Missing Content
I purchased my Sims 4 expansion packs directly through EA. I played with them on this same computer even after Origin transitioned to the EA app. Now my EA app shows that I own zero expansion packs, even though the base game is still in my library. My EA order history is empty, my gameplay time appears to have reset, and I have screenshots of my download history showing evidence of the packs. I have tried the missing-content troubleshooting steps, but EA Help only shows FAQs and I cannot open a support case. Can someone advise how I can get EA to investigate my missing pack entitlements and purchase history?Sims 4 Gameplay idea for an enhanced party game pack
Feature Suggestion: More Realistic Birthday Parties & Gift-Giving in The Sims 4 🎂🎁 As a Sims 4 console player who loves realistic family gameplay, I would love to see more realism added to birthday parties! I’ve had this idea for a while, and I think it would bring so much more depth to family-oriented gameplay, especially for players who enjoy celebrating milestones and creating realistic family traditions. I know some of these experiences can be created with mods, but console players don’t have access to mods. It would be amazing to have these features incorporated into the actual game so everyone can enjoy them. Here are some features I would love to see: 🎂 1. Birthday Cards Sims could purchase or craft birthday cards for family members and friends. Cards could include personalized messages, age-appropriate designs, and sentimental notes. Sims could give and receive cards during birthday parties. Cards could be displayed, stored, or kept as memories. 🎁 2. Realistic Gift Bags Sims could purchase gift bags and fill them with items before attending a birthday party. Gift bags could include toys, books, candy, stuffed animals, clothes, gift cards, and other age-appropriate presents. Players could select which objects go inside each bag. Children could receive party favor bags to take home after birthday celebrations. 💵 3. Birthday Money & Money Grams Sims could give birthday money in cards, envelopes, or money grams. Family members could give different amounts depending on their relationship. Children could receive money from grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives. Sims could save the money they receive or use it to purchase items. 🛍️ 4. Functional Shopping Bags Sims could purchase items from stores and carry realistic shopping bags home. Shopping bags could contain the items purchased and be placed on counters, tables, or the floor. Sims could wrap purchased items and place them inside gift bags before giving them to another Sim. 🎉 5. More Realistic Birthday Party Interactions Guests could arrive with gifts, cards, and money. Birthday Sims could open presents and react differently depending on what they receive. Parents could help young children open gifts. Guests could sing “Happy Birthday,” take pictures, and participate in opening presents. Birthday Sims could thank guests for their gifts. Family members could keep birthday cards, photographs, and special gifts as sentimental keepsakes. I would especially love to see these features available for toddlers, children, teens, and adults, with different interactions depending on their age and relationships. The goal is to make birthday celebrations feel like real-life family gatherings, with thoughtful gifts, meaningful traditions, and memorable interactions. These small details could make family gameplay so much more immersive for both PC and console players without requiring mods. Thank you for continuing to develop The Sims 4 and considering ideas that help players create more realistic stories with their Sims!
School Overhaul! Hear me out!! :D
I really enjoy playing the High School features of the game and I feel like one thing that is missing is a system where there is a Private School option and even a Homeschool option. I used to always love that other Sims games had the Private School feature and I miss it! I feel like it would be very complimentary to the Royalty and Legacy pack as well as the University pack. Please consider it! I think it would give a school years more depth and more fun options - school rivalry, snobbish sims going to elite schools, ect. To add to this idea... an option for occult sims to go to their very own Magic school would be awesome too- think the sims version of Hogwarts. Lots of room for ideas with this, but I think the game would benefit greatly and that it would be a very popular addition to the game.
Italian Themed World/ Expansion Pack
Can we please get a pack with a world based on Italy like the Sims 3 Monte Vista? I LOVED that world, and the gondola rides from the venue Last Venue of Amore. This would make the perfect romantic getaway vacationing spot for our Sims. I think we need more romantic places!All kinds of gameplay issues post Crystal Creations and Fairy Downloads
Hello! Longtime Sims player here! I have thankfully never had major technical challenges while playing for the last 20 (?) years. I recently downloaded Crystal Creations and the Fairy pack and my whole gameplay isn't working correctly. There are so many different issues it is hard to write them all but they include: sims getting actions stuck in their cue cursor not responding to being clicked correctly sims not moving from their spot but the action cue updating and reflecting different actions (for example when a welcome party arrived they all stayed in one area but the cues and prompts reflected them having eating dinner and using bathroom) sims getting cold indoors (that hadn't previously happened for me) including the baby that will get dressed into pajamas to sleep and then have the freezing warning needs changing at weird rates and not replenishing at normal rates time not jumping forward when all sims are asleep time jumping forward glitching sims appearing as if they are on the lot actions with sims appearing in cue that are not on the lot jewelry not looking removed from the sim notification that baby has come home from daycare (they didn't go) I am sure I am missing a lot! I use an embarrassingly old laptop but this hadn't been an issue previously. It runs Mac OS Catalina vs 10.15.8 it's a macbook pro from 2013. I made sure I had enough space on the computer before downloading the packs. I don't use any mods as I have always been afraid of affecting gameplay! Any help or advice would be amazing! I want my sims back!
Wait For It.
I really think if implemented correctly this could be a really good QoL addition to the game and the best part of the it is it already technically exists in the game it is just wildly underutilized; Waiting. Sims wait for their turns when they use the slip and slide object from Backyard Stuff Pack There is a "waiting in line" interaction when you use the Public Washroom objects in base game and Outdoor Retreat Game Pack and also City Living Expansion Packs. There are never enough Sims as round to it really utilize it though but it pops up when you send your Sim's to use those objects. Sims really should be able to wait for things in the game. I think it would cause less dropped queued and repeated clicks on the players side of things. Currently if an object is in use most of the interactions just cancel out because most objects can only be used by one Sim at a time and that does make sense but what if a Sim could simply stand there and wait their turn instead of dropping it from the queue. Sims could wait for their turn at the bathroom at home or on another lot. Sims could use the fridge even if another Sim decides to grab something at the same time. Sims could wait for each other to dive off the diving board. Sims could wait for their turn at using the smaller kitchen appliances like the coffee maker. Sims could wait to use the photobooth object that comes from High School Years Sims could wait for their turn to order at Food Stalls instead of everyone ordering all at once. Sims could wait for their turn at Cafeteria Objects from High School Years and Discover University. The Cafe Bar objects that comes from Get Together could absolutely benefit from this because it takes longer to make the drinks with all the animations and such that Baristas get overwhelmed and drop orders out of the queue. Same goes for Bartenders but I haven't noticed the dropped orders as much as with Cafe Baristas. I'm sure there are way more examples of this but that's all I can think of at the moment. As a bonus idea I would like to add that I wish we could have a "stand and wait" interaction for our Sims by either/or clicking on the Sim or the ground so that we can send a Sim somewhere or just click on them and have them wait. That way we could set up things like screenshots or sending a Sim somewhere but then having them wait while we do something else with another Sim in the household. I know I'm The Sims 3 Sims would stop and wait and tap their foot if something was in their way but I think that was more overly sensitive and made things worse from a QoL standpoint so I definitely don't want that lol.
💡 Ideas > ♂️ Man lifestyle for The Sims
Hi, It would be nice to offer more choices to the sims. Hobbies : Arm wrestling Bed Wrestling Build a model Billiards / Pool Table Chicken Fight (Water tool and beach) Drawing / Making comics Food fight Make a kite (Parent-child activity) ✅ Origami Paintball ✅ Pottery Rebuilding motorcycles Sculpture ✅ Sword fighting ✅ Tattooing Watchmaking Sports : ✅ Archery Baseball Golfing Kite Surfing / Wind surfing Playing squash Rowing (Boat ride) Skateboarding and BMX Skydiving Surfing TV channels : Formula 1 UFC Build/Buy mode : ✅ Garage stuff Chores : Lawn Mowing Pool Cleaning Split wood for the fireplace Career / Business : Barber shop Electrician / Nuclear scientist Stuntman Collection : Cars Comic books Geek stuff Skateboard Sneakers Watches Fairground activities : High Striker Punching Arcade Machine Balloon Dart Game Xtreme activities : Bungee Jumping Canyoning High-lining Potholing/caving Zorbing Zip-lining
