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I want EA and the Sims 4 to Stop
PrincessrozeeS
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I want EA and the Sims 4 to stop all the changes they are making to the Sims 4. I have been playing the Sims since the Sims 1 and I no longer recognise this game.
I really want to love the Sims 4 and play for hours but I go on and feel DUH. I never felt this with the Sims 2.
Seriously you need to think what your players really want. Maybe I am old and been playing too long and you think that younger people want something different.
OK, if you think that let it be and I will eventually go. Does the younger generation ever think that the older generation has has a valid point.
Enough said
I really want to love the Sims 4 and play for hours but I go on and feel DUH. I never felt this with the Sims 2.
Seriously you need to think what your players really want. Maybe I am old and been playing too long and you think that younger people want something different.
OK, if you think that let it be and I will eventually go. Does the younger generation ever think that the older generation has has a valid point.
Enough said
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Still, the Sims 4 is very sandboxy so I'm sure there is still some redeeming value for older players to get something out of it.
My advice to the Sims marketing team is to develop a two-pronged approach because, frankly, there's no other option. The younger demographic is more valuable but when you throw everything at them you're alienating the rest of the fanbase. It's already happened. And with competitor games on the horizon, the Sims Marketing team needs to be proactive and maintain the base while also attracting these younger fans. The two-pronged approach needs to appeal to the nostalgia and charm of the old games plus respect the maturity and age of its oldest fans while also continuing this Gen Z/Gen Alpha push that's currently dominating their strategy.
I agree that I don’t like all of the packs and content, and their marketing sometimes (often for me) misses the mark but I appreciate that they create so much new content and sometimes they release something and I just think YES!
The reason I feel like this is because the Sims 1/2/3 are still there if I want to go back to them. I don’t see 4 as replacing them, it’s just something new instead.
Hmm…. stop what?
I can see that you are very passionate but I do not understand what it is that you wish to stop?
Personally I want to throw the sim’s phone under a bus but, so less mandatory tech idle-animations. That it would be easier to play historical saves.
What is it that you do not like?
Honestly, Sims 4 was never the same as the older versions as EA/Maxis messed with the formula too much by cutting out the features. The gameplay for me while not bad it just too generic and whatever features they tried to put back in appeared to be gimped to the point that Sims 4 will never be as creative as the past versions. I used to be happy to open up Sims 2 and 3 but with 4 I do not share that mood. Only a couple of packs aroused my interest but not to the point where I can play beyond an hour or two. I feel the older generation as myself do have a valid point for being Sims 4 is still connected to the Sims series one does not cut features and just add new features which for me was a failure because it does not connect 2 or 3 to it. This move by EA/Maxis in doing so is not how series evolution is done by cutting all features as it is done by adding new features to the old features and having them work together. Sims 4 for has also turned into an art show more than a game. But to coverup for their mistake they are catering to a new generation and not so much for the older generation for most of the new generation may never played the older versions. Also, EA/Maxis is stuck in the past and afraid to use the newer technology even if the program is 64 bit which should allow for some flexibility and also EA/Maxis ability to tweak what they have come into play for it is lousy at best. I am not waiting for SIms 5 for It may be worser than this version.
And even when they do add gameplay features with consequences (sentiments, wants and fears) they never make them relevant for older packs, just the base game and newer packs.
they have focused on all the wrong stuff like set dressing
this game is a disrespectful mess of lack lusterless gameplay
the question is what are they thinking
i spent too much money for a mobile game marketed as a sim's pc game
i'm not apart of the toxic positivity
i'm dissatisfied with my over all purchase
I do know what you're getting at. The Sims for me is an enjoyable, creative escape - emphasis on 'creative'. I want to be able to tell my own stories, with my own characters; I have literally zero interest in playing a simself, and I find it very frustrating when the game attempts to make storyline decisions for me & circumvents my own imagination or my own storytelling ability (case in point, the current state of 'wants and fears').
I still enjoy playing the Sims, but I also don't like some of the direction I'm seeing in terms of game play becoming more controlled than what I'd like.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
The game issues no matter what they do will remain as long as they refuse to give content depth, they refuse to include older packs into newer packs and patched in features and continue to tell their story and never give us the tools to tell our own. I don't think I will ever open up Sims 4 and get lost in the game and look at the clock and see its 5 am Sims 4 is just too repetitive to get lost in.
THIS. This is something that's underneath all the words people throw around like woke, representation, diversity, etc. It's a problem with marketing making the game entirely about CAS instead of actually PLAYING THE GAME. It's about skin color, hair color, and clothing over OBJECTS. And as Omri said, it's about playing YOURSELF as if that's all Sims players want to do.
It's all well and good to be able to sit back and be happy that you were able to make a Sim that's an accurate representation of yourself, but if there's nothing fun for that Sim to DO, you're going to shut down the game pretty quickly.
Yes to this. The new changes to the base game I'm definitely not a fan of. Its getting to the point where if I see a new update, I automatically think "oh no..". It wasn't good when they introduced the bug (or whatever caused it) which caused Sims to automatically age up. Its also equally as irritating that Sims are dying from every single thing now. To the point that a Sim can easily die at least twice in a single save which never used to happen. (The amount of times I've lost progress to get my Sim back is getting beyond irritating.)
The new phone layout is messy and confusing when it was fine before and didn't need changing. As for the wants and fears well I'm undecided on this. It has changed quite a bit lately and not sure that its for the better. Imo those things didn't need changing.
As for the Sims 4 itself; I am happy to continue playing, just wish that they would stop changing things that interrupt normal gameplay when those things never needed changing to begin with.
> I want EA and the Sims 4 to stop all the changes they are making to the Sims 4. I have been playing the Sims since the Sims 1 and I no longer recognise this game.
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> I really want to love the Sims 4 and play for hours but I go on and feel DUH. I never felt this with the Sims 2.
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> Seriously you need to think what your players really want. Maybe I am old and been playing too long and you think that younger people want something different.
>
> OK, if you think that let it be and I will eventually go. Does the younger generation ever think that the older generation has has a valid point.
>
> Enough said
Can you be more specific please?
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This applies to the Sims as well. Even though it has a T rating, anyone who has played previous games can tell that certain aspects have been removed or "sanitized" for lack of a better word to make it appeal to the younger demographic. But, they will grow up eventually, and what appealed to them then may not be the same now. In a way, the Sims 4, and by extension Sims 3 and even Sims 2, have all been "dumbed down" in some way. It's just especially obvious in Sims 4.
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Thank goodness for my unusual imagination.
No, my issue is with the tech-idle-animations and the way the phone interrupts occult sims and gets in the way for historical saves.
And yes, someone mute that (GRRRRR!!!) phone! I can't stand playing occults and having so many calls about duels, how to be a vampire, yadda yadda yadda. My poor Sim can't even have friends over without someone calling about something. My Sim actually has a life, and is not overly rich. What should it do, cancel every get together, vacation, restaurant dinner, and cooking for children for a party every night? And if I want to go to a festival, I will go, don't call me about it. The game is too focused on socials with pixelated people.
Okay rant over.
What are the competitors? Paralives and….?
> And yes, someone mute that (GRRRRR!!!) phone! I can't stand playing occults and having so many calls about duels, how to be a vampire, yadda yadda yadda. My poor Sim can't even have friends over without someone calling about something. My Sim actually has a life, and is not overly rich. What should it do, cancel every get together, vacation, restaurant dinner, and cooking for children for a party every night? And if I want to go to a festival, I will go, don't call me about it. The game is too focused on socials with pixelated people.
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> Okay rant over.
"The flee market is in town." (don't care)
"Let's go to the blablabla festival. (Let's not)
"Today is .... season." (Today is "not going outside" season)
"Let's go the comedy club." (Why don't you go by yourself, since you're one big joke)
Please, don't call me every day. I don't call you every day. Can I sell/smash/destroy/delete my phone?
Lol! Exactly!