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Kirby5692's avatar
5 years ago

Please stop destroying the sims 4 for money and greed

Dear EA I am writing to tell you how deeply disappointed I truly am with The Sims 4 as it is lacking what made the amaxing concept unique. The previous sims games offered a variety of activits for your sims to do and they could go there with out any restrictions and they would be able to do without any loading screens as well. The sims in the previous sims had for more personality than the sims in the sims 4. A good example of this would for example instead of affecting the sims emotions It would change the way the sims would behave in real time for example in the sims 3 if there was a sims that was absent minded but a genius that would cause them to very sophisticated in every way at the same time it would make them forgetful at what they wanted to do or say. Even the Good and Evil traits in the sims 3 had more value as they would actually behave like that in real time but in the sims 4 all these traits actually do is affect the emotions but not their behaviour and this is worrying. Another problem is that there is no crime, or any activites happening in the city which makes the city sometimes look lifeless and dull e.g no burglars, no firefighters and no police.

The next problem I am going to talk about has already been discussed but the fact that there is no open world in the sims 4 is the game-s biggest issue.This removes everything that made the sims 3 special instead now we are stuck In lots unable to explore and create the endless possibilities we wanted.

Now before you get started by saying open world is not possible that is clearly a lie as the excellent brookheight mod proves otherwise which means that you have lied to all of your consumers just for the sake of profit why? You lied about improving the performance of the game when in reality the performance of the sims 4 is worse than the sims 3 as least the sims 3 didn't lag every 5-10 seconds and since the game is fIlled with loading screens we have to wait even longer breaking the immersion.

Lastly, the expensions pack al though they are great they don't improve the game that much as they add nothing interesting or progressive to the game the expension pack are there to fake hype everyone into buying the packs and are just there to grab people money. EA, look the money will never come if you chasing it and not putting the effort. If money is what you are after then listing to the fans but that is what is going to get you more money and the ideas they have.

Just look at how much money the sims 3 made, it made a lot because the team put the effort in that's why. So please don't chase money because it will never come you must let money chase you by putting effort into your expension packs the money will come to you. I know you can do it EA so for th sake of I and everyone else's enjoyment please stop chasing money and greed because you will go nowhere.

I hope you enjoyed reading as much as i have enjoyed making it. Please don't destroy this wonderful concept we have all come to know and love.

Your sincerely 

Anonymous.

10 Replies

  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @Kirby5692 , My version of TS3 lagged horribly!!! Not only that it would grind to a halt, for several minutes and then crash! 😞 And the lagging started happening fairly soon , like within the first year, but it wasn't that bad at first.  TS4 only just started lagging a small amount for me , and that is after over 6 years of playing! (I had all expansions of TS3, and I have all of them for TS4).  But I"m sure other people have different experiences with TS4 and lagging. 
    I would often wait on TS3 for anywhere from 5 - 20 min (occasionally more) for my game to stop lagging, only to lag again within 10 seconds sometimes. This is far worse than the mere 10 to 30 seconds it usually takes for a loading screen in TS4!  

    There seems to be a wide range of experiences with TS3's performance. 🤨 I had what was supposed to be a mid range computer. But it was enough of a problem for EA to decide to make TS4 a semi-open world (more open than TS2, but not as open as TS3).  I much prefer the loading screens because they are very short and let me actually play my game! 🙌

  • Kirby5692's avatar
    Kirby5692
    5 years ago

    I respect your opinion and I am glad you are enjoying TS4 but for me it lags, freeze for absoultely no reason even after I have updated everything. They say they have improved performance but they clearly haven't they just lied about it, they removed all the essential feature for what? Nothing. Releasing low quality expension packs and expecting everyone to pretend they are cool with it. 

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    5 years ago
    @Kirby5692

    If you post your dxdiag (PC)/system profile (Mac) in the relevant tech forum here there are plenty of helpers who can help you with what may be causing the lag 🙂
  • Kirby5692's avatar
    Kirby5692
    5 years ago

    I just don't understand why they would destroy this beautiful concept for money they lie to their consumers about the fact that they can't do an open world when a brookheights mod proves them wrong. They are destroying there own game for the sake of money. The truth will come out at some point.

  • KatAnubis's avatar
    KatAnubis
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    @Kirby5692 Brookheights did not "prove them wrong." If anything, the problems people have had with that mod (especially with the apartments) has proven them right.

    I'm sorry that you don't like the fact that they had to make changes so that the game would function better than TS3 did. But they did the changes to *save* the game and make it more accessible to more people.
  • I value your opinion and honestly I am glad that you are enjoying the game. In my opinion they didn't save the game they only made it 10x worse the game lags like crazy even on medium to low settings for no reason which is absolutely weird. Also how is removing core features from the previous titles saving the game. Overall, I am grateful for your enjoyment for the game but this wasnt what I had expected especially from the Hype that TS3 was.

    Also I am new to the franchise, so I started with TS3.

  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @Kirby5692 , my favorite version of the Sims was TS2!  It got a little bit laggy at the end of its run, but nothing like TS3 for me and TS4 for you! 🤨  I'm really sorry you are having such hard times with TS4! 😭  I know how frustrating it is to not be really able to play your game! 😞  I hope you can find a solution! 🤞🙏

  • Kirby5692's avatar
    Kirby5692
    5 years ago

    Thank you for your kind reply. I managed to get good performance by updating my graphics and doing some optimization with my computer. The game looks and plays absolutely great although it does lag sometimes especially with the Open world and world edit mod but other than that its great. EA should really listen to the community instead of lying all the time. The Sims 4 has so much potential especially with the new update that adds sentiments that actually improves the gameplay. If you don't believe that The Sims 4 has potential then this screenshot will prove you wrong.

  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @Kirby5692 , sorry it took so long for me to reply.  i've had some real life issues that I needed to attend to. 

    I don't doubt that Sims 4 has potential, but I know that some other people do doubt it.  And now they have given Likes and Dislikes in addition to the Sentiments that you mentioned earlier.  They have also listened to players about adding skintones and improving some of the darker skin tones that were messed up, improving some base game hair textures, and giving us 6 more natural hair shades!  They finally put my hair color in the game, which is astounding that we went this long without some of these since a lot people have my shade of brown! 😃😅

    I'm also very happy to hear that you got your computer running better for your games!!! 🙌🤩🥳🙌