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Rising Ace

Re: [BY DESIGN] Filters for packs not working in the gallery

@Vyo4This. Entirely this.

A filter is supposed to remove specified items from a search. It is literally defined as "to process or assess (items) in order to reject those that are unwanted".

Honestly, what is this "by design" filter filtering precisely? If you don't put on a filter and don't own Get Together the Gallery shows you entries created with Get Together. Tick Get Together off and the Gallery shows you entries created with Get Together. That is "by design"? That's not a filter.

And I am one of those players that has walked away frustrated with trying to place usable lots. I am not good at building lots, but I'm decent at decorating them but I don't always have a lot of time to play and I'd rather be playing my Sims with my time than building lots. I get frustrated because the Gallery wouldn't show me anything I could use without spending several hours finding and replacing a whole mess of items (83 one time o.O). I end up spending all of my available playing time hunting the Gallery or patching in the packs I do have for the small number of packs and all the kits I don't have. This often results in me getting overall frustrated and walking away from the game for weeks or even months. And that also impacts my future DLC purchases, let me assure you.

A company's goal should never be to deliberately vex their customers.

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peno11
Seasoned Veteran
1 year ago
Can someone please change the title from "Solved" to "Unsolved" and from "By Design" to "By Bad Design"?
I am working with computers for over 30 years now and I hardly can remember any worse filter selection than what Sims 4 Gallery has. If I uncheck something, it shouldn't show. That's simple common sense and everything else is bad design, if not outright bug. I am all for inclusivity, but inclusive filters are big exception to that. Filters should not be inclusive. Period.
And the fact that this bad design was ignored by EA and Maxis for years is even worse. What are you doing, guys? You had years to fix this and you still didn't? That's just not right!
On top of that, kits should be separated. I have some kits, but not all and I should be able to filter just those I don't have, not all of them. Yeah, by this current design, that wouldn't work anyway. But once fixed, this needs to be addressed as well.