Greed Ruined The Sims 

The Sims 4 is run by Landgraab family.

STOP GIVING EA YOUR MONEY🗣️‼️

A big differencr between Sims 2-3 and Sims 4. None of them had base games. Sims 1, 2, and 3 were all built to be GAMES. Full experiences for anyone regardless of their ability to purchase expansions. Expansions weren’t even an intention of Sims 1 as Will Wright was struggling just to see the idea of the game itself to a publisher. Even with expansions being a thing by Sims 2 & 3 both games without expansions are full game experiences. Without DLC. Expansion packs for them were truly game expanders on an already great game.

As long as casual players continue buying this game it'll never get better.

An important thing to note: maxis was dissolved in 2013. Sims 4 is TECHNICALLY a maxis game, but is for all intents and purposes the first fully EA sims games. Sims 1 and 2 were both simply published by EA, while sims 3 was mostly maxis with EA sticking its toes in outside of publishing (the store, maxis having to fight to have their name on launch etc). Why does this matter? It’s not the first time a large, money hungry corp eats up and buys a smaller developer. Devs who care are replaced for “cheaper” alternatives IE overworked and underpaid new hires who don’t know about lore or frankly care. Can you blame them? With prices nowadays the developers need to eat too. The problem runs much deeper than just gameplay- there’s a societal problem. I hope the next couple of years we see more indie devs sticking it to these mega corps. A truly good game can NOT be made without passion

Something that Sims 3 nostalgia babies need to remember (me included) is that this greed 100% started with the Sims 3. There's a literal premium currency to get overpriced microtransactions. So yes, the Sims 3 is a good and complete game. Is it much better in the topic of "greed"? Not at all.

Omniburg: talks about TS1 Also omniburg: shows footage from TS2 😭😭

I can’t WAIT until the sims has real competition. I truely hope paralives, life by you, or what have you really makes EA’s pockets hurt. Because my spite has made me never want to touch the sims again after they sucked the love and passion out of my favorite game.

Yesterday I heard Life By You was cancelled, what you expose here is one of the main reasons why I find that very worrysome. EA NEEDS competition on The Sims, to show it, that Sims games can be done better and for people to have other options. I have seen a lot of movement to move away from The Sims, which means they still have a fan base but only because the Sims is the only big life simulation game in the market.

something that people don't give enough credits to the Sims 3 is how clean and beautiful it's aesthetics are, even if it's graphics today aged very bad those are still the peak of beauty in The Sims franchise. the Sims 3 had perfect anatomy system for all sim creatures, better hair system, perfect illumination based on biome and climate accuracy, clean water and fire, and not that much cartooniness like in the Sims 4, just naming a few. You can take a random screenshot in any landscape of the Sims 3 and that's a good wallpaper.

I can't believe there are people who will still defend the sims 4

this is why I'm a pirate 😂😂😂

Adding to your engagement, and also fact checking that having kids was a Sims 1 base game feature, and did not actually come with Livin' Large (having kids by "woohoo" in the heart bed that came with Livin Large did, however. Without the pack, you could still have kids by performing enough romantic interactions).The only major DLC features from Sims 1 that were added into the Sims 2 Base Game include community lots and shopping, which came with the Sims 1 Hot Date and/or Unleashed, as well as throwing a house party, that came with Sims 1 House Party. Other notable Sims 1 DLC features that shipped with the Sims 2 Base Game are arguably Woohoo and certain romantic interactions from Hot Date, although in the Sims 1, it wasn't known as Woohoo. Certain gameplay or decorative items and careers from The Sims 1 like Telescopes and the slacker career from Livin' Large (and alien abductions), or the Buffet Table from House Party, among several others, also shipped with the Sims 2 Base Game. Totally new, and much more significant gameplay concepts that came with the Sims 2 Base Game and many of which have lasted to this day include aging and 5 life stages, death by old age, days of the week, private school, proper wedding parties, birthday parties, anniversaries, pregnancy, neighbourhood creation/decoration, the ability to place lots, family trees and genetics, the ability to create unique faces in CAS with seperate hairstyles and outfits, outfit categories like sleepwear, active wear, formal and swimwear, cooking different dishes for breakfast lunch, dinner and dessert, building foundations, multi-storey homes including basements, different roofing types with placeable roofing, randomly, playable aliens, and of course lifetime aspirations, milestones and memories as well as wants and fears, along with a host of other purely aesthetic features including things like being a fully 3D game. That's just the base game. The leap from Sims 1 to 2 is truly remarkable, and many features available in the Sims 2 Base Game are not available in the Sim 4, like custom neighbourhoods, or were patched in after launch like toddlers, or put into later DLC, like baby changing tables, of all things.

Me this whole video: "SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!!!"

I have 2.5k hours logged into the sims 3, and I have no intention of switching to 4, EVER. I’ve tried it out (pirated) with all of the expansions, and it felt like a cardboard cut out. Especially the sims itself, the don’t feel as alive and unique. With all the traits and the ability to dye anything any way I want, I have the opportunity to create something perfectly unique for each sim. My current sim is a witch, who does all the traditional witch stuff in the sims 3, but she is also a scene kid, obsessed with zebra print and neons, and only in the sims 3 could I achieve a sim as unique as that!

the fact that I actually uninstalled it from my computer for the first time ever... says a lot. I have played all iterations since 2001, consistently. Now, the thought of the Sims at all makes me mad

I started playing Sims 2 Ultimate Collection and never looked back. I wish Sims 2 lasted longer we could get even more expansion packs to our collection.

Grew up with Sims 2 and 3? I grew up with Sims 1 and how hard that game was. I would say The Sims peaked at 2, back then the game was still made with love, allot of details and it run rather well. Sims 3 wasn't bad but it was in some ways a downgrade from 2. The worst part about Sims 4 is that some of the quality of life improvements are really good, it makes the older games feel a bit slow and clunky and Sims 2 is a nightmare to get running on newer computers. What I wouldn't do for a remaster of Sims 2 and 3.

RIP Life By You

I’ve been playing the sims as a kid since the ending of the sims 2 franchise, sims 3 being my favourite. As an adult now playing the sims 4 with all the dlc content I’m bored out of my mind. It feels soo empty and hollow for a game that supposed to be a life simulation. Every expansion pack in the sims 3 had soo much content that was worth every penny. Till this day I get super excited to play it. EA should be ashamed their robbing their fan base

the lilsimsie/other payed creators is smtn I was waiting for!

Sims (4) players are also part of the problems. They know EA has been ruining the game but they keep buying everything EA throws at them, simmers would be outraged everytime they get a broken dlc, then EA would be like "look guys there's new dlc coming" and then simmers would be so hyped and suddenly forget that they're mad at EA, then they would get mad again when the said new dlc is broken, then EA announces another dlc and so on and so on. And that's why EA keeps releasing broken overpriced games, they know this community has no backbones whatsoever 🤷‍♀️

I blame most of The Sims Community, every time a new pack comes out they get all excited and buy it, and they be thanking them on top of all that, they never seem to learn & it only gives EA more reason to sell half baked dlc.

I think it also has to do with the player base in general. EA is clearly marketing the Sims 4 to children, whereas the past Sims titles were marketed towards teens and young adults. Children wouldn't really care about the content or price of the game as long as the parents are buying it for them.

Sims 4, the only game I encourage to pirate because this is literally theft if you pay for those expansions.

I totally agree with you... Sims 4 was ruined by corporate greed. Blasting out expensive DLC's that offer NOTHING to game play other than more decor, was a garbage move by EA.

it’s so refreshing to hear people not bash the sims 3 as if it’s not the best game to come out of the life sim genre. sims 4 is garbage! idc who enjoys it! it’s not a complete game at the end of the day

Life by you has been cancelled. So no luck there. The next sims game is gonna be as shallow and as bare bones as ts4

When I was young the Sims was about the dream of owning and building a house. Now I'm an adult the Sims is about the fantasy of owning and building a house.

Every pack has at least minium one broken feature! Do they mind to fix it? No, why the heck should they? They stretch the content across new packs - I can't wait for all the competitors who will hopefully show EA how it should be including a happy healthy gaming community.

Thanks for covering about Sims series. You are not alone thinking that Sims 4 has regressed a lot compared to the previous versions. It has gotten worse with the massive amount of Sims 2. To me Sims 2 has the best run throughout the series, the improvements from Sims 1 to 2 is massive and incomparable. However, I would disagree that Sims 3 era was the peak. I had a lot of improvements with the open world and color wheel, but the cracks of the Sims being profit focused is shown within Sims 3 era, with the in-game ads for Sims 3 shop, the KPST stuff pack among a few examples.

It amazes me how quickly people seem to have forgotten the epic cash grab that was the Sims 3. EVERYTHING was for sale and advertised in game in both Build/Buy and CAS. SDX drop a free new hair? Nah...that's going on the Sims 3 store for 100 simpoints. In fact if I remember correctly it would cost about $75,000 USD to buy all the Packs and DLC from Sims 3

I don't understand how a company can keep selling broken products to their customers?? First of all, the trailers for the packs are false advertising. Second of all, their packs are broken... EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! That's why I don't buy anything for TS4 anymore. And no, I don't pirate either - that's literally theft. If EA doesn't give a damn about fixing their game, then I don't give a damn to play it. I ain't gonna be a fool over and over again buying overpriced garbage for a game that never gets fixed. It's ridiculous! And they can fix it, they just decide that making content is more important than having a game that works. If a single modder can fix bugs, glitches, issues and recode the game to where features actually work (for free btw), then a whole group of people can go above and beyond one person (that are getting paid).. It's crazy how lazy and greedy EA is as a company! And you've still got idiots who will keep buying the packs for the sake of CAS items or B&B items.. even though the features don't work and the pack breaks even more coding.. Pfff. I don't get it lol

sims 1 , sims 2 , sims 3, and sims flop

I have to correct you on the price of Sims 3 packs. Where I live, expansion packs for Sims 3 cost € 39.99 on Origin (and Steam too). At least according to my receipt for Sims 3 Seasons and Island Paradise, the only two EPs I bought on Origin (and only things I actually preordered and didn't regret it 😁), instead of retail box. And since EA always used 1:1 USD:EUR currency rate, they had to cost 40 USD too. Stuff packs did cost € 19.99, with the exception of infamous Katy Perry Sweet Treats, which cost the same as EP. So, in Sims 4, they actually lowered the price for SPs from Sims 3 times, while keeping Sims 3 price of EPs and brought new Game Packs for the price of Sims 3 SPs. Other than this slip up, I agree with your points. You said it well.

the sims 2 is just perfect also the y2k aesthetic of it all AAAAAA the only thing i miss is the extreme violence mod

Life by You was cancelled so let's hope that Paralives comes through. Also please for the love of god pirate the DLC, you can do it easily now that the base game is free. I'm baffled people are paying money for the DLC when pirating it has never been easier.

Sims 3 packs were actually $40 when they came out. They're only $20 now because the game is no longer being updated. But most of the expansion packs were worth that price, because of the amount of gameplay they offered and the depth of that gameplay, unlike Sims 4.

Life By You was canceled, but paralives is still in the works ^-^

bro i can't believe that ppl still playing the sims 4 and cope that EA gonna change after all this shit they released like journey to baatu or wedding stories. there's literally ZERO passion in this game. people are being STARVED and when they FINALLY got an update that added smth 8 years after launch that was on release in previous game (example: terrain modification), they erase entire list of sins that EA commited cause they got SMTH. they are behaving like a monkey that got banana after eating poop entire time, pathetic, truely. i lost faith in sims community to wake up, they got kinda brainwashed by years of scummy tactics of EA. im just enjoying sims 2 and 3 in peace, not engaging with sims 4 audience and sims 4 in general. sometimes im gonna look at drama and present failures of sims 4 from the distance but man... it sucks to be sims 4 player fr

The Sims 4 in theory is enjoyable, gets some things right, and innovated, but it’s severely out balanced by the demerits. The audience needs to know their worth, the products true worth, and exercise good standards; And EA/Maxis needs to atone for it’s outright blatant exploitation. If enough consumer base pays THAT much over-priced for a dilapidated game, not only is the life-sim market pricing and performance standards over-inflated in general, but if EA/Maxis or another distributor/developer actually produces a GOOD life simulator on GOOD SOLID foundation, the cost could be even more astronomical than weak Sims 4 if they also choose to exploit the market. LONG: The problem is at the core and foundation: The poor technical performance and stability (great they’re finally dedicated to fixing it!), value of the game, lacking base game features, packs too spread out and lacking features, and the greedy cash cow. Project Renee and other life sims must get the foundation right. The Sims 4 is grossly inadequate. The quality isn’t even qualifying. Besides that, gameplay is unsubstantiated. There’s little realism details and immersion, the sims are very shallow with goofy reaction walks all the time and passing out with repetitive and annoying voice lines and animations, over emotional, underpinned personalities and consequences. For gameplay features, systems, mechanics, details/animations that improve realism and quality of life should be updates to the base game AND previous packs, to actually bring the game UP TO DATE. Expansion packs should be NEW, EXPANDING, and UPGRADING features: story arcs, skills, hobbies, recipes, careers, aspirations, goals, wants & fears, interactions and animations, locations, gameplay and playable items, iconic assets, trendy and temporal things, brand new aspects to improve the game’s GRADE. Life basics should have the foundation laid in the base game such as relationships and romance having a compatibility and attraction system and interactions like cuddling in bed. These can be EXPANDED and more nuanced in an EP (but BASICS should be BASE game) Past features already in base game Sims should be in the new iterations base, why is Sims 4 vanilla base missing or underdeveloped shopping for clothes and groceries, biographies, family trees, your own notes journal, memories for a few examples. Past iconic items can be in a special edition if not in the base like: in pre-sale items (which could be deluxes later available), as a login reward, or in an expansion like the heart-shaped bed put into My Wedding Stories. The relationship and romance factor in Sims 4 is severely lacking even with expansions, they’re still under served and even broken. Not enough drama or story arc mechanics. Consequences and reactions based on personality, mood, relationships, and circumstances are underserved; an example, child sims (relationship, not age, i.e. offspring or even as adults) should react to their parents argue, fight, cheat, divorce and it be an ongoing occurrence/memory affecting other interactions (and this should be base game on a basic level at least to start). Simmers compare TS3 Generations EP to i think Growing Together+Parenthood+High School Years EP’s and even more (Toddler Stuff, considering)! The compatibility system and relationship status should be base game updates. City Living+Get together should’ve went together. How ridiculously spread! For a romance expansion: the supposed Love-Struck EP could have been with My Wedding Stories and Romantic Garden rolled into one. Make the attraction and romance system base game, and the new features like the skills, items, events, careers, worlds, UPGRADED or ADDITIONAL interactions drama consequences and reactions in an expansion. Cats&Dogs+My first pet stuff definitely should’ve been one or a deluxe bundle considering you needed features in the former to use the latter. City Living+ Dine Out with Bust the dust as an optional mechanic (or it’s mechanic as a base game update or featured in Parenthood OR High School Years or Discover University Or Cottage Living OR Eco Lifestyle OR you get it) There’s many more packs that should be united in one efficient expansion OR just bundled economically. Each level is too costly for SOOO much expansion content, i think kits should be worth the pennies and cents each item is worth or $3 USD and Expansion packs should be no more than $30 and LESS of them. One of the levels should be eliminated. Maybe Game packs and Stuff kits that have less content than EP’s but are more optional, discretion, and seasonal trend based. If not better expansion bundling than justify the flagrant pricing-model! (This is not researched, there might be inaccuracies like what was put into base game updates) THEY’re milking the consumer base and fans while it’s shallow playing, NOT EVEN STABLE or innovative without the community WORKING unofficially for free for the game to FUNCTION. This is injustice!!! Packs and products should be finished upon release (as quality control standard, so mistakes and shortcomings can happen with grace but the standard and solutions are in place). It should stand on its own without MODS. TS4 is disgustingly over priced for its true value. The game has been OUTDATED for years already: its engine, new features and cross pack integration stability, graphics especially the Sims design style (some food and furniture in 2, 3, 4 look better than the human sims), A.I., some cheats as options, [imo these things should be anniversary gift updates: lack luster features like the phone and social media, vehicles even just for looks and to click on to travel], ui modularity (arrange the simology panel icons in the order the player likes, easily turnoff headline effects, minimize the conversation box, turn off the shopping cart button), better queue, it’s just too buggy-many features and PACKS don’t even work properly like moods & fears, needs decay is wonky imo, many overused animations, very unrealistic animations, lacks consequences, repetitive story progression mechanics (the phone calls and 3am job agency i didn’t even opt into), H.S.Y, M.W.S, D.O., etc etc. Can they at least FIX My Wedding Stories and Dine Out during this romance season? GREED has tainted The Sims franchise. These expansions are WAY too spread out and outrageously over valued especially considering the games very buggy and shaky performance. This game is severely under-performing and developed as it was literally designed to be a mobile game initially and took away soo many details and features from Sims 2 & 3 when it should be UPGRADING and EXPANDING them- 4 innovates CAS and upgrades Building but dropped Create-a-Style which is revolutionary and no Color Wheel 🫥 then has the nerve to not standardize swatches to match. The essence has gone to trassh, it does not warrant a complete edition costing well into the $1,000’s USD it’s egregious!

Solid video. I gave up on the Sims 4 in 2014 after having a pre-order and discovering how empty it was on launch day. I have weighed up ever getting into the game for years as I own it already and now my household has all the expansion and stuff packs thanks to my family deciding to buy them all. Based on the headaches I watch other Sims 4 players have all the time over the game breaking after new updates and the packs never working properly, I just can't be bothered. The Sims 2 is my favourite of all time and I'm playing the Sims 3 with all expansions nowadays because it feels more like an upgrade in the franchise than TS4 (obviously it is better). I actually do like some of the TS4 pack content, but it never seems worth the hassle of playing with broken content.

I think you've got some rose-colored glasses on when talking about ts3 because EA's greed was already worming its way in The store is the most egregious example. If you want all of the content there is, it's over $70k! Plus, they would advertise it right in the game! They also had some very cash-grabby packs like the Katy Perry one It was also horrifically optimized, and if a mod can improve it then the devs definitely could, EA just didn't care enough to fix it. Island paradise DLC is also notorious for being broken I don't disagree with the overall thesis, but it's been going on since before ts4

The Sims is an example of what happens when one entity holds a monopoly, it starts pumping out mediocre stuff at outrageous prices because people don't have any other alternative. Although I am saddened by the cancellation of Life By You, hopefully Paralives and Inzoi will give EA a wake up call.

I've loved the franchise all my life (played all the console and pc games, has all the expansions and stuff packs) and I really hate seeing where it is today. While I love the open world and the look of everything in the sims 3, I feel like the franchise actually peaked with the sims 2. They put so much love and detail into everything in that game. Some examples being: how sims lounge on couches and watch tv, prepping and cooking food, actually getting into a car and driving off. It's so many small details and even the silly quirky things like how over the top a sim's first kiss is in the game that make it so entertaining and a long lasting play experience. Expansion packs were also huge and added an insane amount of content to the game. I love the sims 3, too, but saw immediately the significant decrease in content for every expansion and stuff pack. That and the introduction of the store micro transactions is where passion began to die and the greed started to take root. The sims 4 is a joke and the only thing it has going for it is it's ability to draw in new players to the franchise that have no idea how great the prior games were. I refused to pay anything for the sims 4 right from the jump. I hope the sims 5 is better, but I really doubt it as long as EA has its claws in it. Here's to hoping indie games like paralives come to life and dethrone them/inspire them to do better.

Remember people, it is always morally correct to pirate EA games. I love the Sims series but I stopped paying for Sims 4 years ago and just use a DLC unlocker because Sims 4 is a huge downgrade for Sims 3. I am hoping Paralives turns out to be a massive success because it looks like a good spiritual successor to Sims.

"Let's start at the beginning. The original Sims game... " *proceeds to show Sims 2 footage*

To be fair, when you adjust for inflation the sims 2/3 packs cost roughly the same as what it costs for Sims 4. The issue is that the sims 2/3 packs were always good and packed with stuff. The only pack I remember people bitching about with the sims 2 was Freetime even though that pack is so good and the Sims 3 pack people bitched about was into the future because most people don’t even play it even to this day but it added a lot of stuff and was fun. Sims 4 packs aren’t fun. It’s packs of shit that was supposed to already be in the game. They keep separating it. Sims 3 Supernatural had it ALL. Mermaids. Fairies. Vampires. Werewolves. Genies. Zombies. Witches. Sims 4 had to separate it with vampire pack. And werewolf pack. And mermaid pack. Wtf…Sims 2 introduced supernaturals in various packs but they had MANY other stuff. For example, Apartment Life added witches randomly but it came with apartments! It wasn’t just a “witch pack”. That’s what makes the price worth it unlike Sims 4.

I don't understand why cottage living doesn't have cats dogs or horses.

from one video i saw going over the history of the sims discusses the development of the sims 4. they say that it originally was built for multiplayer but they decided to go a different route due to another game's downfall (or contraversy?) and didnt want to risk it. which, is fair, but WHY sacrifice quality just to get the game out on time? players will forget that it even released late as long as the game is as amazing as they remember it to be. it all reminds me of that roblox game, royale high. it looks pretty (if your graphic settings are on ultra and your pc can handle it without melting) but any sort of fun is being drained out of it.

“Maybe you grew up on the sims 2 or 3” Me: 👵🏼😂 … yeah

"Maybe you grew up on the Sims 3 or 2 like me" Having grown up on the Sims 1, I feel old hearing this.

It's a somewhat common piece of lore now, but The Sims 4 was originally going to be an always-online spinoff game (Project Olympus) that was halfheartedly gutted and turned into a "mainline entry" late into development after SimCity 2013's disastrous launch. Really shows how much care EA has for their flagship franchise.

Well, my hopes are dashed, Life By You is now cancelled (damn it) - I was really excited that The Sims was gonna have a competitor, but no. I know we have ParaLives coming and that other one from S. Korea - but LBY looked awesome - plus it was from Humble, who created The Sims 2 (I think). I kinda of wonder if EA paid Paradox off to cancel LBY because it was gonna be a big competitorr? Who knows? Big businesses do that you know....

This is basically why I only looked at vanilla Sims 4 and abandoned ship. I grew up with 1 and 2 and it was great. Sims 4 and EA is why I tell everyone to just yohoho this entire series these days (especially since you can't even legally buy some of it).

It's not a scam though. A scam would mean the fandom isn't aware of this. It is aware of the less content/lower quality yet ridiculously higher prices, but still pays for it. This is simply stupidity on our part. I don't play anymore, no one should.

EA is most likely never going to sell TS2 ever again because its superior gameplay would take away people from spending money on the shell of a game that is TS4 (TS2 is my favourite but TS3 is also fun)

They need to do Sims 1 and 2 music, Sims 2 and 3 gameplay and Sims 4 graphics. That would create a pretty decent game. But this is why people play for a short time and then give up for months.

There is paralives coming out in 2025

This is such a high quality video and deserves way more views! I agree with all of your points. I grew up on The Sims. Have been an avid player for almost 20 years now. But after all the stuff they pulled I cannot in good conscience support them anymore. I play Sims 2 regularly and still go back to Sims 3 from time to time. Heck even Sims 1 I feel myself craving in moments when I'm in need of chaos. I had an interview with Jonathan Knight not too long ago, super interesting Insights and it was so clear how passionate the team was. All things considered, I feel like the downfall started at Sims 3... And this comes from someone who LOVES Sims 3. Because it's the first game where they began to cut orders and do advertising in-game. The only reason why it isn't as noticeable is the fact Sims 3 added plenty in return, the same cannot be said for Sims 4 which cut corners without adding anything in return. I play Sims 4 occasionally and I won't lie by saying the game has some good sides... But all of the downpoints, bugs and severe lag quickly add up, breaking the fun and immersion. They won't fix their game and considering they're pushing mobile stuff more and more in their game, I'm almost confident Sims 5 is gonna be worse to the point we're gonna look back at Sims 4 and go: We had it good. I mean, what was one cohesent pack in Sins 3 and even 2, is divided into 5 separate packs in Sims 4. It's hard to imagine... On top of that all the quirkiness, uniqueness and dark comedy is gone. Instead we got a watered down version of the previous games that wants to be as child-friendly as possible, not taking their audience seriously. I'm glad we're getting a ton of Indie companies making live Sims, but those will never be the Sims. Therefore it's rather likely that Sims 4 is the last real Sims game we're ever gonna get... And the spinoff games and in-depth lore? We won't ever have anything like that anymore. Man that was a long comment haha! But just like you I'm passionate about the Sims. I think generally games nowadays are no longer released in a finished state, especially from triple AAA studios, but that results in companies slowly losing their support. It takes ages to build a loyal fanbase, but you can lose that in the snap of a finger.

worst partis that if people keep buying they'll keep making expansions and splitting them up or putting barely any effort in

lowkey 70% of my gameplay with sims 4 feels like CAS because with mods it is just so addictive

The Sims has always been a massive cash grab, you don't notice because you buy the packs at different times. I have distinct memories of trying to play the earlier sims games when I was a kid, but there were so many expansion packs and add-ons needed to play that I couldn't even keep them straight while I was pirating them all.

Man, I wish I had seen a video like this before I started playing. I came in via The Sims 4 and didn't know what I was missing out on from the previous installments. 💀💀

something that disappoints me about ea is their price hiking in general. did you know my sims was made more then 2 decades ago and was obtainable for free on release but is $25 now. and I knew the DLC prices had gone up but not enough sims fans talked about it so I thought was just being crazy.

My very first experience with the sims franchise was watching my mom play Sims 3 Pets as a kid. I saw her on her laptop and sometimes sat next to her to watch. A couple years later, I got my very first gameplay experience in The Sims 3 Medieval. While not everyone's first go at the franchise, and some may have never even heard of it or played it before, it was quite an experience. During the same timeframe, I also played The Sims 2 + Nightlife as my first real go at the game. I would play Sims 2 for HOURS on my old desktop and loved it. Eventually, I did end up playing Sims 3 Pets and loved it as well. I was 9 years old when The Sims 4 came out and I heard a lot about it. Since I loved Sims 2, Sims 3, and The Sims Medieval so much, I thought I would like TS4 too. I got the game at around 2017-2018, and while I enjoyed it at first, I eventually couldn't play it for long without wanting to get off of the game. I am a builder, so the most time I put into the game at one time was when I was building a mansion in Sulani. I haven't played The Sims 4 for about 1-2 years now and just strictly play the Sims 3. Once I got a good laptop and figured out how to make the game playable, I haven't gone back. I can build to my heart's content AND play the actual game for longer than 20 minutes no problem. It saddens me how EA is destroying this franchise that me, and many others have grown up with. Life By You has officially been cancelled (I wasn't too into it anyway) and then there's Paralives and Inzoi when it comes to current competitors. I am most looking forward to Paralives. I just hope that someone can make EA shake in their boots and make a change.

I just downloaded a dlc unlocker lolol

What a great video. Thank you for saying what I’ve said for years. EA SUCKS!!

It was bad at the start, but I'll tell you when it really kicked off. When they made their '1-1' transfer to consoles. In order for it to actually FIT on consoles, the packs started getting smaller. And smaller. And SMALLER AND SMALLER. If that had not happened, Sims 4 would be far from perfect true, but at least it wouldn't be shrinking with every expansion that comes out. But they certainly didn't get cheaper... And in fact we got more packs, with less in them, at a higher price.

The creators cater to the youtubers that stream sims, they buy them than convince us to buy them.

Sims 2 is the best game but Sims 3 was the most ambitious. A fusion of those two without all the greedy tactics would be nice.

It's not the greed what ruined the Sims series, but EA. Maxis were perfectly fine and ambitious, with a goal to create. And EA killed them, took the Sims and turned it into endless cashgrab

I was unfortunately only introduced to The Sims Franchise with TS3 on Wii. I didn't even play it that much, but my first proper experience of The Sims Series was TS4. I regret so many years later, purchasing practically most of the DLC for this crap "game". I never had toxic positivity for TS4, so I of coursed watched Sims content, and was "impressed" by TS4 I thought to try TS3 since it was also still for sale. God, when I tried TS3 on PC! I was in love! I bought every single DLC for TS3 and I don't regret one single penny spent on it! I was slowly falling in love and even saw people playing TS2 but, this unfortunately was a couple years after EA stopped giving out TS2 for free through Origin. So, I had to go through Ebay and purchase these super cheap owned versions of TS2 and all of its DLC, and I absolutely love TS2 as well! I was like "Wow! These are actual games!" No matter if they are dated in terms of looks, there are mods and custom content for that and they look just fine. The only thing TS4 is good for me now is CAS (cause I suck at building 😅). How I came to the conclusion of quitting TS4, not buying another single DLC for it and uninstalling it off of my computer was honestly through the RU-vid community and my own playing experience. Those creators who were honest about how much of a sh*t show TS4 is that it can hardly even be called a "game". All it is, is a dollhouse creator, it doesn't simulate life. The amount of mods you have to get for TS4, only for it to still not be enjoyable besides looking pretty, should be telling. I mean sure, there are people who probably genuinely enjoy TS4 (more power to them) but I think most people are aware that this game is a scam. $1000+ for a single video game? Seriously!? Could you imagine how many other games you could get for that price and actually have fun! I think the last DLC I bought for TS4 before I was made aware of how bad EA and it's practices are is Cottage Living. I did cave in to get Growing Together, thinking it was going to give family gameplay like Generations from TS3 (oh boy, my mistake and I have learned my lesson). I haven't booted up TS4 in I think over a year now. I can honestly say, I feel free, my wallet is heavier and I am happy. Yes, EA is scummy, I mean they got voted worst company in America, BACK TO BACK! But, we need to be honest about the player base as well. I think I am one of the smarter ones, even though I started with the TS4, I am not blind to the fact that it is a crap "game" compared to it's predecessors. The player base keeps shelling out money for every. single. broken. watered. down. DLC that EA dishes out for TS4. I mean, the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. Best believe, other fanbases of other games from different companies are looking at hardcore TS4 fans like they are donkey's. I honestly, don't blame them cause it's like willingly accepting abuse at this point and at first it's sad but, a lot of them love it there. Unfortunately, that affects the rest of us, the more logical side of The Sims series fanbase. I don't see The Sims getting better, ever! Not under EA at least. TS5 is probably going to be the nail in the coffin for the franchise as you said in the video. It's unfortunate that The Sims will become Sim City before long. EA to blame but also the fanbase is largely to blame as well for the eventual death of the franchise 🤷🏾‍♀

I paid $5 for TS4 on a sale. It was $5 more than it was worth.

You should check out the upcoming expansion. Literally all it's about is dating and recycled content with almost zero new features.

Also there were no pools at launch for the Sims 4

Playing since sims 1! Now back to sims 3

The mod community is what is keeping this game alive.

I love The Sims 2 because it's a game which you practically can redesign it from the scratch with all mods and CC. It can be visually whatever you like in style you prefer. I have almost four hundred mods and forty five thousand CC and everything works perfectly. I had zero objections with supporting TS2 with my money and I bought the whole series. And when it comes to The Sims 4... well, I'm not gonna spend one dollar on this game. Ever. And when The Sims 5 comes out... it will be a success if it even start without crashing or destroying your computer.

IMO Sims 3 was the best. The problem is, the main game (every version) itself is really cheap, and then EA releases $1000 worth of addons, which is completely sleazy.

Personally, I think EA should take sims 3 and revived it for modern fast computers, like the kind most play now and then update the graphics a bit, fix the memory leaks and such that would sometimes crash the game. I bet many would buy it. Sims 3 was my most favorite game of all time, but now that I play on Nvidia 3080 and 4090, I can NO LONGER run the game at all. Only older computer systems can and EA won't even bother to fix this.

I’m so excited for paralives. They’ve already been putting a flame under ea to improve their own game. It looks so promising.

You could have a baby in ts1 base game...

Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me!

What do you think? Is it as bad as I’m making it out to be, or am I exaggerating? Let me know!

I bought the Sims 4 right when it came out for $70 Canadian and I played it for 1 week and I haven't played it since. I just ended up gifting the game to my sister. I went back to sims 3. There's just no comparing them.

Can't wait to see how much they cut from SIMS 5 to sell as 'DLC'.

I wish the people would stop making CC for TS4 and go back to TS2 and TS3 CC's, since these games were way better.

sims 2 was one of my main games as a kid

Sims 1 was good, it was the sims 2 that started the DLC gallore, yet the game was good, sims 3 was alright. 4th game felt empty. All the other games felt like there was a game to add on to. 4th game felt like it was a empty platform waiting to be filled with DLC.

The Sims 2 is the best sims game IMO. Every time I try to play the sims 3 or 4 I get so bored I end up going right back to 2. Still play it to this day as a 29 year old. 😅

Sims 1 and 2 are abandonware, you can find them on basically any abandonware site, they are pretty easy to get working on modern PCs too, lots of guides. Don't pay for any new Sims game.

I wish fan has a critical look on what they love, like they have limit. Instead on jumping on everything just because it wears the name of the favorite franchise. But what make their favorite franchise?

I still can't get past that sims 3 supernatural pack included vampires, zombies, witches, and fairies but sims 4 sold each separately and with very small towns. (still no fairies though and they were my favorite supernatural)

I commented on a sims sub on reddit how greedy they were for separated packs that should go together and how they do it this way to milk us, cause they know the majority of the fanbase will pay....and got downvoted to oblivion. Or how content creators do somehting original only for the sims devs to rip it off and make their own versions of that months later, but charging a ridiculous price (We had a mod with cows, and a year later or so the devs lanched cottage life). This is so frustrating.

The sims 2 was incredibly charming, and was made with immense love. Everything in it worked really well together. The sims 3 was excellent, but was somehow slightly less charming. It's atill my favourite for playing stories, though. The only thing i like from the sims 4 is create a sim. I think it's easier to use, even if i dont like the cartoony style. I do like that there are options for people to make trans sims, too.

This is why im glad to say Yar Har(if you get what I mean) for the sims 4 dlc, Im not about to spend 1000 dollars for all the DLCS

I built my first PC in 1999. The Sims ended up being the only game I bought for it. Played them all over the years. First time I loaded up the fourth, I genuinely thought I had bought a demo, not the 'full' game.

EA is objectively a terrible company and their monetization strategies have only been getting worse the past 15-20 years. but honestly a lot of the complaints about the sims 4 are from people who expect it to be another sims 2 or 3, which i think is just plain unfair. the sims 4 isn't trying to be ts3 remastered. without a doubt ts4 is the best sims game for storytelling-focused gameplay. the mechanical framework leaves a lot to be desired but its a great game for making your own fun, creating your own narratives, and getting invested in the characters you're playing with. my first sims game was 3, i've put thousands of hours into it, but there are plenty of features in ts4 (especially QOL which is a big deal to me) that make me prefer it to its predecessors. ts4 gives you the most control over the minutiae of your sims lives and personalities, and people who prefer the older games are usually looking for the game to do more of the heavy lifting for them. i get why people don't like 4 but its genuinely silly when people act like its objectively a worse game. the take on the best sims game is an extremely personal and subjective thing. in my book it also scores above the sims 3 simply because the sims 3 barely runs even on decent setups. most computers can only handle the game with a handful of dlc installed at best, which makes it feel like i'm never getting the full experience that i paid for. i have way too much sims 4 dlc (purchased slowly over the course of the last 10 years) and my 8ish year old gaming laptop can still run it perfectly fine even with a 10gb mods folder. modding is another point for the sims 4 imo because sims 3 mods make the game run even worse, and sims 2 mods are so clunky and complicated i assume because the game code the modders are working with sucks. the sims 3 has the best base game but the sims 4 base game has been free for a while now, and if you spent the money you would be spending on the base game to get some packs on sale or bundled then you've already got yourself a decent amount of gameplay for the price. the sims 3 base game is still $40 and the microtransaction sets with about as much content as a ts4 kit are still the same or MORE expensive than a sims 4 kit, not to mention sims 3 dlc goes on sale less often than ts4. the monetization strategy of putting out several overpriced dlcs per year is extremely common with long-lifespan AAA games, but most of them don't go 10+ years between major installments, so of course the sims 4 dlc now all adds up to a crazy amount. i know this is a bit of an essay/tirade but i feel the need to explain to people that there are legitimate reasons to enjoy and prefer the sims 4. it has plenty of flaws but most of them come from EA doing what a major company does- ignoring everything but the bottom line. if you think about it, the developers and creative teams have done a remarkably good job under the circumstances.