"drakharis;c-17725085" wrote:
The developers should have been given the time they needed to create the pack with plenty of time to playtest before it went eventually to the Game Changers. I honestly don't mind a release date being pushed back at all. I would rather have the Sims team say something like "We apologize for being unable to get Nusha Bulusha Expansion Pack out on... due to technical difficulties. We are working hard to resolve these problems to give each and everyone of you a rich unique experience that will far go beyond your expedations." It's not like Malifaux or Warhammer 40k which are tabletop games I am guessing that when Game Changers are given the packs to Market and Advertise on their channels and that they aren't given all the expansion packs out, to test with the new pack. The games may work great better than a dream with just the base pack according to the Game Changers. Or they might not do anything other than build or check out CAS and not actually do a test game with each occult and a non occult to play without CC or mods. They might even be under contract not to let us now all the problems they encountered prior to release. We the players shouldn't be finding all the issues in the game. If a year isn't enough time to playtest a tabletop game, RPG, Card Game (like Magic and Vandguard) why would a year be enough time to make an expansion pack for a videogame?
It's not the expansion pack that's causing the issues, it's the patch. Some players also report better performance after adding the pack. Plus, clearly none of the gamechangers had this issue (although they also didn't have all the packs installed). Bugs sometimes can't be found, even after extensive playtesting, because the conditions they occur in never get reproduced. So far, when I play a normal family - no occults, no extra large houses - in the new world, I have exactly zero issues and crashes. I only have them with one particular family and only under some circumstances. That's a hard thing to catch unless they playtest not just the current EP content substantially, but every other pack as well, in every possible configuration simmers may use it in. The possibilities are endless. Yes, it's a common bug and yes, it's incredibly annoying, but I think they were pretty surprised it happened at all.
