Bug fixes vs new content?

Hm. I'm not sure how to vote here because my brain goes: well, that's not gonna happen. Less so because they might not want to stop new releases and more because no packs doesn't equal bug fixing abilities.

The thing is that whatever content is going to be released in the next year is already being worked on (it takes a while to build things). There's also the way the teams are likely set up; bug fixing is done by different people than content creation, especially design.
I'd happily give up packs for bug fixes if that's even possible, it's just that that would likely leave the design and animation people in limbo.

Slower pack release to allow more resources being dedicated to QA and optimization though.

The main thing I want now is overhauled babies, and that would only come from new content. That said, I swore the team who made the new content and those who "fixed" bugs were separate teams. So realistically one shouldn't effect the other.

For me, the best hypothetical choice would be take a break from making packs and just fix bugs and add BG updates.

Head says of course fixing bugs is more important. But seeing that I haven't updated in two months so they cannot take away a gameplay feature I guess that speaks louder about how I really feel in this matter. There are a few bugs that affect me (like npc using pool floaties freezing the game at beaches), but getting them fixed is not worth no longer having access to wading outside Sulani. If I ever update again, then only for outstanding new content, either payed dlc or free stuff. But not for bugfixes.

They aren't taking a year off obviously. They should just hire more people to take a hard look at the code and fix the bugs and errors. Because the game is starting to get as buggy as TS3. As a matter fact there are more less working features in TS4 right now, than in TS3. TS3 is mostly routing errors, poor optimisation and minor random bugs, in TS4 there are features that straight up don't work.

They have two totally separate teams for bug fixes vs new content. You want them to lay people off for a year just for bug fixes? That doesn't sound fair.

I don't think fixing bugs needs to come at the expense of producing new content.

I want to see some stuff that hasn't been done before as well as stuff that has.

But yes, I want bug fixes as much as anybody. I mean, I have the Moschino pack mainly for the new career. (I'm rotating with other sims right now.)

No. No stopping the flow of new content for a year of every team member just working on bug. I still don't have my freakin' Werewolves. That's reason enough not to support such a pause in development.

I am at a point where I'm having to focus on hunting down and installing mods to fix the massive amount of bugs in the game. So much so, that I don't end up playing for long once I'm done installing. I'm OK waiting for new content if it means the game is more stable, and the sims actually act like they have brains.

"SimsLovinLycan;c-17263354" wrote:
No. No stopping the flow of new content for a year of every team member just working on bug. I still don't have my freakin' Werewolves. That's reason enough not to support such a pause in development.

Though the lack of werewolves is making me rethink that lol.

Maybe...release the werewolves and THEN pause :p

hell, take 10 years