Bug Report: The EA / Maxis Development Team is broken.

Some bugs are easier to fix than others and they have to prioritize the bugs they fix.

Just because some bugs take forever to fix does not mean the EA/Maxis Development team is broken. It just means one of the following:

• Bug is hard to replicate. This is usually the case when there's a note that they need more people to come forward with details of how they've run into the issue
  
• The fixes they've tried have broken other stuff.
  
• The fixes they've tried have not worked at all.
  
• They can't figure out what it is that's triggering the glitch even if it's easy to replicate.
  

And of course there's the prioritizing of the bugs to fix.

Top priority goes to game breaking bugs (you can't play the game at all kind of bugs). Lowest priority goes to inconvenience bugs. I'd call the gardener one an inconvenience once since you can still hire one as long as one of the plants needs tending to.

The player trait I would put somewhere in the middle and I'd imagine it's probably just hard to fix since it seems to be fairly easy to replicate the bug. Yes, it's frustrating that some bugs take forever to be fixed. But just because some bugs take forever to be fixed doesn't mean the bug fixing team is broken.

The first issue is being looked into, as written by the developer.

As for the second two, it's easy to guess why they are low priority. The second one is hard to reproduce; I've been playing a vampire with a garden for months now and have never had that happen. I do remember the player trait not working properly, but that hasn't happened to me in a while. This is in addition to the fact that nobody has left any feedback on that topic, and it has been up there since July..

In order for bugs to get fixed, they've got to be able to replicate them.

@Seera1024
This garden needed tending, and it wouldn't let me hire a Gardener, it is NOT just an "inconvenience" when their solutions don't work:
https://66.media.tumblr.com/631fa68e499d79fc2b7a1348a4f307fb/tumblr_pj2yvaOKXe1uw2n86o3_1280.png
https://66.media.tumblr.com/6b61b38decebdb2f2b7816623d0ce72e/tumblr_pj2yvaOKXe1uw2n86o1_1280.png
https://66.media.tumblr.com/7d7018c0fcf4ee3ea85dfd9182057700/tumblr_pj2yvaOKXe1uw2n86o2_1280.png
Saying nothing about trying to Harvest as a Vampire.
If you notice, it is 8:16AM Game Time, he's been working on trying to get things done in the garden since 4AM Game Time.

@Cupid As for the Player Trait, I believe most have given up since it's been 3 1/2 years since it was reported broken.

And I do know how it "works" with Bug Fixes. But give me a break, 6 months for major bugs, and 3 1/2 years on the Player Trait?

"Ulfric_Grimbrand;c-16857684" wrote:
@Seera1024
This garden needed tending, and it wouldn't let me hire a Gardener, it is NOT just an "inconvenience" when their solutions don't work:
https://66.media.tumblr.com/631fa68e499d79fc2b7a1348a4f307fb/tumblr_pj2yvaOKXe1uw2n86o3_1280.png
https://66.media.tumblr.com/6b61b38decebdb2f2b7816623d0ce72e/tumblr_pj2yvaOKXe1uw2n86o1_1280.png
https://66.media.tumblr.com/7d7018c0fcf4ee3ea85dfd9182057700/tumblr_pj2yvaOKXe1uw2n86o2_1280.png
Saying nothing about trying to Harvest as a Vampire.
If you notice, it is 8:16AM Game Time, he's been working on trying to get things done in the garden since 4AM Game Time.

@Cupid As for the Player Trait, I believe most have given up since it's been 3 1/2 years since it was reported broken.

And I do know how it "works" with Bug Fixes. But give me a break, 6 months for major bugs, and 3 1/2 years on the Player Trait?

You are correct some of these bugs have been around for quite awhile. Looking at EA/Maxis track record on working them is terrible and looking at the bugs in previous Sims games those never got fixed. No one here can say how EA/Maxis prioritize bugs to be fixed unless they mention it otherwise it is nothing more than speculation. True, some bugs are harder to fix because it may require an certain routine to trigger it. Now glitches which is not an bug persay it is more likely to occur due to an situation where an system may not recommended or below system requirements, sometimes an program may run even if it does not meet the specs but at the same time have more glitches which are harder to replicate.

They wrote that they're fixing the gardening, the vampire gardening seems obscure and player trait has zero response. You say its because people gave up reporting it but i doubt that. People to this day are still reporting old bugs. The trait worked fine for me when I was trying to fo my 100 baby challenge with it though

theres bugs that are way more common, way more gamebreaking and have been around way longer than these too. i would be complaining about those instead lol

No, I've been posting it on EA Answers HQ, just getting tired of waiting, and waiting, and ....

Oh, and @simgirl1010 I don't use Twitter (my Arthritis makes it very hard to use Smart type phones). I use an older flip style phone.

"Ulfric_Grimbrand;c-16857903" wrote:
No, I've been posting it on EA Answers HQ, just getting tired of waiting, and waiting, and ....

Oh, and @simgirl1010 I don't use Twitter (my Arthritis makes it very hard to use Smart type phones). I use an older flip style phone.

Twitter is not a phone only app. You can access it via a web browser.

"Cinebar;c-16858709" wrote:

You might want to PM or contact @Crinrict, she is the one who brings these complaints to the developing team's attention. It's at her discretion and if she can reproduce them and other factors.

Lol. You make it sound like I had the power to tell them what gets fixed and what not. That's never has been the case, never will be.

EA/Maxis does their own forum reading. I do forward almost every thread (except mod issues) but that doesn't mean they only read/are aware of those. There's also many other channels where bug reports come in that also need to be taken into account.

The only thing that's at my discretion is whether stuff gets added to the compiled list. The compiled list is basically an index of things that have been reported for faster finding. Doesn't have anything to do how QA works.

As for testing: I test stuff because I'm a visual person and need to see issues for myself to really understand what's going on. That's is important to maybe find a workaround and also to be able to merge the same threads if necessary. Also, I'm trying to get ahead of QA by collecting info from you guys.

Just needed to clarify that so there's no wrong impression :D

"Cinebar;c-16859855" wrote:

"crinrict;c-16859758" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-16858709" wrote:

You might want to PM or contact @Crinrict, she is the one who brings these complaints to the developing team's attention. It's at her discretion and if she can reproduce them and other factors.

Lol. You make it sound like I had the power to tell them what gets fixed and what not. That's never has been the case, never will be.

EA/Maxis does their own forum reading. I do forward almost every thread (except mod issues) but that doesn't mean they only read/are aware of those. There's also many other channels where bug reports come in that also need to be taken into account.

The only thing that's at my discretion is whether stuff gets added to the compiled list. The compiled list is basically an index of things that have been reported for faster finding. Doesn't have anything to do how QA works.

As for testing: I test stuff because I'm a visual person and need to see issues for myself to really understand what's going on. That's is important to maybe find a workaround and also to be able to merge the same threads if necessary. Also, I'm trying to get ahead of QA by collecting info from you guys.

Just needed to clarify that so there's no wrong impression :D

But doesn't your forwarding things to them bring it to light and get fixed faster? I thought it did.

No, it doesn't necessarily expedite the process. @crinrict had me open the second issue on the Player Trait because it had not been fixed in over 3 years. The Seasons EP really did a number to Vampires. Currently, I have a game going where I have a "Human" Sim tending garden, but the Vampire Sim working on the same garden is gets a message nothing needs tending. Off to EA Answers Headquarters to update that bug thread :(

@Ulfric_Grimbrand Would be good if you bumped the player trait if it's still an issue.

@Cinebar From past experience, I'd say, threads that are active and get lots of voices are the ones that get fixed faster. They can't ignore it if 300 people say they are affected and annoyed by it (see aging issue with the GF patch)