Future Development post My Wedding Stories

After the wedding stories games not working.I just want sims 5 now and hope they have a different engine.This game pack is broken.I am not sure it can be fix.I am not sure this game can be fix..Sure there's things I want, but I am not sure the game can handle it .I feel like if they keep realeasing packs.The game would keep getting bigger and buggies until it can not run no more.

"Gordy;c-18068197" wrote:
I'd be so freaking mad if they left Sims 4 and skipped so many occults. We waited 8+ years and we didn't get werewolves or dragons, but we got recycling?

I would be upset, but still is it worth.If the whole game I playable ?

The massive backlash following vampires is the real reason occults we’re shafted, not eco living ? The people who bought vampires and then complained about vampires being added to their game, I mean who could have seen that coming ?... the “realism” players have drowned out the rest of the community, wether it was free the babies, bunk beds, ladders, university or a farm pack etc the list goes on.. plus as somebody else mentioned, this game has been mismanaged to hell and back.

Either way I agree with OP, I’ve been eagerly awaiting a werewolf pack since vampires, but honestly I dread the half baked mess it would be now.. bring on TS5, as this game is circling the drain.

As much as I agree with OP on the obvious technical problems in the Sims 4 game and the likelihood of more problems to come, I have no faith that the Sims 5 development is going a direction that I can embrace either.

Yep im really over sims 4.

The 'what makes you think 5 will be better' argument had some validity but iits also very tired. Now here is my immature 'no u' question:
What makes people think Sims 4 will get any better?

Im not invested in Sims 4 whatsoever. I havent spent my life savings in the game either so I dont feel amiss. I dont think Sims 4 will ever feel complete or be complete because base game is too shallow imo.

Also for some people I doubt when they say they wont buy Sims 5 stuff. Im not pointing fingers at anyone in this thread. Just making a generalization. Because im like : if simmer feel like JTB and Wedding Stories is worth their money why wouldnt they buy over again any Sims 5 stuff? Especially completionists? I doubt it. When Sims 5 'new hotness' in whatever form it is in ppl will still buy.

While I'm ready to see what a new iteration will be like, I too am fearful that it will be even less developed and be even more driven by "player direction" rather than actually seeing a story being played out on the screen that you can either run with or manipulate it how you want.

I can't handle another "doll house" iteration. I don't know if it was because of the fact this game was supposed to be online and all actions, decisions, interactions, etc would have been between other RL people if it was indeed online and therefore the AI was not developed in a way that actually was smart and intuitive. Or if they thought we would prefer to "tell our own" stories more so they dummied down the AI to not be intrusive, but I do not like it and I can not (actually that should be will not) do it again. I don't have a huge imagination, I don't like setting up "scenes" to pretend they are behaving a certain way.

I much prefer to have a story line in my mind, start playing it and if my sims go in a different direction, it's fun for me to have to rethink my original storyline and run in a new direction. That keeps things fresh in my mind, and not so samey, samey.

Also, I can not handle the extreme and overly obsessive behavior of the sims. And, I'm afraid it will just be more of the same with TS5. Traits need to matter, not every single sim needs to be tunnel-visionly focused on playing with their phone or the pc or working out, or BEING SO SOCIAL to the point, that they will stop what they're doing to run and chat with another sim regardless if they know them or not! Only those sims with traits that would realistically make a person be drawn to those things should be effected by that or if directed by the player to do them.

So yeah, while I'm interested in seeing what the next version will be like, if it's just TS4 with new graphics, I'll be passing it up.

One more thing: I also don't think we'll see drama or anything negative in the next iteration either. EA is all about "Positive Play", which I think they've gone over board with that. I understand and agree with not having bullying or harassment or an unsafe environment when dealing with other people. But, we're talking about a game's mechanics, that should not be part of their "Positive Play" focus in my opinion, but I do think that is part of the reason TS4 is so Happy, Happy Rainbows, Cotton Candy and Puppies all the time.

"StrawberryYogurt;c-18068229" wrote:
Also for some people I doubt when they say they wont buy Sims 5 stuff. Im not pointing fingers at anyone in this thread. Just making a generalization. Because im like : if simmer feel like JTB and Wedding Stories is worth their money why wouldnt they buy over again any Sims 5 stuff? Especially completionists? I doubt it. When Sims 5 'new hotness' in whatever form it is in ppl will still buy.

Excuse me I didn't get even a chance to say anything and you're already pointing fingers at me. This is getting personal. :p

Never mind me - back to Planet Serious Land:

Indeed OP. I don't know what's going on up there in The Sims 4 Development Attic but it ain't good. Perhaps it's something the team ate? Perhaps it's The Mother Plant feeding all her poor dev minions her strange, strange fruit...

That being said, I'm still hopeful for some more fantasy / adventure gameplay and of course packs that literally no-one asked for. That's my kinda deal.
I even opened a freakin' Twitter account just to moan about it. But I don't really know how Twitter works, so I don't know where all my moans went. I suppose I should've opened a Moaner account. :D

Sims 5? I'm not too pushed, but if it arrived tomorrow, I'd have a look see. Same goes for Paralives. Same goes for anything really.

If it looks good and it's playable, it's stayable.

While I know there are bugs in this game, I won't be moving on to Sims5, not so long as it's a multi-player platform. I Sim in private, and sometimes I'll write up what happened in my game story-style to share. But I don't want others messing with my Sims. The devs suggested we have a long way to go in Sims4. With the help of a few mods, I can wait to see how this ends. Not ready to move on.

It feels like development is going towards The Sims5 already, because there was not a lot of gameplay designers that worked on my wedding stories...

It would be nice to know more about The future of The Sims, and The Sims4 because maybe they should reduce content for The Sims4 or something if all their gameplay designers are gonna be so busy that they can't even release a game pack focused on weddings.

I mean, how are hotels or werewolves gonna turn out with the same amount of people working on it? Because the impression that I get is that our werewolves and hotels are going to look very pretty... but they are not going to be playable. :/