Since I took screenshots of the rest, I figure I should post them here.
They seem to recognize that the dlc overload/lack of free updates/shitty repetitive base game is killing their player base. About a third of the survey is them asking about those above mentioned factors making people not play. Like each factor you click comes with an additional question about how strongly it affected your decision to stop playing, how convinced you would be to play again if it was fixed, and how you think they should fix it.
The next third of the survey was asking in about a million different ways if certain aspects of the game adequately represent your culture. (Does build mode? Does clothing? Does gameplay? Does… you get the point)
But the next third they ask about specific content ideas for base game. So we get a glimpse into what they’re thinking about.
I answered not interested to basically everything but more create a sim color options because that is the one thing that can benefit from a surface level bandaid being slapped on top.
They ask a question about each hair color (red, blonde, brown, black, hair with gray)
Also textures (afro (that was the word they used idk) wavy, curly)
Priorities.
Like I said before.
Here’s where we get back into representation
Don’t we have a tattoo tool now?
Who would use this outside of a very specific story? Just download cc.
It’s not like they would include medical gameplay with it. It would be an empty cosmetic. The sim would still have to use the toilet anyway.
Now you get hit with a million cultural ideas.
There was one for Chinese New Year between these two but I didn’t screenshot.
Every other culture got a single question, they seem really focused on this Wiccan idea.
They want to add holidays too. Times must be desperate for them to put holidays out there as a base game update instead of dlc.
There were like 1000 holiday questions including Holi and Mother’s day (didn’t see a Father’s day?)
And there was a space at the end for you to suggest holidays yourself.
So while they do seem frightened and aware that they are losing players because of how boring, surface level, and repetitive the game play is, and that the overload of dlc and lack of free content isn’t helping, they know that fixing the base game (overhauling personalities and interactions, creating content where there are rabbitholes, giving us stuff to do that further creates stuff to do) is too much work.
It’s much easier to hold onto their remaining players who use this game as a doll house with a surface level representation update, while maybe getting back some players with the allure of free content.
This whole survey, especially the start, is probably to gauge just how well this will pay off. Is representation just enough of an issue that they can rationalize it instead of anything meaningful? That’s what I think this is about. That’s why a third of the survey is weighing your issues with the game, another third is asking how much representation affects each part of your gaming experience, and the final third is gauging interest in the representation ideas they already came up with.
But I don’t want medical cosmetics for create a sim that won’t affect my gameplay.
I don’t want random Wiccan clothes that won’t affect my gameplay.
I don’t want to celebrate Mother’s Day when brunch means rapid clicking sims to chairs to get them to sit together, the daughter grabbing a plate and taking it to the hallway, the dad grabbing the half eaten food to wash in the bathroom sink, and the mom frozen in her bedroom not registering the actions I’m telling her to take because it overloaded her to do list of sitting down and playing on the computer for 12 hours. It will end with me shift clicking to debug every sim and the stupid timer running out with maybe one thing on their checklist done.
Here’s the link
