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We deserve The Sims 4 on Mobile
Dear EA, We Deserve The Sims 4 on Mobile Hi EA, I’ve been a long-time fan of The Sims 4, and I just want to say this straight from the heart: we deserve The Sims 4 on mobile. I know there might be technical reasons why the game is still PC-only, but honestly, more people play on mobile now than on PC. Not everyone can afford a gaming laptop or a high-end setup. Some of us are just using old laptops that overheat after 3 hours of gameplay (literally feels like I’m toasting my legs 🥲). It hurts the neck, the back and sometimes the leg. Meanwhile, playing on a phone is so much more comfortable, handy, and immersive. You actually feel like you are the Sim. Phones are powerful now. There are phones with 256GB, 512GB, even 1TB of storage. If mobile can handle games like CODM, Genshin Impact, Roblox, and Mobile Legends, it can definitely handle The Sims 4. Those games even heat up phones too, but no one complains, because people love playing them. If players can spend real money for skins, guns, or characters, imagine how much they’d invest in Sims 4 packs for homes, families, and lives they build themselves. For me "The Sims 4" isn’t just a game. For me, it’s an escape, an expression, and a dream. Some players want to build families. Some want to create their dream homes. Some just want to live a life they can’t in reality. There’s something deeply emotional about it. The Sims lets us design our own happiness. And imagine how much more special that would feel if we could do it on our phones, anywhere, anytime. Imagine this: A full Sims 4 Mobile experience, optimized, handheld, and portable.You could play while lying in bed, commuting, or just relaxing. No back pain, no overheating laptops, no worries about privacy when your Sims… well, you know 😭, Just pure comfort and creativity. And let’s be honest , you’d earn a lot too. Because people would definitely pay for the packs, the expansions, and the convenience. It’s a win for the players, and a win for EA. We love The Sims 4, we really do. We’re not asking for anything fancy, just the chance to play it wherever we want, the same way we live our Sims’ lives: freely and comfortably. Please, EA — bring The Sims 4 to mobile. We’re more than ready. 🫶 Sincerely, A passionate (and slightly tired) Sims player who just wants to play in bed 😭💖 
It's time for Create a Sim (CAS) to get a Family and Relationships update.
This is something I've just been begging and hoping for since Growing Together and Love Struck came out. I also been posting about this recently on Reddit and Twitter, but Family Dynamics and Relationships seriously needs to be updated in CAS. This was something I really had high hopes for and had hoped for along with being able to use special the eye colors and features on normal sims which I am very happy that we finally got them TvT. When it comes to Family and Relationships there needs to be more in CAS, it sucks being limited to mother, father sister and brother and household member. It would be nice to set sims as Aunties/ Uncles, Niece/Nephew, Cousin, Grandparents or even God/Step-Parent without having to created the parents, it adds more diversity when creating families and we don't have to go through so many hoops adding and deleting sims just to create the family we want. There's also an issues where you can't set a sim to have two mothers or two fathers without playing with genetics which is very annoying and I hope that one day we can just set a child to be able to have two parents of the same sex without having to play with genetic this really applies more to already existing sims too when you pull sims of the gallery. The ability to have more than 1 spouse. This was something I was really hoping for when lovestruck came out. I like playing with polygamous sims and it also sucks that when I'm creating them in CAS only one of them can be set as spouse. it would be nice to be to at least be able to set up up 2-3 spouses in CAS. It would be also nice to have Friend, Rival, or Nemesis instead of just leaving someone as a household member. It's a little weird when starting a save with sims that a just household members. With a Family and Relationships update it would allow Simmers to create more chaotic stories and playstyles Like Example: if I could start my sims off as Enemies living with it other and I having to play with them to get them grow to tolerate or even like each other. What if I could start off with a child sims and there grandparents because the parents died young... you know stuff like that. I hope the Sims Team takes this into consideration and add these thing in the future even if its little by little. Again it kind of just sucks when you are limited to 1-2 type of household, and it would just be nice to have a little more variety in the game when it comes to family and relationship. What do you guys think?
I think this would be ground breaking
I’m sure the sims team are up to their necks trying to desperately please people again, it’s obvious a lot of love has gone into sims 4 but it missed the mark, but I think with my suggestions although some may be harder to develop, the sims 4 could become the adored game we all wanted it to be. number 1 (the hard one, might not be possible) but making it open world. the joy I have booting up the sims 3 just to watch them walking their dog down the street or the kids going trick or treating on Halloween or watching them jog to the gym created a sense of realism and gave the sims 3 the glorious bones it has even today, it increases playability hugely and although would be no easy task, imagine how much more money people would be willing to spend on the game if this became a reality, I know for a fact I’d be so happy and play it constantly like I did sims 3. Bring back the grocery and book store theres no fun in buying things from the computer or just being able to cook by paying simoleons, if they implemented a feature where you could only cook food if you had the groceries in the house otherwise you don’t eat until you go to the shops, it would make the world so much more immersive and realistic without “realism” just meaning better graphics, I think it would make it so much more fun, and if you don’t want to go to the shops you could order specific groceries from your phone, maybe even implement a little grocery list feature! make holidays more spread apart and not so much of a required thing ita so much pressure when every week in your sims world you have a holiday pop up that’s not a fun thing to plan because of the lack of playability and you can’t just cancel it without your sim getting a negative emotion, I’d like it to feel more immersive like having a Christmas Eve, Christmas and Boxing Day and it be more fun to plan and decorate and invite people, and less often and so many random things like speak like a pirate day or something, it just feels quite forced that it was a desperation to keep things engaging by making random holidays every 5 minutes but I feel like my sim barely ever gets to go to work because there’s a day off for nearly every one next one! The create a design tool!! Not to be passive aggressive here but giving simmers limited options for designs and colours was a bad idea, if it was possible in the sims 3 so many years ago, it’s possible now. Again increasing playability dramatically, one of my biggest frustrations is feeling like I HAVE to download custom content to even get decent clothing options, like why does hair only have like 10 colours? Why do I have to either have black hair or grey, why can’t I have an inbetween and do highlights like I used to on sims 3? Why can’t I design my own sofa? This kind of fix would be HUGE to the community and I know for a fact it would bring a splash of the heart from sims 3 into the sims 4 and make people so much more engaged like they used to be and willing to spend money, basically just copying the design system from sims 3 and bringing it to sims 4 with all new themes, textures, designs, a full catalog maybe even bigger than before and colour customisable with a colour wheel would be fantastic, like what was done with the pets fur customise section. I’m going to leave it there but for me, these things are the absolute meat of what I would love to see happen to absolutely transform the game, they’ve probably been said before but this is what gave the sims 3 heart and made us so excited for sims 4 to see the improvements that would be made, which yes the sims 4 aesthetically is excellent, but when the bones are wrong, doing patch updates won’t help long term playability, it just gets people excited temporarily for the bare minimum, also please be kind I’m not hugely into all the sims drama and communities I’m just a player that wanted to come and pray that my comment gets seen and recognised
Is 2026 the last year of TS4?
I've been seeing a lot of cryptic tweets from a very credible Sims personality on X and no one seems to be talking about it. He's hinted a few times that TS4 will be over next year and he is 100% right with all other predictions for the game (like EP's and updates that are coming which he usually predicts MONTHS before any leaks or announcements) . Does anyone have any ideas about this? I personally really wanted cars in the game before any complete closure of productions. Could 2026 be the final year of TS4?
Reinstall - QUIT making us esc through 500 windows!!!!!!!!!!!
The title says it all. I shouldn't have to esc through 500 stupid windows telling me all the packs I already know that I have. I don't care. I've played this game for too many years and spent way too much money on it for this kind of nonsense. Do better.Miss any features of the sims 3.
So moving to Sim 4 I found my absolutely favourite feature of the sims 3 dispeared... The option. to custom colour everything. I love this feature so much i made a complete custome coloured house that was absolutely stunning. Although i wished you could customise them a bit more like you can for fairy wings in the Sim. Creating a fairy just reminded me of how much I missed that.
Laundry Day- Hampers: Choice
Currently: The Hamper that clothes are put into is typically based on the closest one to where a sim is changing clothes, so you can sometimes have it where the wrong sim will use the wrong hamper, causing hampers to have to stay in a washroom and be “used by any”. The thing is, it’s not realistic unless the family is very close. Proposed idea: Choice: If you simply put the hampers down, they remain in their current state, and the hampers will accept any clothes - i.e., any SIM that hasn’t selected its own. But, like beds, you should be able to associate a hamper with a sim, so that anywhere they change clothes, it will go into the selected hamper. However, allow for multiple sims to “select” the same hamper (that way, if, for example, there’s a couple living in a bedroom, they can share). If it’s too hard to do it like the bed...maybe have it work similarly to doors. Lock hamper for... What do you all think? Yes, it’s not a big deal compared to other things, but it could add a bit more realism to that pack.
More representation for Slavic players
As someone who is Slavic (Slovak/Czech) I honestly feel kind of disappointed in the sims team for not giving us any Slavic pack or world. We have a expansion pack on the Asian community like for rent expansion pack and snowy escapes and then there's the lovestruck pack which is more for the Latin/Hispanic community etc. Not a single one for SLAVIC players no world pack or kits. We need more representation of the Slavic community.
Infants, Toddlers and Elders.
So I'm happy that the kids finally got stuff and gameplay dedicated to them with the camp, the playground, the IF and many more things. Infants and toddlers and elders still I feel neglected like with stuff and how the elders don't have their own gameplay dedicated to them. Let's with newborn, infants and toddlers I would like to see pacifiers it can soothe all three to sleep or to stop crying, also imagine trying to ween off a toddler from the Pacifier. Toddlers and Infants with the strollers like I give credit where credit is due to the Devs thank you for having Toddlers and infants more in the world however I would like to see strollers out in the world like in reality you see people walking down the street with the babies in the strollers, even at the parks or when they are walking the dogs. Infants need more equipment like I get the playmate but someone was playing Sims 2 and 3 and I forgot we had a baby swing and I was like omg it made me tear up because I miss those swings, an infant can be in a swing or a bouncy, or a baby rocker. Toddlers now I love they can play at the playground we need the toddler swings the bucket looking ones, the springer playground equipment. A tricycle, motorized cars they can sit in and drive around. Elders we need walkers, canes, maybe even a wheelchair, I know we have dentures in CAS and BB but what if we have a gameplay and a sim with no teeth and they put they teeth in. Or brush they dentures. Elders have a little less strenuous exercise. Also we need a potion so Elder don't have to die from over excersion. Any more thoughts Simmers???
Future of the game
Hi, It could be a good opportunity to be less serious and more focused on humor. Maxis could try to focus on male sims and masculine activities, on having fun more than just copy/paste the boring IRL everyday life. Life in The Sims 4 can't stay more limited than TS1, TS2 and TS3, players also want to escape the routine. Fantasy and humor are the strength of The Sims franchise compared to inZOI and Paralives which are boring to death, so maintaining this aspect could save the game because they are values shared by everybody, I mean every players like to dream and laugh. And Maxis should be less focused on US topics and go back to universal values inspired by an international point of view. If I'm not wrong about 75% are non-US players so it would make sense to take care of them more.
Feedback: Likes & Dislikes Activity category
I think we all know that likes and dislikes were supposed to add depth to the sims personalities even thought they merely give us anything rather than moodlets (at least the activities ones) which should be changed too. But i think the activities avaible as likes and dislikes are wrongly tied to skills only which is pretty controversial because this category is also called "Hobbies and skills" but only focus on skills. And even now with the Activities Likes/Dislikes being centered around skills there are skills left out of the it like: - Herbalism (Outdoor Retreat) - Vampire Lore (Vampires) - Bowling (Bowling Night) - Parenting (Parenthood) - Pet training (Cats and Dogs) - Veterinary medicine (Cats and Dogs) - Archeology (Jungle Adventure) - Selvadorian Culture (Jungle Adventure) - Flower arranging (Seasons) - Fabrication (Eco Lifestyle) - Juice fizzing (Eco Lifestyle) - Mediumship (Supernatural) - Entrepreneurship (High School Years) So my suggestion is to add more hobbies that aren't skill related. Here's an example of hobbies avaible on clubs dos and don'ts that aren't only skill related:Greece and Rome inspired world with possibly Angel sims
I'd liked to see a world based on Greece and a touch of Rome and there can be 3 neighborhoods each with temples to the gods. Communicating with Gods: You can unlock the ability by studying Mythology and when communicating with a god at the alter, a light shines down upon the alter and your sim who is kneeing at it. A Favor Point System: The Gods can do things for your sims after they gain favor like help max out a skill or reset occult mastery, etc. Favor can work like satisfactory points, except you got to go to temples to spend them for rewards. One way to get favor for some gods is to do good things like help a sim out. Other gods, you may have to be mean or fully embrace your sims occult life state like Vampire's feeding on humans or you can offer gems that correspond to the god you are comminating with for favor. First Neighborhood: A group of Islands Mermaids can pray and commune with a God of the Sea at an ocean Greek temple on a sunken sand bank covered in shallow water. This temple being next to with the Goddess of Music. On an small island, a Greek temple for a God of Time and Space for Aliens shared with a lighthouse with a rocky base and telescope at the top. Second Neighborhood: A large Island with coastline town at a mountain base. Fairies and Plantsims can commune with the Goddess of Nature and Harvest and 4 demi goddesses of the seasons at a Greek temple on a hill on a large island and a Roman Temple of the Goddess of Romance and Beauty shares the same garden as Nature Temple. Nature and Harvest Goddess can grant fairy mastery reset, a chance for twins and triplets and increase all nature related and cooking skills. Mocking her will curse your sim with infertility, an anti-green thumb curse where even a cactus will die. Romance and Beauty Goddess can grant attraction from every sims regardless of turn ons and turns offs, the ability to woohoo strangers, mend broken hearts and can increase Romance and Charisma Skills. With vampires, she can grant the max charming ability to be unlocked without using vampire mastery points. Mocking her will have your sim be cursed with unattractiveness and any relationship can become broken like instant divorce and your sim's partner will not even be heartbroken about it. On another hill of the same island with flowers linked to day and night that glow during night surrounding a Temple for a Sun God of Harmony for Hybrids and his wife, the Goddess of Magic, for Spellcasters. The Sun God has Twin sisters at the temple as well, the Moon Goddesses, One for Vampires and the other for Werewolves. These goddesses can help increase your occult sim's experience to the next level, they can reset masteries and increase skills linked to the occult type and help spellcasters unlock potion recipes and spells. The Magic Goddess can even grant new spells and potions that you can only get from her like potions that turn sims into occults. The Sun God can love hybrids that he can grant secondary occult mastery or even combine the masteries into like Magic Vamp Mastery with dark caster form, Were Magic Mastery with glowing fur at the tips of a dark wolf form, Were Magic Vamp Mastery with dark caster form with glowing fur on the tips of wolf ears and tail. A temple on the coastline for the God of Artisan, he can increase all crafting and cooking skills. Mocking him will curse your sim with clumsiness and poor quality goods. Third Neighborhood: Mountain top town New angel sims can commune with a sim version of the King of Gods at a Roman temple at the highest point of the mountain that over looks a Roman Coliseum. Sims can get a job of God's messenger or an Apostle. Ghosts, the Grim Reaper and Grimborn sims can commune with the God of Death at a swampy temple under the temple to the King of Gods as may be a long forgotten hidden realm. Zombies and skeletons can seen here as ancient guards and there's a reaper ferry boatman controlling the boat in an underground ghostly swamp with ghostly hands that try to reach inside the boat. By communicating with the God of Death, Grimborn sims can become a Reaper without reaching the top of the Reaper career after gaining enough favor, Ghosts can be revived after gaining enough favor and the Grim Reaper calls the god father. A third Roman Temple to the God of War and Chaos for Malevolent sims, mean and evil deeds gains favor with this God or a corresponding gemstone. This god can grant all sorts of misfortune to your sims enemie's like cause discord in friendships, daily bad luck and break relationships. This God can even grant a normal sim, the strength to brawl with a werewolf or vampire and win. Spirits with the Mark of Evil can gain favor faster.San Myshuno, part 2
Hi, Technically San Myshuno is a big city, right ? So it should have more than 5 neighborhoods. I also think Spice Market is the best neighborhood that Maxis has ever done. I like these points and I would like to see them again : Vibrant neighborhood Low polygon background people Flea market + one festival : Maybe a black market selling corrupted cheat codes and rewards (Satisfaction Rewards, ...) Weirdos wandering Street artists Small open area but well designed and optimized for social life in city But this time it would be wonderful if Maxis could do smaller apartments with a system similar to Tiny Home Residential including apartments with terrace and Sliding doors. Starter apartments for single students because actually EP03 City Living apartments are too big. For example IRL my first apartment was 5x6 (30m², living room + bathroom + kitchen + terrace). This new part of the city could include rabbithole businesses/services like Movie theater, Landgraab Grocery store (low quality industrial fruit/vegetable), Fast food restaurant, ...
Female Sims show either as unemployed or housewife
Female Sims who are not working are sometimes displayed as unemployed or housewives. Why the difference and the randomness? Why are some female sims shown as unemployed and some are as housewives?? All of those are unemployed. I play my game in German, and "unemployed" is displayed as "Arbeitslos" and "housewife" as "Hausfrau." which is kind of the same thing but "Hausfrau" sounds better and is more appropriate nowadays. I prefer ALL my unemployed female Sims to be displayed as housewives "Hausfrau" and not unemployed because generally speaking, cleaning and taking care of the household AND members is also work! just like in RL. BTW, the word 'unemployed' is no longer appropriate and long outdated. Today, the term is either "job seeker" - "arbeitssuchend" or "housewife." - "Hausfrau" Please EA, consider making a change in this regard for ALL female Sims who are "unemployed" to be displayed as "housewife." - "Hausfrau" and stop the difference and the randomness.why doesn't cottage living have this ?
I've been thinking about it for a while because I've been playing the Sims for a long time since I was little and it would be nice if it was actually cottage living with more interaction with animals. How can horses, cats and dogs be reproduse? Why isn't there a cottage living for cows and goats and llamas? Sheep are also missing, so it would be nice to have a real cottage living, not only to have milk, but to be able to make butter from it and many many other things. Like in a real village ..
There should be an Apothocary on the phone
I know you can turn off Ailments but I like to play the game without using too many cheats or governors. Therefore you almost need to have someone in every household who learns the Apothocary skill to heal your sims. I didn't mind this at first but really it gets to be tedious having to learn all those medicinal concoctions. Someone made a huge miscalculation by not just putting a traveling Apothocary NPC on your phone so if you just want to heal your sim you just call them up and for a fee they come to your home lot and they just have all the cures in their magic bags. That doesn't mean you can't still play the career if you want. But unless I am mistaken if you did have an active sim in one of your lots who was a Naturalist Healer could you send your ailing sim to visit them and they could heal them or would you have to switch lots and actually play the sim who was the healer and then have them invite the sick sim over for a healiing?Sims 4: Changing Sims' Heights??
Just thought of this, wanted to know what you guys think!! Pretty sure there's no actual way to do this properly in cas (I know we can change their postures, which partially changes their height but not a lot), but I wanted to change the heights of some of my sims. Thought it could be a cool addition to the game, and allows for a bit more inclusivity and personalisation to sims!! Thoughts?? :)
Please stop sexually harassing my sim
You know the hug...the one that doesn't appear in your queue from some random sim. The game has decided they are going to hug your sim no matter what they are currently doing and there is simply no way to stop it. You can't even see it, all you know is your sim has frozen in place and refuses to respond to your instructions until some sim comes over to hug them. I've tried 4 mods now that tune hugging and none of them stop this behavior (if someone knows of one please tell me). Playing with autonomy totally off does nothing to stop it and mods can't stop it. Why does this exist? This came to a head for me when my sim got hugged the 5th time in a single day at University against her (my) will. Why is this unwanted physical contact in the game? I've never liked this with family sims because of how it interrupts player input tasks, but at University? Soooo creepy and disturbing on a whole other level. Please make it stop.Notifications and pop-ups are just to much
I usaly play with mods that take care of this problem. But this week I played without mods, and I was getting so annoyed by all the popups and notifications. I have almost all packs and it's just all few minutes something pops up, maybe with having a Sim with a business and greeting all these customers even more. Please give us a filter to filter some festival notifications or other distracting popups out. I see you already made something like that for the business pack, that notifications only come for the meetups we want, that's a good start. As example if I play in Tartosa I don't want festival notifications from San Myshuno. If I play a historic gameplay, I don't want to go to Batuu.... I understand that this was not thought of at the beginning, but now we have so many worlds and things going on, It's just to much. I personally try to escape from all the attention grapping on social media and TV to the Sims. But all few minutes clicking away a popup in my game is not helping! And defenetly the 3 Advertising popups before I even can start playing my game does not relax me at all. Many Sims players are neurospicy, for them this is not just annoying but harmful. It should not be necessary to use mods to play in peace.
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