Wants and fears are not gonna be ok for me. I was so used to whims! Turning them off wouldn't be right for me, I just am connected to whims. Maybe make an option button to enable and disable whims and wants and fears respectively. The image of Humiliated Sakuya has whims, that's what I want to see. I don't need to see Shion stay on the lot for 8 hours or be alone, I want whims.
I also do not like wants and fear, I can not even disable it, they should remove this wants and fear feature, game is not playable when wants and fears is on.
I like the idea of wants and fears, but the implementation is not great. It should be possible to turn them off and have them stay turned off! And the tuning needs some serious adjustment too. My Sims keep getting a fear about their job every single day that they go to work, and it's extremely annoying. I really hope that they'll fix the problems with wants and fears and not just let it sit there, broken, because it really makes the game less fun in the state they're in right now. And you can't get them to stay turned off, so.
As I said in another thread, I can see potential in Wants and Fears, but as currently implemented... the fact that it's base game Wants only, and the fact that Fears are so easily acquired that every single Sim I have is afraid of a "Dead End Job," means that gameplay becomes incredibly repetitive and frustrating.
My current coping strategy is modding it. I have a couple of Want overhaul mods, a mod that makes Fears harder to get, and a third mod that completely disables Fear of a Dead End Job (because I've seen that enough for my entire lifetime), Fear of Unfulfilled Deams (because it makes me want to murder my Sims for being such whiny drama queens), and Fear of Death (because every single Elder got that and... simultaneously repetitive and TOO REAL). So far, so good?
Just had possibly the worst week days of my Sims life. He had 4 fears Death, DEJ, Swimming, and unfinished Dreams.
My god it is a nightmare trying to get rid of these while still doing stuff you are building your sim for. I know DEJ is bad because it triggers constantly and ruins the fantasy if a sim being in there dream career, BUT I think unfulfilled dreams is also a fat load. Prior to getting this fear my Sim had just completed an asperation the previous day. I think several members here have a VERY valid point about Fears not just disrupting gameplay but destroying the fantasy that we build in our minds and then try to carry out in game. It is one thing for a new game mechanic to be disruptive or poorly implemented but the fact is fears actively hurt the players ability to let there imaginations run free.
I am not saying EA should just not try to get this system right. I think a number of us have made very good suggestions on how to improve the system to have it better fit in to the game without overshadowing other aspects.
I just wish "games as a service" didn't rely in customers or players doing the play testing for the studio.
@hawnakitty Me too! I have a bunch of mental illnesses and always loved doing the sims to relax and feel better. But now I’m constantly stressed out by stupid irrational or nonsensical fears my sims get (ie my sim is in her absolute dream situation where she has worked hard to get to and should feel proud and content but instead has the fear of unfulfilled dreams. SHE IS AFRAID SHE WONT ACHIEVE HER DREAMS EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS ALREADY ACHIEVED THEM) plus I loved whims and can’t use them now.
thanks ea now my best depression, dissociation and ocd reliever is broken.
@MaddinWRITEsTuFf I also want the option to go back to whims only. The wants & fears thing is so bugged that I want nothing to do with it at all, and you can't even turn it off because it keeps turning itself back on. It's like being in a nightmare you can't wake up from.
@kissykaede I totally agree. Honestly I’m so mad my game made me update. I just want to play with my werewolves and whims without all the broken high school stories garbage.
and I was so excited for the high school stories pack that I was considering pre ordering (especially after werewolves was so good and the sims team seemed so on track to making the game better after the my wedding stories disaster) so glad I didn’t. I’m so angry that my game is ruined by these wants and fears. I just want my whims back.
Whims weren't perfect, but they were still way better than the current system. Wants are just nerfed whims, and fears are completely broken. I used to play with whims all the time - now I just want to turn wants/fears off but even that doesn't work.
