User blog:Lost Labyrinth/The Sims Wiki News - 29th December 2013



Hi. You are reading a notably late news blog because nobody could be bothered to write one was around for Christmas (ATTN my friends on Steam: no you imagined me being around). This is also the last news blog of 2013. Before we prepare for a new year of getting dates wrong, Googling and obeying our supreme ruler (a.k.a. Lost Labyrinth), let's take one last drive down News Lane.

The Sims news

 * To celebrate Christmas, The Sims 3 Store has been, and still are, giving out free gifts as per the 12 days of Christmas.
 * The Steam Winter Sale continues. TS3 was on sale the other day. SimCity 4 is 75% off until 6pm UTC tomorrow (at the time of writing).
 * PCMag.com has named SimCity as one of this year's biggest technological fails.
 * A financial website has tipped EA to earn the title of "Worst Company in America" for the third year running.

Wiki news
It's been a relatively quiet week-and-a-bit but I'll just list off whatever comes to mind:
 * We have new discussions taking place:
 * A proposal to create a category for Sims with broken face templates
 * Addressing the long-standing war between Blond and Blonde

Poll
This week I'm making two polls because two things came to mind.

As the year draws to a close, users like to look back on what the wiki has achieved, what they've personally achieved and where we can go from here. I have my thoughts. So my first poll question is exactly that: How do you feel the wiki has progressed the past year? I feel we've certainly progressed. Let's hope this trend continues. I feel we're moving forward but things could certainly be better. I honestly don't feel we've made much, if any, progression but things certainly aren't worse We're moving backwards. The wiki has been run down to the ground. Abandon ship!

My second question is more lighthearted and maybe controversial.

Lately, partially thanks to the Steam sale, I have given EA a lot of money. I have bought FIFA 14, TS3: University Life, Bulletstorm, Dragon Age: Origins and Battlefield 2. As much as we all like to fire shots at EA, they may be the greatest publisher of all time. Think about it: they take small studios, work them to deadlines to ensure us gamers are all happy and then they give us more with microtransactions and day one DLC. They even make it so we have to be connected to Origin whenever we play so they can shower us with some great support for their games, the ability to build cities in a region with others, to kill each other, to play football with each other, to race each other and much much more. EA's way of going about things is incredible. My next poll question will allow us to all show our love to EA: Do you feel that EA are a great publisher? GOAT publisher. 10/10. They're good but I hate their DLC practices and extremely buggy games I'm ambivalent towards EA. Hahahahaha...no Lab, you're drunk aren't you?

I also hope our great leaders EA add some next-gen features to The Sims 4. inb4old

That's it for this...year. Happy New Year! Drink responsibly!

Feel free to leave comments, particularly about the poll questions and your thoughts.

Ciao! 14:42, December 29, 2013 (UTC)

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