So you think the Sims 3 will flop, do you?

[The Adam Diamond]

I entirely disagree.

the reason i'm making this thread is because some people (and even myself, at times) think that this game might be a letdown, due to EA's "unlistenitivity" to their fans, and the fact that spore was so overhyped, it was a letdown once people got the game. here are a few reasons I think it will do just as good (or possibly much better) that it's previous titles.

1) Spore was an entirely new game, thus there wasn't already an extremely large fanbase for it. PLUS that game was overhyped it wasn't even funny. Most of the thing people were told they were getting didn't make it into the final game. The sims already has a large fanbase, with many anticipating persons waiting for it. Plus, most comments on youtube videos promoting the sims 3 are saying good things about the game, and I have reason to believe that a large portion of those comments come from people who are not already deeply involved with the sims franchise. Also, the Sims 3 has not been overhyped. We'll have known about it for 11 months once it's released, and that's not much compared to spore's 3 whole years. EA have handled the information sparingly, giving us a taste of what's gonna come, but not revealing all. Spore revealed all, and cut out most.

2) YouTube. If you can believe it, YouTube was founded in 2005 (i found this out a few weeks ago, and I was shocked, it has SOOOO many video's on it, it's unbelievable) and when the sims 2 was being hyped, EA, and other people didn't have access to this website. It's the second biggest website in the world, and I daresay that quite a lot of people have found out about the sims that way.

3) Communication. The web is getting bigger. expanding. More fansites are sprouting, old fansites are growing. It's much easier to find out about things, and to get involved. With the sims 1 & 2, these methods were there, but were much less used. Technology is getting more advanced. better. and I think it's fair to say that this is improving the actual sims games, as well as the fanbase.



So altogether, I think The Sims 3 will be a hell of a lot of fun.