), and the reason people buy house filpper. I left because I know I won’t have to pay for other people’s cultures in my game about life, in my game about culture.
Most of all, I left because everytime I opened the sims 4, I was met with the realization that I don’t actually like the game, but ‘this is the closest I can get, I have to settle’. But with Paralives, and maybe just for me, I don’t have to settle anymore. And I’m not going to settle because you can’t take the time to think about what’s good for life sims or gaming in general, as evidenced by the myriad of easily catchable typos, which demonstrates you didn’t read over your comment even once.
The Paralives developers heard all the complaints about the sims and said, “I could give them what they want.” This is how games can be and often are created. In every form of art, there is, “what if this instead of this“. Pick up a book or study a movie – or simply go back to playing the sims and leave everyone else alone.