What happened to The Sims?

"JoAnne65;c-17255973" wrote:

"DanmanNefarius;c-17255901" wrote:
what happened to the sims?? EA, the most greedy corporation of them all whom favors shareholders and quantity far over quality or their customers! that's what happened. enough said

"MidnightAura;c-17255779" wrote:

How on Earth they made sims 3 worlds which had 50-80 lots, I have no idea.

uhuh, and have you forgotten how extremely many bugs TS 3 had? how many times it crashed and lagged even on the best gaming PC's?
they just oversimplified TS 4 to end this huge backlash TS 3 got over it's p!ss poor performance as fast, easy and cheap as possible.

i could write whole pages about the extreme customer-unfriendly attitude of EA and how they destroyed entire franchises just for the sake of huge profit but that's a bit off-topic i guess? safe to say tho: EA ruined the Sims just like they destroyed many other once great games just because of their insatiable greed.

and for those who believe EA cares about their products: name one EA game that isn't full of bugs... one por two bugs ok, but for a simple game like TS 4 to have so freaking many flaws and bugs?? it's like they don't even test the final product and just launch at full price without regards to product quality (truth: that's EXACTLY what they do!) . basically we are paying full price for an unfinished BETA game and we just have to suck it up and let modders deal with the bugs so they won't have to >.< saves them money since they don't even pay the modders foir their work.

just for extra measure: the Sims isn't the only game suffering from EA's poor management catered towards investors and CEO's instead of their paying customers.

sure i saw people blame Maxis but i will keep pointing my arrows at the ones pulling the strings, and the winners are EA's corporate executives whom only care about lining their own pockets. if people are too blind to see this and instead blame Maxis (whom also made TS 1 and 2 be4 EA took over and forced them to ignore quality so they can put out games faster for faster $$$) or even go as far to point at the players even tho they are right to demand quality for their hard-earned money...well what can i do?? the writing is overly obviously on the wall regarding the huge (deserved!) negative publicity EA is receiving atm.

ohh if only EA would just sod of and let Maxis do their thing once again on their own terms...that would solve all problems./… not that it will happen as long as the series rakes in profit but a guy can Always dream...

@MidnightAura and me, we’re still playing Sims 3 and we’ve forgotten nothing. Sims 3’s bugs have nothing to do with world size, Sims 4 is riddled with bugs as well. The game hardly ever crashes for us and it doesn’t lag. There is freezing sometimes, but that comes down to bad routing (you can actually improve it because of that, make adjustments to certain worlds after which they run fine, even IP). Lag has just one reason: too much CC. As long as you don’t stuff your game, there is no lag (I’ve never ever had lag in Sims 3).

If it’s true they created Sims 4 this limited and poor because of people complaining about Sims 3’s performance, that would be an absolute joke and nothing less than a sad shame. Because then they did it for the wrong reasons. They messed up Sims 3 worlds themselves - sloppy routing - and they listened to people who were bragging about their thousands of downloaded CC items. Then complaining about their game crashing.

I’ve played Sims 3 on 3 computers, starting in 2009, I still play Sims 3. I hardly ever have crashes (even with mods and CC now), I never had Error whatsitsnumber, I never had lag and my game runs as smoothly as Sims 4 for me. With all packs installed + Store stuff + mods and CC. On top of that the experience is way more fluent because I don’t get any loading screens. This is how it is, on a good PC (granted) but nothing spectacular.

Very well said and I agree with you. I also believed some people tried to play on options that was beyond thier system specs. I always will blame EA/Maxis for not tweaking or fix the bugs in an timely manner. Also you are correct Sims 4 is experiencing some of the problems that existed in Sims 3, Poor tweaking of one's program and that is what it is to me. Also, some know this but will not acknowledge it.