yeah... I saw James Turner's review on the dustbunny one...apparently it's an easy-out for making a lot of money without cheats (just lay around, make friends with your dustbunnies, and kaching kaching sell the stuff they bring) but I'm sure someone must like it.
I tend to agree on the lack of need for even more tacky country stuff, more soon-to-be-dated fadwear, and more ways to build drudgery into the game when the gameplay is actually what is missing. But there are fans! We just don't share what motivates them and that's okay. I'll still be really REALLY interested in whatever Sims5 brings, though I won't be an early adopter. My money's now going into Sims3, which to my delight, I can run with all kinds of packs at once, all on maximum resolution and graphics quality, and it's got the thing we all fell in love with that made the franchise great: depth, personality, a sense of humor and the absurd, consequences, and autonomous surprises. Not just Barbie Dreamhouse, where nothing happens unless you make it happen.
I like it that my Sims in Sims3 have ideas of their own, initiate things, and that there are surprises. Also, a real world, not just a small footprint of playable area against a glamorous fake backdrop.
Here's hoping Sims 5 will find a way to restore that quality of gameplay with the visual beauty of Sims4, and surpass both Sims4 and Sims3.
But Sims3 does set the bar high, now that it's no longer too much game for a good laptop.