Surprise: No Patch in March.

Blame people that complained about too many stuff packs. They’re the reason why we get fewer packs and thus fewer patches.

"elelunicy;c-16980004" wrote:
Blame people that complained about too many stuff packs. They’re the reason why we get fewer packs and thus fewer patches.

@elelunicy

I don’t really agree on that. It could very well be a case of “correlation doesn’t equal causation”. Also, there’s no need to blame simmers here. They can say that they don’t like stuff packs as much as they please, but at the end of the day, it’s ultimately up to Maxis on whether or not they act on it.

One theory I have for the lack of stuff packs is that because The Sims 4 will be 5 years old this year, and they say there’s still “years of content” to come, it may boil down to limitations. Eventually, The Sims 4, with all of its content installed, will have significant performance drops as the engine reaches its limits, as all game engines do. Given this iteration is running longer than the previous ones, and has more content packs, the devs may have a timeline or a rough idea of how much more they can add before things take a turn for the worse. It would make sense then for them to cut smaller packs (e.g., stuff packs) to make room for more game packs/expansion packs, because that’s where the gameplay is.

Another theory is after the backlash My First Pet Stuff received, some higher ups saw the drop in revenue next to the phrase “stuff pack” and told the team to can the whole thing.

Neither of these theories, however, account for the lack of patches. It’s apparent that the game has A LOT of bugs, ranging from “minor cosmetic” to “tear-your-hair-out game breaking”, so an explanation for the patch drought when there is such an outcry still eludes me. I do hope that they don’t start to only release patches when they have new content (free or paid) to follow.

"elelunicy;c-16980004" wrote:
Blame people that complained about too many stuff packs. They’re the reason why we get fewer packs and thus fewer patches.

That probably isn't true. I would take a guess if it was cost effective or not to continue them. I think things are measured in how much profit it can make, if they were not pulling in a big profit but expensive to the budget to do that is probably more the reason they were dropped last year than because of feedback. If stuff is selling like hot cakes I doubt they drop anything that can do that.

"catloverplayer;c-16976009" wrote:

"KaeChan2089;c-16975977" wrote:

"rudy8292;d-956251" wrote:
SimGuruKate just confirmed there will (again) not be a patch in March.

https://twitter.com/SimGuruKate/status/1100867084051832832

No wonder they have ''at least 3 more years of content left!''

They just seem to spread things out a lot now, and same seems all of the sudden also to be the case with patches..

THIS is what I have been saying all along...they are gonna stretch this as long as possible, no necessarily that they have so much content in mind, but they are working on so little but they are gonna stretch it out in 3 years time.

SMH...

All I want now is an island paradise pack.

and a romance pack :)

We just got two patches in February, which is a lot when you consider it's a short month. I've got bugs I'd like to see fixed (the Quit The Spotlight one is the biggest for me) but we could see a big bugfix patch in April. I'll just enjoy playing my celebrity family for now. I still haven't finished my StrangerVille story save, and I've got another more long-term project going.

"KaeChan2089;c-16980896" wrote:

"AshtontoAshton22;c-16980015" wrote:
I guess the game is relatively stable enough to go without a patch for a while, otherwise they wouldn't do this.

pfft...no it's not...the bugs and glitches right now makes it almost unplayable...

Uh, I don't think it's nearly that bad but there is no need for ridicule when disagreeing.

I'm frustrated. I'm not seeking to place blame, because I don't know enough about the other side of things to even try. But my scientist career has been broken since seasons and it's gotten worse with each pack release, especially since I don't have GF or Strangerville to "fix" the issues. It's so disappointing. Older packs seem to get shafted with every release in my experience. :/

"luxsylvan;c-16981007" wrote:
I'm frustrated. I'm not seeking to place blame, because I don't know enough about the other side of things to even try. But my scientist career has been broken since seasons and it's gotten worse with each pack release, especially since I don't have GF or Strangerville to "fix" the issues. It's so disappointing. Older packs seem to get shafted with every release in my experience. :/

GTW has been very mistreated by the devs. That pack has so many unresolved bugs.

I haven't played the Sims in quite a while but "Kelsey (not Chelsea)" got me hooked on it again! I enjoyed playing it until the last patch and then it basically broke my game. Half the time I give my sims a command, they have to go randomly sit down first (usually on the other side or on a different floor of the house) before then carrying it out. Other times they just glitch out and appear a few squares over. There's also lots of hugs and weird interactions between two sims where they stand 5 squares apart and bend their arms backwards to reach one another, too. I've even noticed a few of the same glitches in Kelsey's videos. Just so frustrating to finally have gotten back into the game and then have the gameplay constantly interrupted. The most frustrating part was when I almost lost my two toddlers to social services because every time I put one in the high chair it would immediately demand to be picked up so I couldn't feed it. It takes about ten tries with my sim having to run out of the room each time just to force the toddler to eat. (They'll take food left out places, but won't eat it.) Playing a game shouldn't be so stressful! :/

Very much looking forward to the next (much needed) patch!!!
(I don't have any mods installed.)

"Sigzy05;c-16977941" wrote:

"Kolby;c-16977938" wrote:
I'm not looking for any free content, I would actually just like if they focus on fixing serious issues that people are having. The scientist outfits, the spa outfits, the overlapping festivals, seasons decorations getting stuck, and whatever else people are struggling with.

Retail bugs, vampire perks bugs, GF brand bugs, CL apartment neighbour bugs, NPC's wearing the wrong outfits, there are too many to list and some have been around for years now.

Now you can add the plantsim cheat. Children can no longer become plant sims. Shift clicking on that cheat does nothing. Referring to the Testing Cheat Debug were we shift click on sim. It still works on adults though.