pools and toddlers, final thoughts

Maxis responded to the toddlers and pools...
So the bottom line is that when we sat down and looked at everything we wanted to do for this game, all the new tech we wanted to build into it, the fact was that there would be trade-offs, and these would disappoint some of our fans. Hard pill to swallow, believe me, but delivering on the vision set out for The Sims 4 required focus. Focus on revolutionizing the Sims themselves. So, rather than include toddlers, we chose to go deeper on the features that make Sims come alive: meaningful and often amusing emotions; more believable motion and interactions; more tools in Create A Sim, and more realistic (and sometimes weird!) Sim behavior. Instead of pools, we chose to develop key new features in Build Mode: direct manipulation, building a house room-by-room and being able to exchange your custom rooms easily, to make the immediate environment even more relatable and interactive for your Sim.
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Toddlers don't bring "meaningful and often amusing emotions"?
 
Another response...
“It’s easy to look at something and think, ‘That looks pretty simple.’ When you think about a feature like pools upfront, it looks like a square box on the ground and you put a shader on the top surface and have Sims jump in.”

“But ultimately, it’s more complexity in terms of what tech’s there and what isn’t there, what we have to build to support this. How do we cut down into the terrain, how do we get Sims going through portals across different levels of pools? There’s so much that’s going on in the background that you don’t end up seeing just to have a Sim go swimming.”
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Rhys, you've mentioned portals before when referring from going to one room to another. Soo, I'm starting to see how see even the most basic things can be difficult when creating a game, regardless of how technology has advanced.
 
This is why I'm never getting TS4 even it's free. :)
I could care less about building that was actually the least I cared about especially in TS3... man... I built the worst houses ever on empty lots.
My Sims had to all share one toilet (the one with a door), a grill, and like 2 beds on the grass. :) That's life for you.
 
Remixful said:
This is why I'm never getting TS4 even it's free. :)
I could care less about building that was actually the least I cared about especially in TS3... man... I built the worst houses ever on empty lots.
My Sims had to all share one toilet (the one with a door), a grill, and like 2 beds on the grass. :) That's life for you.
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lol
 
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