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With the game so bugged, where do you stand on new content?
GrimlyFiendish
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What it says on the tin. Will/has your purchasing habits in regards to the Sims change/have changed with the increase in game bugs?
Occult Simmer (All Occult All The Time)
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
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With the game so bugged, where do you stand on new content? 84 votes
I am unconcerned about or the bugs aren't that bad, so I will still purchase all the content EA give us.
10%
9 votes
The bugs are an issue I'm concerned about, but I will still support EA by purchasing new content.
11%
10 votes
Until the bugs are fixed, I will only consider purchasing new content if it's something I really want.
39%
33 votes
I am officially done, until the bugs are fixed I will neither purchase nor download any further content from EA
22%
19 votes
With the free content released I remain hopeful that EA are showing a gesture of goodwill & the bugs will be fixed soon (explain if this still changes your buying habits)
2%
2 votes
I generally like to stand on my feet (aka this poll is dumb option)
0%
Klaatu Barada Nikto. (aka this poll is dumb option, but with a nerdy film quote)
1%
1 vote
Other (anything not included in this poll's options.
11%
10 votes
0
Comments
Wait a minute, the words.
All right, all right, all right.
Say the words.
KIaatu barada... Iu...
Necktie.
Nectar, nickel.
Noodle. It's an "N" word.
It's definitely an "N" word.
It's definitely an "N" word.
(COUGHING)
KIaatu barada n...
Okay, then.
That's it.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
All hell breaks loose
1. More development and support for the game. It's not okay to add a game changing feature like wants and fears and not even check if they can be turned off for us players. They are also very repetitive and unbalanced.
2. More focus on having fun. More focus on variation and fun gameplay, less focus on set dressing and rabbit holes. In High School Years the after school activities like football and cheerleading was just walls of text.
But, I also never buy "sight unseen" .... I always wait to read other players experiences before I ever decide to update with a pre-pack patch.
Then after reading or watching bugged patch/pack reviews, I always evaluate if the issues other players are having with the patch/pack will be something I might run into too? If it's not a bug that I would typically experience because I don't play the same way (such as MWS, I never wanted it for the actual wedding gameplay ..... I only wanted the world so those game breaking bugs wouldn't have affected me because I don't do weddings), then I'll wait for mods to update before I buy.
If it's a bug that is happening basically universally with all simmers (such as the insanely obsessive phone usage, the inability to keep wants and fears shut off permanently, etc), then I will most definitely hold off updating/buying anything until some modder comes to the rescue and fixes the mess that EA gave us.
I could never, ever ..... not in a million years ever play TS4 without mods, I can handle playing without CC, but never without mods so I always wait to actually "play" the game even when I buy a pack I'm interested in and will just open my "test" save to go in and look at CAS/BB and that's about it until all my important mods are updated.
Most of the bugs that were most bothersome to me over the couple of years I've been playing have been fixed, for example the cooking bug and the stairs bug.
A couple of the newest features are really in need of tuning and it's too bad that the toggle for wants and fears doesn't work yet. (I wonder if the leak of HSY caused it to be rushed out before it was really ready?)
I prefer to wait to get new packs to see if people report bugs that would make them not fun for me, before I buy them. And then if/when those bugs are fixed, I buy them then. I did that with My Wedding Stories.
Have to agree. I still bought the entire TS3 (minus Katy Parry) in a Steam sale a couple years back. I can thankfully still count on Nraas to fix most of the problems.
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Thing is, I normally am in the camp that delays updating until the game is confirmed to run adequately and mitigate bugs with workarounds and mods, but continue to buy content. At the moment, however, there is one bug that I consider gamebreaking for my playstyle (Wants/Fears toggle not working), so before that one is not addressed I won't update and therefore won't be able to buy new dlc even if I wanted. I grabbed the free Desert Deluxe kit from a different computer, but may never be able to actually download it.
I am officially done, until the bugs are fixed I will neither purchase nor download any further content from EA
I'd rather play with a broken "outdated" game than play with a broken game full of bloatware. Meaning forced features I don't care about. Some with broken toggles that keep pushing the game into the opposite of "you rule."
My collection stops at Cottage Living (which my sister wanted to buy). MWS and the High School pack are packs I'd have bought in the beginning but not 8 years later for a broken game.
-Yes, person I barely know, you have my blessing to hang out with Johnny Zest.
-No person with the mean, hot-headed and self-absorbed traits, I don't think you should get married.
I can't say I won't ever buy or download anything else until the bugs are fixed. I'll download free stuff, I'll probably pick up the Jungle Adventures pack eventually and if they really, really, really wow me (like Werewolves-level wow) I might consider buying genuinely new content but not at launch... not until the new content has been proven stable and to live up to the hype. Right now I wouldn't get High School Years if EA paid me to do it and I would say I am extremely unlikely to purchase other new content.
AHQ Champion
Thus, I will continue to buy what I want to buy when I choose to buy it.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
Currently I'm on a hiatus and don't know when/if I'll play TS4 again. I'm tired of seeing incomplete stuff added to the game and waiting for fixes that might never come.
Been a while since I watched Army of the Dead, but from memory I so wanted a guest appearance by Gort during that scene. I mean Michael Rennie (actor who played Klaatu in The Day The Earth Stood Still) would've been great as well, but considering he was dead at the time, a giant metallic, earth destroying robot would've sufficed.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
In short it is not only the buggy state of the game but also the low quality of some of the recent DLC that make me more selective in what packs to buy.
Besides kits already mark the start of the realisation that I won't be getting all content for the sims 4. I will mainly focus on proper DLC with gameplay like EP, GP and SP, not kits which only sell good looks.