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Still playing 4?
brainybee
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Just curious. If you bought the game, how long have you had it, and are you still playing? If yes, great! If not, is it by choice (not what you thought it would be, boredom) or because they've made changes since launch, or because you can't play because of bugs or crashes? No judgement, just curiosity. We've got lots of friendly simmers here who have "agreed to disagree."
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I bought the base game but I'm not playing it because it's so empty....and buying a GP isn't going to cure my kind of emptiness. I'm lucky to have a playable game with none of the reported bugs. I opened my game the other night and played for about two hours to see if I did have any. Isn't that ironic though? I have a playable game and it holds no interest for me in it's present state.
When I first got it I was so excited to play it. I played for a couple of days until I got bored... I never get that easily bored with a Sims game. Sims games are supposed to have endless possibilities for different types of play. This time was different
I try to play from time to time. But this game doesn't CONSUME me like the rest of the games did. I mean like start playing at 3 in the afternoon and all of a sudden its 4 in the morning and you're like "WHAT YEAR IS IT"
I've also been debating on uninstalling Sims4 and playing Sim2 and Sims3 for a while. I just sort of lost interest. It's sad. It had so much potential ):
I got the GP and it's added a lot. Very impressed with it.
I tried to love it despite it's missing aspects but it was so devoid of what I love most about the sims-toddlers, family trees, familial relationship tracking, sandbox play etc that it started upsetting me every time I played. In the end my oh told me to stop. He said I was hurting myself trying to love it-that it's the sims and that love should be there from day one. If it wasn't then it wasn't a failure on my part.
Occasionally I boot it up when there are patches to test it again but always within half an hour I find myself feeling that sadness and shutting it down again.
I'm hoping for better from the sims4 but the longer time goes on the less it seems there's any empathy for customers like me at EA. And that makes me really sad. After supporting the series since it's first release it feels very upsetting that I'm left out and unable to enjoy and invest further. I genuinely felt heartbroken when the game pack came out. I would've been the first to buy any new content but how can I support a game which doesn't support what I love most? I can't
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I got it for Christmas.
I've played it about 10 hours, started a Legacy- of course.
After playing it I had a hard time wanting to play any Sims games. I just didn't want to open TS2 or TS3 or TS4.I actually didn't play for a few days and then I opened up CAW. CAW got be back to enjoying TS games, almost finished a world, too. Lol
I don't know what it was but it didn't make me happy.... Normal ages felt drawn out and too long from the pregnancy stage through the child ages. My Sim children are still children and they still have several days to go and I'm about to bake some birthday cakes to age them up.
I don't know what happened... I can't enjoy it but I believe once more is out and EA adds what I enjoy in the games, I'll have fun again. I'll wait and play other games until then.
*It confuses and befuddles me when I read how others view this game as beautiful and that the Sims are so realistic and how their lives are so full and fun... I must be on anther wave length.
I went in a few days ago to check it out, went to the bar and of course that was glitched. I played maybe 15-20 minutes.
I never had any problems with bugs or crashes till the other day (game didn't crash but I only ran into the bar glitch) Not a game-breaker for me, just don't care to play the game.
They took my dollhouse away and gave me a miniature one........so not happy with that!
Only to find out that it was more disappointing than I had originally thought. I still play it time to time, but I play it for 10 minutes and then I just stop, I can't get into it.
With the release of Outdoor Retreat, I just switched back to TS4....and honestly it's the 1st time I've played TS4 for hours on end since I originally bought the game. I think once I find the collectibles & hermit hidden neighborhood, I'll probably get bored again. TS4 has some great features, but it is lacking in the areas of venue types and small worlds, which causes the boredom. I haven't experienced any major bugs, with exception to the Gallery crashing, but I access it online now, so that's really not a big deal.
For the Sims 3 I had one main sim that I played with aging off. When a new expansion was released I'd move her to the new world and start working on careers and skills and whatever new game-play was introduced. When a new store world was introduced I'd move her there and explore. Sometimes she'd marry and have a family but simply so that I could complete whatever game-play was related to children and teens.
When WA was released she explored all three vacation destinations, solved all the puzzles, etc. When Show Time was released she mastered all three entertainment careers. And so on for each expansion. This is also the way I played Sims 2.
I can honestly say of all the versions Sims 4 is my favorite because of the goal-oriented play. My sim has already completed several careers and aspirations. Right now she is one promotion away from reaching the top of the Culinary career and when she does she will celebrate by going on vacation. When she returns from vacation I will select another career. I didn't immediately jump into Outdoor Retreat because I see the game packs as enhancing my game-play.
I still have Sims 2 and Sims 3 installed and although I don't play them as often as I used to I still play them both. For me each game offers something different and what has made Sims 4 enjoyable for me is realizing that it is a totally different game from it's predecessors.
About a week later, I found myself thinking "Have I really given it a chance?" and I bought it AGAIN. I tried playing with a larger household this time and enjoyed myself much more. But it only lasted about as far as them aging from YA to Adults and having a baby before I got bored again and wanted a refund, but it was too late this time.
Since then, I've heavily modded it (creeping up on 70) to remove the aspects that I dislike to see if that renews interest for me. I've started all kinds of Challenges that have never interested me in the past. I've made Sims with traits that I don't even like just to see if they are more fascinating. I've tried to force myself to like this game. Because that's what I do. I LOVE the Sims. Just not this version.
I actually like the stylized art. I like the look of the Sims themselves. I dislike the lack of interactions. I dislike the goals. I dislike the absence of Family Play. They've basically stripped the game of everything that makes me want to love to play the Sims. I have no interest in camping when I know that all they'll do is talk more, just this time in a forest. I have never been this bored with a Sims game. I have never not lost myself for hours in the lives of my tiny creations to the point where I look up and the sun is rising because I've been up all night enjoying myself.
TS4 is a major disappointment.
The same thing happened to me. After trying TS4 I just lost any urge to play any TS game......
And no.... I don't think you are another wave length. While I have no real problem with the graphics (I loved the look of TS2 Sims) those plum pink trees burn holes in my brain.
I opened the game and felt the emptiness and claustrophobia. Plus lack of toddlers and family tree and freedom were all big issues for me.
I launch for a few minutes occasionally. I patch when I open Origin because that's what happens when you open origin.
I bought Sims 3 releases immediately when available but I won't be getting any new content for this game for a long time, if ever.
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I've had the game since Cyber Monday, so a few months. I like it, but have had to install quite a bit of mods to enjoy it. I am still finding bugs and glitches in it and was able to recreate one to send to EA to fix. I just wish Sims weren't so easy to kill, linear game play was toned down quite a bit, and if some things to enhance family play were put into the base game.
I'm getting the gp later today. And now that I'm used to school, I can play and enjoy it
@PHOEBESMOM601 - I'm so sorry.
I had told myself that I had to finished a project I kinda promised someone. Since it was for someone else, I didn't want to build when I was in a not so focused mood so I opened a old world from years ago. Just to see if I could still make anything nice. It worked out and I'm like it. Now, I'm finishing a turn in Uni with TS2.