Agree or Disagree? Assumptions /opinions across the franchise.

I will start:

Sims 4 players prioritize freedom over challenge.
Agree or disagree?

Agree.

I'm mostly assuming that you mean gameplay freedom and challenge (as opposed to say Build mode, where there is less freedom in TS4 than in previous games -- not being able to edit or create worlds, for example).

I think some TS4 players value freedom over challenge because I've read a lot of posts here on the forums where people like that there are not Wants/Fears, Attraction systems, lasting consequences, etc. in the game. All of these systems would, in previous games, create challenges for Sims and for players. For example, an Attraction system meant interacting with Sims and their opinions on attraction with regards to other Sims. If Sims were not attracted to another Sim that a player had in mind as a pairing, then it becomes more difficult to get these two Sims together because the challenge of the Attraction system has to be overcome. This is not to say that it is actually very difficult to get two Sims who aren't attracted to one another together, and it's not to say that these two Sims will never end up together. It just takes some work to get them to the point of wanting to be together. These players don't want to have to go through the bother of working through all of that. Not having the Attractive system removes the challenge and gives them the freedom to do whatever they want without the challenge. They do not want the game to challenge them by telling them that what they're doing is wrong, because in their minds, they decide what is right or wrong. TS4 does not have many systems in place that exhibit consequences, so this works for them.

There should be more options for tattoos and piercings in CAS. Agree or Disagree?

Agree!
i agree because i wear hearing aids in real life and it would be cool for a sim to have that too. Even add the hearing aid to elders who may need it.
The sims 2 is the best in the franchise.

I agree, the Sims 2 is my favorite of the franchise. Babies being objects don't qualify them as a real life stage. Agree or disagree?

Agree. I prefer smaller but different worlds available for travelling all the time.

Sims fighting and instantly being happy right after the fight takes away part of how life really is.

I Agree to an extend. It depends on the fight. I also believe a sim’s happiness should be determined by what kind of personality they have and their relationship and history with the other sim. I can imagine certain sims feeling invigorated after a fight, but another feels insecure, sad or angry and needs time to reflect before they can feel happy again.

It’s OK for a new Sims title to explore and produce content based on different and “never done before” themes before adding similar and popular content offered in previous iterations.

Agree.

I will say agree as my concrete answer for the sake of the game, but honestly my thoughts or more nuanced than that.

I’m assuming when you say theme you are meaning weather and university as themes, just as much as you mean occults or pets or bowling or journeying to Batuu, etc are themes.

Personally, I think some themes are really systems that should be in the game early on. Maybe not at launch but within the early stages of the game’s post launch lifespan. Systems like weather and calendars and university and owning businesses feel like things that should come early so that the foundation is in place for thematic content like bowling or toddler stuff or backyard stuff, which are things that I view as confetti. If you as the developer are saying these are the mechanics of the life sim that we envision a life sim to be, then in my mind, you add those mechanics early and not five years into the game’s life. I’m not saying university HAS to be in the game, for example. I’m saying that if you are making a life sim game and you’re saying that university is a core component of your life sim game, then you should add that early because it’s, in your eyes, fundamental to the game. The confetti can come later.

The reason I say I agree is because keeping that in mind, there could be new mechanics/systems that the developers could include that just have never been thought of or introduced yet and so I think it would be fine if they added them early. There can also be new confetti that gets added before old confetti. I don’t mind that.

Basically, I think expansion packs should all come out before other types of small packs. They’re not themes, in my eyes, but they can play around with adding new types of systems in EPs that can come before the old standard ones. Smaller themed packs should come out after the EPs, and I’m fine with them mixing up new with old.


In TS4, there should be a mechanic that allows you to accept or decline a promotion rather than automatically receiving it if you achieved the requirements. Agree or disagree?

Agree to an extent. The color wheel sometimes make the game lag, so I prefer a variety of swatches, TS2-style.


Babies in TS4 should be freed from their bassinets/cribs. Agree or Disagree?

Agree. Since you can age up a baby at any time, I don't think it's a change (if possible) that would detract from the non family player experience. Plus babies are people too! They should be clickable for needs & not objects at the very least.

There needs to be a wider range of hair colors in ts4, from more shades of brown to less saturated non-natural colors. Agree or disagree?

Disagree. It could have been. I like the perk trees, but the fame quirks are too spammy. I have to go in and remove specific ones all too often. Plus, as more packs have been added, I have noticed fame does not seem to have been well integrated with the new stuff because I start getting the spotlight fading alerts all the time while exploring the new content. Surely there could be snow sport fame, etc.?

My favorite celebrities probably have to be Sims 1 Superstar. Complete opt in and a grueling grind, but definitely fun.

Agree or disagree; a Sims spinoff or mainline that stepped a little more out of the PG realm and earned the Teen rating would still sell.