I think one of the biggest problems is that most of us have lost faith in the sims and it’s teams. We’re probably reading this forum and seeing all the things that would improve the game (improved whims, story progression, our sims to not all feel exactly the same) but we’re all assuming nothing will actually come out of it. Maybe you’ll mention a few things but nothing will ever change and I think that’s really sad because we really do enjoy this game and want it to be the best it can be.
I personally have lost faith in the packs working the way they are meant to. When Eco Lifestyle came out, I was excited for the NAPs to change my neighbourhoods and make them feel more alive but all they did was introduce huge bugs that entirely destroyed my save and I had to start over.
When lifestyles were included with Snowy Escape I, again, thought it would make my sims feel more personalised, but they all ended up with exactly the same ones and were constantly tense from having too many friends. I eventually disabled this feature.
When Bust the Dust came out, I didn’t buy it, because I knew it would already be buggy and I was right and that’s now the only pack I don’t own and probably never will.
These things need to be extensively play tested with and without other packs installed BEFORE you release them because it’s not fair to release unfinished content. My suggestion would be to release packs as BETA (and at a reduced price obviously) so that players can tell you what needs fleshing out and what could be improved or what bugs they are seeing.
You have been doing good things lately: improved base game hairs, more swatches and even transferring the styles over for kids and toddlers, and the anniversary update with CC creators stuff! I loved that. I’d absolutely love to see that happening again especially for those of us on console who can’t use CC.
Thank you for at least being open to this conversation and I know it’s been harder for you guys having to work from home during this time so I do appreciate that and i really hope that I’m wrong about nothing coming from this.
EA Staff (Retired)