UPDATE November 24Reticulating the Splines: An Update to our Quality of Life Roadmap | EA Forums - 12956675 Sul Sul Simmers,Our top priority is to provide a fun, positive experience for all players. We see your feedback on technical issues and game performance. And, we want to assure you that your concerns are heard. Today, we’re sharing the steps we’re taking to double our efforts, ensuring Simmers have the best experience possible with The Sims 4.Over the next 8 weeks, our dedicated teams will dive in to resolve current issues and get ahead of unforeseen technical disruptions. Here’s what the next couple of months will look like for The Sims 4: Quality of Life Roadmap | EA Forums - 12575924

That's nice to hear, but I won't believe it until I see the actual bug fixes coming 😅 (That's not the first time we had this kind of announcement)My only concern is using the metric of votes only to prioritize issues, as some of them might be easy to fix and not seen by most players (if you look at it from a Impact / Effort point of view, there are some quick wins), and newer issues with less votes might be forgotten or delayed 🥲 It also gives the upper hand to people with more following to push issues to be solved.

I appreciate this, but I'm also skeptical. Because it feels like we go through periods of them putting a lot of effort into something, and then we backslide back to square one. Like that special team they had a while back, who were meant to work for a limited time before stopping. That said, I ADORE them releasing patches early and giving people files, so modders can address problems sooner. Overall, the earlier pre-pack patches have been such a good idea, and I'm glad they're improving on the system.

I assume when they mention that they will be looking at the most voted bug reports that they will be able to prioritize the more severe bugs as they tend to get a lot of votes and replies and that their goal with this planned roadmap is to work out how they could solve some of the worst ones.

It's funny they post this after I just pointed out how people simply do not report/upvote (/or properly) enough for our own good—but it is probably just coincidence. I hope people who are not current forum active do this, those of us already here and fairly active I believe are doing their part, it's the absent or post-and-MIA which don't help the current process.

Yay, good to read they are focusing even more on bugs. I have been lucky, the bugs I see I found wrk arounds for, but I'm sure there are plenty bugs that I never really noticed, because we all play differently. I hope they will focus on the bigger that might take some efforts, rather than many small which might be tempting just to report many fixes.

The Sims 4 Quality of Life Roadmap (Update Nov 24)

20 Replies

rjssim
Seasoned Ace
3 months ago
This is what I like to see. We need those eye bug issues fixed!
logionX
Legend
3 months ago
Good to hear, I appreciate the transparency, I hope that they will be able to fix some of the more severe bugs.
Down-in-Simsland
Seasoned Hotshot
3 months ago
That's nice to hear, but I won't believe it until I see the actual bug fixes coming 😅 (That's not the first time we had this kind of announcement)
My only concern is using the metric of votes only to prioritize issues, as some of them might be easy to fix and not seen by most players (if you look at it from a Impact / Effort point of view, there are some quick wins), and newer issues with less votes might be forgotten or delayed 🥲 It also gives the upper hand to people with more following to push issues to be solved.
logionX
Legend
3 months ago
I assume when they mention that they will be looking at the most voted bug reports that they will be able to prioritize the more severe bugs as they tend to get a lot of votes and replies and that their goal with this planned roadmap is to work out how they could solve some of the worst ones.
HollownessDevour
Seasoned Ace
3 months ago
It's funny they post this after I just pointed out how people simply do not report/upvote (/or properly) enough for our own good—but it is probably just coincidence. I hope people who are not current forum active do this, those of us already here and fairly active I believe are doing their part, it's the absent or post-and-MIA which don't help the current process.
Karamazov123
Seasoned Ace
3 months ago
I appreciate this, but I'm also skeptical. Because it feels like we go through periods of them putting a lot of effort into something, and then we backslide back to square one. Like that special team they had a while back, who were meant to work for a limited time before stopping.
That said, I ADORE them releasing patches early and giving people files, so modders can address problems sooner. Overall, the earlier pre-pack patches have been such a good idea, and I'm glad they're improving on the system.
sapphiretiger
Rising Scout
3 months ago
Love to see the bug fixes thank you.
Sthenastia
Seasoned Ace
3 months ago
Sorry, but I don't get the excitement here. We know about the updates, but with no details at all. Why announce the November 4th update when literally nothing has been said?
Simmerville
Legend
3 months ago
Yay, good to read they are focusing even more on bugs. I have been lucky, the bugs I see I found wrk arounds for, but I'm sure there are plenty bugs that I never really noticed, because we all play differently. I hope they will focus on the bigger that might take some efforts, rather than many small which might be tempting just to report many fixes.
Simmingal
Hero
3 months ago
I'm just happy to know they're trying to get things fixed asap and yet I'll be keeping my expectations itty bitty just in case it doesn't go as planned 😅 What can I say, I'm just simple paranoid bean and like to be prepared for worst 😅