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Menecarkawan's avatar
Menecarkawan
New Novice
10 months ago

Businesses and Hobbies broke my game

I installed Businesses and Hobbies today and my game is now almost unplayable.  My sims keep getting stuck where ever they are standing. I have to use testingcheats to reset them so they start doing things again. My sim can no longer take care of her garden. Selecting 'Tend Garden' does nothing. Selecting 'Water All' does nothing. She walks over to the plant needing care and then cancels the interaction. The same thing happens occasionally with pets. My sim has a bicycle. When ever I tell her to go somewhere she stands in one spot taking the bike out and putting it back in her inventory over and over again without ever going anywhere. I tried repairing the game, but it didn't do anything to fix these problems. Please fix this.

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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    10 months ago

    Hi Menecarkawan 

    do you have the issue with every Sim or just this particular one ? Does it happen if you start a new save for testing purposes ?

  • Menecarkawan's avatar
    Menecarkawan
    New Novice
    10 months ago

    I did start a new save, and the welcome party was having problems. One of the sims got stuck, standing in one spot twitching a bit until I reset her. The bicycle seemed to work in the new save.

  • Hey so business and hobbies or the update just before it also broke my game too. On PS5. NONE OF MY PURCHASED PACKS will load into the game. I have spent hundreds of dollars on the Sims4 packs and kits. I can not use any of them. I have Uninstalled and reinstalled over and over again. I've tried doing the game and then adding packs in one by one etc. I paid for business and hobbies but I can't even use it and I can't use any of my older packs either. I'm extremely upset and even more upset that it appears EA hasn't made any sort of announcement about this even though I'm finding many people across Facebook groups, tiktok and discord servers discussing that their games are also broken and packs are not loading into the game even though they say "installed". I'm on ps5 so I have no mods or cc on my game whatsoever. 

  • The whole game is a complete mess when you cannot even update your own lots and your own families get changed even to changing their colour or nationalities.  I don't use any mods, moo or cc and have every pack including the newest one.   I'll come back to the game in a month or two to see it EAs sorted it out. In the meantime give the 'games' element a rest, will you EA?

  • abdel7340's avatar
    abdel7340
    Seasoned Novice
    10 months ago

    (First, apologies for my english, it's not my first language) I'm having the exact same issue. I tried gardenning on a new game and it doesn't work. My old save games seem ok so far. This happens with and without mods or CC. I did a full repair of my game, same result. Any garden actions are not working for new games. (I am playing The Sims 4 PC version btw). I have all game packs and stuff packs. I just don't have Lovestruck and Life and Death expansion packs. I've seen that similar bugs happened in the past for the garden. I tried the old workaround but it did not work.

  • x2kayytff9so's avatar
    x2kayytff9so
    Seasoned Newcomer
    10 months ago

    Same, just bought it thursday and I cant use anything outside my home, wants me to visit unit, then when i go to manage world it acts like my family doesn't live there...so yes completely busted and I refuse to buy anymore content untill this is fixed with interest.

  • SimSeeker's avatar
    SimSeeker
    Seasoned Vanguard
    8 months ago

    The same thing happened to me. I had to reset my sims 50 times, and it didn't work. One Sim was stuck and couldn't go to the toilet to put on tampons. However, I do have mods. But that is not what is causing the issue, since I am not the only one. However, this issue didn't break my game, just made it more annoying.