The Sims Team"...corruption reports predate packs like The Sims 4 For Rent."
"...data also suggests it’s likely tied to overall save complexity rather than unit count alone."
My takeaway from this is that the game is buckling under its own weight; that simply playing the game (having complex family trees, a lot of clutter, etc.) will cause corruption.
With statements like this, I’d honestly prefer radio silence. Makes things feel rather hopeless and like these issues should have been addressed years ago, instead of releasing more DLC, which in turn added more bugs/corruption issues.
I really hope we all learn a valuable lesson from all this, because it's incredibly heartbreaking watching my favorite franchise crack/crumble under its own weight of too much DLC/corruption.
The same happened to Sims 3, only a lot sooner. It's why they also introduced the pack selection tool at some point, running all packs together was too much for the game really.
You can blame Maxis, but seriously what some people put in their saves ( 40+ generations, 70GB mod file, replaced all lots in all worlds with super cluttered lots , use mods to increase sim count and even MORE units than the game usually allows) is also kinda crazy and at some point you're going to hit a wall.
In Sims 3 after 3 generations the game starts to suffer already, and with every new pack I used to make a new save because using an old save with the new pack was also trouble.
You just knew these things, what the limits of the game are.
But now people expect there to be no limits and Creators are always pushing them with challenges and stuff like a 1000 chicken coops, then watch the game struggle for fun.
If the game struggles, it's going to break at some point. And then people are crying to EA.
There's plenty of bugs in the game that you can blame them for, but just don't crazy push the game and you have a lot less issues usually. And for the love of the gods, get rid of Onedrive...it's the cause of so so many problems with the game when people's saves are on a cloud service that just deletes/adds files willy nilly.
That said, we should have had a Sim5 by now. Having the next game was also the the savoir of Sims3.
