Patience is definitely a virtue... One I lack

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"JoAnne65;c-16428119" wrote:
I just really can’t imagine finding it difficult to play when you’re really having fun with what you have going on in your current game. Isn’t that sort of... a testomy of in fact being somewhat bored? How can you have big fun and enjoy yourself, then suddenly find yourself quiting just because in June it’s going to rain or snow in your game or your sim will be able to go to university? If that knowledge alone stops you from enjoying the game all together.... no, I really have no idea how that works. I’m having fun playing or not and when excitement over something that isn’t there yet would make me stop wanting to play, it would make me wonder if I’m enjoying myself then in the first place. Apparently my enjoyment depends on the upcoming stuff then. In the past packs even had to wait at one point (when we got 3 EP’s a year) because I was in the middle of something and there was no room for the new stuff in my sims’ story.

@JoAnne65, What I said has been my experience for the last 18 years. Not just for the Sims 4. It might not make sense to you but it has nothing to do with my current enjoyment of the game. Not everyone is going to have the same outlook as you so stop trying to tell me how I should feel about my game.

Bottomline is still that you say you’re not able to enjoy the game at one point anymore isn’t it? That it apparently doesn’t offer enough at that moment. And sure, there may be a very good reason for that than “I’m bored” but I can’t think of one, that’s all I said. I’m not telling you how you should feel about the game, you were.

No, that is not the bottom line. At no point did I say I was unable to enjoy the game. I said that I prefer not to play while waiting for new content. This does not imply a lack of enjoyment. One can enjoy something and still be able to delay participation. It's called delayed gratification.

Delayed Gratification: the process that the subject undergoes when the subject resists the temptation of an immediate reward in preference for a later reward.

The immediate reward would be to continue playing. The later reward is playing with the new content.

I usually spend that time making plans on how to integrate the new content into my existing gameplay, participating in speculations and discussions of the new content, etc.

You said “As soon as new content is announced I find it difficult to play“, being too distracted and excited about what’s coming. When you find something difficult to do, how are you still enjoying it? I’m genuinely wondering that (apparently it was the same for the former versions for you where they did announce stuff months in advance). When you are finding it difficult to play, isn’t that the same as not enjoying it anymore? It’s a question. I wasn’t telling you how you feel, I was asking.

Isn’t that sort of... a testomy of in fact being somewhat bored? How can you have big fun and enjoy yourself, then suddenly find yourself quiting just because in June it’s going to rain or snow in your game or your sim will be able to go to university? If that knowledge alone stops you from enjoying the game all together.... no, I really have no idea how that works

That post is filled with question marks and an ‘I have no idea how that works’ (so in fact not telling you how you feel, just asking). I did assume you weren’t enjoying the game at that point anymore, so that may have been me misinterpreting “I find it difficult to play”. Again, nowhere am I implying you’re not enjoying Sims 4. My confusion just involves finding it difficult to play (but still enjoying then?) a game, any game, when you know what will be added to it in a couple of weeks/months.

No. For me difficulty does not equate to a lack of enjoyment.

As for past versions, I may be wrong, but I don't recall as much hype for new content, teasers, trailers, live streams, etc. We'd get a flyer in the current release which introduced the new release but little actual information about gameplay until closer to the release date. At which point I would usually stop playing. I didn't go for 6 months without playing. If I did that I'd never play. :)

I must say by the way that I never really followed any news very closely regarding upcoming content myself either. I knew what was coming, but not much more than the title and the theme of the pack and what it would basically be about. So in that respect I think we might not be that far apart in behaviour, even when I never actually stopped playing. I just played, heard a new pack would come and then I’d preorder and continue playing ;)

well I know why I wait to play sometimes I have a sim I really like and they will get marred soon but there's a wedding pack coming out in two weeks so do I keep playing or wait this was just an example there is no wedding pack coming out I wish but my point is it has nothing to do with
being bored sorry if I was rude to you earlyer

I didn’t find you particularly rude? Maybe a bit irritated but that’s allowed haha (I think my questioning wasn’t quite clear and maybe a bit suspicious because I’m clearly not a Sims 4 fan, but in this case that had nothing to do with it, hope I got that clarified). I understand your example, in fact it touches my earlier example about the witch. I couldn’t start with that storyline I was looking forward to untill Supernatural was indeed released, so I understand the being a bit stuck at such a moment. On the other hand, when you don’t know about the upcoming wedding pack and you have your sims married, you might get a bit frustrated then. “Darn.., I could have used that pack, would have waited for a while had I known that was coming”. Oh well, I guess both methods have their ups and downs.