@PugLove888 There's quite a bit in fairness to consider here.
EA has said they are supporting our creators and our rights to create for these games. In fact, it is because of these Mod creators that their stuff is now being used in the new releases we can either purchase or are officially offered as free stuff in an update we receive.
In truth, while it is up to each creator and those who choose to use these Mods and CC to deal with these broken contents... If EA would make quality products on a regular basis and then we wouldn't need Mods to fix what EA should have done themselves. If EA would make quality content to where we wouldn't need so many fixes/updates and then have to add more fixes/updates to fix/Update those fixes... we wouldn't need to update our CC much at all. Nor would we need to repair our games so often either. Thus, a much better gaming experience over all.
Additionally, much of these new content and features should have been included in the base game from the start along with some of the other DLC we are buying.
But I will add one more... which includes me too. We are such loyal fans of the Sims games. Yet, I can remember back in the Sims 2 there was a big issue when Bonvoyage was released in terms of how we played those games, as EA chose a new way to protect their games from piracy.
Then there was an upset in Sims 3 when Custom Content was not wanted or welcomed by EA. So, there was issues at times with Custom Content and Mods not working right as EA was finding a way to disallow them to function with each update/new pack we received.
Yet, with every Sim series… they were buggy and people are still complaining about the bugs in Sims 3 and in 2 that never got fixed. Yet, we encouraged EA to keep this trend going. How? We kept buying more packs, etc. even when the other packs were still not fixed. We did not stand up enough to EA and say enough is enough. We let this trend continue with each Sims series. Oh sure… we yell, we get angry, we vent on these forums… we may even threaten; but still EA goes on to become a billion dollar conglomerate and here we are still paying for broken games before the previous releases are fixed. Why? Because we keep buying these games and with this, we treat this all as status quo and an acceptable par for the course.
EA should know better than to keep putting out poor quality games and leaving us who pay for them and then to act as their game testers to help them fix these issues they failed to correct prior to game release. Yet, we also keep allowing this to happen by supporting this… as, for some… sweeping it under the rug by those who choose to defend EA and for the rest of us buying more more of their games.
I think with each series of the Sims some great things come out of them in comparison to the time before. BUT... there is just far too many broken games now in this series that we cannot play them right even for those of us who don't use mods. Today, I tore my Sims 4 out of my PC and am moving on until all these issues are fixed... if they ever get fixed. And if they don’t get fixed after a reasonable time and having invested for almost every DLC they made… well… Maybe it is time to get legal and get some reimbursement for this nonsense. It’s not like they cannot afford to do so, but then they can’t cause this will not fair well with their stock holders. So, we will see.
