I hope TS5 won't be released before TS4 is fixed.

My hope is that when it does release it is a full, good game. Ive been waiting since TS4 came out for the next to come, because i realize the core of the game just doesnt work for me. I dont think TS4 + all the dlc is worth the asking price and maybe some are worth it on sale. I only own base game, outdoor retreat, and bought parenthood + dine out for my little sister because she likes it. All was bought on sale.

If the past is any indicator of what may happen, I wouldn't hold my breath. I don't wish to be a Debbie Downer, but there were glitches left in Sims2 after the very last SP, Mansions & Gardens, which were never addressed, unless they were fixed when the Sims2: Collection was released a few years back to those who at least purchased one pack online. Happily, I was one of those. My infant grandson destroyed my base game disk, so there was no way I could reinstall the game. (I had everything disk-wise, plus a few select items from the Store.) I didn't play Sims2 again, long enough to see if the bug that caused me such great ire to immediately uninstall the whole thing to know if it was fixed or not. I just threw up my hands and said I'm done. Uninstalled it toot sweet. Big mistake on my part those Store-bought items are now forever gone. Oh, well. Sims 5 may come out just after Sims4 is deemed complete. We'll have to wait and see. But I can tell you now, that if it's not a single player game, I won't be moving on.

I think we are all hoping that the sims4 will not be left with unfixed bugs. I wonder if the laundry list (a page where they will post what they are working on when it comes to bug fixes) will be a way for them to keep us updated on what they will prioritize before the game ends. I do hope that they have some kind of end plan.

Maybe kits are a way for them to shift away focus on making larger changes to the sims4 and just make smaller content, kind of like what they did for the sims3.

If the past is anything to go off then I would not get hope up to much. Both the Sims 2 and 3 have been left unfixed with bugs. When I played the Sims 3 a while back I had to add quite a few little bug fix mods for the game.

The sims 4 is the most expensive though they better, the thing is perhaps they cant just leave it this time because they decided the first time ever they released the exact same version on console, console is very protected unlike PC, theres also a policy, the game has to work on console no exceptions, if the game is broken the console player has to tell the developer politely and give them a chance to fix it, if the developer refuses to fix it, the developer will have to give full refund to the player, EA would hate that ?, so there would be no point in just fixing console and not PC

"Sharonia;c-17820086" wrote:
If the past is anything to go off then I would not get hope up to much. Both the Sims 2 and 3 have been left unfixed with bugs. When I played the Sims 3 a while back I had to add quite a few little bug fix mods for the game.

I had to employ at least 20 mods to be able to play Sims3. I had a love/hate relationship with it. Lost my singer Sim somewhere in WA and couldn't bring the honeymooning couple back. I posted a thread about it and Twallen, himself, jumped into the post and told me about his Travelers Mod. I swallowed my fears (boolprop scared the beejeebies out of me) and learned how to download and install mods. The man was correct, it fixed the unfixable and I got my singer and his bride back! Yay. From there I learned of more of his mods, via NRaas, Ind. and what ones I needed. Ultimately, I believe it was 20 or more just to make the game playable for me.

I havent spent that much because i bought all of my packs during sales, except for one. I even bought the base game with more than half off. They were worth that price point more than the original prices, for me. I still want bug fixes though, because as it stands some packs are near worthless to me since their major features that i bought them for just dont work in my game, the prime example being get together, those social clubs have never worked for me, not even once, and i bought that pack almost a year ago. It was reported long ago in the bug forums by others but to no avail. It might be because not a big number of people reported it. They have been leaving bugs and moving on since sims 2, as far as i know, but here is to trying to be more optimistic, and maybe some bugs just cant be fixed?

Looking at the state TS3 was left in, it looks like you're hoping TS5 never gets released then

Not to mention the state they left TS2 in. Big Fiery Ball Visible From Space, anyone?

@GalacticGal That happened to me too, reinstalled Sims 3 installed most of the NRAAS stuff, but didn't think to install Traveller, started a save, sent the sims to Uni and they got stuck there. Got them out of Uni with the aid of Traveller, but the original world was lost, lucky it wasn't a legacy save.

I read that before Traveller some people just ended up putting a town hall and all the mod cons in the Uni world and staying there.

hmm seeing how they left past games then that's not an option. some of the bugs are expensive to fix or too hard, unless they make the game unplayable and people complain, they won't bother.
there is no game without bugs anyways, but issues like simulation lag probably won't be fixed.

as for the content still missing, ts4 perhaps won't have many features past sims games have, it had a rough start so it had to be different from previous iterations. we don't know when will ts4 end or everything that will get added though.
what we know is that ea will keep milking the game perhaps even if ts5 launches lol