What happened to NPC birthday parties?

@Wolfie_GirlXox I've never had birthday invites in Sims 4 and I've played since it arrived on console. But my Sims do get other invites to festivals and parties at the Bluffs, etc. Are you getting no invites at all?

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@Wolfie_GirlXox wrote:

I remember when I started playing years ago whenever my sim's besties aged up they would have parties and invite my sim. I hadn't though about it but it occurred to me that despite having lots of npc friends and besties over the years I have not had a sim get invited to a party in a long time. What happened to the parties?

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Now that you mention it I had those too, my sim usually started at OS, so often it was Malcolm's party to YA.

I only had basegame at the time, I'm a late comer to ts4, but now I do remember having those.  I can totally live without, but I am curious now.

There is an open bug report here if all or most invites have stopped:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Not-getting-invites-Patch-1-106-148/m-p/13673900#M277076

I see there is also a mod (for players who play on pc and use mods) to be invited to NPC parties. 

I wonder why I've never seen these in my game, prior to me turning off ageing a while ago. Perhaps it started after I did that 🤔. I'm curious about it too now lol. 

I still get other invites, just not parties. I think it might be all events the player can initiate such as house parties and playdates since I've seen in some older stuff that people got those.

@Wolfie_GirlXoxI've never seen playdate invites in all this time of playing. But you can create those yourself. Never seen house parties either. Just invites to go to a Sims house to hang out. But I did see it was possible with a mod to go to a proper house party at another Sim's house.
If you have Get Together there are gatherings you can create with clubs too.

Edit: I forgot to grab an image of the toddler playdate option from the Toddlers pack when I was in my game, but I've just found one to attach here.

I remember getting them when I first started playing on X-Box. I gave up going when no one turned up for the party my sim went to. Sims 3 parties were more fun

I am aware of ways that the player can initiate these activities but it is sad that npc's don't invite us, especially considering that they might have before.

@Wolfie_GirlXox , @Ellupelluellu , @simsplayer818  I used to get NPC invites as well to birthday parties and almost immediately everyone left, including the person who was supposed to be hosting the party! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣  I think though I now have aging off for anyone outside my current household, so I think the lack of invites for me is due to that! 😅  
If I remember, I will try to test it out with aging on. 

I have this problem too and I have aging on!

I got invited to a few of them (prior to the patch), but the party never got started and my sim was the only one who showed up and the event cancelled.