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DegeraSara's avatar
11 years ago

Please Do Something About the Maid Service

According to Origin, I have 570 hours of playtime logged in The Sims 4.  One of the most frustrating aspects of the game is the maid service.  The maids will come only Monday through Friday, arrive around 10 AM and leave at 2 PM.  They leave even if they are not finished cleaning the house.  

This is a huge problem when you have a family of 7 or 8 sims, almost all of whom have a career.  I count on the maids to keep the house reasonably clean while I work on my sim's career goals and whims.  The fact that they won't come over the weekend makes matters even worse.  The weekend is often the best time for a career sim to host a social event.  A large party on Saturday means my sims spend all of Sunday cleaning - forget going to the park or anywhere else, there's just no time.  

And when the maids do bother to show up, they spend fully half of their time standing around doing nothing at all.  They might take out the trash, then spend the next 15 sim-minutes standing in front of the garbage can, looking around.  Or they clean a counter in the kitchen, then just stand there some more.  That wouldn't be a problem if they stayed until the house was clean, but again, they leave at 2 PM, no matter what.

This is honestly sucking the enjoyment out of the game for me.  I don't want to play The Sims just to clean my sim's house, yet I spend a good part of every day doing so.  Please extend the time the maids will stay during the week, and allow for maid service over the weekend, even if it has to cost extra.

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  • I think it's better if you posted that in the feedback forum on the official forum.

    Maid is bugged of course but your main issue seems to be with the times and that would be something for feedback 😉