I came to the conclusion that the fan base, those who have been plaing The Sims since the first iteration are more demanding, maybe because of the experience with the game or maybe because we reached a certain age and we know what we want and what we don't want. I think that maybe new players, that I'm sure are younger and haven't played previous games, accept more easily this iteration and are fine with this swallow game. Maybe EA strategy was, due to their lazyness, to reach for a younger audicence, which are less demanding and release a very visual game but not as difficult to program as previous games.