This game is unplayable

Please let us remove the constant badgering to become best friends. For children, sure. But when my adult sim is in the middle of a performance in the acting career and a sim randomly walks onstage to tell her that they need to be best friends immediately?? And then for my sim to get hit with negative moodlets when she says no? STOP IT.

If it wasn't for MCCC and other mods, this game would be completely unplayable for me as well. I finally found out how to stop all the autonomous flirty interactions in MCCC. To me, those read as straight up assault on my sim because i could never get them to stop and my sim couldn't defend themselves in any way. If a random stranger just walks up and assaults my sim, my sim should at the very least be able to instantly fight them.

Speaking of needing to fight, why can strangers just walk into my sims house and get on their computer and insult their furniture?
- There will be 3 or 4 strangers in my house sometimes just milling around. My sim can't do anything except say go away at which the stranger just walks a few feet away and continues to mill around my sim's house.
- Locking the door just locks out my family. I give keys to family, and they still stay stuck outside while strangers with no keys just come right in.

Toddler interactions are also awful.
- Who decided that screaming and kicking at a pet was cute and adorable in the "imitate pet" stoopid thing they do. That whole interaction makes me just want to set the whole house on fire. The pet looks so confused and upset.
- Same with the "play" toddler interaction. Making like my sim is banging her toddler's head into the ground is not cute or adorable. The whole interaction is infuriating to me and i would LOVE to have a way to just turn those off.
- I don't like my toddlers interacting with adults or teens at all because I'm afraid it will kick off the "play" interaction that i hate so much i have to reset everybody. I cannot express how much i hate that interaction. And half the time the toddlers don't like it either, so i don't understand why it's even there.
- There should be a way to discipline toddlers, ESPECIALLY for splashing in the doodoo toilet. THAT IS SO GROSS! There is a "Time Out Box" mod out there which is a great idea, but the mod doesn't work very well.
- Otherwise, the toddlers are my favorite part of the game, after i learned to never ever even try to use highchairs. So much of them is so cute.

Discipling and grounding children are completely broken. One household with two children spent the entire weekend grounding and yelling because the kid would be standing right beside the parent, after they already got in trouble, and instantly start making a mess again. After the parent had both kids grounded for every single thing on the list and they constantly broke time out and grounding over and over and over again i gave up. They didn't work on a single skill or scout badge the entire weekend.

And don't get me started on children of all ages not even being able to talk to their grandparents because they are famous. Oh! and adult children standing outside of their famous parents' house squealing and swooning at their own freaking parents!!

I don't bother playing anymore, I just build, now I can't get into my game to do that. I'm done. I was going to buy the pack. Why not I have all the others, but now I changed my mind. I've playing the sims since sims one and have all the for 1 2, 4 and 4. I think this is telling me time to save my money.

"vcosley;c-18244601" wrote:
I don't bother playing anymore, I just build, now I can't get into my game to do that. I'm done. I was going to buy the pack. Why not I have all the others, but now I changed my mind. I've playing the sims since sims one and have all the for 1 2, 4 and 4. I think this is telling me time to save my money.

Are you having trouble with the EA app not loading? If that is your problem you can try this: open EA app, then open task manager, scroll down and find EA background services, force close that (the app will then close too), now relaunch the app and everything should load properly.

I have spent the last 3 days trying to get the Growing Together pack running. In between hunting down and deleteing out of date mods.
Finally got it to make an appearance today when I totally disabled all mods.
Great! I thought.
Closed the game, re-enabled my nods, restarted the game.
NO Growing Together, again.

It seems this latest pack and update simply will not run with mods.
The game will start and run like a hairy goat with the mods in, but the latest pack and updates will not show at all.

Well Done Maxis\EA.

So yep game is a mess and I deleted and binned all my save games for sweet NOTHING.

Lat time I buy anything from this company.

"shorty943p;c-18244650" wrote:
I have spent the last 3 days trying to get the Growing Together pack running. In between hunting down and deleteing out of date mods.
Finally got it to make an appearance today when I totally disabled all mods.
Great! I thought.
Closed the game, re-enabled my nods, restarted the game.
NO Growing Together, again.

It seems this latest pack and update simply will not run with mods.
The game will start and run like a hairy goat with the mods in, but the latest pack and updates will not show at all.

Well Done Maxis\EA.

So yep game is a mess and I deleted and binned all my save games for sweet NOTHING.

Lat time I buy anything from this company.

That's a mod problem. Time to find out which one is the problem. Not an EA issue.

"shorty943p;c-18244650" wrote:
I have spent the last 3 days trying to get the Growing Together pack running. In between hunting down and deleteing out of date mods.
Finally got it to make an appearance today when I totally disabled all mods.
Great! I thought.
Closed the game, re-enabled my nods, restarted the game.
NO Growing Together, again.

It seems this latest pack and update simply will not run with mods.
The game will start and run like a hairy goat with the mods in, but the latest pack and updates will not show at all.

Well Done Maxis\EA.

So yep game is a mess and I deleted and binned all my save games for sweet NOTHING.

Lat time I buy anything from this company.

EA is not responsible for your mods. There is a thread in the mods section of the forum for every update. This update was huge and broke most mods. The good news is that most of them have been updated. So take out your mods folder, go to the first page of the new broken mods thread, and start updating. Leave out any that haven't been updated or declared compatible and you should be good to go.

Edited to add the link below:

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007107/broken-updated-mods-cc-march-2023-infants-patch/p1

No mods, no cc but this game is just so complicated now, to start up again, that's it's unplayable now for me.
I just got the new pack and enjoyed looking and making a family but having given them a home I'm too tired to even start playing with them.

I m fed up of milestones disappearing every time I take an infant anywhere. What’s the point of milestones if they disappear constantly and once gone they never return so the infant can never progress to crawling etc. Do these packs never get tested? I ve never used mods or custom content either this is a completely vanilla game!!!

My sims don't do anything I tell them since the infant pack. They just stand there for hours. The game is unplayable. EA should pay me back for all the money I've spent on their stupid unplayable game.