Amanda Kestrel

I used to write. Talking about Sims and sometimes mental health. Trying to be more positive but not always succeeding. (she/her)

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@TheSims It would be better if it was a continuous timeline where events just stay available, and it was based on when the player logs in and not limited time. So if people aren’t playing they don’t have to log in now, but can get rewards when they do log in.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@erin_simmer I said Get Together because clubs are the best. But honestly, all of them. I go to work and play aliens regularly. I often live in San Myshuno and going to festivals all the time. My households usually have at least one cat or dog. They are all core packs for my gameplay.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@jackofallgames7 Imagine Baulder’s Gate 3 but a life-sim. People not only romancing their favorite but also starting a family and having generations. I think there’s a huge demographic for it, honestly. It’s only niche because we get the scraps.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@jackofallgames7 I will never forget how excited I was for Sims 3, and the promise to go with my Sims to work, only for my first Sim to leave me at the door. Then to the grocery store, which had been a real lot in Sims 2, was just a pop up menu. And the restaurant, too. Huge disappointments.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@jackofallgames7 I also think we all compare these games to the Sims, but they are not going to be the same. I think Inzoi is going to have its own limitations and be more on rails. Life By You has some very shocking limitations with no action queue, 3+ characters can’t interact at the same time.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@LowcoTV This whole scandal had me looking at a lot of posts, and there’s one with screenshots from the discord where the CM says the game has so many things, and among those things is PVP. In a cozy farming game? PVP? So glad this happened so I don’t put any hopes toward this game.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@letzplayk I think it’s very pretty. It reminds me of a painting. And despite the painting style, you can tell it’s high quality graphics from the realistic look of the water. It’s just not a “BG3” art style. Not every game needs to look like that.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@peanutbees @xxtinkerbell In Sims 2 if you tried to raise a Sim from the dead and made a mistake, they would come back to life as a zombie. I prefer that to the Sims 3 version. But, if they made it like werewolves or Strangerville possession, maybe there could be times when Zombie Sims lose control 😂

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@peanutbees @xxtinkerbell Oh yeah. I am older so I never watched Winx club but grew up on The Dark Crystal, Legend, Willow, Labyrinth, and so on. Sims 3 fairies were one of my favorite things. I just think Sims 4 has done a good job with the others so I want them. And also better zombies. 😂

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@peanutbees @xxtinkerbell World not work. 😂

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@peanutbees @xxtinkerbell I understand why some people might want a very realistic game, maybe to recreate a better work for themselves. But my version of that is a fantasy world with magic. It’s disappointing to me that all the life sims coming out are all just more realism. Maybe someday.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@Muffinus Survival crafting WoW game, which options so you could play either private servers solo or with friends, or public server with lots of people. I know they scrapped a survival game but I think survival WoW would do great.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@bunnybananasims Being noisy and complaining really only gives more publicity to the product. Boycott is the only real way. Simmers did it before in stopping SecuRom from being included on Sims 3 and Dragon Age. If everyone stopped talking about the game, even negatively, it would be major.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@TheHenfordHen @TheSims @EA @TheSimsDirect Don’t underestimate the power of not spending your money and not giving free advertising by talking about the game on social media, no videos, no streaming. Bad publicity is still publicity. The community can cause change. Competition is coming. Now is the time.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@TheHenfordHen @TheSims @EA @TheSimsDirect I was part of the boycott against EA during Sims 2 when SecuRom was a problem. We mobilized. We wrote the Federal Trade Commission here in the US. There were class action lawsuits. We fought to prevent SecuRom being included on Sims 3 and Dragon Age. This is what is needed.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@TheHenfordHen @TheSims Oh great. Sims 3 store in-game advertising returns. Another step towards this which I’m sure will be rampant in Project Rene. 😖

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@TheHenfordHen Don’t forget that the company has only been bad since 2014. It could not possibly have been doing bad things the whole time because, checks notes, they “liked that installment of the game better.” So, don’t talk about all the predatory and computer breaking that happened.

[Amanda Kestrel @AmandaKWrites]

@jackofallgames7 What I mean is, I got a new computer and the game no longer opens at all, play on the Sims 3 launcher only opens the EA app. I can’t add any items to the launcher from the store. They just never download anymore. I’ve been told it’s because I have a gen 13 pc.