[FIXED] Can't make friends

            Uh, I got a few questions for EA/Maxis; Do you actually PLAY your games? Test them? Review? Anything? <---serious questions

Here is another serious question;  How the heck did NO ONE in the entire devolving team see this? 

I can understand minor bugs. (There are plenty of them  that came with this patch that I will not mention because of their minority)  But, not being able to make friends, really? Socialization is like 1/3 of the game. 

         At first. I thought it wasn't a big deal because it was just cosmetic.  " So what if your relationships are labeled impartial instead of good friends, even though your green relationship bar is maxed."  Welp, unfortunately the game breaking part smacked me in the face when I realized I had 3 sims that had aspirations that required a certain amount of friends. The bug also breaks the whims that ask you to "make a friend". 

       I believe it has been a little over a week and there has been no mini-patch as of 9:08 7/23. I am fully aware of the other threads out there that have "solutions". But I refuse to have to use mods and cheats to alter the relationships in game. Besides those "solutions" are completely temporary and would have to be used repeatedly. I understand that people make mistakes and no game is without bugs, but this should have been caught and fixed before the release of the patch. I hope this gets fixed soon with either an official patch from Maxis or unofficial mod from the community. Either way I will always be  amazed at how effortlessly EA is able to f up nearly every release of ANYTHING without fail. 👍