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Sthenastia
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

Console Players Make The Sims (and need more attention...)

YouMakeTheSims tag is very popular on social media and promoted by TS official account. Due to that I decided to cteate this topic because in my opinion console players are omitted in the community, Simgurus and Sims Media. I want to put this thread in this section because a lot of people skip console subforum and I want to invite everyone to the discussion.

On the beginning I want to say that I see a lot of comments that The Sims on PC is better than console version and due to that people ignore our point of view for a lot of things. For example for the anniversary gift we received some CC content and a lot of people was disappointed because they have that items directly from CC packs. I totally don't understand why a huge amount of community ignore that some people can't or don't want to download CC.

Also a lot of people think that TS4 on consoles has long loading screens and consoles can't handle this game and due to that we don't have a better content (also for PC) because of consoles limitation. I can agree that TS4 has bad optimalisation on consloes, but from the end of previous year we have much more better next gen consoles wchih are more and more popular. I play on PS5 and I can guarantee that TS4 on this console is much more better and faster than on popular laptops or PCs. Whats more, I need to say that EA should do PS5 update for TS4 because sometimes loading screens are faster than loading bars for example. But still I feel that community think that TS4 is lacking because of us.

As I said on the beginning I feel that we are totally omitted. I see no representation of console players in game changers community. No one of simgurus or sim media show console players creations. Whats more I feel that the content with mods and CC is being more promoted than we are. I see no console gameplay or any information abaut the consoles on official streams etc. For example I want to know if we ever get any update or implementation of CC or something.

I want to feel that we are a part of the community and our voice matters. I don't want to live in quiet limbo where everyone ignore us and where only some of console players sometimes try to highlight what we need or want on our consoles. I want to feel that PC players don't blame us of TS4 weaknesses also.

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  • I play on Xbox and yeah, Acheivements are our reward system bcause we get points for them that we can put toward stuff/brag about gamer score. I've found a lot of loopholes in my many years of playing the Sims4 so I don't really ever use cheats but the reset cheat being added to the "no consequence" cheats like the BB cheats would be nice because it's not being used to actually cheat, it's to fix glitching or bugging.
    I'd be content with that.
  • We used to have console specific Simgurus on twitter and then suddenly one day they all stopped posting. That was years ago now. We are irrelevant or at least that's how it feels. You ask a Simguru a console question and your ignored. I'm still waiting on them to sort out the jaggie edge problem on console as well as the blurry issues with the camera and they won't respond to any of my tweets.
  • Knotwise13's avatar
    Knotwise13
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 years ago
    I’ve been playing the sims for 4 months now on the PS5 and it’s been made loud and clear how no one gives a crap about console players and the general response to anyone playing on a console who has a question about ANYTHING seems to be, get a PC. *eyeroll* The rudeness and apathy doesn’t get to me so much as the lack of cheats for consoles, I have a lot of NPC sims that I do not want to spend any time with but are a part of my story nonetheless, but I can only do a fraction of the cheats PC players can and it limits my gameplay and is frustrating. It’s also incredibly time consuming having to peck out the cheat codes letter. By. Letter. UGH, there needs to be a better, easier system for console cheats. I don’t care about CC, I can live without mods, but the fact that we don’t have all the same cheats available to us really drives me nuts. I’m not even going to get into the fact that we are ignored by literally everyone, including and especially EA who is happy to take our money but gives us zero attention. If I had know how bad it was for consol players I wouldn’t have even bothered buying the game on console and just would have waited until I had saved up my money to buy a new gaming laptop (my current one is dead RIP)
  • "RoseRyder;c-18111566" wrote:
    I’ve been playing the sims for 4 months now on the PS5 and it’s been made loud and clear how no one gives a crap about console players and the general response to anyone playing on a console who has a question about ANYTHING seems to be, get a PC. *eyeroll* The rudeness and apathy doesn’t get to me so much as the lack of cheats for consoles, I have a lot of NPC sims that I do not want to spend any time with but are a part of my story nonetheless, but I can only do a fraction of the cheats PC players can and it limits my gameplay and is frustrating. It’s also incredibly time consuming having to peck out the cheat codes letter. By. Letter. UGH, there needs to be a better, easier system for console cheats. I don’t care about CC, I can live without mods, but the fact that we don’t have all the same cheats available to us really drives me nuts. I’m not even going to get into the fact that we are ignored by literally everyone, including and especially EA who is happy to take our money but gives us zero attention. If I had know how bad it was for consol players I wouldn’t have even bothered buying the game on console and just would have waited until I had saved up my money to buy a new gaming laptop (my current one is dead RIP)


    Fortunately on PS5, when you enter the cheat once, the PS5 keyboard will suggest you that cheat next time when you start to type the code. For example I have moveobjects cheat suggested when I type just "M" letter in the cheat box.
  • @GirlFromIpanema and @RoseRyder I couldn’t agree more, as a PlayStation user.
  • "RoseRyder;c-18111566" wrote:
    I’ve been playing the sims for 4 months now on the PS5 and it’s been made loud and clear how no one gives a crap about console players and the general response to anyone playing on a console who has a question about ANYTHING seems to be, get a PC. *eyeroll* The rudeness and apathy doesn’t get to me so much as the lack of cheats for consoles, I have a lot of NPC sims that I do not want to spend any time with but are a part of my story nonetheless, but I can only do a fraction of the cheats PC players can and it limits my gameplay and is frustrating. It’s also incredibly time consuming having to peck out the cheat codes letter. By. Letter. UGH, there needs to be a better, easier system for console cheats. I don’t care about CC, I can live without mods, but the fact that we don’t have all the same cheats available to us really drives me nuts. I’m not even going to get into the fact that we are ignored by literally everyone, including and especially EA who is happy to take our money but gives us zero attention. If I had know how bad it was for consol players I wouldn’t have even bothered buying the game on console and just would have waited until I had saved up my money to buy a new gaming laptop (my current one is dead RIP)


    Yeah the lack of cheats bugged me too. But at least on Xbox (not sure about PS) you can now do all the cheats pretty easy. You just have to have a keyboard that you can hook up to your console. I wish I knew if it worked for PS. The other good thing is you can swap to a different camera setup with the keyboard and mouse too. Which makes things easier. Hopefully PS supports it that way.

  • "OmniNerd42;c-18187454" wrote:
    "RoseRyder;c-18111566" wrote:
    I’ve been playing the sims for 4 months now on the PS5 and it’s been made loud and clear how no one gives a crap about console players and the general response to anyone playing on a console who has a question about ANYTHING seems to be, get a PC. *eyeroll* The rudeness and apathy doesn’t get to me so much as the lack of cheats for consoles, I have a lot of NPC sims that I do not want to spend any time with but are a part of my story nonetheless, but I can only do a fraction of the cheats PC players can and it limits my gameplay and is frustrating. It’s also incredibly time consuming having to peck out the cheat codes letter. By. Letter. UGH, there needs to be a better, easier system for console cheats. I don’t care about CC, I can live without mods, but the fact that we don’t have all the same cheats available to us really drives me nuts. I’m not even going to get into the fact that we are ignored by literally everyone, including and especially EA who is happy to take our money but gives us zero attention. If I had know how bad it was for consol players I wouldn’t have even bothered buying the game on console and just would have waited until I had saved up my money to buy a new gaming laptop (my current one is dead RIP)


    Yeah the lack of cheats bugged me too. But at least on Xbox (not sure about PS) you can now do all the cheats pretty easy. You just have to have a keyboard that you can hook up to your console. I wish I knew if it worked for PS. The other good thing is you can swap to a different camera setup with the keyboard and mouse too. Which makes things easier. Hopefully PS supports it that way.



    What do you mean by lack of cheats? Console has the same cheats PC does. You just enter the name using pad and console will remember what you typed before. No need to “work the letters” every single time. Cas cheats, money cheats, equip/remove trait etc. all works great on console.

  • leo3487's avatar
    leo3487
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    "RoseRyder;c-18111566" wrote:
    I’ve been playing the sims for 4 months now on the PS5 and it’s been made loud and clear how no one gives a crap about console players and the general response to anyone playing on a console who has a question about ANYTHING seems to be, get a PC. *eyeroll* The rudeness and apathy doesn’t get to me so much as the lack of cheats for consoles, I have a lot of NPC sims that I do not want to spend any time with but are a part of my story nonetheless, but I can only do a fraction of the cheats PC players can and it limits my gameplay and is frustrating. It’s also incredibly time consuming having to peck out the cheat codes letter. By. Letter. UGH, there needs to be a better, easier system for console cheats. I don’t care about CC, I can live without mods, but the fact that we don’t have all the same cheats available to us really drives me nuts. I’m not even going to get into the fact that we are ignored by literally everyone, including and especially EA who is happy to take our money but gives us zero attention. If I had know how bad it was for consol players I wouldn’t have even bothered buying the game on console and just would have waited until I had saved up my money to buy a new gaming laptop (my current one is dead RIP)


    Really??
    Are you saying me you no knew consoles limitations vs pc?
    Lack of CC and mods are not due EA, else due consoles limitation to write files out of game files
  • And now console is dealing with constant crashing after the latest patch.

    Remember when we literally had to wait like a month later for pack releases, versus PC?

    And we didn’t have gallery either. There’s such a stigma around being a console player and it stinks.

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