there are no new whims in island living and

"LiELF;c-17129606" wrote:
I wonder if they are working on a new system or some kind of overhaul. If they are, then investing further in whims would, in the end, be a waste of development time. Otherwise, I don't see why they would just abandon the whims overall.

I hope you're right @LiELF but they don't even have whims in the tutorial there were also no new whims in strangerville

"Sigzy05;c-17130243" wrote:

"Pegasys;c-17130141" wrote:
I hope they are working on overhauling the whim system, instead of just dropping them altogether. Even if they'd added a few simple ones "go to the beach" / "Pet a dolphin" / "Sail a boat"... The whole system really needs an overhaul badly, though, so if they didn't add any because they're working on updating the system then that makes sense. But to just drop/abandon them is not a good thing.

"Meet a dolphin", "Befriend a Dolphin", "Go scuba diving", "Drink kava", "Make a sand sculpture", "Get a tan", "Woohoo in the waterfall", "Go snorkelling", "Beachcom for seashells", "Enter the conservationist career", "Use an aqua jet", etc are some of the whims that should be in the game!

yes they should have been

I hope sims 5 has wants or whims or something like it because if it doesn't I can tell you right now i'm not buying

@comicsforlife have you ever tough that games evoles and that also go for the sims game not every player of the game are into wants or whims as a player i am not so for me its not something that i find important as a player never bothered my self with those in pass sims game and its not something i went to see return in game i think they need to modernise the sims game and not bring back content from older game but thats my toughs as a player.

"friendlysimmers;c-17131935" wrote:
@comicsforlife have you ever tough that games evoles and that also go for the sims game not every player of the game are into wants or whims as a player i am not so for me its not something that i find important as a player never bothered my self with those in pass sims game and its not something i went to see return in game i think they need to modernise the sims game and not bring back content from older game but thats my toughs as a player.

maybe your right and other people wont care ether but for me its really sad sims 4 was my favorite sims game my favorite game of all the games I played and whims were already in it and it seems like they stopped doing them before the game was even done now even if they add some of the things I've been wanting like dragons or cars or slow dance I will always be thinking its to bad they can't want to do it or find any interests in it

Personally I never depended on whims so if they are not there I do not miss them but I hope they do return them for those who do care. :)

"comicsforlife;c-17131960" wrote:

"friendlysimmers;c-17131935" wrote:
@comicsforlife have you ever tough that games evoles and that also go for the sims game not every player of the game are into wants or whims as a player i am not so for me its not something that i find important as a player never bothered my self with those in pass sims game and its not something i went to see return in game i think they need to modernise the sims game and not bring back content from older game but thats my toughs as a player.

maybe your right and other people wont care ether but for me its really sad sims 4 was my favorite sims game my favorite game of all the games I played and whims were already in it and it seems like they stopped doing them before the game was even done now even if they add some of the things I've been wanting like dragons or cars or slow dance I will always be thinking its to bad they can't want to do it or find any interests in it

I care. I care a lot about whims and thought bubbles -- it helps me feel like I am getting into the Sim's head. Sims 4 whims and thought bubbles are very lackluster, though, compared to 2&3. I would love for them to fix them, but I'm not sure that they can.

"Goldmoldar;c-17131982" wrote:
Personally I never depended on whims so if they are not there I do not miss them but I hope they do return them for those who do care. :)

sometimes I would do my own thing also but I also like whims not just because it helps you know what your sim wants but also because it helps me do things in the game I wouldn't have thought of like fight with someone or go some where like a park and end up meeting a new sim
or get a pet @Goldmoldar

I think a lot fell through the cracks with this expansion pack, or at least that's what it feels like. For my play style wants and fears/wishes/whims are important to how I play, that how I get a feel for who my sims are, that's how I experience everything a pack has to offer, I don't have stories already in mind when I play the sims, I don't already have personalities for my sims planned out, I play the sims to be inspired by them.

Sims 4 should not only improve on what its predecessors had but it should also go above and beyond especially if previous iterations did it in the past(such as vacations, seasons, Island Paradise, university, occults, etc) . They should introduce new things (and they have introduced new systems and gameplay) as well as make things bigger and better than previous versions. What the Devs and producers need to do is look at previous games and say "okay players really like this, can we improve that? What about this? People didn't like this. Do we need it? Can we make it so people will like it?"

Since Whims are turned off by default now I'm not surprised they've stopped adding to them though I am glad you can turn them back on and they weren't taken away completely. I hope modders will be able to fix what I hope is an oversite. But anymore it looks like aspirations are the new wants. I think they want us to pay more attention to those than whims.

There is a sad pattern I have noticed recently though, with Lounge chairs and someone said there weren't any whims in the strangerville pack either, that they seem to be forgetting a lot of the features that are in the game. Lounge chairs you can't multi-task in, no new whims in a pack. Stragerville would have been nice to whims in as well, this seems like a concerning pattern.

"Techbilt;c-17132004" wrote:
I think a lot fell through the cracks with this expansion pack, or at least that's what it feels like. For my play style wants and fears/wishes/whims are important to how I play, that how I get a feel for who my sims are, that's how I experience everything a pack has to offer, I don't have stories already in mind when I play the sims, I don't already have personalities for my sims planned out, I play the sims to be inspired by them.

Sims 4 should not only improve on what its predecessors had but it should also go above and beyond especially if previous iterations did it in the past(such as vacations, seasons, Island Paradise, university, occults, etc) . They should introduce new things (and they have introduced new systems and gameplay) as well as make things bigger and better than previous versions. What the Devs and producers need to do is look at previous games and say "okay players really like this, can we improve that? What about this? People didn't like this. Do we need it? Can we make it so people will like it?"

Since Whims are turned off by default now I'm not surprised they've stopped adding to them though I am glad you can turn them back on and they weren't taken away completely. I hope modders will be able to fix what I hope is an oversite. But anymore it looks like aspirations are the new wants. I think they want us to pay more attention to those than whims.

There is a sad pattern I have noticed recently though, with Lounge chairs and someone said there weren't any whims in the strangerville pack either, that they seem to be forgetting a lot of the features that are in the game. Lounge chairs you can't multi-task in, no new whims in a pack. Stragerville would have been nice to whims in as well, this seems like a concerning pattern.

I hope it was an over site as well and I agree with you and I also play the sims a lot like you do