EA Basically Just Killed Off The Sims 4
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- The Sims 4 Is A Dead Game. I reviewed the current state of The Sims 4 in 2022 to see if it's really a good game anymore.
What do you think about The Sims 4 right now?
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It’s quite sad honestly, Sims 4 has great potential and EA doesn’t want to work on the potential because they are already making money off what the sims 4 is now.
I agree I showed my dad the sims and he was shocked
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@@tallulahbrown5864 What shocked him?
@@tallulahbrown5864 let me guess he was shocked about how buggy the game is
It's also quite sad that we have to fill the game with mods to make the game enjoyable... Mods are supposed to enhance the game not be made pretty much necessary for the game to be worth the money
At this point piracy against EA is the morally right thing to do
its what im doing since get to work,its the only game i crack
@@joaohenriques3872 have a way to get Sims 3? I've spent an obscene amount of money on Sims 4, I'd like to play 3, but don't want to spend all that money again
Literally. A lot of big discords threaten to ban people with pirated games, but Ill be damned if I pay $1000+ for an incomplete, buggy piece of crap. Ill definitely play it for $40 though lol
@@justbeatingtheelderlyabuser you can play sims 4 with all dlc unlocked using your original copy of the game give me your email ill send you the link so we don't get in problems, the sims 3 I bought it long time ago but I can send links where to buy them cheap
@@joaohenriques3872 hello, can you pls send me the link for the unlocked dlcs?? thank you so much
This game doesn't feel like its been made with love and care anymore everything is just a cash grab. It feels like a toxic relationship
This is a perfect analogy. All these promises reminds me of 'future faking'. The sims team 'love bombs' us, then ignores us for weeks...
Im surprised yall thought it was made with love in the first place
Honey, the Sims franchise has always been a cash grab. You should have budgeted for expansion packs before you decided to buy the first game. Yes, it's going on $1k USD now, but it's also been out eight years and has twice the packs that the other franchises had because of that. And inflation is a thing. I'm not a shill for ea, either, I actually got booted off the board for not kissing the toxic guru nether regions when it was under the previous management. I'm just saying don't buy a BMW and complain about repair costs. Even Satch knew as a child when he played the first franchise.
Play the sim 2 or 1 there a huge different. There more game play in sim 1, 2 and even Gameboy advance for the sim. Then the sim 4 it's sad.
@@sleekoduck they have twice the packs because they fragment content to the maximum they can... You can't deny the passion has left the game with Sims 4, they're not even trying to offer quality.
Its so sad, people sometimes dont understand. We are not complaining about the game, cause we hate it. We are complaining because we love it! I am playing The Sims since the first generation and I rly love the previous games so much! Thats why I or we want a fixed game to play. Because we love it so much that we cant see it in such a horrible state! 😭❤️ Nice Vid btw :* ur rockin! Haha!
Exactly! We're complaining because we love the game and put so much money and time into it only to watch it slowly become more and more unplayable. It's frustrating.
I stopped going into sims forums after that time I pointed out "Hey, I think it's really cool that they're fleshing out the occult stuff more, but the cost-benefit ratio seems a tad unfair." This was back around when they released Vampires, I think? I loved the ideas they had with the system of perks and such. HOWEVER, I immediately became concerned that a single occult was occupying a single $20 game pack. Just looking back at the Sims 3, this would likely mean a separate pack for witches, werewolves, and fairies too... That means $80 for what was originally a $40 expansion... and what about the other features that often came with occult life? The mystic items, the various entities like genies... Bonehilda?! I was worried about which packs would get these items, and my question was later answered when the Paranormal Stuff pack released separately... Were they going to dabble with any other occult life states as singular packs too? And then there was the worrying trend of them splitting content that was originally used for expansions, like laundry, butlers, and such, among stuff packs...
Now, this is the part I really got dogpiled for. I really dislike them putting gameplay mechanics that were previously parts of full expansions into stuff packs. In the days of Sims 2 and Sims 3, I never felt like I *needed* a stuff pack in order to complete my experience of the game. In fact, aside from one in the Sims 2 my friend gave me as a gift, I never played any other stuff pack. My understanding was always that they supplemented gameplay mechanics already present in the game, and enhanced the experience. My experience was fantastic enough for me without them, so I instead saved my money for buying expansions. Now, laundry is a separate stuff pack, instead of being included with an expansion like it was in the Sims 3... Which pack had butlers, again? Glamour Stuff, right? Whatever. The point is, even if I *could* afford to spend all of this money on every pack to have everything I had in the Sims 3, plus the fleshed out extensions that the Sims 4 tries to provide, one can't help but feel like this method of piecemeal content is deliberately being done to lead enthusiastic simmers to spend more, regardless of if we're actually getting back what we're putting in... Because then, some of the game packs that were supposed to be fleshing out these features, didn't feel all that sufficiently improved from their Sims 3 counterparts, or even from previous game packs. *:glares at Jungle Adventure Pack:* Like... There were more things to _look_ at, but gameplay-wise... it didn't feel very different, not enough to warrant it being a standalone pack instead of part of a full expansion, at least...
I went into a forum asking what people thought would be a good solution for this? Something where we could get the fleshed out content without paying *_double_* what we paid for a previous expansion of the same concepts, BUT still give the developers the money we think they deserve for creating a more fleshed out experience...
Then I just got dogpiled for "just wanting free content" or "being too much of a cheapskate to just buy the content I wanted." or "being stuck in the past." and I got a LOT of comments of "No one's forcing you to buy anything!" and "Just go play your precious Sims 3 and leave us alone." ... So I did... I still play sims 4 from time to time, and buy the packs that interest me, but just enjoy Sims 3 more, and stopped going into sims forums altogether.
@@Mai57 They do make the base game bland on purpose so people will just pile their money into the game so it's even slightly enjoyable to play. I do think a lot of DLC should be base game (things like laundry, pets, teen years, and basically the dlc that has purely decor items, probably more I'm not thinking of right now) and what dlc is left shouldn't be so over priced. They're a huge company with lots of people buying their products so much they don't need to make it so expensive. I do understand the whole "You can price it however you like" but it can only go so far before it's a scam. Sims 4 has never had any competition, so they're able to price crappy items for expensive and get away with it. It's especially hard because of the hardcore fans who will defend their every move like their lives depend on it.
@@No-mm8fg they been doing that since the sims3..
i love how this sounds like a parent scolding a child 😂 so true tho
As salty as this cake is, EA is the only cake baker in town. There are no other generational life simulation games. There is NOTHING comparable to the sims. No other game has this many expansion packs or such a large modding community and enormous fanbase. Even if there was, it wouldn't be as nostalgic, lore heavy or rich in content like a franchise that's made by a billion dollar company over the span of two decades and dozens of expansions. EA has us by the throat, there's no substitute and no competition.
Regarding generational/legacy life sim games there are Wildermyth, Kynseed, BitLife and a handful of other... But nothing as gigantic as the sims for sure.
that's why we need paralives asap
Well there's an upcoming game called Paralives, which hasn't been uploaded yet but it already seems so much better than the Sims.
@@Shirruri As much as I’m looking forward to Paralives, it’s most definitely not suitable competition for the Sims. It should be treated as it’s own game, and unlike the many many times it’s brought up, should stop being compared to a game decades in the making with a fan base built from that. To parrot the original comment; there isn’t a franchise as lore heavy, as ‘nostalgic’, or as rich in content as the Sims, and even IF Paralives could reach that with a small team (and that is a big if) it would need years-not just to finish the base game, but for lore and other additional content to be as robust, and I genuinely do not know how long that would take.
Hype is very good for indie games, but this amount of “Paralives will fix the Sims!! Watch it be the best life sim out there!” (not from you, obviously, but this comment section and pretty much every single video being critical of the Sims) is giving very much ‘Cyberpunk 2077’. And that release went… poorly, to say the least.
Paralives and Alter Life look promising at least
the most horrifying realisation I had is that games are supposed to ship complete, with DLC and updates just adding extra features and bug fixes. I wouldn't even call The Sims 4 with all packs and updates complete.
I thought the same thing the other day. Imagine spending a thousand US dollars up front... On a single game... A single game that is glitchy and feels incomplete. It sounds absurd- but the Sims 4 does exist! And while I know people are likely not buying all the packs at once, there are still MANY who've spent that much money on the game over time.
@@jitterbugging it not more. Especially if we play on more than one platform.
It’s a game that costs more than £800 total and it still isn’t finished. Everything that’s been added separately as DLC content should’ve just been added to the base game
@@raflamar4146 I'm not even going to say all content should be in the base game but things such as weather most definitely should be. Why did we pay £40 for weather? What is wrong with us?
@@raflamar4146 oh most definitely and even those things could be improved in various ways
I very much dislike the mentality of “if you like the game, you can’t criticize it”.
That’s a load of bull. We criticize because we love the game, and we know how it could be so much better if the devs were given more time to bake the product (using the cake analogy). The fact that ts4 is the ONLY sims game that borderline requires mods to be on the same level of fun as ts2 and 3, says a lot. Great CAS, great Build, absolute trash gameplay.
I like AMR (Alice: Madness Returns, but there are still things I wish the devs could fix! We just want good content.
I’ve said this for years: the sims team uses the guru name to minimize criticism and appear more “personal” to the community. The gurus are producers, devs, etc etc. Decision making people, they like to separate EA from them but that’s not the case at all, they are part of EA. Clever marketing trick if you ask me, it has worked charms. They get away with releasing badly made content and get almost no backlash for selling a broken game cause “poor gurus, they are EA slaves”. When in fact, they are not. They get paid, quite a lot, to make this game. How can modders, that do this in their free time and also have jobs, can do a better job at fixing and adding stuff to the game, but the professional game developers that get paid to do it can’t? Just doesn’t make sense. They are doing the same thing they did to The Sims 3. Leave it an unbridled mess of a game to force people on to the new one, we already know the sims 5 is on its way.
ea have the overarching final say though. the sims team just work on the game. ea do the marketing, the pack choosing, the decisions on roadmaps, etc… the sims team do as ea says.
@@charlottemarker4763 not quite accurate. The Sims team is part of EA. It’s not a separate thing. Lindsay Pearson is a senior producer at EA. And she manages the sims. She made it very clear that she and other producers are responsible for choosing the pack themes. She literally said she was the one that decided Journey To Batuu was gonna be made. They decided to call themselves The Sims Team and use “guru” instead of just their real job description to get people to think like this, that EA is a separate thing when it’s not. They are part of EA, they work for EA at EA, get paid by EA. If you take a look at the game credits you can clearly see a marketing team specifically for the game, so that’s part of “the sims team” too and not a completely separate thing from the other “gurus”.
ikr? i don't care that it's a brand name at this point, why are modders not allowed to be paid to fix the game when "official" developers get paid without fixing their crap
They deliberately break the mods every few weeks, too. I've given up on updating mine.
simgurus, and to some extent gamechangers as well, exist only to humanize the company in the eyes of the public. It's easy to criticize a faceless company but with all these people at the front of the marketing interacting personally with the consumers, people feel a bit of a bond with them and thus criticize the game less because "poor gurus they work SO hard and people are just so ungrateful"
I totally agree that mods creators rescue the game everytime, and also give us the opportunity to play the game better. On that note, it's really sad that EA is more worried about cracking the gallery that fixing the problems that the game itself have, a few days ago anadius crack for the gallery online stopped working, and I know that getting a game for free is bad but, how the EA team expects that people that don't have the money, will fall in love with the game and decide to buy it after, if they sabotage the opportunities to do so...? 😑
Modders and cc need the game. If Sims didn't exist, where would mods and cc go? Yall ever stop to think about that?
But it sucks because console players can't use mods. You guys can easily find new things and help improve your game with mods but console players are left in the dust
It sucks for console players tho since we don’t get mods or cc so we just stick with a glitchy game. They definitely need to put more effort into the game, it’s so sad that they are not putting in effort with a game they kept moving forward with. I play on xbox cuz I just don’t think anyone has money for a computer these days and I can’t even have a family without it glitching as soon as the child ages up into a teenager I have to move them out the household
@@giagerling9558 don't feel too bad about playing console. I too play on it (PS4). I have a few glitches here and there, but not many to make my game unplayable...because it still very much is.
I thought I was missing out on having mods and cc, so bought gaming laptop. Yes, for most sadly, they are very expensive. I bought an Alienware, top of the line gaming pc. Just to see how The Sims would play on it.
Tbh, it played excellently. It was lightening fast, almost no glitches, and upload times were seconds not minutes. I couldn't believe it. Turns out, I wasn't all that impressed with having to work at keeping files for mods and cc. They add up very quickly and you must keep them in order or risk them making a mess in your system. Or becoming corrupt or erased during updates. A lot of work. Cc is really cute, but returned the pc. Its just not for me.
My point is, yes, while the game (Sims 4) may have quite a few flaws, I do honestly believe that we may responsible for a few as well.
1.Old /low performance systems
2. Not enough ram/memory to run the game freely (Sims4 is a very large game)
3. Too much content in game
Examples: mods, cc, high Sim count, high lot count, too many items in household/Sim inventory...etc can slow and corrupt game..
4. Not updating game application regularly.
Its vital to keep these things up to date to reduce problems with your game experience. It may not prevent all the glitches the game has, but it will pevent quite a few for better gameplay 👍
Tbh I never felt guilty illegally downloading the sims 4. They aren't an indie company or anything and they don't even care for their community. So why should I lol
Your salty cake analogy is perfect. EA is still willing to waste time and resources on frosting their salty cake and trying to present it to us like it's still a sugary cake. Then once we bite down and we're past the layer of frosting, it's all around a bad experience. The Sims 4 is definitely the most visually appealing but gameplay is horribly barren, but EA still deceptively try to present the game like it's a well-rounded game. It's super harmful for the minority of people on the sims team that want to make a good game but aren't given the ability to do so.
Sims 5 Dream Game:
The challenge of Sims 1 (Sims 4 is way too easy in terms of getting money and relationships; I think that's why I play it a lot less than previous editions)
The animations of Sims 2 (a lot of people have pointed out the extra touches, like opening cabinets and drawers in order to cook)
The large neighborhoods and customization of Sims 3 (let me choose my own colors for things!)
The build options of Sims 4 (putting doors and windows in half increments, putting everything else anywhere else, easier to build roofs, moveable rooms and houses, etc.)
Sadly I’m starting to think that Sims 5 will be worse then the sims 4
You forgot Sims 2 gameplay! It's so much better. Its much less childish (the romantic interactions are so much steamier), lots of fun details like the kids running up to the parents when they come home from school, memory bubbles that relate to actual memories and corresponding emotions (like sims spontaneously having a gravestone memory with a dead relatives face and then starting to cry), toddlers can eat pet food, really interesting wants and fears that actually add depth, the private school system, the robbers (who actually were in Sims 2 as well) and so much other stuff.
@@marinaschulz3183 yeah and the memory system ! That's such a importent thing to add depth and reality to characters that I can't believe it doesn't exist in S4.
The similarities between EA and Tinder guys is uncanny and cracked me up LMAO 😂
They should stop releasing packs, overhaul and fix all the current packs, and then start packs up again with people that actually enjoy what they are doing. Might be a few years, but that's better than all these broken and underwhelming packs
Unfortunately there is little financial incentive to do that. :(
They’re too money hungry for that
It's very unlikely because its been out for almost 15 years and EA wants more cash grabs to fund the next project
@@dianafarrar5093 The sims has been out for 22 years.
@@christiansaint716 the sims 4 came out in 2014
I’m really hoping that paralives is gonna be so good that it’ll finally light a fire under EA’s ass to actually create good content. They need some friendly competition in the simulation genre.
Agreed. There is nothing like Sims available so they’ve got us cornered.
As a Paralives patreon, the game is shaping up very nicely, very mod friendly and has so many amazing features planned and done, hopefully it comes out before 2025
I'm fascinated with the Canadian cultural differences. I hear Paras can bathe together. 😏
@@sleekoduck Awesome!
personally, the clips i’ve seen of paralives makes it look like a game you find on facebook. the features are amazing but i hate the animation style and it throws me off everytime. i know many people like the art style but for me, i don’t think i’ll buy this game because of it.
Im hoping Paralives is good once it comes out. Im not expecting it to be the perfect alternative to the Sims but as long as the game works, and feels like the team is listening to their fanbase it'll be enough for me
It's already deemed perfection.
@@AutobotSimmer I hate to say perfect bc I'm sure it'll have it's faults but it's definitely way better already
I think the concept of Paralives is a great idea, but personally, I don’t like the graphics. It feels like the game you see weird ads about on the appstore. Sims 4 is more appealing to the eye for me.
@@noiz1762 to me it's ts3 & showing the graphics choice allows for more money in other areas. Though with the number of people thinking "a game to kill Sims whoo!" I wonder if "can't afford" is even a common phrase for the devs even if most funding comes from Patreon? As for me I was thinking cool another simulation game but I swear my Twitter account is cursed cause some have questioned me about tweets saying us (Paralives) or them (EA). Those tweets were in the few months after the first clip of Paralives. One thing that irks me about this.
paralives is ugly af lol. sims 4 is ugly too but at least we have cc to fix that
The situation is not actually surprising at all. Let me explain:
Every successful video game development company has a dilemma: "Do we prioritize existing players or future players"? The answer is always obvious - prioritise future ones, those who haven't bought the game yet, because they bring in money, and release expansions, so that existing players spend more money on your game. This means "More Content". always wins The more content, the more bugs. Fixing those bugs is not a priority for anyone, unfortunately. But the Sims franchise has three additional problems:
The first problem is that it cannot decide on its "tone". Is it a reasonably realistic life simulator? Is it a sci-fi title, as aliens, robots and plant people would suggest? Is it a fantasy title, with ghosts, vampires and magic? The majority of players, Including those who enjoy sci-fi/fantasy elements, think it is a life simulator. Which means packs that add "realism" - weddings, jobs, more gameplay for the child life stages, etc - are going to outsell the other ones Regardless of how buggy they are at launch.
The second problem is that script-altering mods have been allowed in this, and the two previous generations of the Sims. Why should developers bother fixing problems, when modders can do it quicker, right?
The final problem is lack of competition. It leads to a situation where fans of the genre, despite problems and complaints are Still going to buy enough DLCs to make money for EA. The only solution is a large-scale boycott, which is impossible, due to the playerbase being too big, too global and too concentrated on the only title of its genre.
This is the only sensical response in these comments. It's not an EA problem, it's a corporate capitalism problem.
Totally on point! This can be an article that sums up the problems of a company owning such successful franchise.
You summarized my thoughts, especially on the competition part! Maybe though Paralives could bring some competition to TS4 and be a wake up call for EA
@@lehedonist Cost and difficulty. A game like the sims isn’t easy to make, especially if you are going all in on full 3d open world like many would want. Build tools, character creation, an insane number of assets for both of those, animation work, AI, mechanics, and much more and now try to squeeze all that into performing well on a wide range of lower end machines since the Sims audience isn’t necessarily the high end gaming PC type in a lot of cases. Top that off with the fact that even if they do make the game theres no guarantee that they’ll make their money back or get a significant portion of the audience to click with it and it ends up being a very risky game to try and develop.
@@lehedonist This is explained by the first "Sims-specific" problem I've listed - a lack of "tone", or "direction", call it what you wish. Over the years, the franchise has tried "a little bit of everything".
Take a look at Paralives, and note how much effort they need to make to avoid being called a "Sims clone". They need to make sure that every aspect of their game is sufficiently different from the Sims to ensure they are never sued by EA for copyright infringement (let's face it - if such a lawsuit were to happen, an indie studio has no chance of winning against EA :) )
Years on, I still have never played the sims 4 and continue to point and laugh from my laggy-but-playable sims 3 mansion.
lmfao
I tried the Sims 4 for a short while, but now I'm back in my 'low quality graphics' Sims 2 mansion and laughing as well. 😅
Sameeee
@@anonview Right! I have The Sims 2-4 on my Mac. I get bored as soon as I start playing Sims 4 and immediately go back to Sims 2 because it’s superior 😂
I’ve given up on the sims. Deleted all my cc and uninstalled the game and am now just waiting for a competitor to come and take its place. I’ve been playing since the very first game, have had it on multiple different platforms and have spent A LOT of money on what has been a broken game from the beginning. The fact that they are able to sell a broken product over and over it just-it’s insanity. I’m done with EA, I don’t think I’ll buy another sims game again.
Same, I uninstalled the game too High School Years broke the camel's back, I feel sorry for the people who are hoping for the game to be fixed when at this point it'll never happen, sadly ☠Sims4, can't wait for paralives to be released, even if it takes five more years, I'll wait for the game
What is exactly broken ? I heard people saying this in all videos but my game play just fine with few bugs. I dont have the most recent packs and updates tho.
@@augusto7681 some of sim players have been experiencing problems with the game such as the aging up and down, the game has been unplayable since wedding stories for some players I can't say for all of the players but I did have some problems with the game due to many bugs in the game
no don't give up on sims! Sims 3, 2 and 1 are perfectly playable (and complete)
@@augusto7681 i don’t have all the packs either, I haven’t had any problems. I would like to get cottage living though. I only get packs, that I think I will actually use.
Thank you for admitting that the problem (well, a huge problem) is that people keep buying these broken packs. Simmers who keep buying them are making the rest of us look stupid and allowing EA to put out garbage without consequence. I'm only a builder, so I know that I have less to complain about than someone who is mostly or only gameplay-focused. I do feel bad that many of you can't enjoy the game much anymore between broken packs and broken base game updates, but you have to learn how to call it quits sometimes. Your game will not improve with the addition of another pack at this point, especially the larger expansion packs. If money is truly burning a hole in your pocket, give it to CC makers and other content creators.
Boycotting doesn't help because statistically most simmers only play a few weeks a year and thus already are "boycotting" most of the time. The devs are in an echo chamber because they silence any feedback from customers that isn't positive. Even if you haven't bought a pack in four years, there are still updates that break the game, regardless if you buy new packs or not.
@@sleekoduck I was actually saying exactly what you're saying about the base game updates, so we already agree on that, but there are people buying these things (and then complaining), and they truly ought to stop. If EA doesn't see negative feedback, then stop with the positive feedback - which is what purchasing the packs is! Those people only playing every once in a while and never buying stuff obviously aren't the people who need to boycott; it's not a boycott to just continue doing what you're doing.
@@sophrito I personally buy the packs for the build items and clothes and I hardly play unless I want to
Tf? Boycotting a video game? Yall really need to get another hobby. I spend my money on what I choose to spend it on. Same as you. I love the Sims and I don't show my love by constantly insulting its team and wishing failure on it. Just to make them do what you want.. you either play or dont play. Period. Trying to make a billion dollar company do simply what they dont want to do with THEIR game is ignorance. You are a consumer...not an onwer of the game. Move on if you are this unsatisfied.
@@jlwkss Same, though I haven’t bought anything recently. For me it’s generally no big deal, so I do try to be understanding of others, but it’s hard when people are buying wildly buggy packs again and again and blaming others.
They literally only did curved walls to spite ParaLives…
and the curved walls don’t even work correctly lol
@@sebascgarbin yes
And still did a terrible job at it. What good are poorly implemented and glitchy curved walls when Paralives look like that work?
It is like a couple in a broken marriage trying to show off to a happily married couple. Yeah you both are married, but one is clearly broken and not enjoyable. lol
And paralives only exist to spite the sims...
@@mrdr0161 or it’s another simulation game, because those are a popular genre, and the creators see just how disappointed Sims fans are & how much more could be offered in a game like that.
i recently went back to play the sims 2, and MY GOD there is so much more to do in that game ! it’s more challenging to keep track of things, rewards feel more, well, rewarding, and i don’t have to depend on custom content and mods. if i removed all my sims 4 mods, the game would be so unbelievably boring.
Also the strangerville pack, the sims team said a few years ago they'd do more packs with this kind of gameplay, but yet again we have not received any.
They also said they would give us robbers again. It's been 10+ years and still no form of actual law is in the Sims 4. Teens won't even get caught by cops and brought back home in the Sims 4 unlike in previous Sims game.
It may be that that pack did not sell too well (I really bought it for the BB and CAS), and that's why they have failed to produce something similar. I ended up playing through the Motherplant scenario and enjoyed it thoroughly, I would happily buy a pack around the same lines.
I put Jessica Ebadi in the gallery and I'm still trying to get her to the mischief level necessary to steal big ticket items from Sims' houses. Mostly she worries about her faltering writing career thanks to the broken fears system.
@@p.bckman2997 I agree :) I personally loved that pack, my fave world, my fave items, loved the gameplay but found it annoying I couldn't turn it off it I wanted. I think the sims team got a lot of negative feedback regarding it not being very sandbox for a sandbox game and decided to not make any more content like that.
they need to make a spin off game when it comes to story packs like strangerville. its irritating to not be able to turn the pack off if you just wanna play in the world as normal. maxis/ea had the right idea with the sims 2 story games, console spin offs, and the sims medieval.
I was one of those people who compulsively bought every single pack the day it came out because I've been playing this stupid game since Sims 1 came out in 2000.
Highschool Years is the first time I haven't done that. I haven't bought that pack and I refuse to until the bugs are fixed. I haven't logged on Origin since the update either. So as far as I'm concerned, Sims 4 may as well be dead cause they broke my spirit finally lol
Literally same story here. Been playing for 20 years and this is the first time I haven’t played for more than 2 weeks.
I'm right there with you. I bought Werewolves bc I wanted the decor, but haven't played since bc it made several things laggy. Ready for Paralives or some other Sim game to come out 🤷🏻♀️
Same here. Sims 4 was dead on arrival for me when they released it with no open world, loading screens galore, and no color wheel, toddlers, ghosts, real babies, or pools…. They doomed it from the start 😔
Im getting close to that point to, i just keep buying as an addiction it feels like honestly. Part of me wants to delete the sims 4 all together and be done with it forever! But its hard when ive spent so damn much money of it that could've been used on my dental work. I feel obligated to keep playing the game.
Like an idiot, I bought HSY the day it came out. Because I use CC and mods, I then spent over a week with a game I couldn't play. After deleting 3/4ths of my cc/mods, a modder came out with a fix. Not EA, a modder.
I wish high school years was a game pack as there’s not enough gameplay to be classed as an expansion pack. I like it for the CAS and build/buy items but it’s not enough for me to want to fork out expansion pack prices. I’m put off buying it as the gameplay is just lazily put together and substandard and the update is buggy. So gutting as it’s what the community was craving for and could have been really well executed if enough attention was put into it. Annoyingly I also miss the whims, as likes and dislikes actually interrupt my gameplay cause my sims are constantly in a bad mood due to their fears!
I also wanted to buy the pack because the BB items looked pretty good, but considering how much that the update has negatively infected my game without being a part of my packs, I can't even imagine how bad it would be if I bought it.
Also, like you, I am surprised that I miss the old whims. When you have a sim that you try your best to keep happy and you spend time making sure they get regular promotions only to have them come home right after getting one of those promotions and think they have a dead end job and want to cry under the covers makes no damn sense.
As I recall, adolescence was one long hormonal mood swing and sob-fest, so that part isn't so unrealistic. Two classes a day instead of seven would have been less stressful!
I agree, I hate the fears
i miss the whims so much! i never realized how much my game play revolved around those little thoughts… the sad thing is my sims no longer has reaction to their world anymore not even their relationships :(
:(
sad
I cut them off via settings
I remember several years ago when they said that they were gonna keep the sims4 going for many more years that I said that the game is gonna end up in a bad state unless they start to support it better. I was criticized back then by several people... we are now in 2022 and the game is in a bad state and those people are nowhere to be seen.
It's like we know there capable of pulling of a great game, but they choose not to do it. The sims 3 was very very VERY ambitious, and has its problems. However, the sims 4 is very very VERY under developed to fit all systems and still experiences the same problems as sims 3. Its unfortunate too because I play the sims 2 and I play the sims 3 and have played a lot of good stories in those games, and I look at sims 4 and the only thing I really do is CAS and decorate pre-built homes. I just want them to have as much dedication as they did back then.
only thing I hated sims 3 was that I couldn't play all the expansions at the same time. I had to pick what I wanted to play
@@adrianparsons6683 Right now, we can play with all extension with modern PC. :)
@@Camelia437 I still have the same computer as back then, she can't handle that sadly enough XD
It seems to me that the devs get really focused on doing the things they WANT to do (werewolves) and begrudgingly slap together crap when the players ask for something (high school). As a family-focused, legacy styled player, werewolves are okay in my opinion, but life stages are so much more important to me!
Would be fair assumption for an indie project created by a small group of friends, who rely solely on enthusiasm and inspiration. But this is a huge company with (supposedly?) large number of developers working on every pack and there SUPPOSEDLY have to be people equally inspired by occult stuff and family gameplay stuff.
Oh please, if you don't like occults that's your problem buddy, The Sims always had occults, and TS4 was being very lacky with occults in general, people were waiting werewolves for a while too.
@@joaolima7131 that's understandable, but the sims is about the simulation of playing through the lives of them. Occults are more so a secondary scenario, like op said when they choose to do family life related things they neglect it.
@@iLLogicalTHinker0 Did you forget that Sims is exactly as How someone wants to play their game? Many people use it like a way to escapism and escape reality, there is no correct way to play it. I quite disagree because the sims 4 had more family oriented packs than occults, they doing half assed is a separated issue.
You say this as if the dev team actually have a say about what is and what isn’t going to be added to the game. This kind of decision (specially in a company as big as EA) come from other departments that usually don’t know a thing about coding and just toss their ideas to the dev team making it impossible to fix older bugs, implement new things and focus on quality.
Also, the base game was rushed and had tons of bugs and what happens is that when you have a program like this, every time you add something it becomes harder and harder to fix the base and makes the game prone to bugs.
Essentially, The Sims 4 was doomed since its release (at least when it comes to the code)
I guess we were all expecting more like we always do. We are all in a toxic relationship with EA..hoping they will change for the better and always being let down. I have been playing this game since I was 9 and I am 30 now and all the sims prior to ts4 were amazing so I dont understand how with all the new tech that the newest game lacks everything all prior sims games had.
Maybe that's why there's such whiplash between packs like werewolves & my wedding stories--to give us hope. I haven't gotten either but everything I've heard makes it seem like werewolves was surprisingly good and weddings was impossibly bad. They give us little pieces of hope that they'll start putting in effort in the game but the truth is they probably won't :(
I've always been a builder, rarely play the families I create, so after I bought HSY I was like, what the heck, I'll play the High School bit, it can't be as bad as everyone makes it out to be. OMG it was SO MUCH WORSE. All I could think was...THIS is an expansion pack? EXPANSION PACK? This is garbage. A Game pack, maybe. Cripes, I'm just gonna stick to building.
These simmers who communicate with the gurus should definitely ignore them WHENEVER they decide to resurface and start trying to engage the community.
but the packs and the glitches aren’t the sim gurus’ faults. it’s ea pushing them to pump out kits when extremely underfunded and probably not given the right resources to do so. it’s not the sims gurus. it’s ea we should be ignoring.
@@charlottemarker4763 you're absolutely correct but in my line of business communication is EVERYTHING and extremely important whether something is going great or going wrong. For the entire team to remain silent, to not even utter a word of "we hear you" is absolutely unacceptable. You mean to tell me that no one out of the entire franchise can speak up and do the right thing!?! Anyone who speaks on behalf of the company is representative of EA (which they have been doing up until now). Perhaps, they've been asked to be silent, but its not right no matter how you slice it.
@@charlottemarker4763 they are one and the same honestly
@@littleshante not r e a l l y though. they never have the final say. they may work for ea but that doesn’t mean they agree with the content being put out. it’s not their fault.
@@iCherelyn true but ea probably told the gurus to stay silent. i think all of the consumers that are unhappy should just stop giving ea their money. theres other ways to get the game especially on pc
Honestly it sounds like the pack differences sound like different teams. Many games like this have different teams working on different dlc packs at the same time. That way multiple things are in development. Occult might have the veteran team the others are the junior team.
That is a good guess and you could be right, (or not, I don't know, I just find your guess likely)
EA has took something made with love through Maxis & turned it into a cash grab. The design team is seeing the green bucks & now cares more for making money than player experience. It’s so sad to see the design team ultimately give up on decent content
It's disappointing. I play The Sims since 2001. Of course, older versions did have bugs, but nothing like it has been today. This School years extension is a shame. I mean, it's the first time I bought bugs instead of an expansion and not even the patch to correct the bugs did a good job fixing the game. There are bugs repeating on and on after each release. I understand they don't even care. I love The Sims but I am tired of feeling a fool, giving them money and not having the experience they're selling. And it's ridiculous how people pretend not to see these are happening. Every time they release a new "distraction", people stop talking about the mistakes. It's a pleasure to hear from you like this. Most content creators are in this happy "distraction", pretending everything is fine. It's not. My enthusiasm with the game is fading. I won't buy any other content for my game, until I am pretty sure everything works fine.
I love when you say they are *threatening* us with many more years of sims 4 lmao, that's genuinely what it feels like
I remember sims 3 adventure expansion pack. It was sooooo much content, so many things to explore! Hidden places and great reward! Mummies! Everything!
And sims 4 doesnt have anything for non-designers. Building houses are fun and all but I loved the adventure part. Now there is nothing... litteraly nothing. Its incredible boring
I also can’t quite understand how we can’t paint the ceilings yet? It seems like such a basic feature to have, since it can honestly make or break the atmosphere of a build completely. Stuff like babies, cars and curved walls I honestly don’t really care about, but painting ceilings? It’s a feature I’m _dying_ for!
But you won't even see the ceiling that often
Wait... how do you even _view_ the ceiling?
Um probably because there’s no reason being we can’t even see the ceiling
This is why I struggle to take complaints about the game seriously lol, like this is phrased like it's such an idiotically obvious feature, but my brother in arms you can only see the ceiling in first person mode which literally no one uses
@@dominichowell961 press tab and look up lol
Oh my friend, but did you hear the latest news that came out 2 days ago? The reason why EA has given up on The Sims 4 seems obvious now. EA is in talks with Amazon, for Amazon to purchase EA. Because Amazon has stated that they want to purchase EA to be able to make video game series & movies like The Witcher for their streaming service. I don't know if EA has been shopping around for a buyer or if these talks began some time ago, but if this wasn't the reason for giving up on Sims 4 this might be a reason now. And I hope against all hope that the evil Amazon doesn't buy EA.
EA is evil too. It's like which evil do we want? We want neither but we also want someone to own EA and finally put them in their place. Amazon knows nothing about video games...
that would make sense, why make good products when daddy bezos can give you money and publicity your loyal fanbase never could 🙄🙄
I read that was rumors and Amazon had no intention of buying EA.
You think Amazon is more evil than Disney? It's at worst a toss up... Facebook would be worse.
@@sarahwong9863 Well someone needs to buy EA. They are getting on everyone's nerves. I wouldn't want a company that doesn't specialize in gaming to buy a gaming company.
Thanks for considering me, a console player. I used to play on PC and when i made the switch to console it wasnt too bad and im doing surprisingly well with no mods BUT ever since they added wants and fears… it ruined my game and i found out you cant cheat the fears away unless you have a mod. I have a household of three sims right now and all three of them are afraid of a dead end job and having unfulfilled dreams and they are always either sad or angry because of it. It ruins any realism that i couldve had in my game, especially because one of my sims that hates their job is literally doing their dream job!! The sims 4 wanted to give us so much control over our sims to the point where they have no personality but then they give us something stupid like fears which completely erases the creativity aspect of the game just because it is SO persistent in every household i have. There are basically three fears, fear of death, fear of unfulfilled dreams, and fear of dead end job and its so unrealistic that every sim i have would be scared of one of those things. One time i had a sim who was afraid of being cheated on and that one is actually pretty cool and realistic but besides that fears have ruined my game and i guess I’ll just turn wants and fears off but i hate that because i still do want wants, the fears are just interfering with my game too much
I do really wish some of these “big time” sims CZcamsrs / EA Game Changers were as vocal and honest about how broken and lacking in transparency we’re getting from the Sims team as you are. The lack of vocal outspoken comments makes me feel like they’re trying to protect their business relationship with EA, rather than speaking up for the millions of viewers and subscribers they have.
Actually the salty cake is being charged £15 / slice.
Then non professionals will take some of their own time to make the cake sweet, while its illegal for them to earn revenue from it
HSY broke me. Lol after it broke my save file that I was 7 gens into I was officially done with EA. If I do buy another pack they release it will be months and months after they release it so they can attempt to fix what should never have been an issue in the first place and modders can do their jobs for them.
If only simmers stopped buying Sims 4 packs, maybe EA would consider fixing their game, but since a lot of players will still buy the packs, this will never happen.
My game is still incredibly broken and I am upset that they haven't fixed it completely yet, it's been over 3 weeks maybe a month now since the issues started... I'm just so mad about it. This is one more reason why Sims 2 and 3 remains superior.
Right when i saw the title i said sighed and verbally said " what did they do now " cause i was planning to finally play 4 again
I’m also really sad about the fact that EA completely forgot about the pronouns update in other languages.
English is not my first language, and we still don’t have pronouns in the game, nor news about it being added, and we already had TWO NEW PACKS in between. They simply forgot about it, just like they keep forgetting about fixing their old bugs.
(Sorry for my bad English though)
Seriously???? I thought my game didn't had pronouns bc of some glitch or smth, but that's bc they straight up didn't updated the game in other languages????? BRUH
It’s also just a total 180 from Sims 2/3. All that dedication, ambition and potential has been lost! At this point stop putting out substandard packs and focus properly on Sims 5. However, I feel anxious about the next generation of Sims game rather than excited. They have a lot of making up to do to gain the community’s trust again.
I never played anything beyond sims 2, never felt any interest. But I agree on your thoughts on EA. Why did I have to pay a shady etsy seller to get Sims 2 and all the packs??? I'm enjoying getting back in to it but why would they abandon a favorite of so many people???
For Jedi Fallen Order, you can't play it on steam unless you install origin and have origin running along with steam. Jedi fallen order us already a huge game, why do I need 2 processes running to play it?
Or battlefront and the controversies there with the online modes. EA hates their customers. I seen an interview with a former employee. They dont treat employees very good either, at least they didn't maybe it got better.
I'm so upset that we won't get a stars wars battlefront 3 either😭
Yes, I agree. The EA is at this point just unenthusiastically milking the Sims 4 until it’s still milkable…
I only came on board at 3 but even I can see how we’ve been shafted with 4. Your point about them not changing anything because people will still buy the new releases is something I’ve said before. The fact that a lot of the content is recycled 3 content and not even up to that standard is appalling. I’m only playing this because there is literally nothing like it. I may go back to 3 but I certainly won’t be going forward with them unless things change.
I've been playing since TS1, and I think you've got the right idea. It was a different game when Will Wright, the creator, was behind it. Now it is a corporate mess.
I remember playing The Sims 1 in 2001 when I was 6 years old. I didnt stop playing until The Sims 4 Get to Work came out. I hated the expansion pack so much and I was so disappointed with the state of The Sims 4 then. I am still waiting for The Sims 5. Its been agony. Because I too, genuinely love the Sims. To see something you've loved for song long so broken...... you want to destroy EA....but I want the Sims 5 really bad.
Whats is so bad about get to work pack ? I dont have this one.
@@augusto7681 the careers are so glitchy and kinda disappointing. They bug out after you play one career for a while.
Ugh yes. I’m so mad I spent the money on get to work. It’s so buggy and atp I just send them by themselves
I just tried to have a wedding for my sims couple yesterday and it's still so incredibly broken. I had to cancel the event, send everyone home, and just have the couple elope. It's still literally unplayable.
I deleted TS4 once and for all. No more bullshit. The patch made the game UNPLAYABLE but I thought I'd stick to building. Everytime I dare to try the curved walls feature I'm sooooo close to punching my screen out of fury. It's an atrocity, it has both technical and visual glitches that make my building look sloppy and it ain't fair cause I've spent hours trying to make regular walls and curved ones match but that's just not gonna happen.
I've seen lots of "Game Changers" turning a blind eye, barely commenting on the fact it's not working. So all I could do was...unsubscribe.
Can we get an F in the chat for Satch & his awful tinder matches 😔✊🏻
Despite making a lot of profit from the franchise and even more from other titles, EA still outsourced their QA Testers that are (presumably) not familiar with Sims 4 (I don't blame the foreign QA testers, I'm sure they're doing their best, but nothing beats in-house testers, they have access to full code and and can communicate with the rest of the team faster due to having a physical presence) and they hired only a handful of them when they usually hired dozens if not hundreds. The thing about the game is that DLCs are interconnected to some extent, and one bug will tangle up the whole game once loaded, and they aren't prioritizing in fixing the old bugs. I'm pretty EA can easily afford an army of best programmers around the world, after all, we see that many modders can make content and fix game on their own without a financial incentive, but instead, they overworked their employees and still keeps on looking for a way to layoff more despite turning a profit.
And they hype up these packs so much, only to be disappointed when like half the stuff on the trailer isn’t playable. No wonder people are trying to find alternative games to the sims like Paralives!
people need to appreciate that the sims team and ea are two separate entities. the sims team haven’t lost hope - ea are just so so restrictive on what they let the sims team develop and bring out. ea are the enemy so please don’t run to the sim gurus yelling abuse. they can’t control what’s brought out or how buggy the game is. it’s ea and how desperate they are to make more money.
Stop lying, they are one in the same. EA doesn't make the game, the Sim Gurus are responsible for creating, developing and testing the game. Plus, these Sims Gurus paid from EA to make the game. Some of these Gurus have high ranking creative control and development decision making over how this game is made, marketed and released. So to solely blame it on EA and absolve the Gurus/Sims team is ridiculous.
Consumers are also to blame for continuing to support a game or franchise knowing it creates, develops and releases broken, buggy content. If consumers keep paying and making excuses for crappy games, that's what exactly what they'll get.
I wanted the high school pack so much, but the blatant disrespect from EA towards us has made sure that I'll never buy another pack until they sort themselves out.
"Sometimes silence speaks louder than words" Spot on!!! Maybe they are just throwing us crumbs until the merge happens. I guess they don't want to put big money into something if another company is going to take it on? It's certainly left us in the dark to speculate.
The problem started when EA started caring more about money than the game and the fans.
*found out the cost of the ENTIRE game aka base pack plus all the DLC was over $1000*...............*slowly puts on a certain type of hat*
To be truthful, because of what the sims4 has turned into, I uninstalled the sims4 a LONG time ago and I immediately felt better. It was a toxic weight off my shoulders
I play sims3 now and I love it 😊💙
Same !!
I used to comb through all the pack information pages looking at all the items and features they were adding, but when I went to the high school expansion pack page, there was just no information. Maybe they moved it / I was looking in the wrong place, but either way, that should be information that is easily accessible from the purchasing page :/
For the first time, I am finally scared to go back into my game. I've been preparing for my first sim engagement party and wanted to roleplay it out last night, but started experiencing broken play for the first time (I count myself lucky I haven't sooner) and got right out, not wanting to deal with it, not wanting all my prep to be for nothing but screwed up gameplay.
This whole thing is so ridiculous.
You are always so honest and one of the few simmers I know is unbiased by EA. I 100% agree, they promised a lot of features they won't even deliver
Like OMG I-
The Sims 2 world perfectly
The Sims 3 worked nicely but laggy
Those games we're so much more fun so rotten and so perfect for 2000's games and now i don't know If i have respect for the Sims 4 anymore, im sorry but im just being honest
If they had taken Sims 2 and simply updated the graphics, I would be happy as a pig in sh*t.
@@aimeeinklingi honestly understand, but for some reason Sims 2/3 and also those old barbie graphics are just so unforgattable just make me cry cuase the world was so much better for some reason (my opinion)
I gave up. I’ve been a sims player since sims 3 launch but I haven’t touched sims since high school dropped. I have every pack (except Journey to Batu) and I mostly feel like I spent a lot of money hoping it would be good or better than the last pack just to find that it’s gotten worse and worse to the point where the new packs are genuinely unplayable.
I’m not someone to complain. I’m a glass half full kind of girl. But I really feel like we’re being taken advantage of. & I decided that’s not something I can be okay with. Sorry sims, we’re breaking up.
Me too! I spent so much on it and recently got sims 3 for about $3 and even at base game it already felt much better and so much more fun.
@@mea864 Do you know how I can get sims 4 packs for free because they are way too overpriced like I calculated how much I would have to spend for every DLC I don't have and it was £373 which would be $438 :/
@@mea864 I miss sims 3 soooo much. I play on a Mac and it crashed so often but even with the crashing it’s a better game. The expansion packs were amazing. I miss hotels.
@@jlwkss watch for sales. They go on sale for $5 fairly often.
But only half of them work. I wouldn’t recommend it.
I completely agree with everything you’ve said and thanks for making a video about it! At this point I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that they have the D team with minimal resources working on new packs, updates, etc. because they have the A team and majority of their recourses focused on The Sims 5. Yes, the sims team did say The Sims 4 has “years ahead” but if they didn’t say that, everyone would know The Sims 5 is imminent and would’ve stop buying The Sims 4 new content which is bad for business. So in turn they make us believe The Sims 4 has many years ahead so that we continue to buy while waiting for the illusive Sims 5. The reason why they aren’t giving us the big things we want; babies, cars, open world. Because they are putting the good stuff we want into The Sims 5. Again they won’t tell us that in fear of The Sims 4 completely dying. But hey that’s just my opinion
ngl as soon as paralives comes out I wont ever play that buggy, heartless game again
Hear me out - We boycott the next pack (no matter what it is) until the sims team makes a statement or acknowledges their empty promises. Our words don’t count for anything but our dollars do
When was the high school pack released, like a month ago? Still no updates or patches or anything to fix the problems still happening in people's games. I still haven't bought the HS pack because it's still broken, even though I like the BB/CAS. We haven't even heard anything more about it. They act like if they just don't talk about it then it will go away and people will forget about it until it's time for them to release another pack. When it's time for a new pack they'll move on and hype that one, everyone will get excited and then the excitement turns to disappointment when we realize how lack luster it is. It really is ridiculous how many bugs are in just my game alone. I've gone back recently to play with university, I keep having this bug where my Sims come home early from soccer and then I get a message that she's not doing well and needs to step it up. My toddler interactions are bugged and I can't read them to bed anymore, their walk style is completely broken, my adult Sims pick the toddler up from half way across the room and then reset. I'm having issues with seasons, nobody wears the right clothes in winter, my ask for presents from father winter is gone. My adult Sims constantly stop what they're doing to go play with the freaking dollhouse...by themselves. I could literally go on and on. I honestly find new bugs every single day. I don't think any of them will ever be addressed. We as consumers need to stop buying these packs, even though we're desperate for gameplay, until they fix the game. The only language they speak is money and if we speak with our money they might listen.
honestly, i do want them to do more spin offs like sims medieval etc.
if sims 4 is already 'too broken to add more stuff on why don't we get more spin offs like they used to do?
they could so so many type of unique spin offs superhero, apocalyptic, mystery etc. that actually has storytelling elements idk why they don't do this
I’m definitely really bummed about EA’s lackluster and blatant neglect for the Sims franchise. I’ve played the franchise since I was really little with the sims 2 and I’ve played it now for almost 2 decades (2024 here we come!) but the Sims 4 is by far the saddest I’ve ever been when it comes to this game. I started out on console and got a ton of the packs, but to no avail I haven’t had much fun besides building with all the stuff I have now. But nowadays I have a computer and I’ve been having to re-buy the packs again. I’ve had to take a step back and really decide what packs I really needed to expand my game for the better because I’m a college student with bills. The only 2022 pack I own for PC is Werewolves and it’s the funnest I’ve had with TS4 in years. I love the werewolf system and just in general have a sweet spot for occults especially werewolves and aliens. This aside, I own MWS for console and had no fun with it, it glitched out my main family and my PS4 crashed while trying to manage a wedding. I know I rambled a bit, but it’s just because I’ve put so much into this game and I haven’t had as much fun as the past two games. My last point is refreshes, Spa Day instantly became an instant fav of mine after the refresh and I really hope Get to Work, Outdoor Retreat, and Luxury Party stuff get some love soon because they could really benefit from a refresh.
The worst part is that if you compare the Sims 4 to ANY other game that should have similar cost, EA IS NOT MATCHING UP TO THE QUALITY THAT THOSE GAMES GIVE. All take no give.
What makes me sad is that I have been a simmer since the sims 1 but I was never fortunate enough to have the computer versions so I was always stuck with base game and no mods. I used to watch ppl play with mods and cc and be soooo jealous. It's not fair to keep selling us broken stuff because not everyone has a gaming PC to play on. Your most basic player should still be able to play your game! I have literally played EVERY game: sims, sims2, sims2 pets, urbz, bustin out, castaway, sims3 and now sims4 and yes 4 is the worst for many things. Three was probably the best.
the sims 'lovebomb' us with new contents and new promises, but then they ignore us and our complaints. we dont complain because we hate the game or because we cant deal with one or two bugs that happen once in a while. the thing with ea is, that they want to have money and they hype everything up so people buy it, then they have money. it feels like they dont even listen to us, we're just giving them money, its not like our complaints can take it back. we've already bought it. sure it can stop other people to an extent, but not enough people to completely stop them from gaining money. i dont want them to make a sims5 just because theyre tired of sims4. its so unprofessional of them to even be doing all of this, let alone if they wasted our money on sims4 without fixing it. i feel way more reassured with mod quality and thats sad, not because mods arent good, theyre great. mods are amazing. its embarassing that the sims cant do better because theyre bored. and when they drop another broken, useless update we have to take out all the mods. its honestly annoying, i trusted them with highschool years but im not gonna give them money again.
Satch! Please make a sims 2 and a sims 3 lets play I would be so excited to watch🥺 also I completely agree , honestly I think everyone should just pirate the game, I’ve been using anadius pack since seasons and I have no regrets it’s the only way I can play the game without feeling cheated out of my money , the fact that to but all of the sims 4 you have to spent over 1000 is ridiculous because half of it doesn’t work and it’s a children’s game
I was interested in getting Sims 4 once.
Then I saw the price of the game with all packs.
And never was interested in Sims 4 again.
I feel so sad for the devs. I feel like they love the game but are being pushed so hard they need to check out just so they don’t go mad. The og team are prob used to being treated like shitby ea and probably are able to fight a little more because they are basically carrying the game at this point. (Not saying the others are bad, the work environment is just shit mixed with shit with some sprinkled shit on top) my thoughts, unqualified theory, allegedly
Things used to be different but after the pandemic started things changed at the headquarters. A lot of unhappy devs.
Im just waiting for an ex ea/sims 4 team employee post a "why i left buzzfeed" style video that just lets us all know what the heck is going on in there
I feel like ea making the new sims game is just an excuse to drop the sims 4 cause yes most of their effort is put into the new sims game it will still be years before the new game comes out so it’s really capitalist to just drop the sims 4 cause yes ea might of moved on onto the new sims game the players haven’t cause there’s no new game to play yet love your videos ❤❤❤
It's 50/50. Many players argue why keep going when it's trash? I do think the decision to recycle the online engine is all it took. Not that it's EA because then people shouldn't be praising 2&3 no matter how bad 4 is. Also all I read is "let's start bitching where's pets, seasons, university etc again" even if BG is more balanced. So you say Capitalism to ditch 4, but wouldn't it be listening to the customers who say just move on already?
i rly want them to fix relationships and family tree. i play generations and it gets annoying when my sims accidentally become romantically involved w their 2nd cousins and beyond. also dine out has been broken since it came out rly annoying.
I do really appreciate your blunt commentary 💜 Even when I haven't always agreed fully, it's way more helpful than not, and has helped me since I've picked up the game again after years. I haven't bought more recent expansions except cottage living (I am a sucker for adding more animals, I realize this 🤷♀️), and I feel at least a sliver better about my spending choices towards it.
Thank you for being you, boo 💜 sorry I was one of the lurkers for a bit, but I'm finally subscribing now, and I'm interested in seeing future opinions 💕
I’m only building and yesterday I noticed that the game keeps saying I’m playing a household i haven’t played with. My building process seems to be saving… but I’m worried it won’t.
I will be real, if ot wasn't for the mod community (and piracy, I guess), I doubt TS4 would have as large of a playerbase as it has now. They carry the game in their backs
My sims 4 game doesn't even work anymore, its so buggy and I can't even control my sims anymore. it feels like ive tried almost everything to fix it, but its still completely unplayable, I mean I can still build (which I do enjoy) but in terms of the actual gameplay, I can't really even play the game so sometimes it feels pointless.
I wish ea would hire modders and release them as patches
What’s even worse is that they don’t even care about us console players one bit. We don’t have any mods or cc. We should atleast get a full time discount on the overpriced packs but i prefer mods and cc. It is so boring using the same items even though I have some packs
I read that Amazon is allegedly trying to buy EA. Does anyone know more about that? I read it yesterday and the first thing that came to my mind was that the condition of the packs might be directly related to an upcoming sale/ takeover. I wonder if the current situation was deliberately brought about because certain parties to the deal could expect certain benefits from a situation like this. I would be interested to know if some of y'all have heard anything about it and how you assess the situation. And Satch, thanks for your content. What I like the most about it is your criticism of capitalism and the way you speak openly about everything.
It would be an improvement over
Di$ney.
Wouldn't be surprised if they sell. I prefer Amazon to get it but I think Disney may get it in the end because they're looking to expand more in the gaming industry and they would give a better offer than Amazon would.
Unfortunately, werewolves still has awful glitches and gurus just tell us to "remove the pack then start it up then put it back." Like how a cured sim still displays wolf symptoms constantly. Plus there are two sets of the wolves for some reason and it really messes with the neighborhood stories. Oh and whatever glitch is going on with it that caused duplicate worlds. And they just tell us to remove it. Like no. Fix the game!
10 minutes of my favourite sims CZcamsr saying absolute FACTS! Thanks for being transparent (unlike ea)
EA is still busy re-releasing FIFA every year at higher prices
Are you sure you're not just matching with EA over and over again on Tinder?
apparently the marketing people at EA love when we complain because it means people talk about the game. It's a mentality of "love us or hate us at least you talk about us" which is doable but it has absolutely no legacy. Theyre shooting themselves in the foot
I really had hope after werewolves came out. it was such a solid pack and for ea's money grabbyness, came with a lot of features. didn't take long for them to shatter our hopes 🤣
If one said this a few years ago, they would have been frowned upon and called a Karen, because people still had hope for this game to become better.
This is no longer the case.
I wonder what they are doing sometimes. Are they just goofing off or what? I mean, how long does it take simply to re-address some of the townies to make them look more like the previous Sims games. That should be an easy box to tick. If they can't even be bothered to do that it doesn't set up much potential that they might get around to anything else with any energy unless they are charging you for it.
That salt cake metaphor in the beginning of the video is actually perfect
Finally early!
I got the wedding pack, and when I saw how buggy it was I was like ''Ok I have only had it for a few hours lets refund it!''. But no, there is nothing saying no refunds while buying it, but there still are no refunds. Luckily it didn't mess up too much for me, since normally I just do the eloping at home and stuff, but honestly I wish I hadn't gotten it. And then there is the werewolf pack, I love this pack and I love the customization and the new town, but you can only change into a wolf on the full moon. I was expecting to be able to change into wolf on command, like the spellcasters and how they can just summon a familiar, but no... It doesn't let you do it like that, and it really just makes you feel like a normal human while playing.
I can’t even save my game anymore - just comes up with an error with no way of saving
My game has been almost completely unplayable since high school came out. I was excited for more interactive teens, but half the time my game refuses to save. Even when it looks like it saved successfully and I don't get an error message, if I travel with my sim and then go back home, it'll be back to the previous sim day and I've lost all of my progress. I've repaired the game, uninstalled and reinstalled it, even stopped using cc entirely, and nothing works. I'm just not going to play for now.
Hello, I have the same problem, is it really not the mods?
@@Anna-bv2zt I have no idea what's causing it. All I know is if I download any cc or mods at all, the game stops saving.
@@TillowFrik This is so annoying i hope it gets fixed, thanks for your answer🍀