EA Is Destroying The Sims
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- čas přidán 6. 05. 2022
- We all know EA sucks! This is a brief insight into how I think EA have ruined The Sims as well as other games including The Sims 4 and other Maxis titles!
What do you think of EA? Do you think they are bad and ruined The Sims 4?
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Sims 2 had an online store. and while sims 3 has way too much monetization, the core gameplay is actually deep and meaningful and you can actually play the base game alone and have a good time. Sims 4 is hollow corporate art.
Sims 2 had an online store? I don't remember :0
@@lauriion4858 yeee its crazy to think about most people think the online store was only on sims 3 xD
yep that's true, I can enter The Sims 3 and play for 4 hours and don't notes it, but sims 4 just 2 hours ang get bored after just half an hour
Exactly
What’s funny is that sims 4 players complain about the sims 3 being laggy and the fact that people have to use mods just to make it run smoother but, sims 4 is being held up and carried by mods and CC due to the lack of interesting gameplay. Modders must feel like Atlas.
tbh sims 4 was doomed when simcity flopped. olympus was hastily converted into a single player game, maxis practically lost all autonomy on the franchise, EA took control of the game and started nickel and dime-ing everything that was in the previous base games. at this point TS5 is gonna be only kits, where you have to pay $5 for a single game mechanic. want to get sick? buy the new, "Get to Sick" kit! want toddlers? buy the new, "Get to Preschool"! want woohoo back??? buy the new, "Get Fucked" kit for $5 wowww!!!!!!
Lmaoo. Get fucked kit sounds lit. But foreal ur right it’s too many dlc’s and not enough gameplay why charge money for a damn vacuum kit or a hamster pack. It’s so obvious what they’re doing, they have no shame.
No "Get a Grip" or "Get a Clue" stuff packs in the works. Never gonna happen.
It’s honestly beyond me that toddlers came in a DLC like ???????????
Edit: my mistake, meant base game update
want to die? buy death living! and if you want a funeral with your death, try get to funeral! unfortunately, to die by drowing from pool ladder removal you need the our old games were better living
@@Laurajlithgow25 nonononono you got mixed up there 😅
The base game didnt have toddlers until a game update in 2017 after we complained about it for years
The toddlers kit gives us new clothes and gigantic unusable toys for them at the low low price of 10$
And he is absolutely correct. I play the Sims cause it helps me with my autism. But, it doesn't help much when the game is constantly breaking. Every update gives me anxiety. And when I think of how much I have spent. It's gross!
That's why I always try my best to give super honest reviews! I know in some countries due to inflation the packs are so expensive. I hate seeing people waste their hard earned money on something that blatantly doesn't work.
Can I ask how it helps?
@@CyberMachine Sure. Building helps me focus when the world is too much. Sims is part of my safe stemming. I have what I call my old lady chair in my room. I turn on my twinkle lights and get lost in a world that's not so confusing. I think it also makes me feel like I have some form of socialization.
@@SatchOnSims I put 500$ dlrs on that game
@@melaniewantsabeer243 I love this for you ❤️
I haven't been excited for the Sims in over a year. I'm so disappointed with EA ruining my favorite game!
Ikr :/ I really want to enjoy The Sims 4 in the same way I enjoy Sims 2 and 3 but I can’t
@@SatchOnSims Agree. I stopped playing sims 4 early on its release. Like you I don't have much faith in upcoming Sims. Oh well. So be it. I will try Paralives since so far it looks like a beautiful story book illustration coming alive.. Im hoping it recaptures some of the simple charm that the SIMS once had. Love your channel.
The cure for that is just going back to the older sims games. That's what i did, now playing sims 3 and 2 again with the same excitement that i had years ago.
I thought i was too grown to sims games as i didn't really touch sims 4 for 2 years but i was just playing the wrong sims game :D.
Im just waiting for paralives to come out, so far it seems like the 2000 NZD worth of Sims 4 DLC will all be base game stuff in Paralives, if you haven't heard of it I'd recommend checking it out.
@@Kingohel Thanks I have but it's been years and excitement will return when its finally out. Their demos look very very promising though! I hope they still allow mods for more adult play (being a drug dealer lol)
RIP my EA Creator Network application after this video 😍😍😍 At least I’m honest. I’ll never lie to you guys! (:
Thank you for being a voice for us. I for one really appreciate it.
I'm sure you are fine without it. Please keep your true authentic self!
And we love that LOL.
We need ppl to be real and not backing up this game for being a mess...
Thank you for your content it helps a great deal as to what is worth spending my coins on
you are so brave. proud of you
Meet completion bias, the tendency of people to feel compelled to complete a task once they have started it. If you’re a Sims fan who starts with the base game and then one or two more packs, psychologically it’s incredibly compelling to continue buying more because otherwise it is incomplete somehow. It’s an incredibly powerful behavioural driver and it’s deceptive of EA to use it.
Oh and another - Sunk Cost Fallacy. People are reluctant to abandon or give up on something when they’ve already invested so much, that’s why we’re going into year 7 of the Sims 4. EA knows how much a lot of people have invested in it, and they’ll continue to do so when there is the opportunity in the hope that something will be good and the whole investment will be worth it. Sims 5 would represent a break and a new investment, and they are probably scared they wouldn’t sell as much due to sunk cost fallacy, so more keeps coming for the sims 4.
It’s extremely deceptive to use psychological drivers like these for the sole purpose of making money, especially when you’re not even delivering value anymore. In the short term, it means money for them despite a burnt out fan base. In the long term, they’ve damaged the brand beyond repair in my view.
All of this.
What's so sad is that they'd do just as well in sales if they made a great, well-thought-out, detailed game. You'd want to buy more because there really is more and it's so fun to play.
Problem is, they'd have to pay more for the developers and animators to do that. That means less profits and less stock incentive. So, they've pared down the teams to nothing and pay them crap. They have to split it all up, sell it all piece meal, give us less while asking us to pay more.
But since that tends to piss people off when it's direct and in your face, they do things like red dot all the packs you _haven't_ bought and string you along, thinking "Next time it'll be better. It has to be after I've bought all this."
100% agree. As someone with a background in retail, emotional manipulation is really what sales is about; how can we manipulate customers into buying this product?
I do not feel compelled. I haven't bought a pack or kit in a year. I have 0 kits and just a few packs.
Honestly, you people need to start shamelessly pirating everything sims 4 related. Trust me, it's actually so much easier and worthwhile.
You described this so well, I knew there was a reason I was wasting all my money on these game packs
Same! I wish they basically did sims 3 but with better graphics and expanded options on what you could do. Push the limits and play with life
Yeah I would love that too. Also, it should have some updated fashion/furnishing styles, and better coding (the Sims 3 has always had sooo much lag, even without mods)
Also, sims 2 with updated graphics, but intentionally no changes in anything else (except Sims 3/4-style aging) would also be great for early/mid-00's nostalgia.
This is why I support modders in place of EA a lot of the time. They really make the game for me. Not only that, but they take the time to teach me, talk with me, and help me when I have issues. Thanks modders!! Sorry console simmers :(
Also: I think a lot of this is simply because the sims is the only game of it's kind. If there was ANY competition for the sims, I don't think EA would get away with half of what they do now.
That's why I'm so excited for paralives to come out. It's going to be a massive contender upon release because so many people are craving a new game, we only really have one option. And the whole team creating that game has access to every single criticism of every Sims game which is their only real competitor. If they play their cards right they can really take over because so many people are upset with the Sims 4, we have been playing it for 7 years and it's still terrible.
Console Sims 4 is just a waste of time since you can't use mods. I can't believe i actually wasted my money on it.
The problem is, we went from an era where developers had an INTEREST in making cool games people WANTED to play and make some profit from it to corporations deciding what people would play that could make them the most money. As usual, it took the soul out of game design.
Also, as a lifelong sims player, I still contend that EA purposefully sabotaged Sims 3 to make it not work well in order to sell Sims 4.
7:59 "its still going strong, but not because its a good game, but because sims players have an addiction to buying DLC.... sims players think its acceptable to buy crap like Journey to Batuu all because it comes with a couple of floor tiles" THIS!! I genuinely think a lot of players buy so much DLC (at full price too) because of the games social media content creators. Honestly, there is so much forced positivity in the sims community, where creators like Lilsimsie, even Deligracy to an extent hype up every pack or kit as its the greatest thing to ever exist. Lilsimsie even said in one of her reviews for "my wedding stories" to buy the pack just for world alone. If the pack doesn't work, and is basically a rip-off, criticize it and find the small amount of positives without suggesting people to buy the pack. At this point we need more criticism of EA and more hype surrounding CC creators. Maybe if we stop pretending everything EA puts out is a masterpiece, we could actually get better content. Stop buying DLC, at least stop at full price, and start supporting more CC creators and modders.
I completely agree, part of the reason why people are buying these DLCs is because game changers hype them so much. They don't even show the bugs and glitches when they have early access. They barely test the game, when supposedly one of the reason why these game changers have early access is so they can test the game, literally THE ONLY game changer who does this is Carl, and he has no problems calling out Maxis of their laziness too. Too many people are saying, they don't blame the devs, but the thing is, the gameplay being so boring is a reflection of how the gurus just don't care anymore. Anyways, most game changers really have zero idea what it is like to play a game with actual gameplay, most of them are excited because a new recipe is added in the game, and they consider that as gameplay. lol. Really makes me laugh when they get so excited when that happens. How is a new recipe a new gameplay feature? You're still leveling up the cooking skill. That's it.
Thank you! I felt I was the only one that didn't like Lilsimsie from what she's doing. I can't believe she supports most of EA's cr4p. All of us simmers including her deserve better.
Um...no. Lilsimsie recommended *against* buying My Wedding Disasters. She went over all the things she did like, and then showed just how busted it is.
She said, and I quote: "If I were not a CZcamsr, I would probably buy this pack just for the world. I don't mean that you should, but I would probably come to that conclusion myself."
and
"Like I mentioned earlier, I've been having a lot of fun playing The Sims recently, but I have *not* had fun with the pack, and I think that kinda answers the question, is the pack worth buying? I don't think so." That was said after she went through all the ways it actually ruined weddings. World is great, great inclusion, mostly good CAS and mostly good BB, but it's not worth it if the gameplay is completely broken.
Yes, Lilsimsie gets very excited over the littlest things, like a new window or new plant. We all know that about her, and yeah, it can be a bit much. Just saying, there's no need to lie about what she said on this particular pack.
*Quotes taken from her video "Brutally Honest Review of The Sims 4: My Wedding Stories", 4:57 and 16:37. And yes, I went and rewatched the video because I thought I was going crazy and somehow misheard her entire review.
@@lunacouer I believe she remade that review when Maxis somewhat made a fix for that gamepack. I say somewhat because I honestly, don't believe they fixed that DLC. But my problem with gamechangers/youtubers/streamers like Lilsimsie or Deli or MsGryphi or SimLicy or Pixelade-- honestly all of them except for Carl and maybe Plumbella, they don't know what they are talking about. Their main concern is to release content as soon as possible. They want to dish out new content as soon as they can for clickbait reasons. I get it, it's their job, but how are they different from EA? Look, I get it, this is their job and getting views is important, but at least have substance over your videos. I like how Carl (and Plumbella) will express on their early access videos that they cannot give their honest review until the official DLC launches, because you really cannot review a game on it's alpha/beta state, you are suppose to test the game on it's limits. Check for bugs and glitches. If it's a DLC check how it's gameplay feature affects the base game (and other expansion packs) gameplay features. I know because I play other games that has public access to early game access for their new DLC, and we test the game until it breaks as much as possible.
Most of TS4 game changers don't even know how to test the game, the first thing they do is build. looooooooooooool. That is why most of their reviews are also "ohhhhh that's cute" and "it's so pretty". And I am not only talking about MWS, that gamepack is a no brainer, you could see the bugs and glitches a mile away, you really didn't have to test it, it was really broken. But more than that, most of them don't even recognize that MWS, doesn't give new gameplay features and that they don't add anything to the game in general. They just stated the obvious-- a buggy gamepack. The truth is, even if MWS run perfectly during launch, it really didn't enriched the wedding experience, it would have still been a boring and tedious gamepack. They should have added an attraction system, they should have added gameplay that enriched the dating and courting experience... again, it's more than just MWS, in past pack reviews, most of these "game changers" really have very shallow reviews and perspective of what gameplay should be like-- like I said most of they are excited because a new recipe is added to the game (hahaha. seriously that is so stupid). I like how when LGR was reviewing new content for the Sims he would always say at the end, "is this worth your money..." and he would explain why it is not. Because really most of these DLCs they are done very lazily. I really wish we get more content creators for TS4 who have more substance. I WILL listen to what they have to say, even if it's positive, as long as it is substantiated, not because "Ohhhhh that's cute" and "it's so pretty".
@@arielgaray302 I still remember one of her earlier contents, she made a video about people allegedly being toxic towards her, she was mostly reading comments on how she was talking to fast (and believe me, when she started and this was for a while, she was talking sooooooooo fast-- like she didn't know there is a period in every sentence). She cannot take criticism well, she literally did not even blur out the names of those that made the comments. And honestly, if you read the comments, they were not being rude at all, they were literally just telling her she was talking to fast.
I've been a fan since Sims 1. I left this awful cycle of wasting money on the sims 4 a while ago and I feel alot better for it. I really see it as a lost investment. I don't care about a possible sims 5 because I have zero faith that it will be worth any amount of money. But I do continue to watch great content creators talk about the sims 4 so I can watch this disaster from a distance.
I haven't bought a single kit. I almost bought the plant one but they're rediculous
Same here, I’m here from sims 1. I played 2 and then 4 and now 3. I bought some packs and it’s still a bad game in my opinion. When I played sims 3 I was so excited because things happened I also saw what sims 4 recycled from 3 so not that much is new… but so much is missing
I used to be addicted to buying Sims 4 packs. But then EA released Journey to Batuu and now I only buy what looks interesting to me, and I wait until reviews are in before buying anything. So I guess I should thank JTB for breaking me out of my toxic cycle of buying packs and being disappointed! Thank you JTB... for sucking (although your floor tiles do look fantabulous, but I'm not spending money for those tiles)
I always suggest a different solution to a shitty money grabbing company like EA.... I play the cracked version instead, not gonna give them a penny.
Don't get me wrong I buy most games on steam to support them, but not for EA.
same journey to batuu was it for me I was done. after wedding stories I dont know how anyone can have patience anymore they arent even trying to make the game playable
Journey too batu was the breaking point for me as well, that pack really opened my eyes to just how estranged the games development is from the community's perception and expectations of the game. Since then I have only purchased packs that I know I will actually enjoy. I still haven't purchased a single kit, and I don't plan too unless they go on a major sale (because I'm not gonna lie some of the kits do speak to me but are not worth the 7 dollars they're asking for from us Canadians).
Packs I'm absolutely never buying, like ever:
-Journey To Batuu
-My Wedding Stories
-Strangerville
Packs I'm simply not interested in, and am probably not going to buy either:
-Jungle Adventures
-Spa Day
-Outdoor Retreat
I'm boycotting kits too. Though I have one (Fitness), I am not willing to buy more.
I'm not really a big fan of The Sims 4, and so I've been trying to drift towards The Sims 3 instead.
Edit: As a note, any DLC from The Sims series that I intend to buy, I usually wait for a sale too.
i dont get how ts3 is a “pay to win” considering you don’t need store content to make the game complete.
Yeah that opinion is pretty dumb imo. TS3 was perfectly enjoyable with just the basegame and a few EP's (and later with all EP's, and a ton of mods lol)
I can’t believe just how little content there is in each Sims 4 expansion pack (especially when you compare it to previous Sims games.) It’s also baffling how much EA have been able to convince their fans that this is normal, I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve heard sims fans or CZcamsrs say “oh but it would take them ages to add that into the game because of creating all the different animations etc. etc.” Like… yeah, it would. And it should. So so many other video games have waaaaaay more content than the Sims because the studios behind them are actually interested in making really enjoyable, immersive experiences for the people who play them. I’ve been playing the Witcher 3 recently and the amount of content not just in the game, but in the expansion pack (which could have honestly been released as a separate game it’s so huge) is baffling when compared to The Sims. It’s just really upsetting that EA have managed to convince so many people that the amount of content they put in their expansion packs - a lot of which should have honestly been in the base game to begin with - is in any way acceptable. People be like “oh that would take too long to add” like… yeah… that’s how long games take to make. Because it’s such a chill game and so widely accessible a lot of Sims players don’t play other video games, and they really capitalise on that.
Yessssss this exactly
Red dead redemption has ALOT of gameplay that probably took the creators a ridiculous number of hours to complete but they still did it!
I love Sims 3 and would argue it is the best game in the franchise (when it works). But the more I look back, the more I realize the game was Sims 4's tragic backstory all along
Ok but don’t hate on the sims 3 store 😭😭 it was pricey but you got some really great stuff, like the worlds might have been 20 dollars but they were huge and usually came with a lot more features than any ts4 game pack or kit
Yea some of the world's even came with some clothes! Sims 3 store isn't too bad tbh.
Agreed! And the difference between Sims 3 and Sims 4 is-you don’t really need the store to enjoy the game! Like you really only need four packs to live Sims 3 to its fullest (Seasons, Generations, Night Life, and University) and there you go a life sim. The other packs are honestly there for people who are into stardom, supernatural (werewolves, mermaids, vamps, etc), and just extra fun stuff. Sims 4 literally makes packs then adds like four kits for you to fully enjoy one pack-and it doesn’t even work right 💀
A lot of the best stuff on the Sims 3 store goes on sale every 2 months as well.
@@cerulee let’s not forget that cottage living was literally just a copy and paste of the items from sims 3 store
@@TLyons621 I actually didn't know that... I don't play 4 at all, only 3
I applied to be a localizations expert for EA once and i'll never forget how they wasted ten hours of my life doing the application process on a broken-ass website, yes. You heard me. That's the amount of time it took for me to finish, because the interface was that fucked and you had to write several translations, and several essays into the website. All of this was just for a summer job, it wasn't even a permanent position. The interviewer I talked to seemed to hate his job, he seemed bored as hell and not very polite. At the end of our talk he said "We'll contact you to say whether you got the job or not", guess whether that happened....
It's high on my list of worst job-search experiences. I feel pity for the devs working on these games, because I imagine this might be the atmosphere of the company. It feels like the game designers are listening to fans and trying to improve things for us gradually, hence all the free game updates to fix stuff... But they're being bullied by higher ups who are only interested in churning an unsustainable profit instead of keeping the fanbase that Maxis worked so hard to build.
I love The Sims, I don't want the series to die, in fact I really enjoy a lot of things in TS4. When I play older games I miss many of the features in the newest installment. However, I definitely never buy any of the packs at full price. I only ever spend money on them when they are on sale, and I usually buy them in bundles... Precisely because of how audaciously overpriced they are.
THANK YOU so much for actually mentioning games other than the Sims and EA's habit of buying up already successful franchises, running them to the ground and then shutting the smaller companies who made them originally down because they're not valuable to them anymore. It is a huge pet peeve of mine when creators are talking about EA and the Sims, acting surprised that they're ruining the series when me and so many others have already seen this done before to other favourite series of ours and know this is just what the executives at the company does!
Honestly, the game industry leadership in itself is a whole mess!
I am definitely guilty of buying so many packs just for the build/buy or cas items. Barely ever even touch the gameplay. Example, I bought Vampires for the build/buy and Cas, I don’t play with actual vampires and I rarely ever visit the world.
I'm not a builder, but we lacked Goth and Gothic styled anything. That's the only reason why I bought the worthless Vamp pack. But then ALL of those items were resold with the Magic pack. I could have just skipped the Vamp pack entirely if I knew I was just going to get the SAME OBJECTS later on. I've at least used Witches a few times compared to the Vampires which I have only ever played during that first week of owning them, so the Magic pack is still more useful to me than the Vampires.
I’m a builder and I play as well but haven’t played for awhile. I open it to build lol spend 7 hrs in cas then close my laptop. I have some issues mentally and the game being sandbox helps but I’m guilty of buying for the idea of using a pack or items but I never use certain things. I have most of the main packs except a few like Dine out, Realm, Wedding and Batuu. Minus a few stuff packs as well. I used it play more often. One thing is that I never paid full price tho, I use a off site to purchase the packs so it’s not terrible for me.
Shame on me i guess but vampires is one of my favourite packs lol
They’re getting away with it bc they have no competition 😭 it’s all I have that is adequate enough rn but hopefully when anticipated games likes paralives comes out I can shift over without feeling ripped off
Sims players have an addiction for sure. I am glad I am a pirate because I have saved myself thousands of dollars at this point and don't even enjoy playing it anymore lmfao. Love the sims 2 still, will never downgrade from that masterpiece. Yall stand up for yourselves already!!! Please your not helping with this community dying by funding EA!!!!
It’s why the sims franchise is so incredibly pirated. Honestly just get the base game and a dlc unlocker and you get all the gameplay dlc for free
Most of the issue I have is there really isn't a strong competitor that is similar to the sims. I know that Paralives will hopefully be a great thing.. like I really really really hope it will be good, because where I love The Sims, its just has gotten so cash grabby and... really meh compared to older entries. But until it comes out im just stuck with the sims.. which is so depressing to say for a franchise I used to love so much
even if paralives isnt amazing as long as it does well there might be others who'll start making sims like games
It’s crazy how Sims 4 removed so many features that are known and loved in the Sims franchise. I can’t even play Sims 4 without using a thousand mods to make it enjoyable for me to play now.
I truly hope the gaming developers unionize companies like EA.
I don't think people buy sims packs because they are "addicted" but more because those pack are necessity for more comfortable and creative gameplay. I bought almost all packs because I either enjoy cas, b&b items or some specific feature of the pack. And yes, I know CC and mods exist but not everyone has strong computers to have all the cc and mods or they play on console.
All in all, EA successfully implemented the idea of scarcity into the Sims 4 where you literally have no gameplay and need to constantly pay money to play the game that is also notoriously buggy. It's just sad that EA dosend give a single f* about the sims but Maxis and Gurus are the ones who recieve all the blows.
I would strongly recommend to buy packs only when it's a sale and only in the bundle because they are not worthy of the full price.
The base game is so empty that you really can't get decent gameplay out of it. Family based gameplay has to be bought separately through kids and toddlers stuff packs and a parenthood game pack. This is a _life simulation_ game that almost didn't even have a toddler life stage...
At least Sims 3 Generations gave us wedding stuff, pranks, prom, and a bunch of other content.
If the packs are nessecary for enjoyment of the game, that means the game without them is NOT enjoyable. Just saying.
@@SuperviddeOfficial This is why I just kept playing Sims 3. Even when I eventually gained access to Sims 4 and all EP's (through, eeh, alternative means🏴☠️) I played it for a few days before returning to 3 again. Also occasionally play 2 for nostalgia.
@@WyufmuczekRfhzilky454 Aye aye matey! Now I only need to find me some Taika Waititi Blackbeard and I'll be set for life ;)
This i have all expansions and most of the medium packs (except for batuu and the wedding pack) and a handful of smaller packs
I honestly don't feel any joy or fun anymore when playing Sims 4, I launch the game and literally come off it in half an hour, where as when I use to play Sims 1, 2 and 3 I'd be on it for countless of hours and have so much to do and enjoy it, especially when the expansions had a ton of new gameplay, cas and build and buy. :(
Me too, that's why I stopped playing it! The gameplay is dead.
This i used to just lose time back with sims 3 and just look up and boom 1 o clock at night
@@litchtheshinigami8936 Same! I'd have to force myself to exit the game. I'd look up the clock and be like "I'll give it another hour no harm done lol" next thing ya know it's been 5 hours 😂
I've gone back to playing 3 & 2 and the contrast in quality is honestly ridiculous.
I'm still playing sims 2 since 2008 and never once did I got bored playing it. Yet I stopped playing sims 4 in my computer in less than a year. That says a lot about the quality between the two games.
You forgot that the sims 2 also had a store that got shut down In I think 2011
lol really? I didn't know that!
@@SatchOnSims yea! EA has been greedy for a very very long times
What's nice is that now you can get all this store's items for free héhéhé
@@SatchOnSims Yeap they do, just some cas and buy mode items...nothing too major to miss
Although I'm still bitter that the baby items that is supposed to be included in Apartment Life got shifted to the Sims 2 store
Yeah sims 2 had the exchange where you can download stuff but ea had to shut it down
It went down hill after Will Wright left Maxis . I refuse to play 4 and 3 I refuse to use origin to download discs on my computer. Sims 2 player forever.
This is why if and when Sims 5 comes out I will most likely stay away from it... I spent hundreds on all the Sims 3 content (but at least I still play it and enjoy it a lot) and buying the few decent packs for Sims 4 (always on sale though, I'm not that crazy) except there's some that I simply refuse to even consider, I mean they could literally make it free and I still would avoid those specific packs, at first things weren't too bad but they've most certainly gone downhill and you get way less for more money
This is why I cannot wait for other life sims to make them realise they can't just shit out a load of absolute crap and expect it to be accepted, I'd hope that if Sims 5 turns out to be the same old story then we should just boycott it, I know some will buy it anyway but... Please try to realise when something is not good enough to deserve your money and your time
The more I see about paralives the more obsessed I become with all the possibilities it gives us from the very first step, cannot wait to play it and if they release a patreon beta then I will most definitely be taking part
Thank you so much for this video. EA has been ruining The Sims franchise for years and it's been so difficult to watch and be a part of as a lifelong simmer. I bought Cottage living to play briefly but I can't get over how much worse it is than The Sims 2 😂 I'm like damn, they really turned psychedelic jazz into lab grown pop music
Yes they always do this and it's sickening! I stopped playing Sims 4 a long time ago. Waiting for Paralives ❤️.
And that is why you pirate all of the Sims 4 dlc. EA ruined two of my favorite childhood games (Sims and Sim City). No reason to keep paying for items that should be in the base game.
I'm not excited for werewolves because of this. The overworked developers definitely missed something which will cause the expansion to break. Even if it's perfect, we wait another 5 years for fairies?
The Sims 3 is my favorite Sims game and one of my overall favorite games. I love the open world, customization, and character creation the most. The Sims 4 may run better and may be better for creating sim appearances and building but the sims 3 allows more traits on a sim and makes them feel more unique. I bought all the Sims 3 expansions slowly over the years focusing on getting the more interesting ones first and I always got them on discounts. Didnt buy a single stuff pack as I see them as useless. I bought a few worlds and items with points I had gotten for free somehow but I dont have any desire to buy more when I free player made content is better. Other than Sims 3 on PC my other favs are Sims 1 and Bustin Out on console.
I was actually on steam today because I was thinking if getting an expansion pack (I only have base and cats and dogs) and they total amount for the sims 4 dlc comes out to over 900 dollars. That's INSANE. I feel like no other game would have the audacity to do that
I was fuming last night, the sims kept crashing my x box so i had to Uninstall it. Now I'm spending my Saturday redownloading everything. Sims 4 has saved me from this hell year. But the constant paranoia that I'll wake up and sims 4 went "whoospie! There goes your 5 monts of work!!" Lingers all the time. I've made a whole backup due to this paranoia.
all those sims youtubers who comment “omg i absolutely love this” on any sims dlc trailer are fake fans.
At this point I dont have any hopes for sims 5 and if it ever exist I doubt ea will learn their lesson and just repeat on what they did to sims 4
imhooo i've been saying this in so many other videos but.. normalize giving the choice to pirate sims games 🥰 a lotta people need to know that option is way more accessible than it is so we can atleast avoid getting cheated our money and just have the choice to delete it if we don't like it. don't like it don't buy it does not make sense if we cannot try what is beyond the trailers.
This. I would never pirate a game like stardew valley because of how much thought and time went to it and I want to support it but The Sims? Lmao...
It's like the Jimquisition said with Nintendo and the roms, pirating is genuinely morally white and right, but this time it's especially true for The Sims series.
This guy is the best sims youtuber why isnt he bigger???????
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Couldn't agree more with all the points made in this video. It's also infuriating how the community keeps on buying and feeding EA's greed. We should all pirate the damn thing, or just fully resort to mods and CC with minimal, "necessary" expansion packs
Im a gay black woman and personally I think races and stuff should be the base representation you should be worried about adding before lgbt stuff.
We have white washed sims like cassandra goth and the caliente sisters, the skintones are STILL a mess without mods, and a lot of black hairs weren't added or fixed until after so much lgbt stuff was added
THIS!!! The white LGBT community acts as if their struggles are comparable to ours. When we speak about black issues and reparations, the white LBGT community always has to butt into our conversations.
I think I can explain why companies are bending over backwards for LGBT representation but not for black representation but it'll turn this into a politics discussion.
the black hair options, or lacktherof, always pissed me off. its either the game couldnt be arsed with fixing the textures on them, or just put them all behind a paywall. im glad theyre FINALLY re-texturizing them and adding new ones to the base game though. also, jeez, took them long enough to add the skin tone update..
You're very right. Although they did just update the goths to give them their darker skintone back it's really not enough. Gotta love cc for stuff like that honestly
no one gives a sh it if you're black stfu
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I definitely have the dlc addiction. I have bought every single pack and kit in the past, as of today there's only a couple of kits I am missing from owning everything. I just feel like I must have it all, even though I never have rodent pets for my sims, I never visit Selvadorada, I have literally no idea what Batuu is like since I never have and probably never will play with that content, I haven't had a single spellcaster, I always take my sims off the spotlight, I never have the dust system on, I was perfectly happy with the weddings as they were and the list goes on. I am the ideal customer for EA to mess with.
Same with me...
Don’t blame yourselves. They know their marketing strategies will work on people vulnerable to it.
As a Bioware fan, I feel this in my soul.
Honestly I was complaining about this for years but at the end of the day I just learned to accept the sims 4 for what it currently is because quite frankly I can complain until I am blue in the face but I don't have a voice and the majority of people who do have a voice seem to love this game. Or are ea influencers I mean even lgr has given up on the franchise though and I think that says something that people(with a voice)are slowly starting to notice what I noticed years ago.
I think many of the current players are probably also pretty young and haven't had the chance to play the previous games, so they have nothing to compare it to. Personally I'll just keep playing TS3 with a ton of mods, and hope Paralives or TS5 will be better (not much hope for TS5 though, and dunno how far in development Paralives is now)
I have considered pirating a game that I own because ea forces the online ‘authentication’ so it forces me to use origin and just it takes up so much crap in the background.
Also the last update broke spaceships. Can’t build them anymore. It’s annoying.
Sims2 is better from a gameplay perspective. You can even design your own world/neighborhood in sims2.
Edit to add: looking forward to paralives.
Congrats fellow Brit 👍 I just subbed haha really good video! I’m new to Sims 4 bought a bunch of packs and noticed couple days ago that when you switch the sim (the Camara can’t find the sim) happened after I bought the Pets combo pack
Thanks for subbing!
Even when pirating the game you still feel like you’re being scammed.
If you don’t like building, Sims 4 has no gameplay for you
That’s not true the gameplay is actually really good
@@craigieplaysstuff How? Even Sims 2 is far more deep. Not to mention the progression and open world of 3.
@@DaniTheHero for those games these features really did add to the gameplay it’s just the gameplay in the sims 4 itself isn’t all that bad and to think about it if it was open world you would have to sit back and wait for your sims to get their location, and to have the lots as open world as well it would make the gameplay laggy at times and than we would be complaining about that
@@craigieplaysstuff Copium again.
i feel like they’re gonna try and turn the sims into something like second life or imvu… and im going to cry cause i LOVED this franchise
The crazy part is they've already had The Sims Online in the past. I don't know why they're so hungry for multiplayer in the Sims games. I don't believe the players who want that functionality are anywhere near the majority. That should be it's own side Sims thing, not a numbered game. I say that as a Second Life user (though not much recently) as well.
I still think Sims 3 is better. I'd say Sims 4 was better about new content since they update the base-game, however, how long did it take to get new content like the stuff made by CC creators? How much of it was stuff we had base-game in Sims 3 like Pools, toddlers, lounge chairs, etc.
I play on the base game with Mods because I have played Sim 2 and Sims 3 and I absolutely get annoyed by Sims 4. It's a fine dollhouse, if you play mostly from your imagination, but it's sooo empty. I get tempted by packs but every time I think I get only 9 packs, with less content than the 12 packs I have for Sims 3 and the everything I have for Sims 2, for the same amount I paid for the 12 packs of Sims 3 at the beginning of the pandemic... And not have everything... And only get those for 300 dollars on sale...
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You have become my favorite youtuber, because you always have an analysis that is right, and you don't hesitate to tell the truth, when many are still finding everything great, I also like the way you present your videos , and your hand movements at the end of each video, I totally agree with you
I used to love The Sims. Now I get my "Sims" fix from the Two Point games, Hospital and Campus.
One thing EA does is include a small thing in each pack that has a lot of appeal and people end up buying it. For example I bought university almost exclusively for the shower head because I love building tiny homes. I know it's stupid but I also know of many people that will buy a pack for just a small thing like that. I think the biggest issue is that the packs are needed for better gameplay rather than being truly optional.
I much prefer giving my money to some of the best and most known cc creators cus they deliver where EA lacks and more.
Also, I ran the Sims 3 on a 960m Nvidia card with no problem. Runs on the 3060 even better. Just needs tweaks and nraas stuff.
"you are an absolute mug" that's exactly how I feel every time I buy a new pack knowing the last one I got was shit.
That's why I stick with Sims 2 and Sims 3. They are just not comparable to Sims 4. I have all the DLCs for both earlier games and that's more than enough for me. Sims 4 is hard for me when it comes to immersion. I am not a builder. I am a life simmer. And Sims 4 can't keep me fancy at it. Sims 3 excelled at it and so did Sims 2. EA has fallen dramatically. It's an awful notion but we have to face it. The company has lost its inital spark.
I would find the game alot more enjoyable if it was open world, it's boring staying in the house and having to wait 3 weeks for your teen SIM to grow to move out. In the Sims 3 I would occasionally take my Sims for a swim or maybe go to a bar, but I honestly can't be bothered with the waiting times
Please, I need help. I downloaded the EA App and it uninstalled me Origin.When I opened EA app, the sims weren´t there, so I searched it and it tells me to buy the game again. But isn´t the game supposed to be free or something? When I open the sims from the destkop, it tells me I don´t have accses. Someone knows what to do with that or just how to run the sims? please
i see the sims store as a place where they out stuff that didn't/couldn't fit into a separate pack. The prices are way too high for certain things though but its still better than kits bc u can actually get some of the items separate from their little packs with the store
Nah... Bough NO PACK, NO KIT because it was at first 4 times the fair price, then EA thought it was a sound plan to raise the price 25% MORE instead if cutting 75%. I'm having enough fun with mods.
I hate ea, it keeps logging me out of my original account, which i have spent hundreds on and i cant log in because it has so many confirmations and i dont know all of my passwords, and the updates also screw up everything. ea sucks
I’m so excited for para lives!
I personally hold EA and Maxis equally at fault because I'm pretty sure some decisions were made soley within Maxis on The Sims Team. They're managed by EA but not to the point they, a company that releases shooting games, would really raise a big stink about a doghouse, or want to have multiple eco friendly related packs, or saying laundry shouldn't be included unless players vote on it for a few examples.
I'm glad there's more life simulators coming about but especially Paralives, and possibly what Paradox is working on because I do want more innovation in the genre and it seems that EA and Maxis have gotten too comfortable being the only ones.
As a hs freshman, I was never old enough to experience anything before TS4. I’ve had TS1 and TS2 for a while now but I could never get TS1 to run and TS2 was just… boring, and CC was limited. Now, I just started playing TS3 and instantly fell in love. I’ve spent upwards of $150 on TS4 and haven’t enjoyed much of it. With TS3 I only have 3 expansions (super cheap too) and I seriously can’t put the game down. TS4 wants what TS3 has, and it failed miserably. To those who have never played TS3, give it a shot! Even if you think the sims are ugly, the gameplay and CC makes up for it 😫🫶
As an elderly millennial of 29, I've experienced all the games when they came out (except TS1, which I discovered a few years after its release). I absolutely agree that TS3 is the best one when it comes to gameplay depth and customizability.
TS1 is a classic, although I'm not sure if it holds up well today (except for nostalgia reasons). TS2 was a huge leap in making Sims a full-fledged life-simulator, and I really enjoyed it except the TS2-style aging bugged me sooo much. Couldn't even move out my sims children without them growing older than their parents!. I even played The Urbs, which was quirky but very limited (also, it should've been called Black Eyed Peas: The Game).
Agreed though i technically started with sims 2 when sims 3 came out i was completely obsessed i have all but one expansion (ambitions since i bought everthing hardcopy and they just didn’t have that pack anywhere) and most of the stuff packs apart from like 3 of them and it’s just so much fun..
TS3 is my favorite of the series. I wish it had more of the charm, humor, and life details of TS2, but I loved how active and customizable the world and sims were. I would follow random sims around town, catch sims I created as future partners for my active sims running around with the ugliest sims in town. TS4 has the best looking sims unmodded, though, hands down. Only thing I'd take from TS4 to make an ultimate sims game is CAS, the easy build mode, and multitasking. I played TS1 but it I think it may have been the hardest in juggling all of the life tasks. I honestly struggled with TS2 when I tried to play it again last year. Specifically dealing with meals, hunger, and dishes. Each game got easier in terms of task management, so that's an adjustment. TS3 had a nice balance in that regard.
I'm so excited for Paralives. It's like the beacon of hope. I love Sims, I've loved it since I was 12, I've been playing it for 14 years now. But it's time to accept that the Sims series is dying, people. EA will keep the corpse around for a long time, make it seem pretty, make it dance like a puppet, but it's slowly decaying and we all can smell it.
since there is so many problems and things missing in the sims 4.. i think they should take a break making dlc and fix the broken ones....
This is so true! Like specially when you talked about them separating too much content for expansion or game pack so they can earn more money.
Like seriously EA has ruined a lot of stuff I can’t even play sims 4 without having to update and then go all deep in my mods because they can’t figure out how to just update the game. I get it. Some mods. But when it still happens with updated mods and all that. No. I’m getting frustrated with this.
My Sims four has been stuck on a loading screen because the game is so glitchy right now that it has just been stuck
I wish they would re-release Sims 1. So many numerous bugs in Sims 4 that still never get addressed...their cash-grabbing is so transparent.
I had got the Sims 4 for $80 when it first came out. It was pretty disappointing to say the least. Now I see where they’re trying to sell the base game for just $5. The base game alone has many things missing. The fact that game players are making mods to try to solve issues that the game makers themselves SHOULD fix is upsetting. They want to make more and more stuff packs and DLC and sell them out before considering to fix the problems that arise from previous packs. If there’s a Sims 5 to come out I’m truly not sure if I’ll end up getting it. It was disappointing enough what they did with the Sims 4, especially when it first came out. I’m not willing to go through that again.
Love your videos hun ! The packs are so dull . I could pay my electric bill for a month with the same amount of money for one pack
I'm running like 20 script mods on Sims 4 just to have any fun. the moment the mods have an error or don't load, the game gets either unplayable (shops, restaurants) or like a game for 4 year olds.
It’s gotten so bad we can’t even save the game with those “error code could not save game” 😑😑😑
I'd say, the pay to win mentality is about youtube and twitch now. If they want to share their gameplay, they are expected to have all the content or fail to build an audience. On younger players with their pocket money watching twitch, seeing that all the time normalise the idea that you need everything to have fun. When in reality, the less content, the less bugs you face.
I miss Will Wright.
So I went to go play Sims four and I look and I only had the EA account DEA account so I go onto my Sims four account and it leaves me loading and yea just doesn’t work anymore it says login and I forgot my password and I knew I saved it but I wasn’t there so it’s ruining the Sims four game
I've been with the Sims since the beginning. As of the Dream Home Decorator pack I am no longer buying. If I want new things there are a load of excellent modders offering their mods for free. I have watched Sims decline and am holding out for something new just as I jumped from SimCity to City Skylines, I doubt the Sims will be in my life much longer.
3:06 Playstation had none of this
The sims 4 is all i'm buying in the franchise, I did also get almost all the DLC in hopes to try to make it as good as I can. Though i'm really not buying Sims 5 and re buying all the same expansions just for them to leave the game and make a new one in a few years.
I’m so glad I found your channel I think I’ve been in denial about how much money I’ve wasted but needed a good slap to stop me from spending another dime on this game sims 4 was my first trying sims 3 for the 1st time and it literally makes me angry cuz the difference in quality and actual good gameplay is astounding I feel like I’ve been robbed worse than my sim thanks for speaking so much truth!
Also worth noting that EA no longer holds exclusive rights to FIFA AND STAR WARS licenses so you can bet sims 5 is going to be the main cash cow moving forward.....
I only have like 7 things in the beginning when things were coming out almost more than 5 years ago. Stopped it immediately and now I only download mods
Honestly the Sims 4 died in 2019. After 2019, the Sims 4 was no longer able to run on my laptop like how it used to which was just fine. Nowadays my game takes an hour to load, and it's laggy as hell to the point where it's unplayable. The game was designed to be played on any lower end laptop and run fine. When I am able to play with little lags and freezes here and there, I get bored.
I really appreciate your honesty, it’s pretty refreshing within the sims community
THANK YOU for being so honest. other creators who I follow and are very nice justify everything EA does with the Sims and it's genuinely utter BS
You aced this, definitely a brilliant video. Thank you for highlighting this!
This is why if i ever have to get dlc stuff i buy it from sites where EA can never get any money in addition i just download mods in any way that i care to get get if i want some diffrent stuff.
I still haven’t been able to play sims 4 cause it crashes before I get to design my character, can someone please help me like how can I fix this?
contact EA for support
I basically bought the early stuff and most of the packs that are need to have. I stopped buying after I became a bill paying adult and realised that they were charging basically the price of a full game for increasingly lack luster DLC. That don't even integrate well together, might I add. Haven't even touched the new kits at all.
I’ll never forgive them for closing Pandemic Studios. Dang Vultures
i hate ea because they didnt make battlefront 3 that would have been super good but then they instead decided to do battlefied 2042 wich was terrible
I haven’t played battlefront or battlefield 2042 but I heard bad reviews for both 😩
@@SatchOnSims its funny tho because right after they stopped updating battlefront 2 it became one of the highest peaks on players comming into battlefront
Thank you for this. I also love TS4 very much but I get so mad at it as well. No more new stuff…please just fix what we HAVE.
Aside from that, more of this Let’s Play please! I’m out of them and I enjoy watching them every week. I especially love the griping Haha!!!!!
Ive complained about the Get to Work is so damaged its hard to play
It's weird that they literally have millions of people putting hours in the game, offering feedback to boost it and make them even more money but they rather...push out kits.