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I uninstalled The Sims 4 and you should too.
Daleylife
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Well, after two years, I finally hit the uninstall button.
I'll try to make this short and sweet.
I've been playing since THE SIMS. I had the first game within a week of its release.
Each iteration of 'The Sims' has had positives and negatives. However, I feel THE SIMS 4 has just fallen flat and is the worst in the series.
The game has an unhealthy relationship with socialization and focuses WAY.TOO.MUCH. on the young adult life stage. Yes, we did get a kids stuff pack. But, that's ONE form of content release over two years. This is just an example. Children are pointless in this game. Teens are the same height as adults and aside from a few choice animations, function just the same as an adult.
I have become beyond frustrated with the content management and the content itself. Get To Work was a decent expansion until I realized employees did NOTHING and this was BY DESIGN. So, my enjoyment of that expansion lessened. Get Together was, in my opinion, a 🐸🐸🐸🐸-poor expansion that only made a base game function more complex. "Clubs" are glorified "Groups" and again, the focus is heavy on socialization and young adults.
Group Conversation looked great on paper, but in execution it does not work very well. Sims love to play musical chairs and still do, two years later. Yes, the sims talking in groups is wonderful, but it happens way too much and has not been retooled. Even with Dine Out, Sims love to get up when eating once in awhile. (The Gurus did "fix" the issue supposedly, by making Sims stuck in their seats.) How about we retool group conversation, since the mechanic is broken?
I did buy SPA DAY. And that pack is decent. I will admit that. But at its core, THE SIMS 4 is broken.
This, combined with the responses from Sim Guru Drake has just pushed me over the edge.
The Sims 4 is NOT a good game. Clearly. It has good points but needs so much fixing. But, Gurus think we want more stuff for our backyard. NO! This is NOT what we want.
So, I am no longer playing. I am no longer supporting this game.
And, if you want EA to really listen, you have to stop emptying your wallet for them.
I'll try to make this short and sweet.
I've been playing since THE SIMS. I had the first game within a week of its release.
Each iteration of 'The Sims' has had positives and negatives. However, I feel THE SIMS 4 has just fallen flat and is the worst in the series.
The game has an unhealthy relationship with socialization and focuses WAY.TOO.MUCH. on the young adult life stage. Yes, we did get a kids stuff pack. But, that's ONE form of content release over two years. This is just an example. Children are pointless in this game. Teens are the same height as adults and aside from a few choice animations, function just the same as an adult.
I have become beyond frustrated with the content management and the content itself. Get To Work was a decent expansion until I realized employees did NOTHING and this was BY DESIGN. So, my enjoyment of that expansion lessened. Get Together was, in my opinion, a 🐸🐸🐸🐸-poor expansion that only made a base game function more complex. "Clubs" are glorified "Groups" and again, the focus is heavy on socialization and young adults.
Group Conversation looked great on paper, but in execution it does not work very well. Sims love to play musical chairs and still do, two years later. Yes, the sims talking in groups is wonderful, but it happens way too much and has not been retooled. Even with Dine Out, Sims love to get up when eating once in awhile. (The Gurus did "fix" the issue supposedly, by making Sims stuck in their seats.) How about we retool group conversation, since the mechanic is broken?
I did buy SPA DAY. And that pack is decent. I will admit that. But at its core, THE SIMS 4 is broken.
This, combined with the responses from Sim Guru Drake has just pushed me over the edge.
The Sims 4 is NOT a good game. Clearly. It has good points but needs so much fixing. But, Gurus think we want more stuff for our backyard. NO! This is NOT what we want.
So, I am no longer playing. I am no longer supporting this game.
And, if you want EA to really listen, you have to stop emptying your wallet for them.
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Just wondering, what was she saying that was so bad? Like, I haven't really been following a lot of threads here lately so I haven't really seen gurus say anything
Also, sorry that you dislike TS4 so much, maybe you can go back to playing the older games if you like them more? or just take a break from the sims for a while
either way i don't think anyone else should uninstall their game just because other people don't enjoy it
Sadly sometimes even good games might eventually have a release which is not to your taste
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You need to speak for yourself; there are people, such as myself, who like more outdoorsy-type content.
That's your choice and you are certainly entitled to do that, but please don't tell me or other people what to do. Because I WON'T BE.
Once again, the OP is not bashing anyone. They didn't say "People who play TS4 are a load of plummity plums". They just stated why they uninstalled and told other why they should (though of course, are not forcing anybody to do so)
That I'm most certainly planning to do. But uninstall? I still have a few things to do with what I did buy. And who knows they'll surprise me with their next EP.
The OP is telling people what to do, no matter if they like the game or not - they are, in a way, forcing people to uninstall the game.
The OP has also said that they think everyone thinks the Sims 4 is a bad game - it is false, as there are people that do enjoy the Sims 4 and like the game. There are also people that do not enjoy the Sims 4; everyone is entitled to what they can like and dislike.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion but if that means other players should be ordered to uninstall the game then that is crossing the line a bit.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/897072/questions-for-gamescom-q-a-panel/p1
Here's a link to the page where SimGuruDrake responds to other simmers and the whole thread is really them going back and forth.
Eh, in my opinion, Drake didn't say anything horrible, she just brushed off a lot of the concerns that simmers were expressing and debated with a lot of them. I don't think that was the wisest decision, but hey I'm not her! There seemed to be a lot of condescension and argumentative discussion more than anything but Drake also said that she was not trying to come off as rude to other simmers.
It seems like The Sims community is starting to fall apart because of the lack of success that TS4 has been (my opinion, feel free to have your own) and I personally felt like Drake didn't help ease most anyone's mind in that thread about the direction that the game is going.
Just bums me out to see an incredible game that began in my childhood, started by the fabulous Will Wright, be turned into something so far off base with the original, by people who don't have the same vision, and now it appears to be the beginning of the end. Although EA and the Guru's wont say that, but why would they?