Marriage won't let you change name.
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:Microsoft XBOX One 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? Most ...
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@MapleSimmerThere was a pop up. Around 2018-2019 it stopped appearing. It was blue and looked like the baby one. I remember using it when my Sims got remarried to change the family surname. Then it didn't show up again for several updates, and showed up once then disappeared nearly-completely around 2020. It was optional, the second time it showed up I never went through with it. Also, keep in mind, I am on Xbox and it's only showed up three or four times, many UI changes ago now. So it might've been an Xbox exclusive bug or something.
@thedirectorlives This was removed a long time ago. It's by design and not a bug.
EDIT: Actually, reading old threads I think Maplesimmer is correct. There never was one for Sims 4. There was an issue with not being able to change the name in CAS but that was solved a long time ago. Think that's what I remembered.
- @crinrict That's incredibly silly and it's an incredibly useful thing that should be given its own menu option on the arch. Or do they only break the experience of the game for paying customers?
@thedirectorlives In the very beginning, you couldn't change the last name without a cheat. I don't even remember if there was a popup ?
This is how it was in the beginning: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-Why-doesn-t-the-option-to-change-surname-come-up-when-sims/m-p/3527209#M2664 then they added CAS change without a cheat but now I'm unsure if there was a pop-up
This also doesn't talk about a pop-up: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Questions/PS4-Marriage-Names/m-p/6441725#M1579
EDIT: Also found this old thread: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/896989/wife-name-change-on-marriage-pop-up-option-options-husband-spouse-hyphen-no-change so maybe make a post in feedback ?
- @crinrict Yeah, after that they added a pop-up (It was like the change baby name pop-up. Before the new UI stuff.) for a short while and it disappeared without as much as a mention.
I know it was 2018 or 2019 because my save is that long and it showed up with the second and third generation of my Sims. I didn't take the option with the older Sims, but with the younger Sims, I did. One of those Sims is still alive to this day.
