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

Clousinators
5 years ago
typical EA. they suck up all of our money and continue to give out the same shitty product.
texxx78
5 years ago
"StrawberryYogurt;c-17613153" wrote:
"telmarina;c-17608061" wrote:
TS4 is playable without mods. It has bugs but it's playable.
TS3 is unplayable without mods.

I'm able to play Sims 3 fine without mods.

I'm happy for you. I'ld love to be able to do that. I have spent money on all packs and i wish i would be able to play with all eps and without mods. But i can't. And many people can't too.
yoblack
5 years ago
The game is a Hot mess. I am throwing in the towel and demanding refunds on all the pacs I bought. I. AM. DONE.
BentySpears
5 years ago
I definitely feel that bugs are a normal part of the gaming industry these days and are okay as long as the devs are working on it. I believe this except for when the bugs are affecting a large or featured part of the update.

For example, in the latest patch, they fixed a bug that dogs and cats weren't eating unless told to. Okay, I can see how this was overlooked because it's not a huge game-breaking glitch and their pack came out years ago and only experienced this bug recently. They fixed it and it's good now. This is understandable.

An example of what is not acceptable is when Moschino Stuff came out and introduced the new photography career. It was a MAJOR feature for the pack and therefore is expected to work. Unfortunately, there were issues when taking photos on the third or fourth floor of a building and it was impossible to get a certain item to even get promoted in the career. This is just because there was clearly no player tasting before release. This is such an easy-to-spot glitch in the game and the fact it went unnoticed shows that they weren't even checking for bugs. If someone is paying $10 for a pack where the entire gameplay of this pack is focused around this career, then it needs to work. Otherwise, it's robbery. They are not receiving what they paid for and this is, in my opinion, a scam.

Also, eco-lifestyle introduced this amazing scenario where you may be tasked to get married in a week for a large fortune. AMAZING IDEA! Love these small little gameplay additions that The Sims is known for. Unfortunately, you never actually would get the money. So you just got married for money and nothing actually happened. Somebody obviously put this feature in the game and never actually tested it. This is not okay.

I don't want to be the guy who's coming for the Sim Gurus. They are very passionate hardworking people. The issue is the Sims is owned by EA, who is known for game-crunching (or rushing their Devs to put out a mediocre, buggy so it meets an unreasonable deadline). EA needs to understand that they are losing their fanbase and EA relies on The Sims for their success. Once this game meets competition, The Sims may be done.
Onverser
5 years ago
They need a much larger bug fixing team for the amount of bugs this game has. Even with regular patches every 3-4 weeks bugs still take forever to get fixed as there's just so many.

If they had more people they'd be able to manage the load of bugs but sadly they don't and many bugs just get abandoned and never fixed as there's so much new content coming out, each with their own bugs.

They need more people dedicated to fixing the bugs, and more people dedicated to finding the bugs before the pack actually goes live. It's pretty ridiculous how little they test the stuff before it goes out since there's always obvious bugs left in the game with every single release.

I've had a bug that's been really annoying me in my game since EL came out, but since it's marked as a "cheats related" bug and it only has 22 me toos and isn't being widely talked about it's probably never going to fixed or if it does it'll take years. As there's so many bugs it seems like they only fix the most talked about ones to keep people happy, all the other bugs just get left broken for years. The link to the report is in my signature below, please click on it and click the me too so it has a chance of being fixed.
JC1979Solenegir
5 years ago
I have the eating one also. I had to actually remove the fridge from the lot because any “leftover” food eaten after taken out of the fridge would break my game stopping it in it’s tracks and I would have force shut down. And the fridge was just a problem in general because sims consistently went to the fridge to get food even if their hunger bar was full and leave plates all over the lot. So now my sims are left ordering pizza or finding a stand or hope a roommate brings food.
BotchedParrot
5 years ago
That doesn't necessarily bug me too much, unless my sim is on a schedule. For the most part, their time is pretty free to have to worry about unless it's to deal with other sims. IMO, some of them take too long to do normal things sans the bug, but I digress.

There are other gripes I have, specifically affecting mods, which I kind of partly blame on the shortcomings of TS4, much less the modders. But that's a topic for another day.
Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I don't know about first thought re new bugs etc is that special for TS4. Every morning when I start my computer, I say to myself "Please, one day more. Don't let today be the day you break down!".
texxx78
5 years ago
"Goldmoldar;c-17608399" wrote:
"telmarina;c-17608061" wrote:
TS4 is playable without mods. It has bugs but it's playable.
TS3 is unplayable without mods.

For you maybe but for me I played Sims 3 w/o the use of any mods and the only pack I had an problem with was IP and I just did not play in it. You only speak about your experience.

Yes, sure. In my experience TS4 is playable without mods. It has bugs but it's playable.
TS3 is unplayable without mods (even before IP, at the second generation).
texxx78
5 years ago
"Mareah;c-17608791" wrote:
It is subjective, i feel. Some people might have bugs in ts4 that they feel make their game unplayable while others see these same bugs as nothing more than a minor annoyance. Same with previous games. No need for us to question each other.

There are situations that make you lose save files/make you delete sims/cause heavy heavy lag and there are bugs that just simply don't do those things.

Sometimes i just would want to know how many people plays 3 now without mods/modified world saves...? Someone with a super powerfull computer? May it be possible in a super powerfull computer? I don't know. By then i had a mid range desktop that run most of my brother's games...

Nowadays i have a potato or whatever. You know, a bread toaster :tongue: laptop. And yet it runs 4 smoothly. Without mods, for loooong generations.