Why Everyone Is Furious At The Sims 4

[Cristiano]

The main reason is EA being bought by Saudia Arabia and the Trump family, but there is so much more.

 

[Beebo Brink]

The main reason is EA being bought by Saudia Arabia and the Trump family, but there is so much more.

Somehow I missed seeing this post when it first came out, but I certainly haven't missed any of the controversies that it covered.

I love the Sims 4, but I reached my breaking point a few months before the EA/Saudi sale was even announced. Too many half-assed Expansion Packs with features that bloated the game UI without really adding usable gameplay. Business & Hobbies was my last purchase, so "boycotting" EA over the Saudi issue was already covered.

I was still playing, mind you, I just was done with paying for anything new. Then came more Expansion Packs, more Events, more updates and every single damn one of them broke the game and mods.

I'm still hanging on, but with much dampened enthusiasm. Although the Remove the Marketplace Tool mod helped improve my mood. I have that installed so I don't even have to look at moola ads.

 

[Cristiano]

Somehow I missed seeing this post when it first came out, but I certainly haven't missed any of the controversies that it covered.

I love the Sims 4, but I reached my breaking point a few months before the EA/Saudi sale was even announced. Too many half-assed Expansion Packs with features that bloated the game UI without really adding usable gameplay. Business & Hobbies was my last purchase, so "boycotting" EA over the Saudi issue was already covered.

I was still playing, mind you, I just was done with paying for anything new. Then came more Expansion Packs, more Events, more updates and every single damn one of them broke the game and mods.

I'm still hanging on, but with much dampened enthusiasm. Although the Remove the Marketplace Tool mod helped improve my mood. I have that installed so I don't even have to look at moola ads.

I absolutely love The Sims and have loved it from the very beginning. I have bought nearly every expansion, stuff pack, etc.. across all four versions. However when this was announced, I slowly started losing interest. Each new update was breaking more and more stuff in the Sims 4, and EA has been treating loyal customers like garbage for years. I haven’t played the Sims 4 in 6+ months. An update broke my save and I just didn’t come back. I may play it again at some point but right now I just have zero desire to even play what I own.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I may play it again at some point but right now I just have zero desire to even play what I own.

I was very close to that point last Fall, but I renewed my enthusiasm with a rather drastic move. I archived all my Saves and started from scratch with Base Game only. I disabled all DLC except for Kits. Then I removed all mods so I was more or less update proof.

Base Game was surprisingly fun to play. The simplicity of it was refreshing. After a few months I enabled Get to Work and focused on exploring every new feature I'd never touched before. It went from my least favorite EP to one of my top favorites.

My plan is to take my time enabling each EP. Play until I'm bored, then add a new pack and explore every corner of it. At the rate I'm going, I'll probably kick the bucket before I fully enable all the packs I bought, but I'm okay with that.