Turn some of those survey options into a legacy themed update: A letter to Staff.
Last night's survey was probably the only time I'd felt such excitement since first purchasing the sims 4 and since then, all I've wanted to is get on my knees and beg EA/Staff to release a SP/Legacy themed update adding all the living/world options we were able to vote on during the survey, leaving the rest of more pack themed ideas to be just that, packs, giving the sales team the ability to say "We're not coming out of this completely blind/unable to choose the subject which'll best suit our buyers" Yes, that will still happen but hopefully, with certain elements scratched off the list and given to us for free, it'll give them more space/time/freedom since for many of us, story/legacy/family building is our main goal and with simmers busy with SP/improved age groups/more general things to see and do which will give their creations more life, they can hopefully take our reactions and overall votes as helpful hints as to where to start next.
By no means am I dismissing other sorts of simmers, from purely building/cosmetic to strict control/complete self-sufficiency simmers (You do your own thing and don't care what the houses around you do). this topic/survey released just got me so excited that the thought of losing it to cheerleading (Seriously, that can't just be a feature in highschool?) drove my plumbob here to ask for this update.
Call me selfish, call me thoughtless and self-oriented, call me a veteran simmer who cannot let go of the sweet sims 3 past where you could spend a week in-game and go to the park for a nice picnic and spot so and so who'd previously never known each other, now happily together with a baby on the way! I miss those days and seeing SP on the survey brought back that zest, even if we don't have an open world and just SP/improved age groups, that's not a problem, for me at least, I'm happy to have my sim wash dishes and look out the window to see Nina and Dina chasing their toddlers who look suspiciously like their step-father Don Lothario! Just seeing the world around my sims change and grow and expand it's too good to let float away or be pushed aside.
Also for us legacy fans, it saves a lot of time and energy going house to house, forcing relationships, forcing births that could easily happen naturally via Story Progression, an option with easy to toggle on/off abilities and specific filters that way simmers who don't want it can just not have it, or have certain elements without having to risk losing a plot for their stories! Options make the world go round!
Now I'm aware these will take time and maybe a big legacy update will have to come in segments, fine, great, as long as they come, I can wait, been waiting for sims packs/updates/etc since I was 7 years old, my heart can wait.
What I hope for the overall update if there were to be one, is improved age groups, most if not all listed or most voted, SP, growing pains and life issues, birth traits, results that leave to makeups, break ups, marriage, divorces, better emotions and whims, family connections/evolutions, just one big, or few small, legacy themed update that brought life to the sims 4 as the game was meant to portray in the first place.
At this moment the sims 4 is nothing more than robots with skin (And no skin if you have the uni pack), nothing interesting happens and when it does, you can't fully enjoy it because only your sim interacts with it and nobody else is affected, not even that creepy old man next door! He just keeps going about his day like he didn't see you get beamed up like Scotty and lobbed back down to earth like a ragdoll! He's obvious! Which is what I want to see get changed, to see how the world handles these events when EVERYONE IS INVOLVED.
By no means do I expect this to come immediately, coding/games/anything takes huge amounts of time and frankly I'd rather wait for a fully functioning/semi less glitchy SP feature than get thrown a quick, low quality version which took two days and destroys my game. Happy to wait.
All I'm asking, begging, is that if any Staff/Dev's are reading this, please, from a veteran simmer whose loved this game from the beginning, please, give us back story progression, give us back babies we can feed from the fridge and at times leave on the floor because we're too lazy to walk the two feet back to their cot, please enable Don Lothario to reach his potential and date/marry every woman in Willow Creek while also keeping some to the side, let us have that joy of our sims meeting their downfall after an affair, a betrayal or breakdown at work, let our games have life again! Like the good old days.
Sincerely, a veteran simmer who has no other life outside of sims and drinking wayyyyy too much cola than is healthy for any normal person.
Have a nice day, everybody.
Please save any negativity for another day and for those hoping to add to this letter, comment below.
I'll see you all later.
Dag Dag
By no means am I dismissing other sorts of simmers, from purely building/cosmetic to strict control/complete self-sufficiency simmers (You do your own thing and don't care what the houses around you do). this topic/survey released just got me so excited that the thought of losing it to cheerleading (Seriously, that can't just be a feature in highschool?) drove my plumbob here to ask for this update.
Call me selfish, call me thoughtless and self-oriented, call me a veteran simmer who cannot let go of the sweet sims 3 past where you could spend a week in-game and go to the park for a nice picnic and spot so and so who'd previously never known each other, now happily together with a baby on the way! I miss those days and seeing SP on the survey brought back that zest, even if we don't have an open world and just SP/improved age groups, that's not a problem, for me at least, I'm happy to have my sim wash dishes and look out the window to see Nina and Dina chasing their toddlers who look suspiciously like their step-father Don Lothario! Just seeing the world around my sims change and grow and expand it's too good to let float away or be pushed aside.
Also for us legacy fans, it saves a lot of time and energy going house to house, forcing relationships, forcing births that could easily happen naturally via Story Progression, an option with easy to toggle on/off abilities and specific filters that way simmers who don't want it can just not have it, or have certain elements without having to risk losing a plot for their stories! Options make the world go round!
Now I'm aware these will take time and maybe a big legacy update will have to come in segments, fine, great, as long as they come, I can wait, been waiting for sims packs/updates/etc since I was 7 years old, my heart can wait.
What I hope for the overall update if there were to be one, is improved age groups, most if not all listed or most voted, SP, growing pains and life issues, birth traits, results that leave to makeups, break ups, marriage, divorces, better emotions and whims, family connections/evolutions, just one big, or few small, legacy themed update that brought life to the sims 4 as the game was meant to portray in the first place.
At this moment the sims 4 is nothing more than robots with skin (And no skin if you have the uni pack), nothing interesting happens and when it does, you can't fully enjoy it because only your sim interacts with it and nobody else is affected, not even that creepy old man next door! He just keeps going about his day like he didn't see you get beamed up like Scotty and lobbed back down to earth like a ragdoll! He's obvious! Which is what I want to see get changed, to see how the world handles these events when EVERYONE IS INVOLVED.
By no means do I expect this to come immediately, coding/games/anything takes huge amounts of time and frankly I'd rather wait for a fully functioning/semi less glitchy SP feature than get thrown a quick, low quality version which took two days and destroys my game. Happy to wait.
All I'm asking, begging, is that if any Staff/Dev's are reading this, please, from a veteran simmer whose loved this game from the beginning, please, give us back story progression, give us back babies we can feed from the fridge and at times leave on the floor because we're too lazy to walk the two feet back to their cot, please enable Don Lothario to reach his potential and date/marry every woman in Willow Creek while also keeping some to the side, let us have that joy of our sims meeting their downfall after an affair, a betrayal or breakdown at work, let our games have life again! Like the good old days.
Sincerely, a veteran simmer who has no other life outside of sims and drinking wayyyyy too much cola than is healthy for any normal person.
Have a nice day, everybody.
Please save any negativity for another day and for those hoping to add to this letter, comment below.
I'll see you all later.
Dag Dag
