When are the bugs going to be fixed?

I know it’s so petty, but the clay taking over my sims inventory is making me crazy.

I was losing hope of them fixing the bug i have with social clubs because not many people seem to have it, but seeing them fix these rando bugs in the latest patch restored some of my hope lol.

Anyway, i think they might be still working from home so that might be one reason why it is taking so long, i know they took long with some bugs in the past before but still, their current situation might have affected their speed even more.

"Mareah;c-17643695" wrote:
I was losing hope of them fixing the bug i have with social clubs because not many people seem to have it, but seeing them fix these rando bugs in the latest patch restored some of my hope lol.

Anyway, i think they might be still working from home so that might be one reason why it is taking so long, i know they took long with some bugs in the past before but still, their current situation might have affected their speed even more.

For the past 6 years they haven’t been working from home & many of the bugs we have today have been present since the beginning of the previous packs. Literally no excuse.

It really is not good enough. I don't want to buy any pack from them after Eco Lifestyle. And they are not even attempting to fix the bugs that came with that pack.

Just see the state they left The Sims 3, bug fixes are not their master area

Its not exactly just flicking a switch and the bugs are fixed. It can take a lot of time to reproduce the issue, which is why they usually will ask for saves from players. If they don't get any saves, it takes even more time. The more people chiming in, the better.

I've been thinking (and I may of course be wrong) some of the old bugs get put on the backburner because there are new bugs with every pack, and people demand those fixed too. Don't think they have that many bug swatters around. I wish though, since bugs have kept me from playing since July'ish.

"Sindocat;c-17643751" wrote:

We get bug patches on an average of once a month, as they are able to track issues down and correct them.

If you believe you have encountered a NEW bug, you need to REPORT it, and you don't do that here. You do that at EA Answers HQ. That is the site with the tools to submit a report in complete and useful manner, and where QA collects information they need to address problems.

Things take time.

This is talking about critical bugs which players have been complaining about for the past 3 months both here and on answers hq that have been ignored while they fix non issues instead like the colour of a sprinkler. Modders have been able to fix these exact things in a matter of weeks, it does not take 3 months. I'd really suggest reading the post as most of what you've said has already been clarified

"Onverser;d-980796" wrote:
Yet another patch has come and gone, and the bugs players have been complaining about since Eco Lifestyle's release have been ignored yet again. It's been 3 months now, 5 patches yet some of the biggest bugs have been completely ignored and remain unfixed whilst the devs are hard at work fixing a bloody sprinkler!

Color swatches for Build Mode item “Large Dancing Water Emitter” have been fixed.

This is not an issue people care about, at all. Why are these random little things being given priority over actual bugs which have been breaking players games for months? It's ridiculous at this point.

3 months on from Eco Lifestyle and the NAPs are still broken and acting up constantly, sims are still playing with clay every second of the day, baking 500 white cakes and playing with the future cube. It's especially ridiculous since these things have been fixed by modders months ago yet there is still no official fix.

Gardening is still broken despite huge numbers of people complaining about it and players are still getting locked out of townie houses every time they edit them. It's a joke at this point. And this is coming from someone who's defended the devs in the past, it's not good enough. Modders have been able to fix these issues within weeks so there's absolutely no excuse at this point for how long it's taking. What is the point of having an Answers HQ if the bugs posted on there are not listened to? They need to do better because this isn't good enough.

I think you answered your own question with that statement right there. Because they KNOW modders will come rescue the s-crew ups!

The Eco Footprint does not work correctly for me, the NAPs need to be fixed where when you repeal one either the hard way or cheat its gone and not still making Sims act as tho it were still active, NAPs need to be toned down just a bit so that is not all the Sims are doing, I know toddlers have not been able to be cared for by many, Gardening still not working right ( not for me either),

I had disabled EL all my lag went away and my Sim could finally act like she had finished a drink instead of her stuck acting like she was drinking tho it would not finish progress bar until I disabled that pack, which when you disable even both EL options in game menu they still give notifications for voting ( no voting happens but there should be no notification),

the Eco Footprint was disabled ( I actually re-enabled it for a day to try again and that's when this part happened and was a brand new game) my Sim still got the coughing and acting like it was bad air in Evergreen Harbor even tho turned off. I ended up enabling the Footprint to cheat and make it Green Promise NAP but even tho the pop up said it was Green and you saw environment change as it should she still got debuff saying bad air and making her cough, so disabled pack again

When you disable in game menu options, the one that has things effect environment, even one that would give a room buff, it still does all of that. So the whole disabling in the Gameplay Menu Options is not working. You should not require a mod to fix these things, the game should work as you paid for it to.

My Sim cannot progress wstching a movie, I know they had fixed it but it didnt last, for a brief momebt after that fix they could, but not anymore. There are many other things too, I know many are naming as well since there will be different things we experience and different things we will care about.

I just think that for all that we spend to play this game, I hope they are able to get more help in the area that fixes bugs. Maybe its harder bc of having to work from home, and some bugs will obviously be harder to fix than others, but I will keep my EL pack disabled and wait about buying anything else until these are fixed. I know some are just annoying like NAPs, but Im sorry Eco Footprint is the whole thing that makes Eco Living what it is, I really wanted to play it.

So please, gurus, I hope that you will be able to fix these, because adding more content with so many Major problems already there is not going to make it easier to fix later, it may make it impossible to fix later. I dont want to not get future content, I just do not want to add more problems and bugs into my game than there already is.

"Sindocat;c-17643751" wrote:
For the eight hundredth (but probably not last) time: bugs are never NOT being fixed.

QA is literally always at work on fixing bugs. A specific bug annoying to you may be particularly tricky, or judged marginal enough that more critical bugs get fixed first, but they are all at the attention of the studio.

We get bug patches on an average of once a month, as they are able to track issues down and correct them.

If you believe you have encountered a NEW bug, you need to REPORT it, and you don't do that here. You do that at EA Answers HQ. That is the site with the tools to submit a report in complete and useful manner, and where QA collects information they need to address problems.

Things take time.

Things take time because they only have so many employees, and most seem to be busy churning out coding for new packs to make more money. There has never been a game that has had so many add ons. The game has been out for 72 months, and there have been (I think) 34 add-ons. That's just about one every two months. Every 60 days a new pack of some kind. Do the math; what percentage of their programmers are writing new code, and what percent are fixing (or play testing) it? I'm sure Milton down in his basement cubicle squeezed into the boiler room is feeling pretty overworked by now trying to fix the 137 or so bugs that still exist.