How EA Killed the Sims Franchise: The Sad State of the Sims 4 

In a perfect world, instead of Sims 5, we would get graphic and mechanical remasters of 2 and 3.

Let's be honest, if the sims 4 had a competitor the sims 4 probably would have died a long time ago

From a sims3 open world, to never leave the house sims4.

The worst part is how unplayable this game is without mods, and how much more the mods actually add to the game and how much better they are than anything that comes out.

More people are (re)discovering sims 3 and are amazed by how much more there is to see and do. It is the best one imo

It's even more disgusting when you look at HOW LITTLE content there even is in their DLCs. The basegame plus all DLC is only just 50GB. Just like complete games out there that don't cost 10000$

The lack of open world killed it for me entirely.

One line sums up Sims 4 perfectly: “…yet another, 39.99”

The most DISGUSTING part is that people paid $1,094.33 for a game that is BROKEN, LAGS and has a SHOCKING amount of bugs that have been around for years. They continue to sell DLC that DO NOT WORK!!! And sadly people (including me) keep buying them because no alternative life simulation games exist right now. EA disgust me, they are a vile and money-hungry company that don’t care about players one bit.

The SIms 4 is basically an MLM at this point

The publisher of Cities Skylines which basically replaced Sim City is working on a Sims like alternative, Life by You, that is supposed to go into early access soon. The most exciting thing is Rod Humble is leading the studio making it, he was behind the Sims 2 and 3.

I tried sim4 for a bit when it was free, it felt dystopian, sims3 is aspirational, like you can make a mad life and have you sims live out the wildest time you want, sims4 felt like the actual daily grind of life- stressed out and trying to fit too many things into the day work, sleep, eat, work out, socialise, relax . . . I play toi escape reality, not duplicate it!

Let's not forget that EA made Sims 2 impossible to get (legitimately) solely because more people were asking for Sims 2 than there were buying Sims 4 dlcs. I expect the same with Sims 3 eventually

I find it disgusting how they continue to bring packs out but don't fix the ones that still don't work! They've completely robbed us!

EA has always hated Maxis.. My EA manager always voiced his distain for every sims build he had to test, and tried to make the rest of his staff feel the same way, got in trouble with HR for calling Maxis a bunch of British cigarettes. . only using a bad word instead of british cigarettes.. I got fired for reporting him a third time

The best part is when you purchase almost every Sims 4 expansion and EA disables your account, refuses to tell you why, denies every attempt at appeal, then tells you to stop contacting them!

I reaaaally wanna see the guys in power at EA. From ruining The Sims franchise to cancelling Alice: Asylum, there’s definitely some incredibly greedy b*stards hiding in the clockworks.

Let's not forget that it took EA 5 years to put the firemen; when the game was relased, they put in the game the fire alarm without the firemen to rescue you

I'm 28, grew up with the SIms, and am totally in agreement with you on this. The DLCs are absolutely disgusting, espcially as a Canadian (expansions are like $60.00 here) - it seems EA has gotten into the habit of adding a few key features into each one so that the player feels FOMO if they don't buy it. I stopped buying expansions after Cottage Living and haven't bought a game pack since Jungle Adventure. Kits are insulting - let's get rid of Stuff Packs and charge you almost the same price, and make a million of them so it still comes out to $100 to buy them all? No thanks! I can definitely see them going the monthly subscription route. Pay $89.99 for the Sims 5 and then have to pay an additional $14.99/month to play it. Won't be me.

Sims 2 had so much personality and atmosphere 🥺 Still playing this game nowadays

Damn that's crazy **illegally downloads additional content for free**

10 years ago no company would dare consider going up against EA to make a Sims competitor. Now they're all lining up. Paradox and the likes smell blood and know The Sims is finished. It's sad, but the spirit of Maxis within EA died a long time ago and the true successor to that spirit is probably at another company.

i only played sims3, the pure joy i get from creating towns, new citizens, and of course SUPERNATURAL and ACTUALLY immortal creatures is insane. nothing will ever top this game, its just the way of escapism that everyone should try

My prime “childhood sims memory” was my mom buying me the sims2, deciding it was too “inappropriate” and then bought me the MySims games instead of 😂 best part was I caught her playing sims2 multiple times, so I guess at least someone got some use out of it

'How EA Killed' could be a series at this point. There's at least 7 seasons with 20ish episodes per season of content.

Another terrible thing is if you bought the game through Origin, you were forced to 'upgrade' to the EA store and you CANNOT play games you own, even on disk, without an internet connection.

Everytime I watch a video like this I note the tone of the person narrating and I can tell when it’s someone who has played the Sims from the beginning and loved it with every bit of their hearts, like I did. There is an almost tangible sadness there, a wistful yearning for the days where we spent hours and hours glued to our computers, perfecting our homes, levelling up our sims skills, watching them interact with their family and friends and creating elaborate plots and stories. I remember the magic. I can still feel the magic. And when I open up Sims 3, I still remember it so vividly, it’s like coming home after having been abroad for decades. Yet the graphics of TS3 are getting harder to deal with, and though the build mode is great, it has limitations that can be frustrating. I had such high hopes for TS4. I hoped it would be another TS3 but even better, TS3 with better graphics and better plots and new activities and all kinds of goodies. We all hoped for that. Almost 10 years later, I have all but given up on the series. I loyally bought the base game and all expansions and game packs (never stuff packs) for quite a few years, despite being disappointed with every one. I kept telling myself that they were just starting out slow, that it would get better. The potential was absolutely there… but it was never realized. Around 2018 or 2019 I stopped buying all the DLC and just purchased the ones that looked intriguing. Even then, even when the trailers seemed to promise exactly what I was hoping for, it fell short. Eventually I stopped buying altogether. After a while, I bought Cottage Living because I had seen some reviews even by people who, like me, had given up, that seemed to enjoy it. Indeed I did have a bit of fun with, certainly the most fun I’ve had with TS4 ever. But the novelty wore off fast and I was back to the shallow gameplay that TS4 has always offered. The way EA is simply (and so obviously!!!) just milking this cash cow of every possible penny and not even trying to deliver content with heart sickens me. Maxis games were some of the best ever made and to see The Sims fall to this corporate bullshit makes me so sad. The only redeeming qualities of TS4 are the graphics and the build mode. I will admit, I enjoy the build mode a lot. But with the terrible gameplay mode? It has become nothing more than a house designer to me, and it used to be so, so much more. If the Sims 5 is what people are speculating, I’m not touching it. I think I’m done with the series. I might pick up the horse one when it goes on sale only because I love horses, but otherwise that’s it for me. And that still honestly makes me so sad. To all those grieving this wonderful series like I am… we’re not alone. Let us at least fondly remember the Sims 1-3 and let this one die along with any bit of integrity EA has left.

The feature I miss most from the TS3 to TS4 crossover is the item, clothing, and hair color customization. Hair color is probably the worst since every time I make a character I have to deal with their hair not being the right shade, but I used to love the ability to adjust the colors of clothing and items. It made it easy to create unique and coherent outfits and home décor. With TS4, I often just take the default colors of objects or clothing because it's just not worth trying to find a combination of colors that fit together given the limited options each one has.

You have to also add in when most of these packs come out they’re broken, incomplete, full of bugs and devoid of content 🤮🤮🤮

I still play the sims 3 to this day, and I'm still surprised by all the little details and surprises the game has! 10+ years and I'm still descovering so much more fun stuff, like did you know that if you have gnomes, the ones that appear on your lot all of the sudden, they grow old, they can even have other gnomes kids? and after a while, they die and a little grave will appear. It's amazing.

i would KILL to play the sims 2 for the first time just to feel the amazement that i’d received by playing the game 😢 i remember how i’d get excited when i watch my sim wash their face from the Deluxe pack

I think Sims started dipping with Sims 3 after management changes and Will Wright leaving. I know Sims 3 did a good job in many departments, but in some big ways it marked a downturn trend for the series, like with the alteration of the Sims Store. Back in The Sims 2, you could access player-created mods, objects, houses etc. from the store all for FREE, but EA's altering of this model showed the direction they wanted to take things. Sims 3 was really tough to mod, and we now have an almost decade-long cash-grab model of Sims 4, lol. I've been saying for years I'm surprised EA hasn't tried a free-to-play base game and charge $$$$$ for microtransactions. Looks like I may finally get my unwanted wish.

I wouldn't say that the day of Sims 2 and Sims 3 are long gone. Many people still play these games, myself included. Sims 2 will celebrate its 19th birthday soon and people still create custom content, mods and bug fixes even after official support for Sims 2 ended long ago. Which proves just how iconic of a game Sims 2 is. Imagine having such dedicated fanbase 19 years later.

The worst part for me is how with more packs there are more bugs that they never fix. And the bugs become more gamebreaking. They don’t even care enough about their customer base to fix bugs

The sims team needs to realize that at this point in the franchise certain aspects of gameplay are expected. Seasons.. should be base game by default at this point. Pets.. should be base game. City/ apartment living.. I could go on. They should release a fully inclusive, developed game and sell world packs that add lore and interest to the game. (Not rabbit hole lore). They should focus their energy in giving us something that we haven’t seen 3 or 4 times over at this point. They can only REPEAT the same pattern and business strategy for so long before enough is finally enough. It’s 2023, don’t try to sell me a pack I’ve already bought 4 times at this point. Respectfully.

This made me realise I've spent £500 on The Sims 4. What am I doing with my life

I played the sims 4 base game when it became free and got bored of it. I later downloaded the sims 2 Ultimate Collection and was SHOCKED that the game was less laggy, buggy and had FAR better routing than 4. In the sims 4, my sims would spend hours just smiling at the ceiling and objects needed to be spaced far apart to allow routing. In the sims 2, my sims do so much autonomously and routing is amazing (except for stairs) so I can place objects closer to each other, which looks so much more realistic.

I purchesed the collectors edition of The Sims 4 back in July 2014, I don't remember how much I paid, but my 12 year old self saved up the entire cash I got on Christmas, Easter Bunny and my birthday to buy it, I played 2 days got bored and came back to The Sims 2 - I've been playing The Sims 2 forpast 16 years everyweek on Saturdays to relax so in my book The Sims 4 was a let down and I am happy that I didn't purchase any of TS4 DLC's

Sims 2 is still AMAZING, the storylines, the features, I love it

Lets hope competition from Life by You and Paralives will mean Sims 6 will be somewhat decent. I doubt that will be the case for Sims 5, but it'll probably be the game they get a reality check with once fans migrate over to actual alternatives

People need to sue this company 🙄

I'm waiting for either Life By You or Paralives to release. After The Sims 4 I don't trust EA and Maxis anymore. Trust me, if they release TS5 as a free-to-play game, it will have micro-transactions. There is no way EA will just give a game free away at the goodness of their hearts. "Free-to-play" looool more like Play now microtransactions later. Watch out for that limited $2 hair style.

I feel like Paralives could be the game to carry on the sims’ legacy. Seeing the effort the developers are putting into the game and the detail is insane.

I think sims 2 is underrated. I was born in 2001. I have played all 4 games. But I keep wanting to go back to sims 2. I really liked it. I also have many expansion packs, all on CD

After nearly a decade the game still feels incomplete and yes it has stuff to show but half of what it does have feels half baked or half assed which Is a shame because it feels like it does not need to be this way.

not to mention the absolute bugginess of TS4... sims often do not do what you tell them to, freeze all the time, walk through objects and other sims, etc. on a fresh install, no DLC or mods, i created my first family and, already, a sim bugged out and had to be deleted. that never happens in any other sims game and goes to show that the priorities do not lie with functionality nor the player's enjoyment

As a mexican girl living in Mexico I used to be so exited to get home after school to play sims 2 all day. Then the sims 3 was out and I wanted to play it so bad, but the prices were too high, and where I lived they didn’t had any sims games, we had to go to the US to buy it. Then, after 4 years I finally could buy it because it was on sale, I think i bought it in Black Friday, but I only got to play it a few months when ea announced the sims 4. I was so sad bc I recently got the sims 3 and I didn’t want to feel left behind on the great success that the sims 4 was going (or assumed) to be. When I saw it costed 60 dollars I thought to myself “I could never get the new game”. The prices are ridiculously high, and maybe its worth it bc of the franchise and the money it took to make it, but I just wanted the base game, it was ridiculous of me to think I could buy the expansion packs bc it was a lot of money. Time has passed, I got ts4 on a Black Friday too for 20 dollars, and I was sooo happy, and there werent any expansion packs announced (yet) but when I got it they announced the camp expansion thing, and I got it, ask me when have I played with that game mode, it’s so boring. Anyway, now I just find it crazy and ridiculous how they are making expansion packs, kits and whatever else, no items for free, and apparently they will never be. Honestly I got happy when the game got free to play, bc there are many many people who can’t buy it and they download it in other ways. But yeah, I agree with you that EA is just milking the game and it’s disappointing and disgusting. Ps. Sorry for sharing a lot and ranting, i just wanted to give my opinion on it.

Don't forget about the STATE of these DLCs. There are game-breaking bugs that have been known to exist for like 5 years that are not yet fixed by EA 💀 Apparently it's not economically viable and they direct the manpower towards pumping out a next cash grab "kit" instead of fixing the content they already sold.

Sims 2 and Sims 3 Let's Plays are back now in trend... these two are timeless...you can even play it simultaneously because it feels like these two are not in the same franchise... so unique from one another....

i do say this on any sims 4/sims 5 video i see. EA did destroy the sims franchise. However, if they think they've gotten away with these shenanigans forever, they sure haven't. Because I truly believe that they caused a butterfly effect with their mishap, causing other companies to step in and work on better human simulation games. First and foremost, not a human sim, but Planet Zoo is an amazing zoo simulator that came on the fall of the Zoo Tycoon games. And it proves that even if a franchise seems dead, someone can bring it back to life. Look at games in development right now that WILL be an exact competition for the sims franchise: life by you and paralives. They won't be able to pull their stunts they've pulled with Sims 4 once these games come out and shed light to how these games need to be made, what we look for as consumers, and what we're willing to pay for. And if these other life sims have weather and pets right off the bat, EA can enjoy the loss because consumers won't want to pay for a base simulation game that doesn't have either when indie devs will be making games that do. The whole "play with life together" they were originally planning in sims 4 and will probably try to add to sims 5 won't help them. They need to listen to their consumers and quit cash cowing everything. Or Sims 5 will be the last sims to ever be made.

I am also extremely fascinated by the fact that there is no sims 4 competitors on the market. We are littered with animal crossing dupes but there is no sims alternatives, like at all.

And remember, the original Sims 2 files caught fire not long before it’s release and they STILL released the masterpiece that TS2 is 🎉

i hate how people defend and bootlick EA to this day

I paid $8 for mine and honestly the state of this game is living up its $8 worth

For me the feature I miss the most from Sims 3 is the create a style mode. Being able to specify the color of your furniture and decor yourself made it so much easier to mix and match everything. It doesn't matter if you have hundreds of objects to choose from if you can't mix even a quarter of it without creating a mad mismatch of styles and colors. I can bear with the downgraded lack of an open world, but I know that if the color wheel is lacking in Sims 5 then it won't ever be worth buying into. As for their bs excuse of wanting to reduce loading times: I honestly rather have one prolonged loading screen when I start the game and occasionally travel to a new map than the far more frequent loading screens you got in Sims 4.

It's a good thing that we now have two different open world life simulators in development - one that's hyper-realistic, and the other that's is painterly, and each appealing in their own ways. Life simulators will live on even if the sims franchises dies a fiery death of blatant cash grabbing.

Another thing that is absolutely disgusting is how we've had glitches since the beginning of the game, that haven't been fixed. Crops revert to piles of dirt overnight, windows in the Vampires world are broken for many people (glass not showing up), simulation lag is getting worse and worse whether you play with mods or not. Even Get to Work is broken, their very first pack. Dine out is broken for many. Wedding Stories, a relatively new but not really pack, has been broken since before launch! And just to add fuel to the fire, the EA app, which has been pretty much forced on players, is notorious for being a piece of trash that works properly maybe once a week, with no option to just play offline and avoid these issues. At this point I don't understand how people still pay for this game. At least if you sail the seven seas you will be disappointed but still have the money

Crazy how Sims 4 has more DLC than all previous games combined, but is still missing a lot of features from the previous games. If the rumors about the Sims 5 are true, I don't think I'll even give it a try. I still play the Sims 2 and 3, and I'll be giving Paralives and Life By You a try. Hopefully, either or both of them are good. EA gets away with zero effort because there's no competition.

When EA took out Origin and I got back on to play, my expansion packs were gone. $500 down the damn drain! Im really pissed.

Also dont forget in the sims 3 they had the exchange where you could get a decent amount of content for free, where in the sims 4 they only offered like 1 free item and it was a guitar skin.

I played the Sims Medieval and was surprised by how more in depth it was compared to TS4 tbh

Ah, yes, The Sims 4, the game in which sims are so buggy they take 5 hours to eat a simple meal, superb 😌👌🏻

i dont remember which one it was, ts2 or ts3, but i used to be able to literally build entire worlds from scratch - roads, terrain features, neighborhoods. i remember when ts4 came out and i was so excited to see what new features they added to make worldbuilding and just building in general even more powerful only to find out that they had gutted everything i liked abt the game

That was the most excellent telling of the way that the Sims franchise has gone down the drain and I am so glad I saw your video I'm so glad I'm not the only one that sees this stuff... it really is sickening what they're doing and I can't wait for the competitors that are coming out with life simulator games to hopefully make a better life simulator with way more to offer & actually get me back into playing and loving life simulators the way I used to with the older Sims games

As a kid i always watched so many sims 3 lets plays of the island pack and the supernatural pack and i was always so engaged with how filling those series were, when i slowly became older sims 4 was the new ride and i got into watching sims 4 series and discovered that majority of the gaming stemmed from the youtubers' creativity and the inclusion of mods and cc. Without mods and cc the game is sadly only worth playing for impressionable children who have high attention spans. Even myself being now 17 and still playing the sims 4, the only way its bearable to really play is through creating in depth character backstories and a bunch of custom drama, families, as well as immersive fashion and in general just 'roleplaying' scenarios because the game is drier than a desert with the only lazily implemented natural 'events' being sims calling your house up, or having weather changes randomly impact your sims even with many packs it's really a 'what you make of it' game instead of an actual proper game in my opinion as was the sims 3. Its a shame, i honestly would be better of just having sims 3 and being able to have all the supernatural ability users all in a single cheap pack and that could do me with more content than ea has provided me with city living, snowy escape, vampires, and seasons all combined LMAOoo. But it is what it is sadly.

I adore Sims 2 and will forever. I felt like the Sims had more personality and it made me laugh a lot.

just another testament to how corporate greed really does destroy everything good in the world! i also love your commitment to saying “39.99” repeatedly

You didn’t comment on how sims have been hit with the kid gloves. The cheeky sometimes scandalous things that makes the sims series so iconic have been neutered. No longer can sims have a vibrating bed, dance in a cage, have wild bachelor/bachelorette parties, or other wild things. It’s become cartoonish and childish. No depth or contrast. The sims has never been a KIDS game. It’s always been 13+. It always feels like the sims 4 team is talking down to their users and audiences.

Sims 4 going Free-to-Play marks the death of the Sims for me. It's a big franchise-wide pivot. No doubt in my mind that future Sims games will also be F2P, which gives people some justification for why the game isn't full-featured as opposed to a basket for you to put DLCs in. Seeing their direction, I'd rather pay for a Sims 3 "Bug Fixes & Optimizations Pack" than getting future Sims game. EA also caught wind of people dissatisfied with TS4 starting TS3, that's why TS3 prices are hiked and they no longer go on discount anymore. Also, the video forgot to mention _My First Pets_ stuff pack, which is a pack that gives you small pets. Meanwhile Sims 3 Pets pack give you: Cats & Dogs, Horses, and Small Pets. It's 3 separate packs in TS4.

6:53 I played sims all my life. Each game was a complete game and the DLC was just disks you bought to add more items to the game. Everything I’m hearing about Sims 4 just… it doesn’t even sound like a complete game half the time.

One of the only games you should not feel bad about pirating. (Not saying I do..) Most DLC's should simply be included in the base game.

sims 3 is so special to me. it was my favorite game growing up. there was a lot more playability and was immersive. i wish sims 4 was just the sims 3 without its glitchy-ness. i have most of the extra content and i’m not over the franchise. however, i don’t ever play vanilla…mods make this game.

I'm a Simmer since TS1 was released and TS3 is my all-time favourite. It's been released back in 2009 and to this day it still surprises me with new things I didn't know about! That says a lot about the love and detail that's been put into this game. Truly the last Sims game with a soul.

I legit miss the sims 2. The fact you could play one household and then play another 3 households and go back to where you left your first family was actually really fun and let me do so much with storylines. Also, it had one-sided relationships which was so much fun because you could have one sim in love and another completely uninterested. With the sims 4, I like the graphics, creating sims and building, but I hate gameplay itself. I wish there was a game that brought together the best of sims 2 and sims 3 gameplay. I literally gave up on sims 4 years ago, I have the base game and 2 EPs, and there is no way I will ever buy another sims 4 EP or stuff pack or whatever. I would rather play sims 2 with horrible graphics but at least the gameplay is interesting.

I think even the cover design of the TS4 extension packs looks very simplified. The packs for TS3 and TS2 had a lot more detail to them.

I play the Sims 4 for years and something to take into consideration about the Realm of Magic is that it was very disappointing because doesn't even include the typical witch hat for your witch sims. I thought it was going to be included because when I found out about the pack, I found a bunch of pictures on the internet including them, but I found out I only needed mods to do so. As you mention in 9:10, it's very annoying how expensive they make the game.

As much as I love sims 4, the dlc situation is horrific, and the fact there’s packs that still have countless bugs and glitches that don’t get fixed is shocking. They clearly just want to get as much money as possible

I truly feel that Sims 5 will be the last. I can absolutely believe it's going fully free-to-pay, because as it stands well.. EA knows that MANY people that are interested in the series but not gullible enough to shell out $1k (on ANY game) rather easily find illicit ways to access ALL the content they so readily monetize. But, going forward, make it so the player must go through an in-game marketplace? Well, it just got significantly harder for people to do that sort of thing, if not impossible. Once EA fully embraces an environment in which those interested have no choice but to pay outrageous "microtransactions" (at the rate of increase between games for an all-inclusive experience, I'd guess at least $2k total after added up) or simply not play- I'd bet, most will simply not play. Gradually, EA will see the numbers failing, and give up on The Sims instead of ever having the reflection to know it is only 'dead' due to their own poor business decisions. I hate to be pessimistic, but the writing is on the wall. It's confusing and sad to me to see so many modern fans more than okay with the current business model.. What game is worth $1k or more?? You can go out and buy a price-gouged PS5 for literally several hundred less than that! 💔

Sims releasing a new DLC: "Going Bankrupt" for JUST $39.99

I used to buy packs (maybe just one every couple of years). One day, I wondered how much all DLC would cost, because I was starting to get interested in The Sims 4 again. The total was $800. From that moment on, I decided to sail the high seas and acquire TS4 by other means. TS4 is actually really fun when you don't have to pay for all the DLCs! :)

sims2 was the pinnacle of it all... university, pets, kids and shops....that game had it all

The modding community is the only thing keeping this game alive for me lol

I remember when you couldn’t throw a stick without hitting a top ten list of best computer games of all time and it being filled with The sims and it’s expansion packs

The Sims 3's DLC "World Adventures" has more hours of fun gameplay than all of the Sims 4 DLCs combined while costing only 20$ (and it often can be found for cheaper like 5-10$).

i live in a third world country, and i was amazed to find that when i totalled all of the sims 4 dlc, it costed more than my yearly school tuition.

It really does make me sick that they’re selling parts of the game we used to enjoy! Everything we fell in love with isn’t base game anymore. The packs/DLCs aren’t even worth it.

grew up with Sims 3 and recently fell in love with Sims 2, it's a real shame how much games have been turned into a marketing scam, makes it all the less shocking why companies were upset at Baldur's Gate 3 doing so well

I had so much fun with Sims2. Bought all the expansion packs. Made my city so beautiful. Had restaurants. Stores. Places for all my Sims to go play music together. Made nannies with high skill levels to move in and take care of the babies. Had parks for my Sims to go play music together. Homes in the mountains ... by the oceans. I played that game for four years and was still discovering game secrets. Took 300k of the greatest photos. Made memories and videos. Made my own sim movies. Got rid of the maid, fixed up Mary Sue and Daniel Pleasant back in love. Got the kids happy and on their own. Always ended my game with my Sims in the shower. When I got Night Life and added it to my basic game ... Daniel and Nary Sue got out of the shower without their pixels. Yep ... got some fun pictures of all that. Daniel was an artist and painted some beautiful paintings of Mary Sue without her pixels. So cute! Fixed up the Goths. Mort and the kids went back to Strangetown and added Bella back to their home. Back to Pleasantview where the went to the mountains on family vacations. Alexander Goth got Meadow Thayer off the streets, dressed her up and married her. The wedding was BEAUTIFUL !!! ... under a full moon. Did you guys know you could get pictures and videos under a full moon ? ... !!! Loved the slow motion of snowball fights and dinners while taking photos. Loved the dogs and cats. The green houses. The trees. Fishing. I had to go get a real life and missed out on 3 and 4. Maybe I'll try 3 soon.

I mostly use the Sims 4 as a character creator and building simulator, as that's really where it's strenghts lie. Actual gameplay gets stale fast. And even then, i always use a ton of cc and mods

At this point im hopping people won't settle for breadcrumbs and sabotage Sims 5 to teach them a lesson but i know thats not gonna happen and the cycle will continue

I would say, the issue with the Sims 4 I don't think is "lack of features" per say, I think it has a lot of content, it's more of disconnected systems. You got a growing up system that doesn't connect at all with the whole having pets system, having pets is not related at all to how you have horses, or cooking, or getting a job, and so on. All this are isolated separate systems. Imagine if the whole going to university allowed you to gain the knowledge needed to be a veterinarian and do more advanced stuff with your farm animals, if having pets could influence the way child development works, if one could be pregnant and go to university as an adult and face the challenges of parenthood while studying in university. What I am saying here is having all this systems interact with one another to create new systems, and this would allow this feeling of "having content" in the game to explode exponentially.

What's even more sad is that you can see how low effort is put in each dlc. That means not only they are expensive but also low development cost which makes no sense to charge you that much at the first place.

What i don’t like on sims 4 is basing instead of on goals your sims want emotions. The reality is our emotions dont control our whole lives constantly with decisions. Also i miss the randomness sims 2 had it always was shocking and fun for me to figure out over time. Like getting hit by a satellite, abducts by aliens, get bit by a werewolf etc i also liked how if you wanted to do certain things you had to work for it such as becoming a vampire you had to befriend them and made a lot of work. the smaell details in sims and when their needs arent met the crazy comes out if was just more entertaining i cant get myself to play sims 4 long

I'm 35, and I remember reading a preview on The Sims, I must have read that article 20 times. It's a shame Will Wright sold out to EA. EA has no love for their consumers, we are not people, only wallets.

It's sad. I've had the sims 4 for ages, it was my first and only sims game. I've spent an honestly regrettable amount of money on the game, to see it continually break is aggravating. I haven't bought a pack in a while, actually I don't remember the last time I did, and it's bad when I have to say I don't care. When you make a game that has DLCs you WANT people to buy them, but the sims has broken to a point where it doesn't matter because mods have become infinitely better than the past several packs they've been releasing. And the gallery break is just idiotic and the worst, i was a somewhat big creator and they WIPED EVERYTHING except for my shared items, also what happened to "restoring the newsfeed tab soon"???? it's been four months and it's still gone and we don't have any updates to my knowledge. I'm still playing, but it gets boring so fast now. The gallery is dead, the community is dead. People who've spent as long as the game has been out socializing and building their reputation on the gallery are pissed, and I honestly am too. I would consider buying the sims 3, but I don't want to give anymore money to the company. I don't think the game would be this bad, if EA never got involved. It honestly needs boycotted, every company has their limits. I know it'd never happen, but if people stopped sending them money with their extremely overpriced and overabundance of packs that have become so embarrassingly lackluster the past couple of years, maybe they'd do something. Or if we could just force EA to sell/leave the sims, but it's honestly a dream. I hate to see a game I loved so much for almost a decade break so horribly over the years, the sims 4 was never perfect, but this is unbelievable now.

1100 bucks... That would be a nice aquarium. And you can landscape it way better than anything in an old clunky sims game. And if your fishes make offspring you could even sell them for profit

I grew up playing The Sims 1 - 3. I preordered The Sims 4. On launch I played for a few hours then got a refund 😂 I remember getting a funny feeling when the trailers and gameplay videos dropped for TS4 because I was waiting to get that feeling I got when Sims 2 and Sims 3 were previewed, it was amazing to see all of the advancements between titles. Whereas the only thing they were pushing as the big improvement was ‘emotions’ and how alive the Sims feel. I couldn’t fathom that it was a mainline Sims instalment!

I miss Maxis and Will Wright. Also, the shift from physical (Which is my preferred format and should've never changed, the warning shot was there by SimCity 2013) into the digital era (Forced DRM to use third party softwares i.e. Origin and Steam) has made gaming entirely lazier and greedy.

3:55 TELL EM BRING OUT THE WHOLE OCEAN!! 🗣🦞

I never "grew up" with Sims 2, so I have no sentimental or nostalgic bias, but I will say Sims 2 is the best out of all of them. Even if EA milks Sims 4 for another 3-4 years with expansions, it's still a poorly designed incomplete game. Regardless of how graphically beautiful it can look, it's missing mechanics, lore, charm and witty writing that made Sims 2 a complete standout after nearly 2 decades later.