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They’re also probably as frustrated as you are, but impotent to implement fixes due to internal bureaucracy.
Modders are like jet skis: they can move fast and do sharp turns, unemcumbered and agile.
Maxis/EA is like a cargo ship filled to the brim with tons and tons of baggage: moving such a leviathan takes time and energy.
You are absolutely right when it comes to voting with your wallet! But I hope you give the developers some leeway and grace when it comes to working things out in a HUUUGE bureaucracy that requires unending paperwork to implement each and every semicolon in a code that’s 10 years old and (somehow miraculously) runs in potatoes like the original PlayStation 4.
@HALirious9kI would give leeway and grace if they didn't ignore the users, especially the console users in particular. It still bothers me that these guys don't have a consistent and proper QA team to test their kits before sending it out and only started doing so when other simulation games began to pop up in the limelight. Why did it take until Lovestruck to officially make a bug team when they could have done it for My Wedding Stories/Dine Out?
But what pissed me off the most is the lack of care they give to the console version of Sims 4. Bad enough they messed up with the PC side but you can at least get mod fixes from talented people either for free or a fraction of the cost of packs. Console users get nothing so when Maxis/EA puts out a patch that they clearly don't test and the game gets messed up...all they can do is wait and pray for a fix while Maxis/EA take their sweet time doing it, if they even care to do so.
They are NOT an indie company and has the money to give this game proper QA teams for both PC and Console so I'm giving them no grace. Maybe EA needs to stop being cheap and give Maxis more funds so they can properly maintain both versions of the games. Either way, I refuse to buy any packs since my console game has been screwed up first by Lovestruck and now with the Reaper's Event. And to think Life and Death did look promising, especially since I love Paranormal Stuff but I'm afraid this might just break every pack I own and mess up my worlds like Sulani and San Myshuno 😔