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KATHYLEE10893
Seasoned Vanguard
3 years ago

Re: Bring Whims back please

I just wanted to ask if anyone else has noticed that BEFORE the wants/fears update, there used to be a TON of choices, I based all my gameplay around what my sims wanted. For example, Sims with the Dog Lover Trait- they used to have Wants like : Adopt a dog (or cat), pet a dog, meet a new dog, take dog on a walk, play fetch with dog. And now this trait is useless for wants, I've had a dozen since the update & they have not wanted to interact once with their dog in the wants. 

I'm literally seeing the exact same wants over & over. A sim with the Loves The outdoors trait used to want to do an assortment of things outside & now the only wants I see are "stay outside for 8 hours." Or "go fishing."

Children sims with the genius trait constantly get the "solve hard problems" want, and there's no option for it when the sim is selected - until they age up to teen.

Children with the cheerful trait constantly want to look at the brightside... when they are already in a happy mood.

I'm becoming so frustrated with it. I really liked being in control, just clicking the want out, and a new one would pop up easily, I don't think it was right to take that choice away. & now the wants are limited, the same ones popping up repeatedly. 

Anyone else see this also?

Sorry about the rant!

4 Replies

  • PipMenace's avatar
    PipMenace
    Hero
    3 years ago

    Yeah, whims were way better than wants, and actually included things from all the packs you owned. When they scrapped them for wants & fears, they didn’t bother making the new system backward compatible so there are no wants or fears from anything in packs before High School Years. I used to play with whims all the time, but now I just keep wants & fears turned off.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    2 years ago
    @HotdogLucy It's disappointing that the Sims Team has a fantastic blueprint with the Sims 2 Wants and Fears but ignored it for the Sims 4 whims. Then they added "Wants and Fears" which has been a letdown for players and doesn't work like in the Sims 2.
  • sailorleontine's avatar
    sailorleontine
    Seasoned Ace
    2 months ago

    KATHYLEE10893​ 

    It's okay and i agree

    I've wanted the wants & fears at first but now i prefer the whims over the wants and fears because it's so poorly made

    The Sims 2 did this a lot better

    Both whims and wants & fears can still be optional so we can switch it off

    Some wants wants & fears while the others wants the whims back so it's a win-win

    Now i hope we can convince them to have whims back again

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