The Future is Plumbob Green
Sul Sul, Simmers! We have so much news to share with you about The Sims franchise! We’ve been in the lab expanding The Sims into an entertainment platform driven by you, our community, that includes exploring experiential ways to play The Sims and new ways we’re supporting creators. Our passion for creating products full of fun, creativity and discovery has led us to new experiences all moving at the speed of pop culture. Keep reading to learn what we’ve been cooking! Get ready to party like it’s the year 2000! Before we jump in… wow, it’s been nearly 25 years since the world was first introduced to The Sims. Since then, more than 500 million of you have become Simmers, embracing the delightful chaos that comes with playing “fate” - guiding your beloved Sims through life’s ups and downs and endless possibilities (so many deleted pool ladders! 😆). You’ve shown that no one does life like The Sims - unleashing your imagination to craft one-of-a-kind stories, worlds, and adventures that seamlessly blend the real world with the Sims world. We remain committed as ever to reimagining the way people play with life and giving millions the chance to connect over their shared love of The Sims as we push the boundaries of reality. So far in 2024, Simmers have spent more than 1.22.4 billion hours playing The Sims 4 and experimenting with life scenarios and choices without real-world consequences (759+ million hours spent in live mode!). Whether it’s designing your dream home (303+ million hours in build mode!), customizing your Sims (640+ million Sims!) and worlds, reimagining the latest reality TV drama, or even taking on the 100 Baby Challenge (65+ million babies made!) your creativity continues to amaze us. You've shown that if you can dream it, you can Sim it! Watching Simmers unite over their self-expression and curiosity expressed within The Sims has been our greatest joy. We love that you share our mischievous humor and find laughter every step of the way as you bring your visions to life (whether you’re successful or not)! We can’t wait to celebrate 25 years of The Sims with you and plan to kick things off with an episode of Behind The Sims in January 2025. There’s so much to look forward to in the coming months, and we just can’t help but share some with you now…! The Hollywood rumors are true: The Sims is headed to the BIG SCREEN! We’re VERY excited to share that in partnership with Amazon MGM Studios, our team is working on a film based on The Sims. Kate Herron will direct, as well as co-write with Briony Redman. LuckyChap and Vertigo Entertainment will produce alongside The Sims team, with Herron and Redman executive producing. It’s still too early to share more about the movie but stay tuned for updates as we mark our 25th birthday next year! You Make The Sims! Our incredible community is the only reason we'll celebrate 25 years of The Sims. Everything we do is for you, because you are what makes The Sims. As we build towards the future, we’re exploring more ways to involve, engage, and reward our community. It’s with great pride and enthusiasm that we’ll continue expanding the ways we spotlight your incredible stories, creations, and ideas. Since its launch, more than 1 billion Sims 4 creations have been downloaded from the gallery and more than 116 million pieces of content uploaded, with millions more assets uploaded and downloaded across the broader Sims community. In addition, we’ve been collaborating with all types of Simmers on multiple projects, ranging from in-game creation through lot building and worlds to collaborations on Kits, base game updates, packs and beyond. These collaborations have meant a lot to us but more importantly to our community and we aren’t done yet! Allow Us to Proudly Introduce… The Sims 4 Creator Kits: Designed and produced entirely by creators in collaboration with The Sims. Discover global creators whose content is a MUST see - no matter where you play! Creativity has long been a core value for The Sims franchise, and we obsess over seeing and showcasing the incredible talent and artistry that lives within our tight-knit community. This push to expand the ways we support creators has led us to The Sims 4 Creator Kits. These kits are designed and built by community creators to create new collections featuring unique styles and fresh storytelling potential. These Creator Kits will mark the first time that a full collection of in-game assets have been crafted by a creator and officially published by The Sims development team, making them available for all players. For The Sims 4 players who crave more variety in customization and design, look for The Sims 4 Creator Kits to start rolling out in November 2024 across our Sims channels and available alongside our current collections of Kits. This is a big step forward in delivering creator-made content that’s console-friendly and curated with safeguards that will expand your game with more on-trend aesthetics and styles. We’ve been working with some familiar faces for a while now to elevate their work and allow their creations to reach even more of you to enjoy. Stand by for more updates! The Sims Creator Program: How we’re collaborating with global creators Join us to get inspired and create like never before! The Sims Creator Program is the next evolution of how we work with both established and up-and-coming creators around the world. With this official program, creators will gain access to a range of exclusive perks, including early access to upcoming Packs, direct communication with fellow creators and The Sims team, free swag, opportunities to collaborate, and more. We’re looking for creators who regularly create original The Sims content across social platforms and various types of creators who might be new to The Sims, including those who are crafting mods or custom content, or nurturing communities across various platforms. Whether you’re a more established voice or an emerging creator, we welcome you to apply to join us. Read more here to learn how we’re working to better serve creators, streamline onboarding, and more! The Sims Labs - Innovating, improving and evolving across our live and future products Let’s build the future of The Sims together! ICYMI! Our Sims franchise of games today and into the future will deliver on many gameplay and storytelling styles for the growing number of you around the world, and we’re excited for you to see what we’ve been working on! Creating this vision involves innovating across multiple products to deliver new experiences, and through The Sims Labs we’ll explore new experimental ways to play The Sims. Over the next few months, you might start to see The Sims Labs show up when we’re trying out different things for Sims products, systems and features. This is your friendly reminder to sign up for a chance to playtest in The Sims Labs here, and if you fit the requirements we’re looking for, you will receive an email with further instructions. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek at some of what we’ll be testing coming up soon! All footage is pre-alpha and will differ from final release All footage is pre-alpha and will differ from final release The Sims Franchise - Live and Future Product Updates When we talk about The Sims as an entertainment platform driven by our community, it’s because we see the future of The Sims as more than any one title. We’re expanding the franchise to better serve the diverse needs of the growing number of Simmers around the world. The Sims will move beyond linear, sequential Sims releases and offer more options for players than ever before. We’re focused on creating a variety of games and experiences that will touch different categories across the simulated life genre including cozy games, social and collaborative based gameplay, mobile narrative games and continued depth, improvements, and modernization of The Sims 4, which will continue to be a foundational Sims experience. We’re creating new and innovative experiences that connect with players on their terms, wherever they are and however they choose to play. These explorations are being tested via The Sims Labs including individual features from Project Rene, a story driven mobile test, enhancements to The Sims 4 with discovery and search tools, creator tools, and more. For now, keep reading for the latest news about our live and future products! MySims: Cozy Bundle - Two lovable games return with adorable adventures and fun for everyone! Coming soon to Nintendo Switch: Retro re-releases of MySims and MySims Kingdom So many of our players have been asking for the return of MySims. We’re thrilled to share that we’re reinvigorating the MySims product line, beginning with two lovable games available soon on Nintendo Switch. With the MySims: Cozy Bundle, we’re honoring our Sims legacy as we prepare for our 25th birthday with this charming fan-favorite spin-off. You can expect two beloved games, MySims and MySims Kingdom, in which you can explore familiar worlds that are full of puzzles to solve, discover locations, meet lots of characters with big personalities and build, paint and decorate! Get ready to customize cozy worlds, style your cute Sims, and get re-introduced to everyone’s favorite MySims Kingdom triceratops, Bobaboo! With this retro re-release you can expect Nintendo Switch controls and touch screen support, upgraded graphics, as well as much-requested special content from the original PC release returning to MySims. And, look out for adorable MySims merch coming to shopthesims.com also in November 2024! Preorder MySims: Cozy Bundle now in the Nintendo eShop, at retail and on Nintendo.com to start playing when it launches for Nintendo Switch on November 19, 2024.* Project Rene - Expanding the ways to play in The Sims Be among the first to see the new world as playtesting continues! Continuing its development alongside other exciting new projects within The Sims franchise, Project Rene is focused on building ways for friends to meet, connect, and share while playing together in an all-new world. There will be a small invite-only playtest for Rene this Fall 2024, giving an early look at a multiplayer experience that explores joining friends and other players at a shared location. Sign up for the chance to playtest in The Sims Labs here and be among the first to play in the new world! We’ll continue to share more information on the game’s development and milestones along the way. The Sims 4 - Testing new features as we invest in improvements and modernization efforts We’ve been expanding all the ways to play with life in The Sims 4 for 10 years, creating an expansive simulation experience. We have big plans to continue building upon and improving this powerful life simulation game played around the world by more than 80 million people! In May 2024, we announced that we’ve assembled a team to invest in the core game experience, including tackling technical issues. We’ve invested further into these efforts to focus on previously reported issues, quality assurance and game optimization for future releases. Batches of fixes will continue to be released roughly every two months until further notice. On September 18, 2024, our players can expect another major release of fixes alongside an exciting base game update. The Sims 4 developers are hard at work investing in meaningful new features and base game updates. We continue to explore new ways to play; to surprise and delight; to evolve the game in both appearance and gameplay experience. The 'Happy at Home' event was our first foray into a new way to play and we were encouraged to see how many of you enjoyed this new feature. We recently announced that coming up next is the Reaper’s Rewards Event, where you’ll have the chance to play alongside Grim himself and earn exclusive new rewards on September 24, 2024! We're excited about the road ahead for The Sims 4, and can't wait to share what we have planned next for this game! The Sims FreePlay - A new region inspired by mountainside towns is coming soon! For more than a decade, The Sims FreePlay has captured the delightful unpredictability and playfulness of The Sims on mobile platforms. We remain as committed as ever to elevating our game to be an unrivaled town-builder experience, continuously improving the experience with new content, gameplay, and visual improvements. Our next content updates will open an entirely new region inspired by mountainside towns. It may be the coziest region created for the game yet, perfect for exploring as we head into the holiday season! Here’s to celebrating the best of The Sims, past, present, and future! Vadish, Simmers! Thank you for continuing to be a part of our journey! The countdown to our 25th birthday is officially on! In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the many new ways to experience The Sims as they roll out alongside our classic Sims experiences. To stay informed on these efforts, please join us in our Discord community server and stay tuned to our channels (X, IG, TikTok), newsroom at TheSims.com/news and episodes of Behind The Sims, where we’ll be regularly sharing updates. Dag Dag, The Sims Team *Conditions and restrictions apply. See https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/mysims-cozy-bundle/disclaimers for details.
Here's a list of bugs and glitches that should be fixed.
Multiple songs now loop correctly in Workshop and Remodel modes in the original MySims game—but that’s not all! A single song also loops continuously when you're at a location, such as a building (in both games) or an area (in MySims Kingdom). However, if the player leaves when the music stops and then returns to the same location, a different song will play, which also loops continuously. Even in Create-A-Sim mode, a single track loops over and over. This constant looping of a single track can get repetitive and frustrating. Ideally, after one song finishes, a different one should play—without looping endlessly. I hope this can be addressed in a future patch to improve the audio experience. The voice and audio quality for characters, as well as the sound effects in both games, have a strange effect that makes them sound like they’re using a vocoder. I hope this effect gets removed in a future update. In the original MySims game, if you clone a block after painting it with an essence texture, the cloned block reverts its paint texture back to wood. A video link showcasing this glitch is included in the attachments. In MySims Kingdom, when the player is at Reward Island, two of the stereo soundtracks can't be heard in that area. I hope they'll fix this soon so the music plays there as intended! There are various audio bugs and glitches in both games, especially with ambient sound effects. In the original MySims game, if the player leaves the Town Square and goes to a different location—like the Forest or the Desert—the ambiance from the Town Square continues to play instead of switching to the correct ambiance for the new location. Also, in MySims Kingdom, after the player completes an island's story, the game transitions from day to night. However, once the transition is complete, the player continues to hear the daytime ambiance instead of it switching to the correct nighttime ambiance. The same issue happens in reverse—when night transitions to day, the nighttime ambiance continues to play instead of switching to the appropriate daytime sound. On super rare occasions, if a Sim gets kicked out, they will remain in town, even though they have no house. Even if the player builds a new house over the original spot, that Sim is still present in the game permanently. If a Sim is invited back after being kicked out, the house layout and furniture can come back in its default state. This results in a major item exploit as this glitch is repeatable. In the original MySims game, if you kick a Sim out, the number of occupied places on the map, counting the Sim that has already been kicked out, will not decrease. When a Sim uses a turntable in both games, the music doesn't loop after a single "DJ Booth" soundtrack ends. The same issue occurs with the stereo in the original MySims game during the "Dance Off!" activity, as well as when a Sim plays a portable video game or a game on an arcade machine. In the original MySims game, after one playthrough of the music from a portable video game or an arcade machine, the music doesn't loop, and only the sound effects can be heard. Also, after a single loop of the electricity sound effect used for the "Dr. F's Tubular Insanity" and "Dr. F's Tubular Madness" items, the sound does not loop again. In the original MySims game, if a Sim performs the same animation with another Sim who has the same voice type, his/her voice will either fluctuate in pitch to match the other Sim’s or settle back to the voice type's normal pitch. In MySims Kingdom, Liberty has black skin since she has tan skin in the original MySims game. In MySims Kingdom, Chef Gino’s fence texture has the wrong texture. The player can't be best friends with every NPC in MySims Kingdom despite completing all of their tasks. There were still quiet voices during the cutscenes in MySims Kingdom, as well as missing character icons. In MySims Kingdom, during the final cutscene on Rocket Reef, the Simlish countdown sound isn’t heard when the rocket launches. In MySims Kingdom, there’s a bug where characters get stuck in place after being teleported—they end up standing in the same spot and can’t move! In the original MySims game, three of the loading screen soundtracks aren’t played during loading. In the original MySims game, there's a creepy glitch where a Sim's head is missing! Also, two of the soundtracks used for the Fun Sims' homes don't play at all when the player's inside the Amazing Daryl's House. There's even a glitch in the original MySims game with the NPC's best friend dialogue, where the text eventually disappears and the game freezes. For example, Master Aran is the affected Sim with this glitch. (https://www.reddit.com/r/MySims/s/B0t9D3yfCQ) That's all for now. What do you guys think? I hope all of these bugs and glitches get fixed in the next patch for MySims: Cozy Bundle.
MySims Kingdom Unplayable on Steam Deck
Hi there, just reporting this here so people are aware, Kingdom currently does NOT work on Steam Deck, as the game will crash when attempting to enter CAS, making the game unplayable. If there are any workarounds to this fix this issue, I’ll be sure to update this thread. :)MySims™ Cozy Bundle Patch Notes
For the most current bug updates, please visit the Forum November 19 Patch Notes: Significantly improved in-game loading times (MySims, and skippable island travel cutscene in Kingdom) Added Autosave functionality and toggle for player to turn this off in Options Improved user tutorial experience and instructions for Character Creation mode and Build mode In-game Controller guides added to menus for MySims and MySims Kingdom Improved affordance responsiveness (object interaction) Improved consistency of camera control schemes and gameplay controls across both games and all game modes Fixed some legacy and community-suggested bugs, for example: MySims 1: Unintended duplication of certain NPCs being in their house Kingdom: Players can now access outfits later in the game that originally were only available at game start Both Games: Players can now use native language keyboards in Japan and South Korea to name Sim or town. Known Bugs we are fixing in future patches: Randomize in CAS does not randomize skin tone NPC Voices change pitch the second time you talk to them Buddy can have a phantom task in Kingdom Some essences are distorted in the pick up animation Minor visual issues with ground textures Minor audio issues with music objects not playing long enough Player Sim can have invisible objects if buttons are pressed too quickly Buy MySims: Cozy Bundle now in Nintendo eShop, at retail and on Nintendo.com. *Conditions and restrictions apply. See https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/mysims-cozy-bundle/disclaimers for details.
MySims - Suggestions, Feedback & Bugs
I have been enjoying the MySims Cozy bundle on PC over the last few days and I have a few suggestions, feedback, and bugs to report for MySims. -= Suggestions & Feedback =- When editing a building's room, the side to side scroll is rather slow, (and the scrolling does stop moving if your cursor goes to any of the corners). For me personally, this makes it difficult to customize a room, as I have to slowly readjust the camera until I can view what I need to. It would also be nice to be able to press keys to move the camera as well, (such as w, a, s, & d), when not moving/placing an item. The walls also go black when hovering over the outer most walls, (which I personally find to be quite distracting and harder to place items, as it can disrupt the flow). Also, some walls, (such as one in the flower shop), cannot have its wallpaper changed since its "outside" the building, (this just isn't visually appealing). It would be nice to have a "view in room" when building new items. I had built a custom cabinet that was a corner piece, (shown above), and it took several trips back and forth between my house and the workshop to get it built just right. A change to the copy/trash system for crafted items. Right now, any existing crafted item in your inventory can be copied, but if you planned on making no visual changes to the copied item, it feels like wasted time loading up the build screen for each copy. A system to "edit", "copy", and "copy and edit", (with a quantity slider), would be nice. As for trashing any copied items, it would be nice to do so in bulk. A grid system would be nice, (much like in The Sims 4), where you can easily tell where items are being placed into a room, (as well as have the ability to freely place items). I see that chairs aren't placed in the center of tables, and that does get slightly annoying, (especially for those who like things to be centered, like myself). When creating / editing a Sim, it would be nice if they didn't move a lot. I had a hard time deciding what I wanted my Sim to look like because they kept moving after every click, (I also had this issue in Kingdoms). Note: Some suggestions/feedback, (other than #5), can also apply to Kingdoms, but I haven't gotten too far into that game to form an opinion quite yet. -= Bugs =- On the save slot screen, my Sim's wearing different clothing than what's actually applied to the Sim. When placing decorations, the item shows where its going to be placed, but once you click to place, it snaps a bit off to the side. Some items placed in valid spots cannot be replaced once moved/removed. The only way to replace the item would be to move the other item(s) that's "blocking" it first, and then retrying. After completing the Chef's tasks, (the fridge, sink, and stove), and before the Museum Sim wants to move in, the Mayor had mentioned wanting to expand to the forest a bit too early. (This made no sense when I had 7 open spots still).
MySims™: Cozy Bundle Patch Notes
Sul Sul, MySimmers! Happy 2025, we hope you all had a great new year celebrating with DJ Candy, Bobaboo and co! As promised at the end of last year, we are here with another patch update to fix some more issues. Once again, we wanted to say thank you to the community for sharing your love and creativity! The MySims Team For the most current bug updates, please visit the Forum (LINK). January 29 Patch Notes: New Features: Ability to turn off automatic camera rotation to aid with players who may be more sensitive to motion Fixed Bugs: Unintended duplication and disappearance of certain NPCs in MySims (which in some cases, caused infinite loading screens upon achieving 5 stars) Furniture disappearing from player houses in MySims PC exclusive NPCs no longer t-pose in MySims Players can now scroll through all essences while decorating in MySims Buddy no longer has a phantom task in MySims: Kingdom All NPCs can reach Best Friend Status in MySims: Kingdom Randomize in CAS now randomizes skin tone in MySims: Kingdom The dragon costume head on Trevor’s Island has its correct dragon texture Bunnies’ positions will now reset when leaving Trevor’s Island during the herding quest to prevent softlocks on that quest After hitting exit on Fishing, player character no longer automatically re-enters Fishing Audio bugs of only one song playing, and cutscene voices being low, have been adjusted Thank you as always for playing our beloved game and being a part of our community. We continue to prioritize major bugs or crashes for our patches, while investigating community reported issues and longer term/larger fixes that have more complicated knock-on effects. In the meantime, please keep sharing your wonderful builds and creativity with us… we love seeing what you’ve made! We appreciate you for continuing to share and report issues and don’t forget to join the MySims section on our official Discord!
Switch Pro Controller on Steam?
Hello, I installed MySims Cozy Bundle on PC (Steam) today, I've encountered a couple of issues, and a few things that I believe should be changed. Firstly, I've had issues using my Nintendo Switch Pro controller. I've connected it and used Steam input translation. In MySims 1, my inputs do nothing at all. In MySims Kingdom, they work as normal. I've seen one other user have the same issue, so there must be an issue with controller mapping for MySims 1, but not Kingdom. Also, when I try to use my controller inputs, the control menu shows Joycons, but there are Wii remote buttons shown in the menu, which is very confusing. I've included an image which shows this. There are some other issues in MySims 1 with prospecting and fishing. Prospecting uses a different sound than the original Wii version, as well as Kingdom, and the sound plays very inconsistently. I believe this can be improved. Fishing in MySims 1 has problems with character animations and sound effects. They seem to play randomly and do not align with the actual fishing. The fishing is perfectly fine in Kingdom, so I believe this can be improved as well. This issue is also in the Switch version. There are a few other things, while they are not necessarily issues, that I believe can be improved upon. The ability to shake trees by grabbing them and moving your mouse is gone. This was a charming feature that I think should return (to both MySims 1 and Kingdom). Chopping trees and mining essences in MySims Kingdom is now done automatically. I believe an input can be used to do it manually, just like how it originally was in the Wii version. I also believe the use of motion controls for certain actions (fishing, prospecting, etc.), can return for controllers as an alternative option to pressing a button. Lastly, while this was described in another post, I think the games should be available separately from each other on PC. I have been a MySims fan since the original games released when I was a young child, I really care about this series and would love to see more content in the future, but I think it is important to address the issues to create a higher quality game. Thank you for reading. CM Edit: Title updated for clarity.
