With the game so bugged, where do you stand on new content?

I do hope the bugs get fixed, especially the ones from earlier packs. I do however still love my sims 4 and will continue buying new packs as they release. I have faith in EA Maxis <3

With all deference to Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell...

Wait a minute, the words.
All right, all right, all right.
Say the words.
KIaatu barada... Iu...
Necktie.
Nectar, nickel.
Noodle. It's an "N" word.
It's definitely an "N" word.
It's definitely an "N" word.
(COUGHING)
KIaatu barada n...
Okay, then.
That's it.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
All hell breaks loose

Right now wants and fears is the only bug that's posing any real problems, and mods seem to be keeping it under control. Most of the others either aren't happening to my game or my play style doesn't interact with them. Until the 7-26 update I was really happy with my game. I'm still happy with it, but I do want the bugs addressed. I'll still keep buying packs that interest me, but not on day one anymore. Just like updates now, I'll wait and see.

Like I posted before, after the wants and fears update, I don't really feel like buying any more packs (unless it's something I really want like cars) until I see:

1. More development and support for the game. It's not okay to add a game changing feature like wants and fears and not even check if they can be turned off for us players. They are also very repetitive and unbalanced.

2. More focus on having fun. More focus on variation and fun gameplay, less focus on set dressing and rabbit holes. In High School Years the after school activities like football and cheerleading was just walls of text.

I know myself too well .... and I'll still buy something if it has new gameplay items that I think look fun, or if there's something that's totally unique or something I've been wanting.

But, I also never buy "sight unseen" .... I always wait to read other players experiences before I ever decide to update with a pre-pack patch.

Then after reading or watching bugged patch/pack reviews, I always evaluate if the issues other players are having with the patch/pack will be something I might run into too? If it's not a bug that I would typically experience because I don't play the same way (such as MWS, I never wanted it for the actual wedding gameplay ..... I only wanted the world so those game breaking bugs wouldn't have affected me because I don't do weddings), then I'll wait for mods to update before I buy.

If it's a bug that is happening basically universally with all simmers (such as the insanely obsessive phone usage, the inability to keep wants and fears shut off permanently, etc), then I will most definitely hold off updating/buying anything until some modder comes to the rescue and fixes the mess that EA gave us.

I could never, ever ..... not in a million years ever play TS4 without mods, I can handle playing without CC, but never without mods so I always wait to actually "play" the game even when I buy a pack I'm interested in and will just open my "test" save to go in and look at CAS/BB and that's about it until all my important mods are updated.

I only buy stuff if it's something I really want, under any circumstances. It's not like I'm engaging in some sort of boycott by doing that ☺

Most of the bugs that were most bothersome to me over the couple of years I've been playing have been fixed, for example the cooking bug and the stairs bug.

A couple of the newest features are really in need of tuning and it's too bad that the toggle for wants and fears doesn't work yet. (I wonder if the leak of HSY caused it to be rushed out before it was really ready?)

I prefer to wait to get new packs to see if people report bugs that would make them not fun for me, before I buy them. And then if/when those bugs are fixed, I buy them then. I did that with My Wedding Stories.

It's still way better than what Sims 3 was back in 2013.

There are annoyances and bugs, but the game is still playable and I still enjoy it. If they can fix gardening and tune certain features, I'll be a happy simmer.

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It's still way better than what Sims 3 was back in 2013.

Have to agree. I still bought the entire TS3 (minus Katy Parry) in a Steam sale a couple years back. I can thankfully still count on Nraas to fix most of the problems.

I'm torn between "I'm officially done" and "The bugs are an issue, but".

Thing is, I normally am in the camp that delays updating until the game is confirmed to run adequately and mitigate bugs with workarounds and mods, but continue to buy content. At the moment, however, there is one bug that I consider gamebreaking for my playstyle (Wants/Fears toggle not working), so before that one is not addressed I won't update and therefore won't be able to buy new dlc even if I wanted. I grabbed the free Desert Deluxe kit from a different computer, but may never be able to actually download it.

Basically just copying and pasting this here:
I am officially done, until the bugs are fixed I will neither purchase nor download any further content from EA