Haha - now I *know* EA use SimPE!
ZephyrZodiac:
They got the swing from Teresa Fernandez, who made a set of swings for Sims 1, and yet they totally ignored the Maxis climbing frame! Silly EAxis! And even with all the country stuff introduced in Seasons, they still haven't managed to emulate Teresa's working rocking chairs! And who do you think they got the penguin from? Teresa made the penguin, I think, but it was based on the SimsPlus pig.
And talking of C&C and the Interesting toilet - who thought of the idea of sims reading the paper while sitting on the loo? It certainly wasn't EAxis! And the C&C one was far more useful.....and it was a more effective toilet, too, sims who'd used it didn't get dirty, and they didn't need to revisit the bathroom for a lot longer!
nil:
Quote from: Inge on 2007 November 12, 11:09:23
I don't think EA spend enough time on community sites to have any idea what we're making, let alone copy it or be inspired by it. If they did spend more time seeing what we say and do, they might not be so bad at customer relations.
Lol, I agree with you that EA certainly needn't spend a lot of time on the community sites, as they can fast-categorise the ideas and get some graphical designers to work on the "similar" things or copy the things.
They mostly grab the major ideas rather than the details behind. From the start, TS2 wasn't made for quality but efficiency according to their markets and their company strategies for stock-and-cashes.
In a world where most people who care about efficiency, finances and stocks for greeds and/or financial "stability", everything else is a less priority. not until a threat can be seen, those money-spending efforts to balance the environment back a bit could barely happen more. That's not surprising for a belief that $ as a means for human to count values on work done or found "treasures", and hence it becomes a driving force. Then, I guess we might have forgotten something, certain important things or works are too expensive to be included into the financial systems to make it look growing so that in turns we can get the illusion that we're improving our world and ourselves so much by ignoring all the messes we made on the way. Yeah, we may earn a lot of luxurious things while at the same time making a lot of messes we still can't afford to alter back yet or at least recycle them back for balancing the reality of the whole world we live in.
When I was still a teenager like 15 or 16, I've gathered some toxic compounds for some interesting experiments, but I delayed them until I could figure out how to turn the resultants back to some stable and much less health-and-environment-harmful materials.
The phenomenon that the input has to be larger than the output can be switched to the illusion the output can be larger than the input by means of social functions and social equations, just the same exploitations on other organisms and materials.
Surely, when with other living organisms and inorganic materials, we can "input" less to get more "efforts" (from other organisms and other materials) done. The same exploitation applies socially to human themselves, and we've got the wealthy highly-exploiting human masters, the highly-exploited human slaves and surely some of both properties with varied degrees when they "define" it as efficiency for the companies.
Still, we barely count the messes we're making for the illusion that we're advancing so we're better off.
dizzy:
???
* dizzy starts to think that nil is Neil Peart
Quote
So much poison in power
The principles get left out
So much mind on the matter
The spirit gets forgotten about
Like a righteous inspiration
Overlooked in haste
Like a teardrop in the ocean
A diamond in the waste
Some world-views are spacious --
And some are merely spaced
lasciel:
oh yeah they definitely hang around the community a bit and keep an eye on things - I can't remember where I saw it but its been pointed out that they used fanseelamb's brokeback mountain sims screenshot in the BV photo album.
the hot springs on BV look a hell of a lot like Holy Simoly's rocky outdoor hot-tub, too...
nil:
What's the spirit? :D
I need no ghost. ;D
wish I'd be that talented. 8)
After all, I get Inge's will for her ideas and creations.
I basically share a similar policy like hers.
But, most of my intentions for ideas and suggestions on TS2 custom content productions are mainly for the community rather than also for the company. In my case, I deliberately care the former more than the latter. Also, I'm aware EAxis can pick my ideas when they think like, and I've no protection against that BTW act anyway.
Quote from: dizzy on 2007 November 24, 23:10:55
???
* dizzy starts to think that nil is Neil Peart
Quote
So much poison in power
The principles get left out
So much mind on the matter
The spirit gets forgotten about
Like a righteous inspiration
Overlooked in haste
Like a teardrop in the ocean
A diamond in the waste
Some world-views are spacious --
And some are merely spaced
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