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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.94.147.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Too many to list, this is about Vintage Glamour
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have Vintage Glamour installed, create more than one household with a butler, switch households
What happens when the bug occurs? Random butler from different household appears instead of original.
What do you expect to see? Having always the same butler in the household, not a random one.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No
This is not a new bug, but a reminder for an age-old bug that sadly doesn't appear on the laundry list and hasn't been for a long time, if at all:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/COLLECTION-THREAD-Butler-Issues/m-p/5820066#M41668
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-VGSP-Butler-changes-after-going-to-another-lot/td-p/6734312
I have been highly frustrated with the issue of rotating butlers ever since the Vintage Glamour pack was released, and it seems that this issue has been just accepted as existing and forgotten about, resulting in once more the pack being not recommended because it's main feature doesn't work properly.
To sum up the problem again briefly, Vintage Glamour's main feature is having a butler, you can create their own room, assign a bed and make them a family friend. The whole feature falls apart when you have more than one household with a butler, the butlers appear randomly after switching households and you rarely end up with the one you actually assigned/created to the household originally. Of course this random butler won't have access to the butler's room or the butler's bed and won't use them until you reassign everything, which you have to do every time you switch households or restart the game, because you almost never end up having the same butler as before, often it's just the same as in the household you just switched from.
This is nothing new and appears to me as fixable but either forgotten about or lowest on the priority list. I'd just really like to see it on the laundry list again because the Butler is basically the sole reason to buy the pack in first place. This not working at all turns the pack from highly recommended to better avoid at it's current state.
I'm having this same issue as well. Really disappointing since it's the only reason I bought the pack. It happens every single time I leave the house.
I know you can fire the person and call up another hire to bring back the other person who disappeared but this is ridiculous that you have to do that so regularly. Considering just deleting the butler and their quarters entirely.
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