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flying-womrats
Seasoned Newcomer
9 days ago

No more live events!

Nobody asked for this. Seriously. I'm sure the executives at EA love live events because they pump up login numbers, but they're terrible for the players:

  • Inciting FOMO- being limited-time events with no other official way to unlock the content, players that can't/won't use mods miss out if they're not playing during the time an event is live.
  • Forcing a specific playstyle- The appeal of The Sims has always been that it's your sandbox to do what you want in, but unless a player completely avoids opening the game in online mode, these events intrude upon gameplay without an opt-out. That was probably the thing that annoyed me most about Reaper's Rewards, having the event pop up in saves I didn't intend to play through it in.
  • Forcing online play- The Sims 4 is a single-player game, therefore playing online should never be mandatory, let alone a requirement to get and keep content.
  • Bugs, bugs, bugs- The Happy at Home content had to be handed out to everyone because so many people had trouble getting it in the intended manner; Answers HQ and social media were flooded for the duration of the event with reports of problems playing Reaper's Rewards and getting its loot. I don't trust that Cozy Celebrations is going to be any better in that regard.
  • Seriously, bugs- The dev time and energy that's going into pushing this mobile-game-esque nonsense would be much better spent fixing major issues with the game, as the playerbase has been clamoring for for years and as EA has promised they were going to devote more time to. When I saw there was a patch today, I was hoping it would include some of those fixes. At the very least, it's unacceptable that trans bodies are still broken several months and several patches after that bug was introduced, despite EA/Maxis's lip service to depicting diverse Sims and a modder showing how easy it was to fix within a week of the patch.

Please, EA. Save this nonsense for multiplayer games and/or Project Rene (since it doesn't sound like it's going to be a traditional Sims game anyway.) Sims 4 doesn't need it and the players don't want it.

As for me, I may just keep my game totally offline until after the event so it doesn't interrupt my gameplay. Until the next FOMO-fest comes around, anyway...

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  • Yuke2001's avatar
    Yuke2001
    Seasoned Newcomer
    9 days ago

    The reward events defeat the entire point of what The Sims 4 is supposed to be! This is my short answer. 

    • Miataplay's avatar
      Miataplay
      Seasoned Ace
      9 days ago

      I agree! It's not the same game anymore. 

  • sharabeebee's avatar
    sharabeebee
    Seasoned Newcomer
    9 days ago

    I think all your points really hit at the pain points that a lot of us are feeling, and they do a good job of explaining why they are pain points.

    If--and I don't agree that EA needs to make a Sims BattlePass system a necessary aspect of owning or playing the Sims 4--these events are going to continue, each one should allow a player to opt-in or opt-out as they choose.  Simply for practical reasons: not everyone is going to enjoy every event, and those players may choose to 1) wait to play until the event is over, 2) play offline during the event, or 3) reverse-FOMO and play less and less often the more these events are queued up.

    And I think option 3 is the one that EA should be more concerned with - I know I have taken really long hiatuses from Sims 4 due to buggy launches and multi-patch pack issues, and for the past year the times I've been ready to come back to playing... now it's Reaper Rewards and Cozy Celebrations, and I weigh whether I'm really ready enough to put up with an event I don't really care about that will bug me to complete it and that I cannot dismiss.

    Plenty of people will still want to play it - just a toggle or a dismiss button (even with the option to change your mind later) would do wonders.  Please let me choose how to play my game!

    • charmednmissouri's avatar
      charmednmissouri
      Seasoned Veteran
      4 days ago

      You nailed it! It's became so frustrating, I am to ditch the whole game and go back to Sims 2. SO much more to do and no glitches and mods that don't break your game. Only drawback is too much CC can bork it, but if you have played it for years, you know what you can get away with. Yes, if things don't change soon, I have a feeling many of us will be gone...or take a VERY long vacation from the game to see if EA can get it's act together.

  • Sketch793's avatar
    Sketch793
    New Ace
    8 days ago

    Thanks for the live events and please give us more of them. I've enjoyed them ever since they were first introduced, several years ago. Yes, I remember Jasmine Holiday and I'm a little disappointed that she didn't make a personal appearance this time. 

    Don't presume to speak for everyone. There are probably lots of people who enjoy the events, including me, or at least enjoy the new objects, traits, clothes, and other rewards that come from them. I'm sorry you don't like the events, and I wouldn't mind having  an option to turn them off, but I don't want them eliminated. Just ignore them if you don't feel like joining in. 

     

    • CiniOro's avatar
      CiniOro
      Rising Novice
      8 days ago

      Little-bit hard to ignore a banner of an event logo in your screen. 

      • meeshwood's avatar
        meeshwood
        Seasoned Veteran
        4 days ago

        It is pretty easy to close the banner. I think it's pretty great that we don't deal with more advertising considering it is a free to play game.

    • hrjgames's avatar
      hrjgames
      Seasoned Newcomer
      8 days ago

      The problem is that it is HARD to ignore them. The pop up is constantly there in the left hand of the screen during live mode, even if you disable it. And though I don’t have solid proof, I swear it’s been causing lag.

      • Miataplay's avatar
        Miataplay
        Seasoned Ace
        4 days ago

        This is the new look of the game. These events are here to stay most likely. 

         I'm fine with that if I can get rid of the UI without suppressing any gameplay or features like the Gallery. 

        Yes. You can avoid these events. Yes you will lose access to the gallery. 

        Is it worth it? Only if they are patching in or giving us new gameplay. The hot chocolate stand has been in the game since Season arrived...and now we get a tray in the base. 

        I'm happy for all these tea trays, the hot chocolate tray and the kettle from For Rent ..but what I really want is some new and exciting Amped gameplay to keep me invested in the sims. 🙂

        edit: I agree! I played the event without having to go online because the UI is in the game...it was super easy.

        I played the last reapers event without even trying!( just playing my game) because it kept harassing me constantly. I didn't log in and collect the free stuff for the reapers event because I wasn't interested in the free DLC.

        I don't want the freebies but I am happy for others that do. I want the option to turn it off.

  • LadyKyn's avatar
    LadyKyn
    Seasoned Scout
    7 days ago

    Wouldn't be speaking for everyone really.

    I know some may not be into things like this, but there's also other people that are. Luckily no one is forced to participate. Don't think the tab is all that intrusive as you can see it, since you can close and open it.

    Less they just add it instead to the little bar in the far left corner so you can click it to open it up and back like the  reapers events so it doesn't look so intrusive. (don't think it is it is a pretty small tab, but that's me.) Personally haven't had any problems with the last event, of course this can vary from person to person as experiences will be different and hopefully they can improve on that with events not ending properly or not registering.

    For what it is? I like it. Nothing too overly complicated to be getting the items since it is the sims.

    Doesn't force any playstyle, since again you don't gotta do it, plus I don't think there's anything wrong with limited events. It's nothing new, same with incentive for preorder items where you get said item if you preorder it in said time. Though the difference is you're still able to get these items via gallery by just downloading it to unlock it when someone uploads it. So, it's not like you're completely locked out of it ad need no mod to do so.

  • CiniOro's avatar
    CiniOro
    Rising Novice
    8 days ago

    It would be nice to have Events, but not to pop-up in my screen literally distracting me and not enjoying my gameplay fully. Seriously even clicking it in is an eye-sore. 

    And personally I don't play the events because of how it is structured. 

  • charmednmissouri's avatar
    charmednmissouri
    Seasoned Veteran
    4 days ago

    And I enjoy them, when they WORK. But if they don't, it's a big disappointment because not only can you NOT participate, you now have to try to fix your game. If they spent more time putting them together, maybe this wouldn't occur.

  • meeshwood's avatar
    meeshwood
    Seasoned Veteran
    4 days ago

    I enjoy the events. I hope they keep them coming.  I do wish they would patch in the items from the reapers rewards for everyone since it had so many issues. I'm enjoying the current cozy event and I really like the rewards. A lot of games these days do this sort of short term events these days. 

  • shorty943p's avatar
    shorty943p
    New Traveler
    8 days ago

    Ahhh, the perils of distance and this NON flat world we live in.😄

    I live about 18 hours ahead of US west coast time so those events and special shows are never on when I am awake.

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