Was it always this hard?

"jackjack_k;c-16179968" wrote:

"@Cinebar;c-16032306" wrote:
Yep, it was hard, and back then I didn't even know the cheats! because I had internet (dial up) sometimes and months or a year without etc. I was lucky to even get to go to The Sims site as much as I did.

You have to stack points. Like for eating, a better fridge, a better counter, a better stove, more skill points all add up to getting full and lasting longer.

Better furniture offers better comfort etc. Better stuff for fun offers faster filling of the fun motive. It's all about trying to get better stuff so you have time to live. But just when you think you have the hang of it, and get them scheduled an event will happen that will make you have to go down a different road, lol. You can see from TS4 how watered down the game has really become. I bet you can go to the store and not worry about your Sims in TS4, lol

To be fair, The Sims 4 is harder than The Sims 3.
The Sims 3 was literally advertsised that Sims would take care of themselves. That's when that started.

The Sims 4 tried to make things harder (eg. Bills etc) but this generation of gamers don't want anything too hard.
Instant gratification.

I miss The Sims 2 games. Perfect balance.

I actually did love the bills are so high in TS4, I want them to be that high in TS2, too. My Clue family in TS4 moved into their mansion and then couldn't really afford it. >:) and were always getting their power and water turned off, but the bad thing was they didn't really seem to mind all that much. It bothered me more than them. :/ It could have been so much better for TS4 is the power off had some really bad consequences if that had happened in TS2 or worse in TS1 they would have been raving, or crying. lol That should be tweaked in TS4 to make it more realistic and matter to those Sims.