I agree. Players should be told beforehand any update that is adding story progression features so they can choose whether they want a patch or not. The one thing that bothers me deeply about TS4 is if I decide to load my game and play there are so many changes to systems and things put in or taken out I would be very unhappy with some of those changes. Especially when not told. I'm not a fan of this type of story progression. In TS4 it's hard enough to deal with time continuim when I am a rotational player who doesn't want my played Sims touched in any way, financially or physically or emotionally or whatever. If this is a bug it's not cool. If it's by design it's not cool. TS4 is supposed to support rotational play what part of story progression and time continuim does that include? Naming babies when not at the household is bad enough. I have elderly in saves and I wouldn't want to return to my saves to only find out they have been earning money while I wasn't playing them. That is not letting players tell their own stories but the game playing the game for them.
