Do you think dimensions is scenerios?

"ignominiusrex;c-18014068" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-18013695" wrote:
@ignominiusrex Horror indeed! Looks like I'm done with this game. I'll not run any update from now on, meaning I can't get any more packs either. Those phone calls or popups I really do NOT want as they ruin my game. I already have a very tough time dealing with the "NPC just watered a plant but is in a bad mood, so should NPC dislike gardening?" popups. I realize EA did not listen to any of us but decided to add tons more of what I dislike.

I just want to be allowed to play the game that I bought, not the game EA wants to turn it into afterwards. I want what the label said, not what it might say in 5 years.

Hope you don't take my hearsay too strongly to heart because while that did happen in my game and *might* be what it's going to look like...okay nevermind because if the only way you can prevent this is to prevent updates it might be a good idea. In fact how do you prevent Origin from updating? Just say no if prompted and it won't do it automatically? I might consider doing that too.

This is another great thing about Sims3: nothing more is going to happen to it to turn it into anything it wasn't already. WYSIWYG.

I tend to hope that if it's too annoying to too many people, they'll change it for the better, though. Fingers crossed that if this lands like a lead balloon, it will be revised.

I feel you on the lifestyles and likes/dislikes. They keep trying to give us what we want: Sims with more individuality, more personality, but the essential problem is that (from what people are saying) these Sims were originally intended to be more like hollow skins for us, the users, to inhabit while moving through an online world. So trying to retrofit them with individual personalities and an ability to evolve from experiences, might be close to impossible. I don't know, that's just me looking for a way to see it charitably.

I still like Sims4 so long as I can use mods, and when I get sick of the sameness and lack of true novelty, I go back to earlier iterations of the game.

@ignominiusrex
I have a TS4 icon on my desktop. When running the game I will first start Origin, then go offline-mode. THEN click the desktop TS4 icon to launch the game. When starting the game this way there is not even a suggestion to install a patch. I've done it this way for ages. Only when I get a new pack I might run the game with Origin in online mode a couple times in case there are some remaining installments. It's also a good routine re mods, because I decide when to install a ny patch, meaning I can wait the days it takes for my fave mods to get updated.