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NoahLGP
Seasoned Ace
23 days ago

🛠️ Update Channels

Hi,

Microsoft has several type of update for Windows :

  • Critical Update : Fixing the bugs
  • Feature Update : Adding and improving features

 

There is no reason to destroy the game of all players in the world because Maxis plans to release a new pack.

Maybe The Sims 4 could do something similar by using these update channels :

  • Bug Fix update for all players (Required)
  • New Features / Content update (Optional during 2 or 3 months) similar to SDX update
  • Pack Update required for new pack (Not available if this new pack isn't installed) similar to TS2 update specific to a pack

 

Maxis tries to do to many things at once but it created a mediocre experience for all the consumers in long term.

Actually the players have never the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of the latest bug fixes when a new pack is coming.

 

Note: 

Windows is way more complex than The Sims 4 but it's still more stable.

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    logionX
    Legend
    22 days ago

    The issue would probably be that it would be difficult to make those updates different from each other, the devs would probably prefer to just work with one final version (that supports bug fixes, new features and packs and new content), and not have different versions. But I'm not sure, I'm not a dev.

    One thing that I have wondered about is to support having a rollback version, as in you could roll back to the last previous version of the game. The issue would probably be storage as you would need to have enough space to save a copy of entire The Sims 4 folder and The Sims 4 documents folder. But I assume that this can already be done manually as long as you play the old folder in offline mode.

     

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