I love the inclusivity and that's one part of the progress I love to see. I like the ideas for the new packs mostly... that's where it ends for me.
Where I'm seeing it heading right now is more and more shiny new ideas being shoehorned into a flawed and almost brittle game. Like it's just going to give up on itself if the fundamental bugs are not addressed. I saw an article by a well known and well respected simmer who said the base game can't sustain more expansion packs and it's time for a massive rethink.
The only thing I want to see right now is fixes and nothing else. For example, CAS has been buggy as all heck for over a year and while the new functions are welcome it's needed some fixes for a long time. It all should have been overhauled at the same time as new options were added. Like here it is, fixed and with new functions.
As an example of a flawed pack DHD has been buggy from the start. With career bugs and slotting problems. Yet new packs like wedding stories arrived afterwards with bugs and got mass bug fixes pretty quickly. In this update they fixed a pair of the DHD pants... seriously? That's it? The career is broken but the pants look great! Get to Work is massively bugged, 2 careers for me are too glitchy to play but it's just been left like that.
I don't want to slam the devs, I love their work and when I've had to reach out directly they've been so gracious and generous with their reply. I'm sure they don't like the bugs either but pressure to churn out more content seems to take priority.
I just want to play my game, I've spent so much money and I love my Sims. But I feel like those of us with loads of bugs are yelling into a void right now and console players in particular seem to be way down the list of priorities.
It feels like profit over playability I'm sorry to say. I can see some love has gone into the creative side but it's wasted if we can't enjoy playing it.
