Lack of Long-term gameplay in TS4

Considering that there are cheats for virtually everything in this game I don't understand at all why the devs would dumb it down. If anything it should be harder than TS3. They say they went to a lot of trouble to make the Sims themselves the focus and sacrificed our open world, our color wheel, and a bunch of other things to make that happen. The Sims are supposed to be much more complex than they were in earlier games. But they're really not. I do like the way they did vampires better in TS4 and honestly that's the only reason I play it. Everything else about this game is inferior to TS3, especially the world. It's boring.

And I won't be buying the latest expansion either because good grief why would you?