"Hermitgirl;c-16749882" wrote:
(What you are about to read is my opinion and preference. I don't expect anyone to feel the same)
If we are just talking about time yes we need many more years. I mentioned before that I think it's the best game (for me). I have loved the way they focus on one area and flesh it out. Such as the spa pack, vampires, dine out.. even vacations that focus in one area. I'm well aware others don't think it should be done like this.. but it was and is. I personally like that it was done this way. Each pack takes time and we still have many standard themes left to look forward too. That too will take time. I've already stated most what I'm looking forward to in a prior post.. I've left out some that other simmers want. They should get it eventually and so should I. That will take time. I look forward to them and others simmers do also. All you have to do is look at the forums on what simmers are polling for and hoping will come out next to see that. People are looking forward to more. Not everyone mind you I wouldn't dare say that.
I think the way they are doing this will probably be carried forward to the next iteration. I'm an older simmer. I still want it all. I can't imagine not getting it all if I like it. I can see though as time goes on that not every simmer has to have everything anymore. Piecing together what you want is a thing for some people... and focused packs go farther to allow that. If it's done this way though it will take more time.
I hope they are more focused in the future also (Sims 5) especially with niche stuff or themes that don't have a mass appeal. Like any supernatural/alternate life state should have it's own pack or at least have options to turn them off or on. Some just don't want that stuff in their games.
The game was made to run well and last long. It's doing that for me. Recently I clocked my load times and they are basically the same as when the game launched. That surprised me actually. I don't pay much attention, but it's not like I have any time to do anything else during that load time. I hope when they start working on the next one they will build on the patterns they developed with this one.. tweaking them of course for the better but still fleshing out themes more broadly and making it functional.
Yes, the game loading at the same speed it did when it was just base would be a good thing. But no doubt it is slower than it was at release. It stands to reason it would be somewhat slower. But if we know and remember what is in the others by the end of four years, I don't think anyone can say yes, TS4 has just as much. It might have more clothes, or even more hair but it doesn't have as much to do. We had all that TS4 has and like 50x more. We still have missing interactions that seem to be impossible to pull off or maybe they would have done those things already. Like slow dance, facing each other while dancing, and or even a lounge chair. I think if it was easy a lounge chair would have been added when we got pools, and ladders. Or even to go along with the hot tubs (which by the way, are still bugged as far as I have read), but we didn't. So, what does this all mean, it takes seven years to build a lounge chair? I don't know that's a pretty absurd example by me, I guess, but logically four years was plenty of time to do it. But TS4 players will still be holding out on year seven...waiting on that lounge chair or slow dance or one or two more aspiratons? I think the new game (whatever it might be) might be better, could be, or maybe not, but I'm hoping they don't pattern it after TS4 in the way they have set priorities for TS4 and or when they release content like they did for TS4.
Anyone would be laughing that it took seven years to get some things and 50x more interactions as the other games had, after seven long years.
