Thank you for all the work you all have been doin and the content you’ve released.... I mean you guys introduced a whole new pack type on us in the middle of the pandemic. I don’t know if you’d been working on that for a while or just during the pandemic but that’s impressive. It’s hard to be creative in hard times but the team has really been doing a great job. Your players play sims for more than just fun sometimes. This is my self care. It’s my escape and if your team didn’t push through the pandemic, plus all the modders... I am really grateful for the work you do and I know it can be hard to be creative and focused on times like these but here you are again opening yourself to us.... some of us who complain... some of us with bugs and issues.... some of us with content request.
It takes a lot to listen to criticism from about something you love or even don’t love. So thank you for that and really take care of all of yourselves because if you guys are not in tip top shape mentally, emotionally, spiritually, etc. it’s hard be creative and this is a demanding community. You have so much in you all to give the sims franchise don’t want to see you all burn out and quit. This game is important probably one of the best simulation game out there for real life simulation (those zoo games are pretty top notch too just to be honest haha)
Okay so me?
I have a buggy game. Which really kills my buzz and all the mods in the world can’t save it. But there are two things that really take a toll.
1. My sims are always kissing and woohooing people randomly. Even married. And maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have some great mods from zero and lumpinou that make these things really really realistic. But I would like my sims to be less romantically and sexually free. Especially when free love is not select in the town vote.
2. I guess this is a free love thing too put a different angle. My sims like every body, It’s too fluid. I would like if my sims were able to have a choice about who they have romantic interactions with. I really don’t know the correct way to mention this with sensitivity in mind. So I apologize ahead of time and I just want to be straight forward... when the game went more LGBTQA+ a lot of the former traditional play got interrupted. I would still like some of my sims to be hetero. All my sims just don’t care and it’s like you built this perfect world (who has a problem with a perfect world **face palm*** me lol ) but a real world we could make perfect would be nice too. It’s okay if bad things happen, if we can do something about. Actually that’s a cool idea... there’s no community in the sims. It be cool if you could get burglarized and your neighbors can be rallied to replace what you buy or someone dies and they bring over food like the welcome to the neighborhood thing you have going. You have a lot of the ground work in the game. But letting us make the world better when it’s real and bad things happen ... that’d be really amazing game play. There’s a fire in your home and your handiness and woodworking skills can help you build up the area. (Wow I really just thought of that while I was writing this and it sounds awesome)
So yes that’s just my little nugget.
- the bugginess of the “free love” (my sims woohoo with anyone and everyone that they politely introduce themselves too) I don’t know if you ever watched one tree hill when they had to use words to describe themselves like jock, nerd, “friendly”. Yeah my sims are a little too friendly ;). You shouldn’t woohoo everyone who says hello real nice lol.
- a way for me to control the “free love” in my game
- I really liked some of the ideas people mentioned like pre-teens and more depth development. But you’ve been hearing us on that I see it in the game. You’re tweaking as you go that’s why you’ve developed traits and sentiments ... you can’t just drop the game in the deep end of the pool it might drown. I see the efforts and appreciate them!
Lastly you’re a decent franchise, I don’t know if I would be able to handle all the criticism you all take via the media. I would probably be like those DJ’s who don’t take request at the parties. I love the inclusion and representation that has been great but I don’t know how you all don’t just say it’s a game just play it stop making things personal. You are all troopers.
Thank you all and really and truly take care of all yourselves.
You can’t pour from an empty cup.
EA Staff (Retired)