Taking a break….

After a while we all do. Currently, I'm trying to get back into it, but not having much luck in my interest in it.

Yes…… I don’t play sims 4 everyday ( or even get on my computer everyday ) like I used to. And sometimes I will go in to build, or go into make sims, or change townies clothes, or cruise the gallery rather than actually play.

I think most of us do. Sometimes it's boredom, sometimes RL gets in the way. I recently took about a 3 month break where I didn't play or even come to the forums because of health issues with my sister and me. Not COVID thank God, but she got shingles, which is beyond miserable, then I got a case of bronchitis that seemed to take forever to shake. I don't play any other games, so when I'm on a break I mainly catch up on books I want to read and TV shows and movies I want to see.

Same here, their recent updates have been a bit too much for me to deal with and their last expansion pack did not last long for me. I think the main issue is that it feels like everything is repeating, which is probably common when you have played the game for a long time... but it doesn't help that some game features doesn't feel developed or are not very engaging at all.

The amount of support and development is not enough right now for me to feel like buying anything more for this game either... I have always played other games besides the sims 4 but now I will probably look more into playing even more different games.

If EA/Maxis thinks that shipping a game changing feature like wants and fears without checking if they can be turned off and also releasing an expansion pack where the gameplay for the main feature, attending high school, consists of me watching my sims not doing much more than just looking at the teacher counts as gameplay is okay then I don't know what to tell them.

I haven't actually "played" with it for months. All this tampering with my Sims got me down. I only build houses in it when I do open it up now, rarely.

I'm rarely in the need to take a break camp. I do take breaks to focus on my other interests. Or like now when I'm forced to because of a move. I'm in Maryland and my laptop is in North Carolina. But we'll soon be reunited. ?

I've had times where I get a bit bored with the gameplay so I'll spend time creating sims or in build mode creating and modifying lots. That's the beauty of this game, if one aspect becomes boring I have other things I can do that keep my interest. I always feel like there's something to do. I used to play a lot of games until I really got into TS3 and I've been pretty much Sims only ever since. When I really want to do something other than the Sims I like to browse through the Apple App Store and pickup free games, little time wasters.

Of course. I can't imagine that anyone could play anything constantly for the rest of their lives.
I've always taken breaks but never out of boredom. Just to keep from getting consumed by the sims because it's really addictive. Also as much as I love it everything is so virtual, I long to touch or do "real" things as well. I'm actually on a sims break myself at the moment. I was taking a break regardless but the wave of negativity in the sims community has inspired me to step away and raise my vibrations with light and positivity. So I've been really enjoying taking time up with my other hobbies,getting other important things done, and taking advantage of the nice weather before winter settles upon us. Also being away from social media to focus on meditation and music.
I think breaks are healthy. ?

I don’t do any of my interests every day. I practice music some days, sketch others, go out a bit, and play Sims a few times a week. If I’m in between story ideas, it might be months between games while I wait for inspiration. That’s not because of the game, though. And, it really hasn’t been a problem for nearly two years now, since I started playing my fantasy save. I’ve found that playing a larger story that includes multiple smaller ones keeps me more engaged than when I just play one household throughout. When one story goes a little stale, there’s another one to be explored. Right now, I’ve got my main story, but I’ve also got Strangerville, Paranormal, and Jungle Adventure play throughs set up and waiting to go in the same save, if I need a change of pace. When I get bored with the main game, I rotate off to these side adventures for while until I’m ready to go back.

yeah kind of

for one

I am kind of sick of sitting around and staring at screens atm
I do that way too much so i have been trying to decrease and do something else
and to play the game well, it is sitting and staring at screen at its best

second thing

is that I am really stuck with my Goth story as of late
cause theres these particular things I must do first in order to progress
but I am not in mood to do those right now :lol: so cannot progress
keep procrastinating

third thing

is that I have been trying to get something to share for spooky season
-again and it never works that way

like every year I really wish i had something spooky to share for the spookathon
but tbh more i want to have something ready its never ready in time for spookathon
every year i realize i should have started like 5 years ago if i wanted it be ready next month

aand yeah I am also kinda spooked about what they are going to announce in october
so that also has me kind of unable to get really into the game
because who knows what kind of meteor hits my save next month :sweat_smile:

oh and also probably that I don't have night access to computer these days
so like even if i do feel like playing or writing stories all night like madman thats not really actual option :lol: