"Scobre;c-17275087" wrote:
"darrenfroggy;c-17275069" wrote:
All of this I absolutely agree with.
It's a sign of the times, unfortunately, where saying what one doesn't like seems more cool or whatever than saying what one does like. (I'm honestly too old for all that kinda stuff. I just want to enjoy my game and do whatever I can as a player to help it grow). The best kinda place seems to be some of the threads in the Ideas part of the forum, always great to see the kinda things Simmers come up with. Oh and the challenges section, that's always a fun place.
I get that some people who have been with this game since the start (I wasn't, for many reasons, none because I wouldn't have wanted to) have grown tired of not seeing the things that *they* wanted to see. Others had to wait a long time (occult players, those who wanted university gameplay...). Added to that the general state of the world that just makes everyone miserable, it all resonates and people group with those who agree with them (unfortunately in places like twitter, that kinda stuff tends to explode rapidly). But yeah, I do see how feeling like one is shouting into the void can feel exhausting and make someone go the "I give up, this is not gonna change" way.
Honestly though, for me personally, regardless of what happens next for TS4- whether any of the things I'd still love to see in the game (and man, do I ever have a long list ;)) actually make it in or not - I can see myself playing this one for a while.
Thanks I really enjoy this post. Oh I wouldn't mind reading your list too. I admit I have never been into challenges myself although I did create one with other Simmers, my fellow Squirrel sisters. Yeah that is what I would like to change is not having the state of the world creep into the Sims community. I come here to escape that, not get involved in the politics of all that. Yeah has felt like I've shouted into the void since I joined the Sims community. I'm glad you enjoy playing it. I'm currently working on making some TS2 premades the Pleasant family into spellcasters. I am a hybrid of playstyles and yes I do like university and occults too.
As far as my theme/patch ideas just to keep it confined to 10:
1) Farm pack
2) RV/tiny home/retirement pack
3) School pack
4) Werewolves, satyrs, genies, robots, zombies, fairies, and changeling life states
5) AI/Emotion system upgrade with fear emotion and nerfing of environment buffs
6) Revamping the trait and lot trait system
7) Adding NPCs firefighters, burglars, cops, social workers and NPC vehicles
8) Cars/transportation systems
9) Individual Sim descriptions
10) Upgrades to life stages from freeing babies, improving children, teens, and elders, and more activities for all life stages to do together including taking toddlers and babies to community lots
I doubt that these will be done too and yes why I've lost hope in the Sims 4 future. There are some activities like going to aquariums or the zoo and playing family sports I wouldn't mind either. Sims in Sims 4 are too much of hermits currently with the main focus of indoor activities only.
I have my wishlist things (well, the ones I could think of at the time) over in a thread
here, priorities and all. I'm not counting on all of them being added but some of them would be great for sure. (it's a long post ;))
Your list is awesome and quite a few of those are on my wishlist too. Not quite sure if I want the burglar to come back but I wouldn't be opposed to it (for major TS1 nostalgia reasons) as long as we also have a security system though!.
The thing about fears: we already have a version of it for pets, so it would be great to have those expanded to Sims too. I wouldn't even mind if they're silly things at times, it would still add to the game.
In a way, I think the game's improvements (we did get quite some over the years, and yes, some of them should've been in base game but since we don't have a time machine that's the best solution: terrains, toddlers, glass roofs etc, it all adds up) got a little stalled by the development of packs that a big amount of players expected, the ones that are repeats of previous ones from TS2 and TS3 like Seasons and pets and now university. I wish it wasn't as much of a case of "okay, what's a priority" on more levels than just "what do people want" but it is what it is.
With the major ones pretty much out of the way now (what's left that's already been done? more occults, a futuristic pack, hobbies), hopefully, instead of it meaning the end, it means we're going to get packs with things not seen before.
Since the team doesn't seem to be anywhere near done, I'm not willing to throw in the towel yet either.
Here's to tons more happy Simming :D