Lack of Long-term gameplay in TS4
This video from Carl's Sims 4 guides explains the topic very well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk06dk_G8bI It is very true that there isn't really much to do with your money besides build a...
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There's not more I can add to this that hasn't already been said in the video and the posts. Bethygrace I think really said it perfectly.
I distinctly remember back when I used to play, I'd buy a new pack, spend an hour creating a family with the new CAS to start off with, play them a couple of times, and then start a new family because I got bored. Rinse and repeat until Get Famous where I just stopped playing because of bugs and boredom. TS4 does nothing to keep me interested in playing. The sims are dull, have no deep desires, no motivation to do anything, and no reward for actually doing anything. You can complete aspiration after aspiration, but it all means nothing in the end. Nothing about it feels special since you can just do them all with any sim in the exact same way. Likewise, you can NOT complete a single aspiration and it still means nothing because sims don't care about their aspirations. Many of the careers lack depth, relationships are boring since all you need to do is spam interactions and BAM everyone loves each other, there are barely any hobbies. It's all just dull.
And this isn't even mentioning how the non-YA life stages are grossly ignored with even less content. So if you don't like playing YAs, there's even less to keep you interested in playing kids or elders for long term.
Recently I've been seeing more and more Youtube simmers start playing new packs, create a "series' with maybe 5 episodes, then drop it and just do build or CAS challenges. They may never say it, but I think a lot of people are getting less motivation to play TS4 for long periods of time because it just isn't being built to play long term. It may not even be a large majority of them, but it is becoming very noticeable.
I distinctly remember back when I used to play, I'd buy a new pack, spend an hour creating a family with the new CAS to start off with, play them a couple of times, and then start a new family because I got bored. Rinse and repeat until Get Famous where I just stopped playing because of bugs and boredom. TS4 does nothing to keep me interested in playing. The sims are dull, have no deep desires, no motivation to do anything, and no reward for actually doing anything. You can complete aspiration after aspiration, but it all means nothing in the end. Nothing about it feels special since you can just do them all with any sim in the exact same way. Likewise, you can NOT complete a single aspiration and it still means nothing because sims don't care about their aspirations. Many of the careers lack depth, relationships are boring since all you need to do is spam interactions and BAM everyone loves each other, there are barely any hobbies. It's all just dull.
And this isn't even mentioning how the non-YA life stages are grossly ignored with even less content. So if you don't like playing YAs, there's even less to keep you interested in playing kids or elders for long term.
Recently I've been seeing more and more Youtube simmers start playing new packs, create a "series' with maybe 5 episodes, then drop it and just do build or CAS challenges. They may never say it, but I think a lot of people are getting less motivation to play TS4 for long periods of time because it just isn't being built to play long term. It may not even be a large majority of them, but it is becoming very noticeable.
