Can we talk about the sims 4 rebrand vidio ?

"Scobre;c-17303160" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-17302639" wrote:

I completely agree with this. Even though I use video games as an escape from my illness there is a fine line between using it for fun and burying your head so you can’t see the world. Weirdly enough when I’m really low mentally I can’t play the sims. It’s depressing to me to see my sims do normal things I can’t or struggle with. I can some times play other video games but The Sims franchise is a big no no. I read this article and the writer also acknowledges using the game as a crutch was not good for state of mind:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8a53/i-couldnt-get-pregnant-so-i-played-the-sims-4

You hit the nail on what has bothered me about the Sims 4 too and why I find it the most depressing iteration of the series. It is like they tried to make the Sims 4 like MySims which was made for kids and free from anything that is deemed dangerous. I mean I know that a lot that worked on MySims also work on the Sims 4, but I don't want the main game to be like MySims. It's why Simmers are so angry at each other. They have all this anger that normally they can vent in the game, vent it on social media instead and it just isn't healthy for anyone. It is like the idea of the purge instead of it happening in the game, it is happening in the Sims community and if EA wants to kill another Maxis community by making it too "safe" and depressing their customers to do dangerous acts like what happened with EA Sports that's on them to encourage that competitive and aggressive behavior within the community rather than providing a way to purge in their games by making them entertaining instead. No one likes to be bored out of their mind with preschool games.

TS4 is the first game where i get judged for letting bad things happen to Sims. I never was judged for that before. I'm a deviant player in many ways, but softened up over the years. I think seeing a Sim starve in The Sims would shock and horrify many new players today. It's not pretty with them begging for food, and looking right into camera begging the player. However, this is the first forum where I have seen players have to defend why they would allow some Sim to suffer. It used to be a common joke we slapped a Sim around because they were so darn annoying. Now, it's like omg, you are such a horrible person. Lyndsay said at the release of TS4 they didn't want players to feel bad for not taking care of their Sims etc., however, they have done the very opposite and removed anything that could help a player tell that story or type gameplay. It's' so childish, I never admit I have played it.