I'm worried about open worlds

"JoAnne65;c-16710980" wrote:
I'm worried about posts like this. Not because I want open world in Sims 4, that will never happen anyway, but because it sends a message to EA that it's perfectly ok to never invest in something awesome like an open world in any Sims game ever again. I can't protest against that strongly enough.

• Travelling took time? Completely comparable to loading screens (I tested this) with one difference: you can follow your sim instead of staring at an empty loading screen. And if you play more than one sim you don't even have to wait, you can play with one till the other has arrived.
  https://i.imgur.com/Ko7EERi.png
  
• Routing issues? Yup, but nothing that can't be taken care of properly in a next iteration (just take NRaas mods as an example and go from there).
  
• Loading screens in Sims 3 last so long that you have to read a book to kill time? There are no loading screens. There is one at the beginning and that one lasts a couple of minutes for Sims 3 players now, thanks to improved computers (in my case 4, I timed it).
  
• Sims 3 is exactly as buggy as Sims 4 appears to be (just take a look around here) and the most absorbing and awesome to play, with or without mods (I've done both). I feel that open world plays a huge part in that because it draws you into a world that comes closest to a real world and approaches a real world experience the best.
  
• Don't worry. Sims 4 will always have its tiny uncustomizable neighborhoods based world system with loading screens everywhere and uncontrollable sims in your active family constantly, doing absolutely nothing as time passes by. And no transportation but instant teleportation. Enjoy it while playing Sims 4, I pray they'll come to their senses when creating a Sims 5.