The Worrisome Future of TS4
I read the big news about the Sim's franchise on Facebook the other day, and I'm happy that they will continue developing and expanding TS4 for the many years to come vs making a TS5. I was never really interested in a TS5 because I like TS4, and I also don't really want to start over from a base game again.
However, the bugs that keep emerging in TS4 from these updates and new content are getting extremely worrisome. How much longer is TS4 going to be a life simulator vs a bug simulator? For example, three critical bugs emerged from the couple of updates around the release of Lovestruck:
The shape of the sim's eyes have changed. (Open)
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sims-eye-shape-changed/m-p/13899493#M283309
The eyelashes that come with preset eyes are now lighter. (Still not even flagged as open)
Eyelids are not closing all the way. (Open)
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Eyes-Eyelids-don-t-close/m-p/13923366#M287026
These bugs prevent us storytellers from progressing in our stories because we can no longer take screenshots. Therefore, they are game-breaking. Me and many others haven't been able to play the game because of these critical eye bugs.
These are just only a few major bugs. There are plenty of more, and even some that have been forgotten and will never be fixed. The eyelashes that come with preset eyes are now lighter bug hasn't even been flagged as open despite numerous people reporting the issue in the dedicated topic and within the other eye bug topics. This is clearly a very worrisome sign of the future of TS4. Are these critical bugs gonna get ignored?
With every update, they fix a bunch of bugs but introduce many more new bugs. TS4 is just gonna end up breaking altogether with the amount of bugs that are being introduced to the game.
I love the idea of continuing the ongoing development of TS4. This is something that I have always wanted, but in reality, the future of TS4 is looking pretty disastrous with the way things are going right now. They really need to address these critical bugs and prevent them from entering the game to begin with. Otherwise, TS4's already poor state is gonna get worse and worse...
