I WILL NOT PURCHASE SIMS 5 IF…
Sims 4 is not completed. & if Sims 5 has less realism. I will be done purchasing the game and it’s packs if EA continues to ignore the sims community then I will continue to ignore their trash files �...
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I will not buy if it turns out to be TS4.2!
If it doesn't have actual open neighborhoods.... COUNT ME OUT! I don't mean this lie they said about TS4 because when people think of "open world" they think of being able to freely move around the entire world, which includes every single lot/venue, without a loading screen. TS4 said no open worlds, we'd have open neighborhoods. That was a big, fat lie! We have open areas you can walk around between lots (with hardly anything at all to do in those spaces and no ability to add things to do in those spaces) but if we want to visit the swimming pool across the street from our house or go to our neighbor's house for coffee (which is literally 5 tiles away from yours) .... BLAM! Loading screen!
If there is not some ability, from the beginning to remove/edit/add things to a world .... COUNT ME OUT!! I have dealt with the restrictions and daily frustration of TS4 for wayyyyyy too long to shell out more even more money to once again still be frustrated (There are things I hate in the worlds, such as a tree blocking my view on certain lots, the ugly dinosaur in Oasis Springs, the plethora of fake houses and buildings requiring me to adjust MY IDEAS for a world to cohesively fit THEIR IDEAS of what MY WORLD should look like, the huge amounts of empty, useless real estate space in worlds that could have clearly had more usable/buildable lots!)
If all worlds that have oceans/bodies of water aren't swimmable from the beginniing ..... COUNT ME OUT! Been there, done that. Every time I play in Brindleton Bay and Windenburg my rage raises at not being able to actually swim in the water. It's useless to me and makes me just never want to play in those worlds so I don't have to see the fake beaches.
If the sims personalities are not actually unique.... COUNT ME OUT!! I do not want to have to search out mods just to make the personalities of my sims actually to be different.
If they continue to take short-cuts on animations and keep reusing the same ones over and over. COUNT ME OUT!!
If they continue the trend of the "rabbit hole" activities rather than actual functioning objects .... COUNT ME OUT! Such as rather than actually shopping in Tartosa, they basically gave us a dresser item shaped like a building and called it window shopping! WHAT??! Or the fake rabbit hole "amusement park rides" in Copperdale. That's like something a CC creator would do, which is perfectly fine, I understand their limitations on coding, routing, animations, etc..... but for a AAA game company ... that screams L.A.Z.Y. to me!
If they continue the trend of "telling us" what is going on instead of "showing us" what is happening ... COUNT ME OUT! (which a lot of times is FAKE and has absolutely nothing to do with the current sitation, such as the pop-up notifications in HSY that tell about classmates doing this or that, and yet they are actually just sitting at a desk and none of those things happened)
If we can't customize, save and/or "favorite" certain looks in CAS to re-use on a different sim later on .... COUNT ME OUT! I love the creativity of some simmers (thinking of @Netzspannung amazing outfits, which I love) and would use all the time, but I don't want to have to hunt for all of the pieces. We need a better filtering system and would love a search by name function for CAS as well.
If cell phone usage is not optional .... COUNT ME OUT!!! I don't always play in a "modern world", sometimes I play in a save that is set years in the past when there were no such things as a cell phone. There should be functioning phones (phone booths in the world and community venues and landlines available for residential lots) that have the same options as the cell phone for traveling/hiring NPCs, etc that a sim can use instead. Information should also be available in a newspaper, like old times, where sims can learn about anything that way as well. GIve us options! Maybe we want to get away from the modern world!
I could go on and on .... but these are some of my most major "Must Haves" for me to purchase. I just can't do a TS4 again, why would I spend money for the exact same gameplay with a new name and better graphics.
If it doesn't have actual open neighborhoods.... COUNT ME OUT! I don't mean this lie they said about TS4 because when people think of "open world" they think of being able to freely move around the entire world, which includes every single lot/venue, without a loading screen. TS4 said no open worlds, we'd have open neighborhoods. That was a big, fat lie! We have open areas you can walk around between lots (with hardly anything at all to do in those spaces and no ability to add things to do in those spaces) but if we want to visit the swimming pool across the street from our house or go to our neighbor's house for coffee (which is literally 5 tiles away from yours) .... BLAM! Loading screen!
If there is not some ability, from the beginning to remove/edit/add things to a world .... COUNT ME OUT!! I have dealt with the restrictions and daily frustration of TS4 for wayyyyyy too long to shell out more even more money to once again still be frustrated (There are things I hate in the worlds, such as a tree blocking my view on certain lots, the ugly dinosaur in Oasis Springs, the plethora of fake houses and buildings requiring me to adjust MY IDEAS for a world to cohesively fit THEIR IDEAS of what MY WORLD should look like, the huge amounts of empty, useless real estate space in worlds that could have clearly had more usable/buildable lots!)
If all worlds that have oceans/bodies of water aren't swimmable from the beginniing ..... COUNT ME OUT! Been there, done that. Every time I play in Brindleton Bay and Windenburg my rage raises at not being able to actually swim in the water. It's useless to me and makes me just never want to play in those worlds so I don't have to see the fake beaches.
If the sims personalities are not actually unique.... COUNT ME OUT!! I do not want to have to search out mods just to make the personalities of my sims actually to be different.
If they continue to take short-cuts on animations and keep reusing the same ones over and over. COUNT ME OUT!!
If they continue the trend of the "rabbit hole" activities rather than actual functioning objects .... COUNT ME OUT! Such as rather than actually shopping in Tartosa, they basically gave us a dresser item shaped like a building and called it window shopping! WHAT??! Or the fake rabbit hole "amusement park rides" in Copperdale. That's like something a CC creator would do, which is perfectly fine, I understand their limitations on coding, routing, animations, etc..... but for a AAA game company ... that screams L.A.Z.Y. to me!
If they continue the trend of "telling us" what is going on instead of "showing us" what is happening ... COUNT ME OUT! (which a lot of times is FAKE and has absolutely nothing to do with the current sitation, such as the pop-up notifications in HSY that tell about classmates doing this or that, and yet they are actually just sitting at a desk and none of those things happened)
If we can't customize, save and/or "favorite" certain looks in CAS to re-use on a different sim later on .... COUNT ME OUT! I love the creativity of some simmers (thinking of @Netzspannung amazing outfits, which I love) and would use all the time, but I don't want to have to hunt for all of the pieces. We need a better filtering system and would love a search by name function for CAS as well.
If cell phone usage is not optional .... COUNT ME OUT!!! I don't always play in a "modern world", sometimes I play in a save that is set years in the past when there were no such things as a cell phone. There should be functioning phones (phone booths in the world and community venues and landlines available for residential lots) that have the same options as the cell phone for traveling/hiring NPCs, etc that a sim can use instead. Information should also be available in a newspaper, like old times, where sims can learn about anything that way as well. GIve us options! Maybe we want to get away from the modern world!
I could go on and on .... but these are some of my most major "Must Haves" for me to purchase. I just can't do a TS4 again, why would I spend money for the exact same gameplay with a new name and better graphics.
