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Would you buy the current TS4 version on release date?
lunaoddity
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Edit: Would you still be interested in the game? Say you watch the promos and read the info on what's included. If the base game as it is now (with current and upcoming updates) came out this year. Would you still buy it? Would it still interest you? Pretend that you don't have to worry about the price.
For reference, the 2014 version had no toddlers, no pools, no ghosts, no family tree, etc. Just think of the game as it is now and if you would still buy it.
Edit: wording
For reference, the 2014 version had no toddlers, no pools, no ghosts, no family tree, etc. Just think of the game as it is now and if you would still buy it.
Edit: wording
Post edited by lunaoddity on
Would you buy the current TS4 version on release date? 119 votes
Yes
63%
75 votes
No
36%
44 votes
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Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
I still play TS2 and TS3 as well, but TS4 is my mainstay for Simming and I just wouldn't want to not have it.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
But then again, it is a new sims game... that handles many things better than Sims 3 did (for my playstyle, that is)... Considering that I was hyped for shoes being seperate from outfits in the Sims 3 teaser, the unisex, every outfit useable for every category CAS might win me over within the first one or two weeks after release.
If they were upfront about the limitations from the very beginning, then NOPE! I absolutely would not buy it again!
But since I've invested wayyyyyy too much money on everything I own to abandon it now, I just deal with it.
In the 1st couple of years of TS4, I just kept holding on to hope that surely they'd eventually give us some type of world editing tool, that when we finally got apartments we could build our own in any worlds and that we'd some day be able to actually swim in all the worlds that had water, etc.
Almost 8 years later none of my hopes, wants, and wishes have been fulfilled even with 11 Expansion Packs, 10 Game Packs, 18 Stuff Packs, and 9 Kits.
Personality,depth,humor,consequences,lore,customization.
I bought pretty much all of Sims 2, except for two things, which was due to them being at the end. Also, right after them being merged into packs I already had.
I waited on Sims 3, and bought it long after it stopped selling, and only chose what I wanted. My Sims 3 is incomplete, but I was able to choose what I wanted from it.
With Sims 4, I bought it in 2018, because I didn't like it when it was released. Even with all the packs available, I still would have waited on it.
I don't try to compare the three games together, but most of the Sims 4 things I buy is mostly if I liked the Sims 2 version. However, I do like that Sims 4 is pushing the envelope with packs that never appeared in Sims 2 or 3.
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If I wouldn't recommend it, that means I wouldn't buy it for myself, again.
I have been playing Sims games since the original; have sunk ten thousand hours+ into the franchise as a whole, but I can say with absolute honesty that there has never been a Sims game I would play without mods (and CC for that matter). Every one of them since the original has far too many annoyances and bugs without mods for my tastes.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
As for TS4, I don't think I would have gotten the game now. With the 2014 version I felt disappointed within the hour. If it were now, I love the toddlers and I have loved playing with my sims over the years, working around the flaws and glaring at the screen. At the same time, I have relied on mods to make the game manageable. E.g: Stopping relationship culling.
I guess it’s hard to speak about the game without mentioning what we currently know. For me it remains as an incomplete puzzle receiving pieces every now and then. Right now they keep focusing on the “selves." I can only speak for my playstyle. To this date ghosts remain tied to the family tree. The only paid “update” for babies so far were the knittable onesies. Most recently, the game invites you to control your played households through your current household using texts where the sender pouts if you don't play along. Invitations to hang out with friends/relatives occur at random hours instead of being tied to the calendar, etc. If I were to read that information (along with the focus on social commentary), TS3 would have been my final sims game.
Things like abandoning whims, never expanding on or improving current systems such as sentiments, preferences and most importantly sim personalities has been a big frustration for me with the Sims 4.
In short I feel that the development focus is in the wrong place with this iteration and has it been for a long time.
The main reason why I went on the jump wagon with Sims 4 right at September 3rd 2014 was because my original Sims 3 was constantly crashing & freezing up every few minutes. There was nothing I could do to salvage it. I constantly did repairs, uninstalled over 50% of my old Sims 3 packs, but it didn't work. I only played vanilla & offline.
Since 2014 in 2018, I discovered from my daughter that the new digital Sims 3 version works great. She learned this & got her own digital Sims 3 starter pack. I had to wait a bit longer because I found out that Canada finally lifted the red tape for me to get the Sims 4 Gameplay Packs & Stuff Packs. All I was able to get was only the Expansion Packs for 4 years.
The only reason now why I still go back to playing Sims 3 is because Sims 4 doesn't have my Fairies, Genies, Werewolves, Spiral Stairs, Heartshape Bed, Ice Fishing, Ice Lake Skating, Fall Festivals, Cars & being able to color anything (Color Wheel).
I voted no, but now my answer is actually YES because I wanna try it. I mean if it's cheap, I will buy it just because I'm curious lol
I congraduate the simmers who had enough will power to actually wait until Sims 4 was about 7 years old.
The current version is way better than the first release because of all the updates. I can't imagine playing without toddlers, pools, ghosts, family trees,... And those are only the missing features I never experienced because of my late start at sims 4.
I mentioned the 2014 version as reference. As a few examples, it didn't have the basics such as family trees, ghosts, pools, and toddlers.
The question is if you would still be interested in buying the current version of the game on launch date. Say you watch the promos and read the info on what's included. If the game came out this year. Would you still buy it? Pretend the price isn't an issue. This would be the game version you first play with.
I bought mine for around $41 from a keys website back in 2014. The regular price was $59.99 and the deluxe version was $69.99. It's crazy how much the BG price decreased over the years. I think the regular price was $4.99 once. Right now it's $39.99.