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DestinysEcho
Rising Scout
3 years ago
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[FIXED] [HSY] Video Game Streamer: Not getting paid when working from home

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? 1.91.205.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Every Expansion Every Game pack Every stuff pack Every kit
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Sim in the gamer career. When they go to work they earn $ and job performance. They even get promotions. When the sim works from home, they do not get paid. They do not get job performance. They do not get promotions. An hour before the sim's job starts, a pop up appears asking if they want to go to work or work from home. When that pop up appears, the sim then earns $10 for their job from the previous shift.
What happens when the bug occurs? Sim never gets paid, never earns job performance increases, and never gets promoted if they work from home in the gamer career that came with high school years.
What do you expect to see? The sim should earn their full pay, earn job performance increases, and earn promotions if they work from home. They earn it all correctly if they go to work. If they work from home then they never get any of the above.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

Hello! I am writing about a glitch that I am having.

I have a sim teen who I placed in the gamer career. It is the career that came with High School Living. If she goes to work, she gets paid her full amount. She earns job performance increases. She even gets promoted.

When the sim works from home and completes all of her tasks, she does not get paid. Her job performance bar never increases. She never gets promoted.

A pop up appears an hour before her job starts. It asks if I want to send her to work or have her work from home. When that pop up appears, the game then awards her $10 as pay for her previous shift. 

Before posting her, I wanted to make sure it was a glitch.

I started a new save with a new sim. I had this sim start working in the gamer career.

The same issue happens.  He gets paid, earns job performance increases, and even got promoted if he goes to work.  When he chooses to work from home and completes all his required tasks, he never gets paid. He never gets any job performance boosts, and he never gets promoted.

The notification pops up saying his job starts in an hour. It asks if I want to send him to work or work from home. The game then pays him $10 and says it is his salary from his previous shift.

I do not use any mods in my game. I do not use CC.  I play on pc. My game is fully updated. I own every expansion, game pack, and kit. 

Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title



    • Sims are paid in full for WFH tasks for Simfluencer/Video Game Streamer career.

    Fixed in Patch 1.109.185/1.98
    Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues

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  • Bumping this up because it is still happening with both of the part time jobs in the high school years pack.

    The siminfluencer and video game streamer careers do not get paid properly if a sim works from home for the day.  They get paid $10 simoleons per day if they work from home. If i send a sim into work, that sim gets their correct salary.

    I don't use mods or any CC. Plus there are a lot of videos on youtube from gamechangers who show these are broken. Their comment sections have a great deal of people saying it is broken for them too. So I know it isn't just a handful of people. 

    @EA_Cade  Any updates on this?  These careers have been broken since HSY launched. I would love it if they one day worked. 

  • DestinysEcho's avatar
    DestinysEcho
    Rising Scout
    2 years ago

    I have given up hope of them ever fixing the  video game streaming career and the influencer career.

    EA promoted the 2 careers as selling points for the high school years expansion.  Yet they have never worked. It has been broken since the day that the expansion pack launched. So many game changers mentioned it even during their early access. I have seen it posted about many times on reddit, youtube, twitter, discord, and many other places.

    EA just keeps ignoring those asking for a fix for this.

    I am not going to be buying any more content until EA starts fixing their game.  I love the sims games, but I am really sick of the problems with them. 

    @EA_Cade Are you guys ever going to fix these careers? 

  • elfinpcc's avatar
    elfinpcc
    New Scout
    2 years ago

    I have experienced this too, but at least my teens were getting promoted.  However, if I kept the career when they aged up, the notification is "... boss was disappointed with the work she did from home and she made $11," and the performance goes down.  I have seen this happen on two different saves this month.

  • candiecoatediv's avatar
    candiecoatediv
    Seasoned Ace
    8 months ago

    I came here to see if there has been a fix or some response from EA on why sims do not get paid while live streaming. The pop up says they should be getting paid so I’m clueless as to why this isn’t working. 

  • 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? 1.108.349.1020
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except a few kits and For Rent
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a simmer join the Gamer Side hustle career that came with HSY. I had my sim join as a YA.
    What happens when the bug occurs? When my sim streams they do not earn tips. They will get $10 when working from home (which is the point right?) when their hourly rate is $43. When I send my sim to work they get their full pay. I just had my sim do the "read chat" interaction through the career and she is getting tips and the animation looks like she is gaming. Could this be an error in the code? I have seen on reddit many users have the same issue. None of them reported gaining tips through reading chat however.
    What do you expect to see? My sim gain tips through the process of livestreaming as indicated in the pop-up and gameplay description. The option to work from home should allow for my sim to be paid in accordance as going to work with the addition of receiving tips for livestreaming. Please fix this. This worked when the pack first released and now it no longer functions as it should.
    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? Neutral/Not Sure 

    Side note - I have played with and without mods and the same results. I have repaired my game as well. I hope this is fixed so simmers can work from home and earn the same pay as going to work with addition of earning tips. Another key feature of a pack that has somehow broke since release and I have no idea which patch or pack release broke this. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    8 months ago


    • Sims are paid in full for WFH tasks for Simfluencer/Video Game Streamer career.

    Fixed in Patch 1.109.185/1.98
    Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues

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