5 years ago

Is it sad that this is normal now?

So I took some time off from Sims 4 to let some expansions come out. Magic and Eco Life have dropped so I figured I'd fire up my game again. Here is the sad part, my FIRST thought was there were expansions so what are the new bugs? I find that very disappointing but at least the game has one thing going for it, consistency. Sure enough I've already encountered two new bugs.

1st bug. Some actions just never complete. This seems to happen OFTEN with eating meals. The sim will sit, eat and there hunger will fill up, but the plate of food never loses food and the eating action never completes. The sim just sits there forever spooning food into their mouths. Fortunately this is easy to fix, you just cancel the action and trash the plate and your good to go, but this happens to sims visiting your lot as well. Since you don't have direct control of these sims there is no way to cancel whatever stuck action they have so you have to use the console to resetSim, otherwise they'll eventually starve to death on your lot. This is also happening with the "Watch Movie" interaction on a TV. The movie starts, the sims sit to watch, their entertainment goes up, but the movie will NEVER finish.. they will sit there forever.

2nd bug. Decorations are simply not working at all anymore in any situation, the entire system for decorations is now completely broken.

Does anyone else find it sad that the first thought with new expansions isn't "Oh my god, new stuff to do, I'm so excited!!" Instead, your first thought is "What bugs are going to be introduced to my currently working game, and is it going to be game breaking?"

Add to this the total lack of any amount of urgency in fixing these bugs. Remember the good 'ol days when a game company would take a bug in their game as a personal insult and usually roll out a patch within a week? I don't know if those days are simply gone or if that attitude in game development is not conducive to how EA does business, regardless ... it's disappointing.

The saddest part of all of this is it's totally no surprise at all. As soon as EA sucks in a game developer, that developer's product ultimately suffers as a result.

Here's to hoping Maxis can shake off the shackles of EA long enough to actually fix these bugs in a timely matter, but I seriously doubt it.

Praying I'm wrong,

An extremely dissatisfied customer

stilettoblack
Rising Newcomer
5 years ago
It is sad. That is how they are though. I will never be able to play a magician in TS3 and make it to the big show venue. Never. The bug they never fixed. I tried the mod but it just slowed down my game too. At the end of TS4, expect to have to live with the bugs they leave at the end.
fillups44
5 years ago
I might be in the minority here but I've been playing The Sims since 2002 and it has been my experience that with any significant addition, there have been bugs that have required patching to fix. The game in all its iterations is a pretty complicated piece of software and with so many possible interactions, that significant changes kick up a few bugs.

The recent base game before Eco living dropped was an extremely ambitious one and with that has come a host of bugs and glitches that will need to be patched out. The team has worked quickly on the most extreme ones and I'm sure is gathering data and working on a host of others. The Sims 4 has overall been a lot more stable for me than The Sims 3 was.

Even though this has been a consistent issue with each generation of The Sims I have played, I don't consider it sad. I like The Sims because of all the options and stories it lets me tell. In my experience, games that afford that level of choice often also come with their share of glitches Skyrim, Mass Effect also offer a lot of choice and have had quite a few glitches over the years sometimes after big overhauls and updates. It happens.
jmac2727
5 years ago
I'm sorry but your argument does not hold water. These are not some obscure bugs that you really have to dig into the game to find. These are bugs that ANY player playing for longer then 10 to 15 minutes would notice immediately. The eating bug is the perfect example, it's impossible that that was missed. So one of two things happened, they either failed to play test the expansion AT all, or they did do play testing, knew the bugs were there, and released anyway. I find that I'm unhappy with both of those scenarios, and I feel I'm justified in that disappointment.
SimAlexandria
5 years ago
"jmac2727;c-17556335" wrote:
I'm sorry but your argument does not hold water. These are not some obscure bugs that you really have to dig into the game to find. These are bugs that ANY player playing for longer then 10 to 15 minutes would notice immediately. The eating bug is the perfect example, it's impossible that that was missed. So one of two things happened, they either failed to play test the expansion AT all, or they did do play testing, knew the bugs were there, and released anyway. I find that I'm unhappy with both of those scenarios, and I feel I'm justified in that disappointment.

I hadn't noticed the eating one actually, but I prefer to keep my sims needs full via cheats (or even more often with the reward trait that keeps them always full) so they rarely eat haha!

tbh, it's never been my first thought and I rarely encounter any bugs in my game. I do remember one last year-ish where todders got stuff stuck to their hands that caused me issues because I play toddlers mostly... but it was fixed quickly.
Bronwin2
5 years ago
The always drinking water is a bug that needs to be fixed.
OldeSimsFan
New Traveler
5 years ago
Is TS4 a game with bugs, or is it a collection of bugs pretending to be a game?
BatmanFanGirl
5 years ago
I have that eating one too.
Sara1010p
Rising Rookie
5 years ago
I don't have the eating bug you mention, but I do have the one with the movies. What has happened to the decorations? I didn't notice anything buggy about them? My first thought when a new pack comes out isn't about what bugs will be added, so I don't find it sad, but you do indeed have the right to be disappointed if that is your first thought. You are a paying customer and deserve to get a game you are happy with. Sorry Sims 4 isn't fulfilling that right now for you.
timurjr96
5 years ago
Some Guru said that Ea is Maxis and Maxis is Ea, so it isn't right to only blame EA in this case.
Thenyoukissme
5 years ago
I agree. I often find myself worrying about the bugs that will be introduced. Its not that I expect absolutely no bugs, of course there will always be some, its just that usually theres so many and they can be game breaking at times. Plus, it’s not always guaranteed that they will be fixed and over time you end up with tons of bugs from a ton of packs. Eco lifestyle has been the worst for my game personally, theres so many things that are broken or conflicting badly with other packs that you cant help but wonder how much it was truly tested. I’ve seen a lot of people on here say that they cant even open their games, or that its constantly crashing. I expect bugs but not to this extent, where it is breaking peoples game, or new major features straight up dont work (the neighbourhood action plans are just a buggy mess) it can start to feel like I’ve paid for an unfinished or untested product