The I'm Bored Thread

"Felicity;c-17274928" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-17274868" wrote:

"Felicity;c-17274858" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-17274734" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-17274720" wrote:

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"DeafSimmer;c-17274383" wrote:
I don't think I could bear to get any more packs. Sims 4 as a whole bores me to tears. I prefer Sims 3, and will definitely choose to play Sims 3 on any given day. I chose to take a break from the legacy challenge in my current Sims 4 save, as I ran out of story ideas for my Simblr. Sims 3 will always be my favorite out of the entire Sims series.

I stopped purchasing packs, too. TS4: Island Living is half off at certain retailers, and I still can't bring myself to buy it. $20 for a world pack that offers nothing more than visuals is still too much. It could be $5 and I'd still have trouble convincing myself to get it.

3 months old and half off already, that's VERY telling about the state at which this game is in right about now...

The game is on sale constantly across pc and console. That’s not a good sign either. How often do you see the sims 3 on sale? Rarely if ever on origin.

I play lots of games aside from the sims. The sims 4 is the most frequent on sale of them all.

True TS4 is always on sale somewhere.

Why don't they give away to TS3 playes who had a registered basegame, (anyone who does) the whole TS3 EP and SPs like they did TS2, because TS3 is still a cash cow. Some of the stores in my area still have the EPs at the same prices, lol, they were years ago, and sometimes, if Origin has an EP on sale for TS3 (or cheaper) it will be cheaper in the stores in my area. But some of that stuff cost just as much as it always did. That says to me, the reaosn they don't give it away as a legacy game of old, is because it still makes them a heap of money and funds other games for them.

True, Grant admitted on twitter that sims 3 is still making them money. I think it was in the context of “the game is from 2009 so it’s an achievement” kind of context. Which it is of course. But there are lots of games from around that time that still sell well. In ten years will the sims 4 still be selling well? I highly doubt it.

Sims 3 is still widely played -- if there were a real console port (and I understand why the ports aren't the PC game), it wouldn't surprise me if S3 passed S4 in sales. Steam, which is the least popular of the way people play the Steam version, always has thousands of simmers playing on line. This doesn't include the steam players playing off line, the origin players, and the stubborns (wave) who are not updating past patch 1.67 so we can play without a launcher.

Maxis has no idea how many people still play Sims 3; they just know a lot do and their packs still sell decently. There's a reason why the Sims 3 store is still up and running and they're still doing their daily deals and other shenanigans. If the store wasn't making them $$, they would have closed it, or at least stopped doing the ever-changing, daily promos.

It's a good game, and with a good PC and proper fixes, you can avoid the issues that people had in the past with it. Maxis left the game in a deplorable state, there's no arguing that, but that's a problem with the company and their approach to bug fixes, not the core game itself.

Plus it’s a finished game. No more patches, no more additions that can break things (both features and mods).

That is major. I have Sims 3 in a stable state with a mod list that I like. No crashes, minimal lag. Really, Sims 3 runs better for me than Sims 4.