the Sims 4 is Gaslighting You, Babes

[@sukipeace8986]

There's an issue with toxic positivity in the Sims' community. A lot of people seem to equate criticism to 'being mean'.

[@sabrinarosario6499]

This is a whole thing with some millennials and Gen... whatever follows millennials. They also HATE constructive criticism. They think it is hate and toxic. Give me good praise or nothing.

[@clearlynotchloe]

@@sabrinarosario6499 going to give you some constructive criticism-it's just not true of our generation (gen z is the "whatever follows" that you're looking for) as a whole; it's only true within certain communities. it's the communities that spread "good vibes" that do so to the extent of avoiding any controversial topic, discourse, or criticism, in the name of faux cooperation. i'd actually say the opposite, that our generation is quite confrontational and is looked downed upon for our constant calls to action. we've been associated with "cancel culture" by older generations for some time now.

[@honinakecheta601]

Maybe it's due to the game's genre and primary gaming audience, but die-hard fans respond childishly to criticism. They speak like children who aren't used to others having opposing opinions.

[@NeshaBoo21]

​@@sabrinarosario6499I don't think this is a generation thing. It is notoriously known that older Generations cannot take any criticism whatsoever without getting upset so I hate when people attribute these kind of things to the younger generation as a whole

[@SuperSimmerGal]

​@@NeshaBoo21 I agree that it's not a generation thing, but disagree with what you said about older generations. My parents are boomers and they certainly can take criticism. As others have said, it's certain (relatively small, they just SEEM huge because they're so vocal) groups that are like that, not generations as a whole.

[@IcyPastel]

The best thing the Sims situation has ever taught me is to never be loyal to a company.

[@skylersadventures765]

Pretty much. Though I grew up with Nintendo, and I haven't "broken up" with them yet...

[@moneppeli]

Never be loyal to BAD companies, ones like larian and now game science deserve all the loyal fans

[@jorrdan.]

@@moneppeli Loyal to a fault though is the key I think. If they mess up big time, people shouldn't be there waiting for them to hopefully pick up the pieces.

[@moneppeli]

@@jorrdan. of course. Loyalty is earned and if they mess up they need to earn it back

[@kakednbaked]

Agreed

[@clownii_the_imp]

No WAY people are still defending the sims

[@TheSimsSinistros]

Im not defending, that's why I use the ANADIUS services 👀👀👀

[@keiko431]

Yeah they're because those people are delusional and they live too close in their eco chambers where everyone is nice and anyone who dares to criticize it get blocked

[@Lyokokyly]

The same people defending Disney

[@nedrane297]

Yeah, they are. In a SatchOnSims thread where someone was complaining about bugs a EA shill said about how they just fixed a major bug what are you talking about they fix things all the time. He actually said that, like it was ok that these lackluster packs came out full of bugs in the first place because they fix some of the problems later

[@IAMFUNNYOKAY]

Listen, i like the sims, i don’t like EA.

[@ple8379]

"Maybe bunk beds are just hard to make" said the guru for the game who had them in 2009 XD. I guess technology regressed a lot since then 🤡

[@jimjimjimmy7793]

They be lyin. They can’t say, “my boss is forcing me to release this before it’s done”

[@RedLicorice05]

It really did, color wheels ?.. I still believe they can implement them, it’s just vey hard so they just don’t bother

[@libera7161]

But the Sims 4 has bunkbeds now

[@kkor4775]

Toddlers, pools, ghosts and myriad other things that were in TS3 FROM THE START must have been hard to make too 🥺 it’s ridiculous

[@modernmoonlight7350]

Well the sims 4 engine is honestly way worse than the engine of the sims 3 so I do believe it wasn't easy thing to code - which begs the question why on earth are they still developing this hot garbage of a game and haven't moved on to the sims 5 yet

[@beccaf262]

Having “sims gurus” really was a genius marketing move. Turning your huge faceless corporation into individual people that can be “bullied” for creating subpar products to make fans attack each other instead of said subpar product, was clearly a smart move for their business plan.

[@adrianblake8876]

The concept of Simgurus (then called "Maxoids") existed since the days of Sims1, so they could communicate directly to the fan base to promote the game and get feedback. They just abused that power recently...

[@solomonwreath5576]

The biggest issue is that people are treating a literal game company with years of experience and knowledge as if it is an innocent little independent game developer who's working on their very first game.

[@peytonkirk106]

No literally like Ea was founded in 1982. It’s been 40 years.

[@honinakecheta601]

sims 4 fans have a serious issue with infantilizing people and this company, it's been around for decades... they know what they are doing, they are a business first and foremost and everything they do is calculated and purposeful.

[@NotMalcolm]

@@solomonwreath5576 this is so true lol the amount of times I’ve heard players say “guys we need to support the devs” anytime people criticize the game… 😭

[@moustik31]

Ikr? I started playing, with the 1st game but I stepped off the sims4 train when the Wedding pack launched. $40 for a broken pack??? From EA of all developpers???? Yeah, the bugs are a choice and no amount of bullying from toxic sims4 players will convince me otherwise. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@enricofrancis]

I’ll never forgive ea for ruining the sims… ty for exposing them ♡

[@predatitor4183]

You should, now we analize about the older sims on how they were more good and what made a good dlc, sims 4 sacriface himself for the past to shine.

[@NotMalcolm]

@@enricofrancis it’s an honor and privilege tbh ❤️

[@Nytea1982]

@enricofrancis why doesn't anyone ever blame Maxis?! We just say EA is f'n up?! 🤣😅😂😆 And did some other company publish the game before EA?!

[@TheLadyWithTheHood]

​@@Nytea1982uhm.. bc Maxis belongs to EA since mid 90 and today it's just a "brand". They weren't even responsible for developping and publishing The Sims 2 anymore and the vid is about The Sims 4.

[@danielkay5555]

Thank you for bravely calling out how weird it is for middle aged game devs to have this dynamic with the young influencers. They've always came off as super cringe.

[@owlproblem7230]

This

[@ariluvrr]

it’s so manipulative too bc the simgurus essentially being influencers disincentivizes people from criticizing the game 😭 it’s why we always see “the devs worked hard on the game so shhh” as a common response to valid concerns

[@danielkay5555]

@ariluvrr it's giving parasocial relationship but it's more pathetic than usual bc it's with some nobodies who happen to work in some shitty company.

[@ismichi]

tbf, legit *any* proper staff of any company doing anything similar with younger influencers and fans is cringe at the bare min. It's super easy to be revealed later that they were a creep using the company as an excuse to contact them in any degree.

[@danielkay5555]

@@ismichi exactly I honestly expect the fandom to be at least a little weary of this behavior, but even if they're not creeps, they're certainly not normal lol

[@owlproblem7230]

I'm a professional QA who worked on a very popular (millions of downloads) mobile game for years. I'm laughing my ass off at how much Sims 4 players want to lick the EA management asses without knowing a single bit of how gamedev actually works. They act like EA is a tiny indie studio who creates stuff with passion. Literally none of it is true. This is so stupid and sad. They seem to really think that TS4 team cares about them

[@luancosta199]

And these are the same people that will nitpick sims 4 competition like paralives which you can count employees on two hands. Its actually insane how little self respect this fandom has, a lot of other gaming fandoms would not tolerate 10% of the bs sims 4 puts them through

[@fleetwoodmak777]

one of my favorite simmers from my childhood was defending ea claiming they're "full of passion" and she's sick of us complaining.... babes I'm sick of my unmodded game breaking everytime EA decides to release yet another half-baked dlc I can't afford and will not be partaking in, while the same creators are being sent game codes & profiting off videos pushing said dlc. simfluencers & ea are so out of touch with the fanbase.

[@Carrots-sb7qo]

Would you say the sims 4 devs lacks talent, or are they just lazy?

[@aliencreative9360]

I HAVE to shoot my shot. Do you work at mlbb? 😂

[@LunaRuna212]

@@Carrots-sb7qo I think most of it comes down to producers and shareholders shoving down bullshit down the throats of devs and designers. It's very likely that their work environment at EA is not the best. They don't have time to insert much passion into anything. And they probably won't be rewarded for anything extra well.

[@Furry_fishticks_Redux]

Sims 4 community Is sickening (derogatory) actually. Not so long ago shortly after sims 5/project rene's cancelation I read comments blaming inzoi and paralive's supporters, saying all we wanted was for the sims to die. We just want to have More options because of how shallow sims 4 Is smh.

[@stellahoi_sh]

exactly, ea had the opportunity to prove they could make a good life sim game, and instead they dropped the project and let the fans blame other games that actually CARE about the genre for it ?? it’s crazy the fans don’t see the sims is just a way for ea to make cash easily like 🤷🏻

[@JuneTheFay]

How DARE anyone make actual competition? How DARE anyone want for a better game?? How DARE we want our money's worth???

[@veestreams]

Project Renee wasn’t cancelled afaik, it just was not Sims 5. They didn’t cancel Sims 5 they just officially announced they were never working on it in the first place. People just assumed Project Renee was going to be Sims 5 when it was announced

[@ember9361]

I mean, they're not wrong on the wanting sims 4 to die thing

[@Furry_fishticks_Redux]

@@veestreams It bothers me so much how they went about it. They Made the whole project René thing confusing and weird like, they announced It and left so much ambigous likely because they were afraid of commiting to call It a sequel or a spinoff. Either way It ended up as an add on to sims 4 and I find It very unfortunate.

[@Xavier-ux3sq]

I guess any kind of deserved criticism is a death threat now. Let me stop, this might be considered bullying.

[@NotMalcolm]

@@Xavier-ux3sq 😭 my biggest problem with them is that using words like “bully” and “harass” so casually sorta minimizes *actual* cases of bullying and harassment

[@journeytree]

The Sims is no longer an innovative franchise, and hasn't been for over a decade.

[@NotMalcolm]

@@journeytree i agree tbh it’s just crazy they’ve kept this up for 10 years with 5-10 more to come 😭

[@itzcami]

Modders are so underated

[@1hinita]

They BEEN carrying the community since sims1. They just got recognized when sims 4 dropped. Tbh once I peeped there was no openworld, toddlers or cars (the main most beloved additions to the game) I Knew I wasn't moving on just yet. After 5 -6 packs dropped I said nah, I'm good lmbooo. S4 was a regression as far as I was concerned 😅

[@PurpleishGremlin]

FR modders are the only reason I come back to ts4

[@shamiaworld8897]

That's funny considering most of the top modders work with EA on the very game people dislike 😂😂

[@elephant4053]

​​@@shamiaworld8897 only some of them + they work on things that the community does actually like lol

[@RheaEndora]

My biggest mistake was believing when 'they' said ... "buy it on xbox disk".... 😂 it will play the same 😅 hmmm I'm seriously, considering starting again.....

[@Anonymous-mp5mt]

Baffles me how sim guru says it’s hard to make bunk beds when they were in the sims 2/3 the sims 2 is what ? 20 years old... cmon now

[@MaliciousCorpse]

Bunk Beds weren't in The Sims 2 without mods. You're thinking of 3.

[@lifeisstrange2605]

Especially Sims 3, with all of its “problems”. I’m so happy I was able to switch to 2 & 3 again.

[@DustyHoney]

It’s because we’ve genuinely lost some of the technology games used even 10 years ago. I can’t remember the video title but there is a video talking about this. Modern games are huge and demanding, and optimization doesn’t go nearly as far anymore. Games like Sims 3 and the original rollercoaster tycoon are much less demanding on your computer than sims 4, so EA literally couldn’t figure out how to make bunk beds not break the game for a long time.

[@ariluvrr]

⁠​⁠@@DustyHoney i don’t think that’s it, even back in 2014 coding bunk beds should be light work. main problem was trying to make sims 4 a multiplayer online game and then scrapping it last minute to churn out this mess. i’m guessing the technical debt is so insane now that it’s not worth the effort to fix, and they just keep adding on to poorly optimized code

[@dragosbeat]

A MODDER MADE THEM AFTER THE GURU SAID THAT

[@seelesims]

the cancellation of the sims 5 should’ve sealed the deal for long time simmers that the sims team has no passion anymore. they can try to fake it with these little too late lore editions and acting like they care but if they did, they’d pour it into a new working fresh game. not keep milking the hell out of this one. because like they said it themselves they don’t want simmers to start over…

[@shamiaworld8897]

It was never Sims 5 to begin with 😂😂

[@moustik31]

They dont want us to enjoy the sims4 like sims3 players are doing now: unbothered and happy! They know, a lot of us are over these micro-worlds, buggy sanitised gameplay and silly never-ending kits. Cc and mod creators are the only reason, the game is actually enjoyable and they are not the ones being paid to make the game. The sims4 model is bs.

[@kittenchristmas4194]

The Sims team and the people in the community who think they can do no wrong are birds of a feather. They both make excuses for why the game is lacking content that the developers are more than capable of adding because they done it before. They both gaslight you into thinking you're the problem if you hold them accountable. At this point, the Sims 4 community and Sims team deserve each other.

[@_someonecalledASH]

Im gonna be honest, I used to watch a whole lotta series (creepy pasta and other mods) of it(sims 4, around 2016ish) So in a way it was part of my childhood (when I also brought a couple packs I loved as well) although I still play it for the memories I had,it’s still pretty messed up. With there only now being more base game updates, And as you said before, the devs management(them not listening to the players) also adds into the problem. - -- But ya I’d say not all of the players in the community are ignorant/gaslighters (adding onto your last sentence btw!)

[@BunE22]

Just because past dev teams could add content that the Sims 4 doesn't have, it doesn't mean the current dev teams are capable. How many of the current team are from Sims 1, 2, or 3? It's quite possible that the current team is not talented enough. Just a thought. 🤷‍♀️

[@ariluvrr]

⁠​⁠@@BunE22 you’re telling me a multi billion dollar mega corporation is incapable of putting together a team of competent devs to code for one of their most profitable franchises? this could be an excuse years ago when sims 4 was in its infancy but it’s the 10th yr anniversary of the game, if they’re having issues on the development level it should’ve been resolved years ago

[@BunE22]

@@ariluvrr If they're hiring for DEI, yeah.

[@noahwaybro]

​@@BunE22 ultimately thats still a symptom of the problem that created all of this: their goal is money. short term profit over long term growth and its still not an excuse or something to defend them with, if thats what youre doing

[@TheJadedSimmer]

My biggest problem is that most if not all sims 4 EPs are not worth the money. For the price of an expansion pack, the content is lacking significantly. They could avoid most of this backlash if they just made them cheaper 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@MandPKratz]

The majority of what I own was because I waited for a really good sale (or was free), though I found it took longer and longer for packs to drop significantly in price over the last few years. Of course, I purchase them as if it were just or stuff, with a bonus of gameplay if it works, though I have avoided some because I'm scared they will actually break the limited gameplay I have now.

[@AustinWithAHead]

I thank my lord, anadius, as now I dont need to buy packs !!!

[@universoultrain2074]

🤔 Honestly I feel like a lot of simmers that’s been defending EA all this time, have been “praying” to anadius too. Because there’s no way they’re happily paying to be disrespected 😭

[@AustinWithAHead]

@@universoultrain2074 I don't pay for the packs yet feel scammed :sob: MY WHOLE GAME BROKE BECAUSE OF BUST THE DUST

[@Thewritingelf]

anadius is that fucking dude. I don't pay for ANY packs

[@aleesha5579]

I haven't brought a pack since get famous , I just use anadius 😂

[@geralt-of-rivia-z6f]

AMEN!!! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[@SecretKeeperForever9]

This why I don't use X. It's just unhinged in general. The Sims constantly gaslights people. Honestly, I'm still pissed having to play the game a certain way in order to get free content.

[@ThaAs-oh3nz]

*Twitter.

[@Imjusthere1222]

@@ThaAs-oh3nzit’s called X now it’s not twitter anymore

[@weirdfleximnotokay3260]

@@Imjusthere1222deadnaming twitter is the only appropriate form of deadnaming

[@simssaves4980]

I don't think they forgot to add seasons to Ravenwood, I think it was a decision to cut corners (and call it 'lore')

[@kittenchristmas4194]

@@simssaves4980 The funniest part about the "eternal autumn" explanation for it was that they did a similar thing with Appaloosa Plains in Sims 3 Pets and that town had seasons. So they can do it but just didn't.

[@shamiaworld8897]

And then they got criticized and death threats for trying to do something a lil different 🫠

[@elephant4053]

​@@shamiaworld8897is your ass sore yet sugarboo?

[@insa2242]

Yea I think the issue was the lack of follow through. The eternal mainly autumn with very rare snowy winters and such would be a good idea for that world and the lore but they made it look very summer looking with fresh greenery all around. They should’ve made it more like what they claimed

[@noahwaybro]

​@@shamiaworld8897 first, yeah. criticism is a thing that needs to happen and that they deserve. we have the comparison to the old games and know this was a choice and considering their track record? it was likely out of laziness or cost. they CAN do it which we've seen in the past. idk what your point is here but maybe don't try to defend the billion dollar company. they dont care about you

[@peyodogo4864]

I feel like the frank way to put it is that they're whales. The people who have sunk so much money into this fuckup of a game that they feel the need to self immolate to defend it are whales, in EA's eyes. People to squeeze money and clout out of, whom it is entirely unnecessary to respect - they'll open their wallets anyway. It's so incredibly sad. Have some dignity, people.

[@BunE22]

Sunk cost fallacy.

[@elisemushroom1890]

The last expansion that had the full experience of seasons (with snow) was high school years over TWO YEARS AGO. It's a pattern atp.

[@twistedtimbers]

as much as i think not having seasons in l&d is bs, i feel like it should be pointed out that all the worlds since copperdale DO have seasons compatibility, they’re just not based on areas that have a pattern of 4 seasons irl. it makes sense for tomarang to have dry and wet seasons bc it’s based on se asia. san sequoia is based on san francisco which famously has cool foggy summers, ciudad enamorada is based on mexico city which is in the tropics, chesnut ridge is the us southwest. none of those have the typical 4 seasons, but ravenwood SHOULD bc it’s based on the us northeast which is known for heavy snowfall in winter. basically i’m on your side wrt life and death but i don’t think more diversity in weather patterns has been a problem up until now

[@yoo-p4y]

@@twistedtimbers i'm pretty sure l&d is based on romania , which has a more mild climate (but still, there is some snow there and it should be reflected as such)

[@kiittykiiwii]

@@yoo-p4yah shit, im making a sims 4 bingo for 2025 and this was on there (stopping to add seasons crossplay. I don’t play sims 4 but I love the snark).

[@adamautumn2329]

I'm not surprised by the perpetual laziness of the EA Sims team. It's very weird but I'm happy it's obvious to everybody.

[@noonenowhere877]

My working theory is EA fired the programmers that actually know how to code after Sims 3 and the Sims 4 was coded by 3 interns in a trenchcoat.

[@camieki3419]

Urban sims is so dramatic bruh, she needs to get an actual job because this is ridiculous atp. I don’t understand how we spend 40 dollars on a game that has missing features and they get mad when we talk about the missing features. I’m glad he deactivated his account

[@Carrots-sb7qo]

Shes dramatic because sims 4 is her livelihood, her gameplay is extremely boring though.

[@coolschmoool]

Damn she’s STILL playing the sims 😂😂😂 last time I even watched her was in 2016 and she was in her 30s

[@VivienVarga-ki3sd]

coolschmoool games dont have an age limit

[@natasha9474]

@@Carrots-sb7qo lmao a lot of popular simmers are boring😂but simmers like the bonnet simmer she has realistic gameplay combined with crazy storylines that have me cracking up all night at 3am😂 it’s like a reality tv show mixed with a soap opera wrapped up into one lol but she don’t get as much views which idk why cause she the only one make it feel like you watching a crazy reality tv show but it’s the sims so I guess that’s why popular doesn’t always equal good 💯

[@Carrots-sb7qo]

@@natasha9474so true, popular does not equal good. I don't know how these other boring sims 4 channels have so many views. No talent just playing the game boringly, Im flabagasted. I'll check out the channel you mentioned.

[@aliensgoesrawr]

i love Mira, but her hating on you is wild. Like her brand was literally calling EA out for making shit content for black sims before they started paying her to do their job for them 🥴

[@NotMalcolm]

@@aliensgoesrawr yeah i really respect what she did but like you said she’s in the creator network now and is financially entangled with EA… these people don’t want the game to fail 🤷‍♂️

[@TheFeralFerret]

EA has been treating customers and employees like absolute garbage for literally decades. When they aren't acquiring and trashing studios, they're milking ever dime they can from their playerbases. It's actually incredible that anyone can defend this company and take themselves seriously.

[@NotMalcolm]

thank you for saying this! at least for a while they were actually making decent games while being terrible 😭

[@NotMalcolm]

if u don't like this video i'm deactivating ❤

[@regeneratedwitch]

hell, no! I ain't gonna allow that to happen.

[@Samisregular]

It's giving 2:17. I can't blame you I mean clearly it's a good business strategy 😂

[@dantrianon4248]

Id you deactivate I'm gonna cry

[@cranberry420]

I'm liking on all my accs

[@normalscarf8952]

An offer I couldn't refuse

[@PeacefulAutistic]

You know what’s funny about the bugs in this game? The fact they can’t/won’t fix them. A single one guy can fix a not game breaking glitch for a game that only one person mentioned, but the sims team with more than one member cannot fix game breaking glitches that hundreds of not thousands of people are mentioning? In stardew valley 1.6 from April this year, I was the only one who mentioned to the creator that when Willy was fishing the texture of his rod was messed up. I told him on Twitter and just didn’t fish nearby Willy so I wasn’t annoyed. I got off that evening and the next day I got on there was a patch that fixed that and a few other bugs. That was one guy. For one person’s complaint. The sims team can’t fix things that many people are complaining about. Things that make the game hard to enjoy.

[@ayou2470]

There's some shenanigans going on with EA. I don't know how it ties in, but I'm noticing a pattern in their products. Dragon Age is getting RAKED over the coals right now. It feels like Sims 4 players at launch. The game doesn't feel like the previous versions, gameplay has been drastically dumbed down and the writing subpar. I think EA should dissolve and leave Maxis to their own devices. Good or bad. See what happens.

[@NotMalcolm]

@@ayou2470 I’ve noticed the lukewarm reception to dragon age too… it’s crazy that EA has become so averse to taking risks and prefer to just play it safe 🤷‍♂️ i think they need a change in leadership

[@sabrinarosario6499]

Not even HALF of what EA has done in The Sims would be allowed in ANY other game/community. If this was any other game, EA would be traumatized and crying. The sims would be a whole different monster. Casual gamers, man...

[@OfficialAngel_]

Xmiramira said that? No way💀💀💀💀

[@doubledeeez3688]

Right!?! I was shook when I saw her tweet up there

[@deondraa]

Another problem that nobody talks about is instead of going after EA for a lackluster game they go after modders and attack them for not uploading fast enough, when it’s literally not their job to do this

[@cometa_maria]

THIS!

[@ZanathKariashi]

Yeah, it is. It says right in the fine print for Sims 4 that by modding the game, EA owns you and the rest of your life must be fixing the game for free or they'll send the mob after you to make sure you do your part.

[@thereallofigirl]

Finally someone said it bc every time ppl say “they got death threats!!” It’s usually made up so we feel bad for them 💀

[@BUMMY105]

Gaslight. Gatekeep. Girlboss. It's in the Game. Seriously, if an entire community starts harassing the developer of a sex mod to update their mod barely a week after EA released a major content drop that broke more than half of the mod's mechanics, while said developer has announced that they were on vacation, then you can tell how lackluster TS4's gameplay has been. As much as I question Krafton's ethics, I'd much rather have a new life sim game than deal with TS4 or TS3. Especially when the code to both games are slowly rotting away.

[@EnigmaticWhisper2u]

I think inzoi is a beautiful game. The unfortunate thing about the game is the fact that they use GAI (generative artificial intelligence). If you do not know why that is a problem, let me explain. Lack of transparency: Krafton, the developer, has not fully disclosed the training data used to develop their generative AI model. This lack of transparency makes it difficult to assess the potential risks of data mining. Web-scraped data: Some generative AI tools are trained using web-scraped data, which can raise concerns about copyright infringement and privacy. If InZOI’s AI model has been trained on publicly available data, it may be vulnerable to hacking attempts that exploit this data. Client-side processing: InZOI’s AI capabilities are built into the client as on-device solutions, which means that data processing occurs locally on the player’s device. While this reduces the risk of data transmission to external servers, it does not eliminate the risk of data being accessed or manipulated by malicious actors. Prototype hacking: The Sundai Club hackathon demonstrated how generative AI tools can be used to quickly prototype ideas, including those with malicious intent. This highlights the potential for hackers to exploit InZOI’s AI features for nefarious purposes. User-generated content: InZOI’s character creator allows players to upload their own patterns and photos to generate custom textures. While this feature is intended to enhance creativity, it also increases the risk of user-generated content being exploited by hackers.

[@theamazingpoof2205]

Don't say that too loud. I got harassed for calling inzoi out

[@EnigmaticWhisper2u]

@theamazingpoof2205 I'm not too worried about harassment. I do not care enough for that to matter to me. What I do care about is warning others to be careful. If someone does not care about privacy and personal data security, then go for it. It will be interesting to see what happens. But do not say that others and I didn't warn you. Ha

[@theamazingpoof2205]

@@EnigmaticWhisper2u im against inzoi for the ai thing so im not going to be affected because i wont play

[@EnigmaticWhisper2u]

@theamazingpoof2205 I can certainly understand that. Same here. I was very excited about it at first. Then I heard about them using GAI. I did a bit of research, and I then decided I would not be playing it because of all of the dangers and risks of using GAI. It's very disappointing tbh.

[@iritkogan6314]

Every time a company does some shady shit and we think they’re the worst, EA will come swooping, reminding us that they are, indeed, the worst, and don’t you dare take that away from them.

[@lissipissi]

i swear people bully and doxx MOD creators for not updating their mods instantly but the POOR sim guru that works for this MASSIVE company ? no we owe him a hug :(

[@monelmonelmonel]

😂😂

[@kimberlymorganadams4338]

The game is legit unplayable for me, the Sims constantly ignore my requests and do their own thing, it's like heading cats in a thunderstorm.

[@LaniBrasi]

Literally I can't even play direct 11 !

[@lyssa9879]

I think that they say sims 5 is not in production just to make people buy more packs. a lot of people have stopped buying expansions for ts4 because they are waiting for the sims 5.

[@TheEdiya]

Right, this. The line in the sand for me was somewhere around 3 years ago, I realized then the game couldn't hold itself up any more and I am careful to be offfline when I pull up the app so it won't update. Happily playing it untouched by updates and new packs. There is no way this thing is going to hold up for much longer unless there are massive fixes. The gurus said years ago that certain things couldn't be added because it'd break the game (I believe that, I believed much more of what they said prior to 2020). Dead things bloat, and that's what Sims 4 is doing. I suspect what will happen is that the renee pack that comes out will be fully playable by itself, or made to be programmed so it could be in the near future, and the game will continue as "Sims 4" while technically being something else entirely. Or they'll dump it and blame the community for it. I clocked out of the community ages ago because at that time there were verified statements that were wholly vile. Genuine criticism disappears under the folds of the hyper positive or hyper negative. I don't disbelieve that this guru was getting threats. But also there is something fundamentally wrong about the player to company relationship, and I don't think any party is guiltless.

[@peaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

malcolm is giving everything i needed in 2014 when ts4 came out i was booed on tumblr for not liking ts4 😂

[@NotMalcolm]

@@peaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haha justice for 2014 simmers 🙌

[@peaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

@@NotMalcolmi also remember there was a guy on the sims reddit who specifically would fight with anyone who criticized ts4, so much so that his account was banned 💀💀

[@AriesClips044]

This is why I’m playing sims 3 now

[@kxd4103]

same!!

[@chattychatotchannel]

I never got the sims 4 I just play the sims 3 lol

[@AriesClips044]

@ I make my sims hoes and have lot kids get drunk at the bar

[@anonview]

When someone cooks fried chicken for the first time and nearly burns it, they usually try again until they get it right. They don't drop the recipe once and for all. EA abandoning The Sims because of their own decision to release a lackluster version is such a bad and flimsy excuse.

[@RedLicorice05]

I love how people started gaslight each other after guru deactivated their account

[@KatieT97]

I've said this a bunch of times on videos before and I'll keep saying it. I knew that the community especially had a gaslighting culture when I was looking on the forums for help with a bug, and I saw multiple moderators absolutely bullying a poor person for describing the exact same bug I had. They kept saying that it was all this person's fault, the game worked fine, they just broke it with mods so they need to just remove their mods and shut up, the Sims 4 is the greatest game of all time. The kicker though: OP WAS A CONSOLE PLAYER. Literally no possibility of mods and CC being the issue. Context: this particular bug was with laundry mechanics in the laundry day pack (some collision issues with the laundry bag going through the sim while they were holding it), and I can recall at least 5 patch notes saying it was fixed and every time I played it would work for a few interactions and then return to the bugged out laundry bag.

[@bigbangbot-SuperSqank]

EA threatening people to invest in The Sims 4 to make sure The Sims 5 happens only to not make The Sims 5 despite fans investing a ton of money in 4 (even after a decade) is literally the kind of thing you would see the irredeemable bad guy in a kids movie do.

lol the sims is like that rich kid in college who has to have their parents pay their way to graduation. Sure they’re charismatic and nice but talented? Haha nope. And the worst part the people who support it don’t realize how giving them a pass every time is why we are in this mess. Every time a sims influencer says how great it is it just hurts the franchise and people are dumb enough to keep buying it. If the sims dies, good, it should at this point.

[@cecesoft]

What I’m really wondering is, when did all that crazy toxic behaviour start in defending a game that doesn‘t work properly? I have now for years, when i felt like buying an „expansion“ pack of the sims, never bought any of their stuff at full price. There are a lot of sites where you can get sims 4 game keys for prices, these packs should have been from the beginning. It‘s just so crazy for me to pay that much money for this game. But I‘m not near owning all the packs, that‘s just way too much and i wouldn‘t want or even need it. EA should be ashamed of themselves, but they will never :D

[@bvellaz]

the people who play the sims 4 genuinely seem to lack critical thinking. why are they so offended by people critiquing the game? all games are susceptible to criticism. especially ones that are knowingly sucking money out of their consumers and lying. god forbid people have a differing opinion. the intense hate people SPECIFICALLY have towards you is genuinely gross. it’s mob mentality

[@NotMalcolm]

thank you 🙌

[@DarkeningDemise]

Yeah Pixelade cried "Leave my multi billion dollar company alone!" in a video about that 'harassment'. The guy is such a shill while acting like he's 'one of us'.

[@shamiaworld8897]

Because we don't give a fuck how much you don't like the game but writing simsgurus death threats and bullying them over a damn game is entirely to damn much. If you don't like the damn game just stop buying and playing it DUH 😂😂😂

[@elephant4053]

@shamiaworld8897 overreaction much! Baby watch the video

[@insa2242]

@@shamiaworld8897who sent death threats? Once again the simguru’s dns are closed. So they would have had ti sent a public death threat. And people being mean is constant within the community yall do it to each other all the time. I’m not saying they deserve to be degraded but ffs someone calling the dev lazy isn’t that serious the man isn’t crying over what some random person says online ppl have has negative takes on this game for years.

[@noahwaybro]

​@@shamiaworld8897 you have to be twelve or something. there's no way a grown adult is going under tons of comments and writing out defense paragraphs for a COMPANY

[@paigesss]

the fact that a life simulation game released a "life and death" expansion pack should speak for itself

[@ChokyDaWerehusky]

At this point I am so done with The Sims 4 that even sailing the high seas to get the packs isn't worth it anymore. It's just so boring.

[@writingnerd9897]

One of the biggest things for me is that we assume any criticism of the game is a criticism of all the individual programmers, but really, the criticism is on the company who doesn't spend enough money to make a good game. Basically, all the backlash against people being "mean" is people being corporate bootlickers

[@JellyBeanBun]

Gaming companies suck, their attitude towards their customers is disgusting, I don’t buy games new anymore avoid large companies and go more indie companies if I can I buy second hand.

[@NotMalcolm]

hell yeah! indie games are the future 🙌

[@MidoriRick]

It’s so weird how they normalized the dlc structure. Paying $40 for some items and and 4 lots is NOT normal

[@gianeirationgco5163]

Another day, another slay!! And Malcolm is here to expose EA for gaslighting the Sims players 💅 Keep clocking them, Malcolm 💅

[@jamieking8011]

At this point I only play The Sims 4 when I want to build a house. If I want a life sim I've been playing Desperate Housewives The Game lol it has a really good cooking mini game and adequate gardening mini game and you can seduce the mailman.

[@BunE22]

I used to have a Desperate Housewives game on CD. I no longer have a disc drive, so I couldn't play it if I wanted to. But where did you get this game you're playing? Is it a DL?

[@jamieking8011]

@@BunE22 I bought it on disc from ebay, it came from Germany but it is in English. I think it was $14 CDN. I love the cooking mini game.

[@jma7481]

SOLD, what a cute comment 😄

[@neratastic6620]

EA manipulates their players? Fork found in kitchen and water is wet. People need to realise that criticising their interests ≠ criticising them.

[@annishabell6488]

Man the Sims is so boring people have a whole community devoted to coming up with challenges to keep us entertained 😂😂

[@ParisLeShea]

I’m glad someone said it. And tbh, many of the people defending EA are influencers FOR EA, specifically for the sims. Of course they’re going to defend the sims because their $$ is connected to them. If the sims goes down, their $$ goes down, too. But how much longer do they really think people are going to just accept EA’s BS? Dine Out is still broken and so is Get To Work. And they won’t be fixed because EA doesn’t care so long as people continue to spend on the sims 4. A lot of sims fans are in denial about the quality of the sims 4. That’s why they feel so threatened by INZOI and Paralives.

[@stardewserenity]

Everything you're saying is true and people really hate hearing the truth. I gave up on Sims 4 many years ago (around the time after toddlers came out, journey to batuu, and all the unnecessary kits) because of all of the problems, lack of content, and how expensive the packs were for nothing. I've never bought a sims 4 pack at full price and always waited for sales because they're not worth it. When I bought high school years pack (on sale, of course) I was pretty shocked at how bad it was. I'm a huge Sims fan... I bought Sims 4 the day it released as well and was underwhelmed. I tried for years to give it a chance, but it's still extremely disappointing 10 years later and buggy as ever. It's virtually unplayable. The only thing that even keeps me coming back to it is the modding community and that's about it. I stick to playing Sims 3 now. Unfortunately for some reason I can't get my Sims 2 Ultimate Collection working at all on my computer these days.

[@stardewserenity]

Those who constantly defend Sims 4 and EA are almost always new gen players. 4 being your first sims game isn't bad, but it just seems that because it was their introduction to the series they can't take any criticism of it. When we tell them they should try the other games and see how much more they delivered compared to Sims 4, we almost always get shut down. It's weird.

[@kxd4103]

same. only play the sims 3 anymore, sims 4 is so soulless and boring by comparison

[@Guido-h1o]

It's been 20 plus years and no Spiral Stairs. It has become clear that EA management not the designers are cheap and lazy.

[@myosotys15]

There are spiral staircases in The Sims 3

[@maplepainttube8158]

I remember that when the horse ranch expansion came out, it was mentioned that “hey, this $55 expansion pack doesn’t have very many features or gameplay” and someone basically commented, “Well… animating horses is hard and probably took up most of the resources” and while I’m sure animating horses is hard, it seems weird to say “for only $55 we can only give you horses (on top of the base game you likely also paid for if you didn’t get it recently after it became free)”when for $15 more you can get Breath of the wild…. Which has the entirety of the game breath of the wild, which includes horses…

[@ZanathKariashi]

'Member when they released Horses, Dogs, Cats, diverse wild-life, and small-pets all in one 40 dollar expansion? with whole town and a bunch of stuff involving them. And it was all usable anywhere? I 'member.

[@SonicAlly45]

Sims 4 fans will do anything to support a greedy community

[@klow6685]

Simguru deactivating his account and the community changing their tune is the equivalent of a child doing something bad and getting scolded only to get coddled after crying about it

[@atrixtussand2369]

The bunk bed part got me laugh.

[@MadamSavvy]

Thank you so much for doing these videos. im sad for what it has become, i was more than happy to give them money but they never fixed anything and i regret it.

[@XRaykaX]

Lindsey is definitely the patsy for Sims (4), she's the "face", and nothing more, we all know Greedy EA calls the shots; she's who you go to when you look for who's producing the Sims franchise, and she's the one that will reap all of the credit. You can tell because of how much she flip flops on game opinions. Remember the advertising video of her joining Sims 3, and saying how much she loved open-world and family game play, watching her sims be lively and create their own stories; then when Sims 4 dropped(the ball), her new tune was that she loves closed words and micromanaging her sims lives because she doesn't want them randomly doing things she hadn't made them? No simmer in their right mind would want a lifeless doll house as their simulation game, micromanaging everything down to when they sims would fart (literally). She's the one who markets the Sims using whatever language will support the content, and you best believe she'll pretend she was hyped for it. Lindsey takes the credit for everything (good and bad), that's the "Face" for you, so a business can blame one person if things tank. Old Hollywood tactic smoke and mirrors to get the laymen redirecting their hate elsewhere; little does EA know, we know who pushes the decisions and approve of the developments... or, at least, some of us, them Sim Stans are the right ones for EA, I guess... 🤷🤷🤷

[@Nnaiiro]

I'm glad that you're spreading awareness of how *the rest* of the gaming world works among the sims players, notMalcolm 🖤

[@wiwewawowu]

that jackofallgames dude is SUCCCCCHHHHH an ea shill its insane

[@yux607]

They don't even have CARS! And all others have them, even Sims Freeplay. The game also lags too much, and the packs have so little yet are so expensive. And I've seen bunk beds on Patreon and Pinterest for sim children and toddlers. How is it that hard for full-time game devs??

[@PossibleBat]

Not to mention the CLEAR FAVORITISM they have towards certain influencer creators. Absolute trash. RIP the good ones, Maxis, who got absorbed by the greediest company ever, EA.

[@fragiledoll06]

modders are the only reason sims 4 still standing ngl

[@fragiledoll06]

and they do that shit for FREE pirating expansion packs is always morally correct

[@NotMalcolm]

that’s so true modders are holding the entire franchise together

[@PurpleishGremlin]

Ea is the reason I have trust issues with gaming companies. Growing up being gaslit into giving hundreds for a game that is buggy and doesn't work. Begging my mom for the new expansion for birthdays and holidays. We didn't have money, so sometimes that'd be the only gift I got. To now get stardew updates and minecraft updates for free. I didn't know how taken advantage of I was, and it created my villan era. I refuse to allow the rich to keep feeding me garbage while they tell me its fine dining.

[@fruiteast]

Guys, you need to chill. The Sims 4 is still on beta. (contains irony)

[@IIIRuin]

Oh my god the way I gleefully click these vids. They're so damn refreshing thank you for not lining up to crawl up EA's dark place.

[@NotMalcolm]

thank you haha i’m glad you enjoy them!

[@nuggetpai]

A big thank you to modders for doing the job, EA is too lazy to do. You guys keep the Sims alive.

[@thesongofthelinnet]

2:29 meanwhile they cancelled it anyway

[@Marlodrama]

The bunkbeds thing is crazy. “If some rando who does not get paid to create assets for our billion dollar company cant make them, surely we cant!”

[@seadragonpirate8195]

"if you dont buy the sims 4, we wont make the sims 5" 😂😂😂 The snow thing really bothered me tbh, i love winter in game and i was already imagining the world with snow all over. I tried living in the new world but it was honestly kinda boring without seasons, i literally moved to willow creek after a few in game weeks

[@medusation89]

Sims+Twitter= Never good.

[@whateverwhateveretc]

I'm just glad we have Malcolm to watch our backs and call people out. great video as always!

[@NotMalcolm]

appreciate you watching!!

[@yoppi560]

I’m just sick of big channels criticizing the sims 4 and being so dramatic only to turn around and make videos getting “hyped” for a new pack then getting mad when it’s inevitably not up to standard. It’s like why make a huge deal out of this if we aren’t gonna stand on business and idk? Boycott the sims? Not like it would do much this late in the game though.

[@loth_one]

After watching your Let's Play of the Moretti household, I felt inspired to reinstall Sims 3 after having put it aside since Sims 4 launched. I was surprised at just how much fun it is compared to the Sims 4. Each expansion pack in Sims 3 really delivers; they add so much depth and variety that you can easily play for days or weeks without feeling the need to buy anything new to stay engaged. On the other hand, Sims 4 DLCs feel shallow-they offer about two hours of novelty before the excitement fades, leaving you wanting more. It feels like you have to keep buying packs just to bring some spark to the game, but they rarely meet expectations, leading to disappointment again and again. Even with mods, it’s hard to escape the feeling of monotony. And don’t even get me started on the Sims’ terrible autonomy. They freeze in place, walk through walls, start doing push-ups at weddings, and completely ignore commands unless you spam the interaction. Even then, they’ll sit down for about four seconds before randomly getting up to sit somewhere else, craning their necks like an owl just to keep talking to a Sim in another room. It’s an absolute mess. The code is completely breaking down under all the new junk they keep piling onto it. It’s like they’re forcing more and more features into a system that just can’t handle it anymore, and it shows. I don't even want a Sims 5 because I know it's gonna be just as awful as the Sims 4, and more heavily monetized. You'll probably get the same old boring base game experience and have to individually pay for a couch and then pay for all of its swatches. 🙄

[@symbiotesoda1148]

The best part about the Sims 4 is that it made me discover the Sims 3 and the Sims 2, which I now play quite often; meanwhile, I have absolutely no motivation to play The Sims 4, outside of maybe some occult gameplay.

[@susudraws]

My Momma introduced me to The Sims 1 when I was still in my diapers; I played The Sims 2 all my childhood and introduced my cousin who was like a younger brother to me to The Sims 2; we played The Sims 3 later on; BUT The Sims 4 came out on his 10th birthday; and we ditched his birthday dinner to play The Sims 4 when it arrived; and let me tell you;when we could play The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 for THE ENTIRE DAY at a time; we played The Sims 4 for the spam of 1 hour and came back to the dinner table; 10 years later yknow that memory of my cousins birthday disappointment haunts me; no toddlers, no pools, no big bathtubs; no open world; nothing we enjoyed in The Sims stayed; saddest part may be I might not be able to introduce my potential off-springs to new The Sims world like my mom did with me

[@37kit]

Same i used to get complaints for hogging the computer for playing the sims 3 when i was a kid. 2-3 hours max of sims 4 (that’s building, not gameplay) and i was already bored

[@tonikinsella]

Instant subscribe. There's nothing i love more than a Sims 4 hater. Sims 4 is trash, and people who defend it clearly haven't played sims 2 or 3.

[@ampersan3]

"-but there are other worlds that don't follow the 4 seasons, like look at Sulani" Because it makes sense in reality? Ravenwood's mostly based on Romania, which, surprise surprise, actually snows in real life! I don't know how much cope people can get with this. "Perpetual autumn" but it's green in summer and winter like I can't-🤣

[@nedrane297]

I was there in the beginning too, I remember the lack of things and the explanation I heard was that since its an online downloaded game they would add things for free over time so don't worry the improvements are coming. So over time we got pools, ghosts, and toddlers. And then they stopped. The rest of the list didn't get done, or the vast majority because some came with packs so was behind a paywall. Which is a theme, they "give" us something, do it about halfway and stop. Likes and dislikes only come with new packs, they weren't willing to go in and add them for old packs because once a pack is released it pretty much doesn't exist for them anymore. The standards from The Sims 1 through 3 dropped significantly with 4. Unfortunately the majority of the player base didn't play the older games to understand that or, like the 'game changers', have forgotten, or "forgotten", over time. Now, I have a controversial take on JTB. I wasn't upset that they made it, I actually liked it to a major extent. My problem with it was that it wasn't "Star Wars" it was more a cosplay Star Wars theme park. We couldn't have a variety of aliens, we had people dressing up as aliens, we didn't have a force skill, there was so much they COULD have done but they just did what felt like the basics, which again is a theme as mentioned above. Lyndsay Pearson is also the one who said it was her decision to have so much less "chaos" in the game, you know consequences. She said she hated in previous The Sims games when she was playing and had a plan for her sim and something in the game messed it up or even they died from like a meteor strike out of the blue or something, so she made the decision so "people could tell their stories". So instead of a game we have a story simulator. Have you ever noticed how all the gurus in the livestreams, especially the early ones, talk about simmers telling stories? Yeah, because they thought that's what regular players did since thats what they saw people doing on youtube, whereas most of us were playing a game and liked when unexpected things happened.

[@maxlearner6976]

EA just keeps killing the golden goose by foisting more expense DLCs to a decade + ancient base-code. Been playing since 2000 and the last 10 months of corrupted saves, worlds, lots, households has been breathtakingly bad! Hours/Days/Months of play ruined, lost. EA is still "the most hated company in North America" a title they earned a long time ago.

[@mb33669]

I love The Sims series, which is why I'm the biggest EA hater lmao. They've ruined revolutionary, fun, quirky series with lots of dark humor into soulless, boring mess of corporate overconsumption and community protecting them is still one of the biggest disappointments. Thx for a great video!

[@solofdragons6446]

Honestly, I love the sims 4, but man the way EA acts I feel ashamed that I've bought hundreds of dollars worth of dlc since I began playing. I've got all the expansions (aside from life and death) and all the occult game packs. I haven't played since life and death came out because I have to have my mods and I'm waiting for them all to get patched. I'm glad I never got engrossed into the sims 4 community though

[@bisexualskywalker]

Seconded. I am a writer, for fun, for myself. Sometimes, it's really fun to create the characters and put them in the world. My current save is so lively. I don't buy packs full price, though. I got a bunch of them from this one site for like way less than half off. like 20 bucks per EP which seems a lot more fair than what they make you pay.

[@karlecronje]

This is why i play the cracked version of the sims 4. They don’t deserve my money. And the content is not worth the money. And I don’t play often enough to play my money’s worth, because it’s boring.

[@Juan_Ignacio_0k]

It was so weird watching all this unfold on Twitter. The people who lit the flame got mad at the people who added the wood

[@Olsens13]

I was so confused why snow wouldn’t accumulate in ravenwood. & this is why 😂💀💀💀

[@cometa_maria]

I feel like people are confused about how a large company operates. Many Sims fans treat EA and The Sims team as if they’re a single person responsible for everything, acting as though they’re working with passion and enjoying the results of their work. But the reality is, it’s a big company, and most of the people working there are just doing their jobs. There’s no passion when you’re working only to generate profit for a company and not to satisfy your creative desires or see people enjoying your work. I truly believe that some people in the company still like the game but can't do anything about it because the company motto is just to sell more. In The New Life and Death, we could feel that a lot of things were made with passion, but it still has so many issues (bugs, compatibility problems...). And this game is barely holding its pieces together atp, but when we criticize it, we're seen as 'haters.' For my part, at least, I’ve loved this game since I first played it in 2004. Maybe I just can't stand seeing the sad state it's in now.

[@TheFloodFourm]

Developers who aren’t paid enough to care being led by management that’s not interested in steering the series in a progressive direction who are at the beck and call of shareholders/decision makers that only want money and literally nothing else

[@shannonreed822]

I mean. It being permanently autumn genuinely makes a lot of sense? It would have been nice if, like, the world reflected that lmao

[@pororou]

My god the sims guru are dramatic as Hell. Crazy how people switched sides so quickly why are they so adamant on mooching the gurus' asses I'm crying 😭

[@BuddiboiGaming]

and they wonder why everyone just pirates it lol

[@disaster4550]

This is literally their only job 😭 It's so unprofessional of him tbh.

[@pyretta5629]

So true about not holding EA accountable. The amount of bugs that still exist in years old dlc is ridiculous, but every new launch it's just more 'Yay! Awesome!' even when the pack that just came out a month or so prior broke the game and parts of it still don't work right. It's like mass amnesia. It shouldn't be that the current norm is to have to wait for a patch for the patch and it's become the modders jobs to create something to make the game playable again, on top of having to check and fix their stuff to be compatible. New packs used to be something to look forward to. Now there's a new one every month (or at least it feels that way) and all it means is, even if you don't buy it, there's a 75-80% chance that your game will be fubar for a couple of weeks or more.

[@hobabi]

oh i'm so glad i only play the game and stay out of the community, cause stan twitter already makes me go crazy...