When loading into my game from my last save from last night (January 12), all my photos across the save are there. Now when I try to save today after the update, upon logging back into the game all t...
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Statement of Impact: The hundreds of Paint-by-Reference paintings and photos that capture the childhood of my Sims children are now blank white or black.
I have gone weeks to months without playing The Sims due to this bug disrupting my legacy game play. After the last game update, I mistakenly thought this bug was gone and continued playing. However, when I went to a different House, I noticed all of their old photos had become black. The honeymoon photos: erased. The baby photos of their only child: erased! Now I see that the expressed fix of the paint-by-reference paintings is inaccurate. Moving the photos into inventory and then back into the game does not fix the issue. Previously, the bug only seemed to impact net new paint-by-reference paintings. Now, I see that all of my households have dozens of long time paint-by-reference paintings erased. Paintings of my Sims when they were babies, toddlers, and kids are all gone. Entire Sim family memories, erased.
I'm at the point that testing and tracking this bug is so labor intensive (and distressing), EA ought to be paying me! Yet, even with the free labor of the people, there is NOT a successful fix to this issue that has been ongoing for months. In my experience, the bug is only getting worse. EA broke the game with Hobbies by making it so when a household is left, the game says their images are no longer being used and deletes them. That is a wildly insane assumption to think those images could be safely deleted to reduce game size. The goal was to compress for improvement and the result was totally breaking and destroying legacy gameplay. Words can't capture the disappointment. It comes off as a fundamental lack of understanding of basic gameplay.
Maybe I'll get bored enough while not playing The Sims, that I'll start a YouTube channel on my critique of this broken game.
How ironic is it that the defense of not building Sims 5 is the legacy games and longtime players of the Sims 4, while the game is actively erasing all of the memories photos and Paint-by-Reference has provided.
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Is EA intentionally breaking the game before releasing a Subscription service? This experience is depressing.
Example of the types of memories destroyed.
I have heard rumors about a possible subscription service. If they move to a mandatory subscription service, I AM DONE. First of all, I bought and paid for the game outright before it was free to play. Second, I DON'T WANT all the packs and everything - particularly with how broken everything is. I feel like the only reason my game is even remotely playable at this point is due to a) mods and b) the fact that I stopped buying anything except the kits quite a while ago. People need to start boycotting the new content until they fix all the broken content they've already put out. Otherwise, there is no motivation for them to change how they do business.
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