So is this officially the worst year for sims 4 ?

"Sk8rblaze;c-17662009" wrote:
It seems like this is the first year out of The Sims 4's lifespan where Maxis has implemented nothing but new, original ideas to the series. This comes at no surprise, given a guru has told us to expect that prior to this year. Is it a coincidence some are calling it TS4's worst year yet?

With that said, I personally feel these original concepts are pretty... unexciting, to put it kindly. Knitting, stuff for tiny homes (which was obviously meant to supplement the expansion), and eco-living, one of the most buggy and, well... blah ideas for a pack that has also clearly not been gameplay play-tested enough, otherwise people wouldn't have NPC Sims rampantly stealing from their lots and such. How could that have passed Q&A? Is there still Q&A at all for the series?

I swear, nothing has made me appreciate The Sims 3 more than seeing how low The Sims 4 has taken the series. World Adventures, Ambitions, Generations, horses in Pets, Supernatural, Island Paradise, Into The Future -- look at how many original ideas The Sims 3 introduced that turned out to be such fun additions to the series!! What happened???

They figured out the new comers will buy packs that don't make any sense at all. Such as the lackluster IL, where they just threw in a mermaid and called it done. Yep, we threw in a life state, aren't you guys grateful? Where the game play is so small might as well sold this pack as world like in TS3's Store. No need to even call it a gameplay pack. Where diving is a rabbit hole in a closed world system...

TS4's reputation is sinking so low it's packs are not even as good as the overpriced content in TS3's store. It can't even be compared anymore to any pack in TS2 or TS3, just some extra stuff sold on TS3's store is more in line with what these so called packs are offering. Such as buying a world in TS3 (some of them) where there wasn't much to do in those worlds, maybe one new object to use (violin comes to mind) and sell it for high price much like the lackluster gameplay of the new worlds actually sold in the TS4 EPs and GPs. So lacking in any new gameplay that last more than an hour or so, that we can't even compare them to Island Paradise, and or any other EP from TS3, or even any EPs in TS1, or TS2. They are nothing more than maybe a new world with very little gameplay in them like worlds in TS3's store. (but even that is an insult to TS3's worlds in the store).