If the Sims 5 is going to have multiplayer, it needs to be purely optional or I will not be buying it at all. I have no interest interacting with other simmers in my game, and I feel that if multiplayer is added, then some strange competitive element is going to be added to the game which makes no sense for The Sims. Alot of us still love single player and just want to play out our own stories.
Any chance of adding occult toggles in options? I enjoy occult play and while I do understand that there are players who do not enjoy occult play or wish to have stronger control over occult presence, I really dont think its fair that in packs devoted to occult play it still seems minimal. And yes while there are ways to avoid occult presence in game, I have seen players still actively request for such gameplay to be toned down even further. Occult presence should be a constant thing in occult specific packs. Is it possible to add toggles so that players have greater control over what occults appear in the game?
I really do appreciate recent adds to make sims much more lifelike, what with Sentiments and Lifestyles but I still feel that more can be done to truly make them fleshed out. Sometimes I dont want my sim to immediately hit it off with another sim, especially if they have opposing traits. For example, it should be harder for an Ambitious sim to become friends with a lazy sim. In fact friendship would decay much more than it would grow. Romance would be even harder.
Catering to Twitter "rage" is getting silly. And part of the reason why I feel this game has just little substance underneath all the pretty visuals. Im an adult, I can handle more serious content and/or consequence in the game. I dont want my game to just be a safe little dollhouse where absolutely nothing bad could possibly happen. For example, one time I had an adult couple fight in front of their children, just to see what would happen. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. The children didnt get a sad or tense moodlet over seeing their parents fight. Just continued to smile as if all was right in the world. Its little things like that that just takes some of the substance away from sims. And what if in game this scenario does cause sims in the family to react appropriately? Would it take just one person to tweet how "triggering" this is and should be removed immediately before a Twitter firestorm erupts? Thereby losing another layer of substance and personality to the sims as a whole? Tbh, mods really have stepped up my enjoyment of the game far more than any pack could. A new pack with pretty items keeps me going for a few days. A mod that adds new dimension to the game keeps me going for months.
The game is okay, but good lord alot can be done with it until the next iteration. I can only hope we'll see some meaningful changes in the near future.
EA Staff (Retired)