I want to give a contrast to the tons of complaints in this forum. I LOVE sims 4. I think it’s the best sim game so far. I love all the many many packs and all the features. I can tell you’ve tried to fix things that made previous sims games laggy, and I love that so much - sims 4 is so much less stressful to play than sims 3 (for example). The packs all interact with each other in a way that is an immense improvement on past sim games. I don’t expect you to get every pack right straight away, and I appreciate that you try to fix bugs when they’re found. I love that you keep improving things from old packs (and the base game) and releasing so much stuff for free. I can see you are trying hard to keep every culture, etc, represented, and I understand why you can’t add things like disabilities. I think you really do listen to us. I also understand that sims is a business, and businesses need to make money (or we wouldn’t have the sims) so I don’t begrudge you making so many packs - it gives us more content in the end.
Over all, I am pleased. There are some things I’m hoping you’ll add before sims 5 (horses, farms, cars, more occult’s, build a world - and island living part 2 so we have more water activities), but from my experience so far, I am pretty sure you will with time. You won’t add everything, but nothing can be perfect.
I don’t think the loud complaints in this thread represent the overall community of sims players - I think they’re a loud minority. That’s not meant to be an insult against them, as they’re entitled to their opinion, I just think most people are overall happy with sims 4 - sales show that. I am also surprised by how many of these complains point to tiny features of the game, which don’t affect much of overall gameplay. Each to their own, I just want sim gurus to know that a lot of us are really happy with Sims 4.
EA Staff (Retired)