the downfall of the sims 4...
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Sims 4 is a glorified dollhouse simulator. I’m tired of EA acting like it’s nothing more than that. You can’t claim there’s lore, depth, and narrative like previous sims games or other rpgs when you can’t even bother to make meaningful storylines and worlds for your own sims/townies.
Also, it’s ridiculous that a game with DLC totaling over 1000 dollars still feels empty. AND ITS BUGGY AF.
Its so disappointing to see the sims franchise in this state, and it’s all because EA decided to be greedy af
i wanna be bella gotha
Acting like the previous titles weren't just as cash grabby or also a simulated dollhouse is kind of funny. "SIms 3 is sooooo good!" Ok they've got literal sim point store items in front of the ones you have in the buy mode but alright. The sims 3 island pack literally wouldn't run for most people btw.
@@wynngwynni think ppl may have rose colored glasses. also many (most?) sims players can’t even play sims 2 or 3 anymore so they’re running off of nostalgia only
@@wynngwynnbut in 3 you can't deny you had much much more content than you do in 4 for a similar price, also i think the sims 3 store was implemented towards the end of the game's run and at least for me, yes you saw it in game but the page would never load when you clicked on it so it didn't even work lol
@@lilacfieldsyou can still play sims 2 & 3, i play them
the sims team will do anything except fix their game. they’re making US do the quality assurance testing for the bugs THEY cause. it’s mindless profit over quality and we keep enabling them.
im just hoping they’re being lazy about sims 4 because they’re building and putting all their work into sims 5 and just trying to farm money to fund the game? call me delusional. 😩
First the plumbella deep dive now THIS?!?!!? The sims girls are eating GOOODDDD
I watched that 3 times already. This long Sims content is Dangerous!
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Was about to comment this 😂😂
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@@jayceray4290do you have any idea how stressful and time consuming medical school is? Besides that it’s her channel and her life. If you take so much Issue with how she runs HER channel you are more than welcome to find someone else to watch. No one is holding you at gun point forcing you to watch.
@@jayceray4290lol are you joking? this isn’t her job, she doesn’t owe you more videos
@@yinyin8769 never said she owed me anything babes, just said how she usually takes months off before her next vid
@@jayceray4290 it's not like you're paying her to make these videos, you sound so entitled
the number of expansion packs and stuff packs compared to the other games is genuinely concerning knowing the majority of the things in those stuff packs + expansions could've been combined.
EXACTLY! Like, why give us the "city living" without the perks of "for rent?"
@@motherformerlyknownascoope883 and why for rent with no vacation rentals!! It's insane, they're probably gonna sell "Get hotels pack" for $40
fr like parenthood, growing together, and high school years would've all just been one big pack if it was sims 2 or 3
last night i was looking at the sims wiki, something related to pets? Anyway, I came across a part that read like
“The ability to own pets has been introduced in Sims Unleashed, Sims 2 Pets, Sims 3 Pets, Sims 4 Cats & Dogs, Sims 4 My First Pet Stuff, Sims 4 Cottage Living, and Sims 4 Horse Ranch”
I BURST OUT LAUGHING!!!!! omg.. the direct correlation on the proper sims wiki is ridiculous. It’s so embarrassing and shameful.
Paying $150 for 4 packs to get the same features we used to get in one Sims 3 pack for $40 is INSANE
The crystal stuff pack MADE me move back to the sims 3 cause I can’t do it anymore!! Like what are we doing?! It still doesn’t fully make sense to me
I agree 😊
Same, but I went back to TS2. I love it so much, why did I stop playing it to play TS4?!
@@psychicsocial Ok Katey Perry Sweet Treats Stuff Pack lol.
@@wynngwynnthey’re talking about ts2 not ts3 pls stop your non-points about ts3 are annoying and irrelevant
I literally went back to playing ts3 right before the crystal pack I’m so glad
WHEN THE WORLD NEEDED HER THE MOST, SHE CAME BACK.
Normani was able to come back before sims was able to step up 😞 I really hate this for the sims legacy…
THIS IS TAKING ME OUTHGHGKHGHF
Honestly Sims maybe ends,Before Rihanna come back doing music😚🍵
PLEASEEEEE
the expansions are so not worth buying anymore its insane LMAO
Scamming is the perfect word honestly😂
@@setsunatodoroki im tryna tell u!! 😭 its scamming at its finest
Kits are the fast fashion of Sims packs, there I‘ve said it
The downfall?? The Sims 4 never even got up.
I move my sims after every winter. When spring comes, it's time to move to a different lot with a different aesthetic, and different furniture.
That’s a great way to spice up your gameplay
MOTHER IS BACK!!! VEGAS LET ME HEAR YA MAKE SOME NOISE!!!
WOOOOOOOOOO
I’m in my 30s I started playing the sims in middle school and it makes me so sad that the sims 4 is such a mess. The expansions aren’t that fun. If sims 3 wasn’t so laggy I would be playing that, but I’ve been playing the sims 2 and I really enjoy it.
Download the NRAAS mods to make it run smoother! Many of them turn off unnecessary processes
Also the Lazy Duchess launcher helps with lag
@@grumpysphinx4911I have a beast of a gaming PC, the NRAAS mods, and the LD launcher and my sims 3 is still laggy which is wild because I feel like it did not lag as much when i had a more basic PC years and years ago
to summarize the above comments, check acottonsock here on youtube, she has a playlist of fixes + improvements for the sims 3!!! do the switch!
@@SassayyyyyYeees! Since I've been using them I don't even remember how messed up it used to be before that decision. They're not the only factors to pay attention to but those mods surely make a difference!!!
I just started playing the sims 3 a few days ago because all the packs were on sale for $8, and when I tell you I was blown away by how much better the game was than TS4. Only thing about TS4 that I like more is CAS and build/buy mode. Besides that, the game is pretty much perfect. More interactions, more to do, the open world concept is insane. It's honestly so much more fun than TS4 and I can't see myself getting burnt out as easily with TS3.
Edit: Also TS3 is way less buggy/laggy for me than TS4 was despite being older.
I'm so happy to hear this coming from a fellow simmer! I love that game with all my heart, it's sad that it isn't optimized at all, and if you want that you have to do it for yourself by looking at guides etc... Also the graphic is what it is, but honestly if you have some dlcs it's core becomes even better with an amazing experience!
Yeah finally computers today can kind of handle TS3. It isn’t optimized for 64 bit but it still plays better now than it did 10 years ago, taking up to 5 minutes to save, 10 minutes to boot into a world. For real, TS3 is still so much fun.
the invention of the game pack killed the expansion. they’ll have 1 concrete idea and decide to make it into a gamepack and then 3 years down the line they want to make an expansion and can’t think of anything on-theme to include because they’ve already done the backbone of that concept in a smaller pack.
i started playing the sims 2 and it’s actually sad how much more fun and how many better features it has.
the sims 4 is literally just a character creator & building game with the simulation as an after thought.
i’ve been playing 3 recently but I want so badly to play the sims 2!
There's tutorials on UA-cam to "buy it" pirate style@@cydneybrooke9945
for me the sims 3 will always be the best like cas and building might not be the best but the sims 3 gamplay is like no other, it's sad that in the sims 4 they only focused on cas and building
@@user-uw1do5yr4n It’s honestly so much fun. Very well done game
@@user-uw1do5yr4n i’ve never played sims 3 but it’s crazy how dull & empty the sims 4 feels like they decided to change the demographic to young children and not have a perspective or passion for the series anymore other than fancy graphics
my honest opinion is that if paralives, or one of the equivalents, is more fun to me than the sims 4 its unlikely ill return to the sims. im more frustrated than anything. every update introduces new issues that they dont acknowledge. the sims 4 is an empty shell of what the sims once was and its depressing. its so disheartening as a fan of the game to see all of this happening.
1:05:00 i think when you talk about the worlds becoming smaller i think what you mean is the worlds are getting less dense. they feel smaller because when you’re actually playing there is so little between the playable lots and the lots themselves are so spread out. instead the space is filled with useless decorative shells. in eco lifestyle the lots are generally closer together so it feels bigger.
No they are just smaller, we went from 20-30 lots per world down to 16 with Brindleton Bay and 16> ever since with an average of 12 lots per "normal" sized world since Cats and Dogs
I'm gonna be honest, Island Living was the Beginning of the End.
Truly because I love the world but what was the gameplay?
the fact that it didn't come with hotels...
It's so beautiful with nothing to do! So after realizing there were no restaurants I made a island carribean type restaurant. The most entertaining thing there. Im thinking about making a little nightclub as well
@@reading1713nothing, can’t even give us houseboats, resorts, scuba diving (where you can actually see what’s underwater), surfing … all things that made sims 3 version of island living fun
DRAGGING THR SIMS OH WE ARE SO BACK
i dont think the sims 4 had a downfall because it always sucked. im happy to pretend there were no sims games after the sims 3
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@@setsunatodoroki i didnt get the reference'
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real. My hottest take is we peaked at 2 and will never return. S3 amazing but too ambitious to run properly. Sims 4 somehow looks ugly AND performs terribly. At least s2 was a product of its time and yet its graphics still hold up surprisingly decent (imo)
@@manyyoumasI think the sims 3 runs well on modern pcs now, like with an i7 you go farrrrr without lag. And that’s the main problem in the sims 3: lag. Meanwhile the sims 4 has lag AND somehow it’s code became unworkable. I mean… not even indie devs release their games with their features not functioning, and here EA is breaking ts4 with every patch
I've seen people say things were similarly as bad corporate-greed wise before sims 4, but let me put it this way
Sims 2 had 8 expansion packs, and 10 stuff packs, totaling 18 DLC.
Sims 3 had 11 expansion packs, and 9 stuff packs, totaling 20 DLC.
Sims 4, including expansion packs, game packs, stuff packs and kits; has 70 different DLC's, which all add up to (ALONE) nearly $1000
I understand that sims 4 has been around longer, but honestly I don't understand why they're holding onto this game specifically so tightly considering simmers have had problems with it from the very beginning, and those criticisms are only getting louder, and EA just tries to put out more stuff to artificially inflate the games content value, which isn't going to fix any of the inherent problems with base game. Sims 3 felt like it improved on sims 2 significantly, but besides create a sim, I can't find something that sims 4 IMPROVES on for me compared to sims 3. I guess cell phones? The build system is more intuitive? I was attracted to the game in the first place because it felt more modern compared to, at this point the decades old sims 3, but the actual gameplay just feels so hollow to me.
💯cathartic comment, I’m so tired of seeing this argument anytime ts4 is criticized. Yes guys, ALL life sims have dlcs. Practically every game does now. But the difference is when we paid for an expansion pack in 2005 - it was exactly that. It expanded the game. It had content AND gameplay. Hell it had twice, thrice what a current EP would be. Sims 4 still doesn’t have cars while the sims 2 does. I mean hello.
I wouldn’t consider a pack an expansion pack if you have to go out of your way to play with the pack features (ex: Snowy Escape) 🤷♀️
Exactly!! It would’ve been a great expansion pack if seasons was in the base game and snowy escape would’ve expanded on the winter season and it’s activities 😅
I mean if your Sims live in Mt. Komerabi, you don’t go out of your way to use the features cause your Sim is living in Mt. Komarabi. 😂😂
@@TheDawnofVanlife well of course! But all of Snowy Escape’s main gameplay features are locked to that world. So if you never play in Mt. Komorebi you pretty much never play with Snowy Escape lol.
@@sheaplaysLegit, but honestly I kinda like it just like I like henford-on-Bagley is a distinct different experience from all the suburbia worlds. When my Sims move to Mt. Komerabi it feels like they live some place that’s not just down the block from suburbia america (Willow Creek, Newcrest, San Sequoia, etc etc). Including the kids wearing uniforms to school. To me that expands the ‘world’ so that everything in Sims 4 doesn’t feel down the block from each other. (even with the technically easy world jumping that I make more difficult with mods). Just wish the map was bigger so Sims Japan could be even more solidly its own thing.
EA needs to read the room. Seasons should’ve been based game, Dine Out and other packs need to be fixed. Infants are buggy…I think the reason why they are doing so many free packs and sales so often, is because they aren’t making as much as they used to.
Not them getting you used to the smaller worlds live. Ma'am. Wendenburg and San Myshuno were like 25+ lots. Now we get like 10-15.
no way -_- not on my watch
That and the lots themselves are small. Take Horse Ranch for instance. You’d exept big lots. Nope, mostly 30x20 lots where you can’t build…..a ranch! This is ridiculous! Same with For Rent, tell me how I’m supposed to build an appartement complex on a freakin 20x20 lot ?!
my opinion is that if seasons came with a world it could have been like a pixie hollow type of world. like each district/neighborhood is a different season/type of weather. it just makes sense
The /only/ real props ill give ts4 is how they handled trans sims. Like im sure there are ways it could be better, but the fact that i can make myself in the game does feel nice, and is unexpected considering how my community is overlooked if not outright hated in most of the world lmao. But thats all the praise they get from me lmao
absolutely! I’m a sims 4 hater to my core but I will gladly acknowledge the diversity aspect of CAS is, by far the best. like I adore the sims 2, but if you wanted to make a chubby trans sim, you’re outta luck without mods, and that sucks
I tried getting into the Sims 4 before the pandemic, and I just... couldn't. I'm a farm/life sim girlie, but I've always played full and complete games, i.e., harvest moon and animal crossing. Sure, there were improvements made to those game series as time went on, but previous games were still full releases. I think about how Animal Crossing: New Leaf had me in an absolute chokehold as a kid and it didn't get any updates until the Amiibo update in 2016 (a whopping 4 years of zero updates to New Leaf!). Games were released as complete, so there wasn't a need to add more unless it was going to be substantial.
Now... well, I could go on about how New Horizons suffers as a direct result of what seems to what plagues the Sims 4, but this isn't about that series.
The Sims 4 wasn't released as a full and complete game. While playing base game, I was stunned by the lack of anything to do. It required purchases, and it seems like it still does. If the foundation sucks then the amount of shalack you slab over the top won't be enough to fix the deep, deep cracks underneath. I think EA already knows this (it's been screamed at them for years now), and is trying to squeeze as much money out out of this series until people cannot justify buying these add ons anymore.
So many things could be added to the Sims 4 to make it feel fresh and justify its price to simmers, but that would require thought, new creatives, trial and error, and honestly asking the community in earnest what would elevate the Sims gaming experience. It's far easier to just shove out half-baked ideas and slap a price tag on them, knowing people are starving for new things for their games.
It sucks especially when you're a fan. You just want the people behind your game to try just a teensy bit harder or maybe just care as much as the community does (not to day there aren't employees at EA that don't have a passion for the Sims and want to make the game and its add ons better), but money is all too powerful.
So, from a big Animal Crossing fan, I feel you all. Sucks to see a juggernaut of a life sim game croak like this.
“how is the game glitching in the livestream and you expect me to buy it? i still bought it but-“
not critiquing you, but i think that’s what EA expects. the sims NEEDS competition because the sims is the only simulation game of its kind, as far as the majority of the player base knows. they get lazy knowing that people are gonna buy from them regardless and it’s so upsetting knowing that we can’t do anything about it but wait for the next best thing to come (hopefully it’s paralives)
I haven’t played sims 4 in abt 2 years bc I got so insanely bored of the gameplay. Amanda’s rants are always so funny tho and real 💯😭❤️
fun story: I pre-ordered For Rent, bc it really looked like something I'd enjoy. But I always wait to update my game/install a new pack, bc I use a ton of mods; I wait for those to be updated, & then when my schedule allows I update those & the game all at once.
For Rent came out at a busy time in December, so modders were busy, I was busy, etc, so it kind of slipped my mind. Then I hear it's buggy, There's a hot fix, and before I know it I'm hearing a game patch (I believe in preparation for Crystal Creations) BROKE THE TUNING. Absolutely any mod that alters tuning - which is like, everything except CC basically - was broken.
At that point I was like "ok, I'm done." I'm still playing it, but it's officially a legacy game for me now.
And I still don't have For Rent despite buying it, but at this point I'll eat the cost, it's not worth the headache of actually updating in order to be able to use it.
Oh my girl had so much fun editing this video LMAOO
From what I remember about the horse expansion pack it was meant to be a game pack but they went over budget thats set for game packs so it was sold as an expansion pack
Love how ppl are saying the game is on its last leg when I finally got a pc that could run the game 😢
I would definitely recommend trying the sims 3 if you haven’t yet :,)
i still enjoy it and personally it doesnt bother me much (though i agree with the critics).
it's not. People still play sims 3 and that game was monetization trash and most people couldn't install more than 3 expacs for that game and run it.
@@zeefaaldown3231 I wouldn't recommend it. For a game supported around 4 years (sims is 10+ now) they had way more cash grabs and bugs. A cash shop that wasn't even expansions or stuff packs. Add all that up with the expansions and then divide it by the years supported, you realize the REAL point that sims went full capitalistic hellscape.
@@wynngwynnsims 3 is actually fun though
Hearing you explain stuff packs and kits kind of made realize that maxis is basically making us pay for cc. In the sense that it's literally just clothes furniture and objects for a fee, like those online games like imvu that although the game is free (I know TS4 isn't free) if you want nicer things in your game like furniture and clothes u have to pay for it, and obviously this isn't a problem for pc users that can just download real cc for free but for console players they either pay for kits or they do with what the have
Isn't it free now?
i will always have a soft spot for ts4, it was my comfort game at the hardest parts of undergrad and through the pandemic, and theres things i like abt it and have a fondness for it that havent felt with previous games. that being said, EA did not do the franchise justice. there are some packs that are clearly mislabeled, and upcharged, the horses really blew me like thats just barely a gamepack. when they did the spa day refresh, i was lowkey rlly impressed, i loveee the nails feature, and i was really hoping they’d refresh a lot of their older packs but nope, they just dropped more and more things (glitchy and buggy, every time). kits was where they rlly lost the plot. i use cc so they’re just unnecessary for me, but i understand why console players might be interested. loveee this vid 🩷 i miss your sims streams too!!
i stopped playing the sims about a year and a half ago- when i tell you my jaw dropped when i saw your chart and i found out the direction they’ve went in. horse girl pack? landlord pack? what is this 😭😭
i want to start playing again, but i don’t know that any of these packs really intrigue me, and as a console player, i can’t have mods
watching this while playing a pirated version of ts4>>>>>
Girl howww
You saying it’s been 3 years since you graduated college was like a punch to the chest
I need an Eternal Sunshine Review by ASAP
It’s worse. The crystal pack was a stuff pack so you had to pay $10 for it! And the patch that came out before it and the pack are completely bugged
It still makes me so sad how much they’ve limited us in terms of worlds customisation compared to the previous games. I love how in the previous games we could add lots and neighbourhood decoration and even design our own neighbourhoods! I appreciate the amount of freedom we have in terms of CAS and building lots, so why take away that ability when it comes to worlds? It’s very frustrating.
How's school going girl?? Hope you're doing well! EA is gonna beat on the dead carcass of the Sims 4 all the way to bankruptcy 😅
i love to hear her rant on the sims4. it’s my fav game and i barely even play anymore because of all my broken mods (the point is i shouldn’t even need so many in the first place) the team don’t stand on business 😭 sims 5 better be what we need as a community
Maybe the Sims 5 won't be out,And end in the Sims4 🥺
this is why i use cdkeys only after they've been greatly discounted, and not every single pack either. i wanna get back into the sims 3 tbh because i remember the older games just having so much more depth and feeling like, actually playing a game??idk like it didnt feel empty, like the sims 4 kind of does. i just remember being more invested in the other games.
telling yall to play the sims 3. its so fun and the expansion packs are crazy full !!!
yeah i started playing sims 3 again a while back and i haven’t opened sims 4 since 💀
To me, something like weather SHOULD HAVE JUST BEEN IN OR ADD TO THE BASE GAME. Like, Why do I have to pay just for weather????
I also Just want to say, that sometimes Games having issues or that are being rushed is due to the Investors. I don't know if that's the case with the sims, but It is really upsetting how they release broken packs
I mean animals too, they don’t need a pack. Just let me have animals. You can still do an english countryside pack or western map or whatever.
Right????
1:17:55 the crazy thing about these packs being buggy and unfinished is that the sims team is fully aware that they’re doing this and still release the shits anyway lol, they’ll literally have livestreams demonstrating new packs and the packs are literally breaking right in front of them live on stream and then still release them fully aware that the game is broken, that’s INSANE, remember when they made up that convoluted ass lie about Russia banning the wedding pack when it was really a covert ruse to give themselves more time to work on the wedding pack bc they knew it wasn’t finished 😭
getting this notif while playing the sims is so silly
definitely gonna keep watching while i furnish this house though 😹
I haven't played the sims since the sims 2. Literally here for the personality!!
TS4 follows the same models as TS3, TS2, TS1. The issue is, they split up the damn packs! If Parenthood, Growing Together, Toddler stuff pack were 1 expansion pack, we'd be pretty happy. If Island Living (which is mid, at best) were combined with Eco Lifestyle and, like 3 of the kits, it would be good. Horse Ranch, Pets, and Cottage Living. 🙄 They screwed up from the beginning, and they've been screwing us all ever since😂😭
And btw, TS3 absolutely did not run well for a large chunk of the community. She was also a buggy beast, but we loved her because the gameplay was SO GOOD. Island Paradise broke a lot of people's games!
my sims 4 testimony: i stopped playing forever ago (years) and promised myself I’d never turn back, but then ONE fateful day EA teases the home designer pack, which is single handedly, one of the things I want to play most. I’m only human and I couldn’t help it so I bit the bullet. Big Miss. Steak. I didn’t realize that when players were talking about the game not working - they literally meant NOT working. The most BASIC functions they advertised, like picking the right colors for your client, would completely bug out on me to the point I would have to CHEAT in order to get any progress after failing multiple times,despite doing the right things.
worst part is, online all I read was people complaining about the exact same issues and just seemed to be stuck in a loop of “this sucks, when will it be fixed?” Spoiler- never. EA does what EA do.
anyway I’m super biased from nostalgia, but s2 still gives me more enjoyment and you can easily find resources to safely install online. There’s a whole community dedicated to it.
And that s why i am done with the sims 4, i believed it was such a good game before trying out the older sims games but the moment i tried sims 3 sims 4 never felt the same to me, EA literally does not care and the community literally send you death treaths if you dont agree with them. Imma just stick to the sims 3 and 2 untill life by you releases. You slayed with this video
The community are so defensive of Sims 4 cause they all want to be game changers and receive the packs for free cause they too know that the packs aren't worth the money
THIS 💯💯 I see some s4 enjoyers get so defensive over EA when challenged and it’s like, why are you so loyal to a greedy money hungry company that literally will not lift a finger to help you if your game breaks TODAY. they don’t even have a real support team or anything, they pretend they do, but you’ll get sent in a loop. I think it’s because deep down they’re embarrassed to admit how much money they’ve wasted and contributed to the cycle of EA not caring 🍵
FACTS
Literally. I am done with this at this point. I have no hopes for project renee either because the cycle will repeat. Maybe instead of doing more damage than already done perhaps it is time to let the sims rest and let others take control
I liked Get Together because it basically introduced cults where you can manipulate a group’s emotions and behaviors… which I found to be a very realistic gameplay mechanic.
For Rent sounds interesting, there have been some solid hits along the way, but nothing that really does it for me because the lack of open world is really dragging this game down. I hear For Rent has a lot of load screens if you want to actually interact with neighbors and residents?
loading screens are true, any break in or visit leads to another screen (which i guess makes sense) but it made me not want to even try
the amount of packs that are just not worth it is ridiculous 😭 the only way i can justify having so many is because i sail the seas 🏴☠️ for them all. the crystal pack really made me laugh out loud because what else can you do at this point whenever ea announces something for sims
the knitting and crafting kits rlly lost me 😭 because they were working on those all while 1. my existing packs weren’t working (cough cough dine out) and 2. by that point we couldn’t have multiple family’s on one lot and this was pre infants update!!! i ended up giving up on the sims after that
I’ll never forget that it was finally amandabb who pilled me when she pointed out how TS4 packs are just broken up versions of previous packs. Pets pack is broken up into Dogs and Cats, My First Pets and now Horses, for example. Before then I tried so hard to be uncritical of TS4. I chose to see it as just different, streamlined, or whatever. After that I had to see it all for what it was: underwhelming and overpriced.
Sims 3 will always have my heart
You ain’t lying about the sims 4 spiraling and I picked a horrible time to make a sims 4 channel 😂😭
We're unfortunately getting more bugs cause of the aging game engine because of all the packs. I love the game but the bugs are getting worse with patches.
what they shouldve done is a rigid schedule for packs, 1-3 stuff packs, 1 game pack, 1 expansion pack per year.
This would not only lower the amount of burnout from the amount of dlc, but it would also give time for each dlc to be fully baked, tested and tweaked AND would keep the hype up of the community. large spaces between releases could be also perfect opportunity to properly fix the base of the game.
I feel like from the start nothing was ever structured + EA prob pushed maxis and the sims team to just shit out as much content as possible which has caused the problems that r occuring today
I need more people to come for Snowy Escape like the game pack it is!
To me, an expansion pack needs to meet 3 criteria:
1) like you said, EXPANDING the game. You shouldn't have to go out of your way to notice the change.
2) not single feature or a niche (vampires, horses etc)
3) a 👏world👏does👏not👏an👏expansion👏pack👏make
Worlds are great for showcasing new features but they shouldn't BE the feature. An expansion pack should represent an overall theme where PLENTY of features fall under. Game CHANGING features.
seeing the timeline took me tf out because it made me realize that it took the sims team 9 YEARS to give us infants but they made sure to give us fucking batuu way before that😭😭😭
the crystal pack is actually a stuff pack, it also adds jewelry making and crystal charging but idk it’s so weird as a concept 😭
reminder that instead of paying for packs, anadius is free !
have you ever considered going back to the Sims 3? If family/relations gameplay is your focus, i think the Sims 3 had a lot of options and details that give sims and their relationships more personality, depth and actual stories. especially the generations expansion when it comes to playing families.
Crystals pack???? I mean we’re so unserious right now
INSTANTLY CLICKED WHEN THE NOTIFICATION POPPED. girl we missed the sims content!! so glad ur back (love the hair too)
I don't like the way the baby is treated in the Sims 4, they keep leaving it on the floor even if it's in a blanket and I don't like putting it on its back to teach it to raise its head, we don't do that in real life and less on the ground. It seems to me that the child should be in his stroller or crib or in the arms of his parents, and not leave him on the floor. I don't use the baby carrier, my Sim doesn't go anywhere with the baby carrier and he puts it on and takes it off and doesn't walk with it or go outside.
After Tiny Living, I was done. I realized that I'd spent over a hundred dollars on a game that barely functioned, barely had content, and was relying on its user base for bug testing. TS4 may have a million stuff packs and expansion packs, but it's still somehow lacking in substance. We really need to stop giving EA a pass when they pump out packs they make no sense; it's the equivalent to falling over yourself to thank a cook who serves you a platter of sh*t.
Help I was just watching her other videos ranting about TS4😭Glad to see her back because this game is making us all mad right now!
Hard agree on literally all of your points. Like for a minute I was abt to disagree on Cottage Living , but then after hearing what you had to say I realized that really what I liked about that one was the CONCEPT, not the actual execution, and that you were totally right that it feels like a game pack and not an expansion. I haven't bought a single thing since werewolves, and even that was a very temporary daliance from what was otherwise my one-person boycott. At this point I literally call TS4 "the most expensive dollmaker I've ever played" and just go to good old reliable TS3 and TS2 for when I want actual gameplay.
loving the hair!!!!
ALL expansions recently are GAME PACKS for expansion prices
The backround music is driving me crazy 💀
i love the hair! so beautiful. so happy to see you posting again
I love the mini twists; you just motivated me to redo mine
GIRLLLLL LOVE THAT YOU’RE BACK AAAA,, can you please fix the audio tho 🥹
you know what i think makes get together such a good pack? it was delayed, they need to be giving the people making these expansions more time, everything feels so rushed and glitchy but mainly it just feels like everything is half-baked, like concepts weren’t allowed to brew long enough and now everything is too weak
I did a focus group when they were testing kits and my opinion the entire time was “why would I pay 5 dollars for something that should be in an EP” and “this is cc but not as good”. Y’all they were trying to sell us body hair in a kit. I remember I went off about Bust the Dust too because there at least 4 or 5 different EPs and GPs it could have been included with.
The Sims 4 honestly feels like Bonehilda to me. No meat, no potatoes. Just bones. There is no depth to the game at all everything is surface level. It also feels very cash grabby. No way the entire game totals out to $800+ and its still buggy and still has a lack of immersive gameplay.
Ahh 🥹 I’m having flashbacks to watching these in 2020, also during my senior year
When the Sims 4 is officially over, I can't wait to see the tea that comes out from the teams that worked on it. There's gotta be something going on behind the scenes. Probably bad leadership.
The full length feature film the girls have been waiting for!!!
I haven't played Sims 4 in years, at this point. And watching how it's been going, I'm glad I never got sucked in. I doubt Sims 5 will be any better. I'm just waiting on the other life sims and hope, at least, one actually delivers, so I can fall in love with life sims again.
While I STILL play 2 and 3 and they never seem to get old to me, lol.
loving the hair and nails 💗
I love her deep dives. I can't even tell you the last time I bought any DLC from the Sims 4 at full price. EA is ALWAYS having a sale. Once an expanison pack hits the deepest discount like 50% or 60% I'll consider. I have'nt had the urge to buy a pack on release since Seasons/Island Living
Please talk about Selling Sunset season 6 and 7/Selling the OC season 1 and 2! dying
Dream Home Decorator had no reason to be a game pack when stuff packs like Paranormal exist (what's the additional functionality? A career? Paranormal had it, with Bonehilda in it btw. Modular furniture is literally just stuff), just like the Horse Ranch didn't have to be an expansion pack. I bet they added other animals into it because they had to justify calling it an EP, which doesn't even make sense considering they released no game packs that year.
And for "For Rent", they really should've added a bunch of rent houses to the Library for existing worlds (ideally - for each expansion pack), like they did with restaurants and paranormal.
I used to have full fairy’s in the sims 4 because of a mod. Full skill trees, lore, CAS/BAB and functional fairies. It’s mind boggling that EA can’t add simple things like wheelchairs and act like we’re ungrateful for wanting weather in the game for free.
I love the game for what it is and what I use, but emotionally I kind of checked out after Growing Together. Despite the pack being good I personally feel that it's a cash grab for Infants. It's kind of wild to me that it's the only life stage that has almost all of its gameplay locked behind a DLC. And I say this as someone who's now on Gen 11 of a Base Game only legacy and has had MANY infants. Their development is locked behind a pack! Toddlers at least can do skills. But it is what it is.
Financially I checked out after For Rent. I bought it because there was a lot I wanted and I think having new traits that are more universal and less pack tailored is important. But there were some experiences I had and saw online that left me kind of like, "Oh this is it." 2024 is my year of not buying anything and only focusing on my already owned packs. Will I buy things in the future? I would say it depends on what they release. Even though there are things I'd like, there's nothing that I really NEED. More small pets (birds, reptiles, etc.) is the only things I can think of that would make me want to spend my money without a doubt.
Also, Amanda being a DU stan is everything. Definitely one of my Top 3! She also likes Island Living which is another fav, the girlies who get it get it. But her now loving Eco Lifestyle is so funny because watching her reaction to its announcement/trailer is one of my favourite videos to watch when I need serotonin. "In SQUALOR." 🤣
Personnally, I only have the base game (and some CC that I like).
I'm really heavy into gameplay, the rest is pretty but that's not what's going to make me play for hours.
I have a list of the expension and game pack that I would like to add into the mix, but each time I'm thinking of taking them my brain just can't seem to accept how much it will cost me🥲
I never played the Sims 3, but the Sims 2 were a gift. It was awesome!
Sims 4 is pretty and empty, Sims 2 was full of possibilities but not really easy on the eyes 🤷🏾♀
LMAOO NO LITERALLY like why are ppl not pulling up trynna fight my teen sims?? its just so boringggg ugh i really wanted some mean girls action or sum
What do you use to play I need a laptop that can hold all the cc
Happy Amanda release day!! 😭😭
yknow I just don't like how sims4 gets shamed instead of people which ruins it, I am staying sims4 fan no matter what, thanks to this game I got to know great people, one of them stayed my friend for years, had great time with game and sims community and somehow it was that way for me I went from sims1 to sims4 (got base game gifted) and back then I was outta any friends so it helped me open up for people and I loved the graphics, simmers making stories, sharing gameplays, sims4 is more for me than errors, badly made packs and corporation ruining it. currently I got myself pirated version (I paid for the game so it is ok I think) to have setup file I paid for and I keeps game not updated to those packs which brought mess. works for me! there's more good made mods than packs and I no longer expect good packs, it is awfully pleasant to enjoy my game away from EA mess.
watching this while playing the sims lmao
the hair is gorgeous btw
Same!
maybe it’s just my head phones but the background track is really loud… does anyone know if there’s specific settings i should use to try to minimize it?
Some of the kits never made sense, most could’ve just went with the expansion packs