the Overconsumption of the Sims 4 is a Problem

[@NotMalcolm]

if ur gonna buy all 82 sims 4 DLC, pls don't buy them at full retail price: www.instant-gaming.com/en/?igr=notmalcolm ⚠ this comment contains an affiliate link; i receive a commission on purchases you make using this link

[@NotMalcolm]

this is a joke pls don’t buy all 82 sims 4 dlc

[@journeytree]

don't buy, pirate. Then you'll realize that they are a waste of money because you'll be wanting a refund for the product you pirated for free

[@butterfox863]

@@journeytree exactly im mad at the game even tho i pirated it. to be fair i bought like 45 dlcs before i woke up and thought damn ea sucks

[@maelys998]

Same, i Never bought any DLC, only the base game before it was free (10 bucks) and i want a refund cuz this game is just a waste of storage space. I decided to play sims 3 instead

[@adamk-paxlogan7330Sucks]

I'm not allowed to buy anything anyway,I wish the sims was for free (the whole reason why I call my dad mr cheap he likes anything free),then I can play all I want :'(

[@liu590]

the fact that mods (for free!!) are more complete than most dlcs is insane

[@NotMalcolm]

*bREakiNg EA is currently brainstorming ways to make money from mods

[@iamnotnaturallyevil]

I had a phase where sims 4 was the only game I could play because it ran well on my cheap laptop, but I was content. I barely had DLCs, I only used game Mods and these Mods had more effect on my gameplay than whatever I bought from EA. Substanceless rubbish.

[@BlasianLynn]

Thats what makes me angry But we have to remember not all of us are on PV

[@BlasianLynn]

@@iamnotnaturallyevilword. But we are PC gamers. So we sit in a place of luxury saying this. I personally wasnt gonna huy anything else but the new dlc was gifted to me. It all seems like a waste of money to me atp. And what itks me is the kits. Not you out here ripping off cc creators. Like its total madness

[@conorchristmas6844]

The litterally need to remake the sims 2 in an open sims 3 world with 2024 graphics. Why are they still milking the sims 4 which was originally developed as a mobile game hence the crappy look and feel since the beginning over 10 years ago.

[@evsian]

i would be defensive of sims 4 too. imagine having to accept that i spent all that money for absolutely no reason. nah i would die in denial bc the shame would be too much

[@tonichan89]

Heh, I just know what my reasons are and practice a bit of radical acceptance. Yeah, they're crap... but the mods that come out of them are dope. And I like getting to use tech support servers who don't give it to pirated games. At least MCCC's server doesn't.

[@NotMalcolm]

tonichan if u need someone to talk to i’m here 💞

[@yee8332]

The sunk cost fallacy. If you regret buying Sims 4 DLC, falling for sunk cost and trying to lie to yourself about how you feel, or worse continuing to keep buying DLC that isn't worth it to you does nothing but make the situation worse. When you do accept that you regret how you spent your money in the past, you'll be able to learn from your mistakes and grow past them. That's better than wallowing, being ashamed of what happened and not improving yourself. I had to learn from my mistakes after I bought Cats and Dogs and was so disappointed, it really didn't feel worth that $20 price for me and I went in expecting it to be fantastic based on how Sims 4 stans talked about it at the time. After that purchase all those years ago I've made the effort to learn from it so it wouldn't happen again. I got better at avoiding biased glazer-type Stan fan opinions and recognizing good vs bad reviewers. That DLC purchase was a mistake I made and regretted at the time, but I've literally not regretted ANY game or DLC purchase I've made since this experience I had with the Sims 4. I hope this can inspire people. Yes you can avoid falling into an endless cycle of sunk cost, you can avoid getting tricked by hype, you can learn from the past, you can avoid repeating the past, and you can avoid making more bad purchases in the future no matter how much money you've already poorly spent. Even a Sims 4 player that's spent over a thousand dollars on this game can learn and grow from their experience like I did. ❤

[@ShinyShilla]

I have a collection thingy, when I get a thing I need to get it full. It's really hard not to "complete" something and the Sims 4 is helping me a lot. After sulani I only bought the chicken expansion but I do admit that, altho I bought them for big discounts, they were a huge waste of money, because I already got the Sims 2 and 3 (full)

[@ember9361]

@@ShinyShilla (pirate everything

[@catalinalexandrudima]

Reminder: Most players have likely spent over $1,000 on The Sims 4. The question is...does it truly feel like a $1,000 game?

[@Subjugatedhappywife]

Not at all

[@chotanya]

I have almost all the packs that I bought with my money, 60-70% of them on sale. I justify it that I got it on sale and it is the game I put most hours in - almost 5 thousand hours. But it is not worth it at all.

[@olivia5617]

I can proudly say i've played this game since before basegame was free and i've never spent a single cent on it, even on the basegame itself cuz i got it for $0 during a sale 😂

[@jamiewells22]

Me with Fortnite 😅😅

[@shadowsoulless6227]

​@@olivia5617 the base game is free? I might try it

[@waretaSL]

The fact that the sims 4 already has 82 dlc and STILL can't compete with the sims 3 is EMBARRASSING. EA should be feeling mortified, not "proud of their technical advancements". Like tf is that even. 25 years and ten of them have been misery

[@melinaalba63]

The sad thing is, the DLC is getting better but no matter how good they will someday make it, the base game mechanics are so beyond shitty that it won't even matter. I have the very unrealistic hope that EA might try to fix the base game and make all the mechanics better now that there won't be a sims 5 for a long time. I know that won't happen but idk, hope dies last I guess

[@kxd4103]

@@melinaalba63exactly!!! DLC for sims 4 is like putting lipstick on a pig

[@gubbypls]

Sims 2** also 🙂‍↕️

[@midgematic8659]

Yea thing is, Sims 3 also had feature creep and I recall a sims 3 team member straight up not recommending players to buy all of the DLC due to how it would slow down the entire computer (didn’t stop them from selling individual items/worlds innthe create a sim catalogue tho xoxo). But that was because sims DLC back then was a genuine expansion on an already good ass game; you bought what extra pieces you specifically wanted to glam up the doll house, but you could easily play with just the doll house itself for hundred of hours without issue (looking at my pre-teen ass with PS3 sims 3 and no knowledge of DLC even existing for it). Sims 4 DLC feels like the doll house’s wall panels that were sold separately, are weren’t even measured to fit the bare skeleton foundation correctly. It fuckin sucks man

[@SilkyLew]

That's because most of the dlc are just things they got rid of lol.

[@catpott8899]

the fact that a lot of the dlc was in the base games of sims 3 and 2? i hate ea so much. plus theres no genetics in sims 4, and i hate that, i hate sims 4

[@thesimslover82884]

There's genetics in The Sims 4.

[@nanasaldarriaga7452]

​@@thesimslover82884genetics that don't work, my sims always came out weird looking, deformed jaws, weird noses. What a great game.

[@UndeadR]

Damn, you let some game make you like this...

[@poptv1762]

Sims 4 is so bad. There's no concept of recessive genes and no difference between dyed and original hair.

[@lenaa19020]

@@UndeadR sad life?? what do you mean lol, lots of people LOVE sims, and i understand why some people are mad like this, because EA keeps fcking up sims in general, and its just sad to look at it, like 80+dlcs?? the whole game costs 1k eur +, its insane, and the packs are not even interesting, theres no lore, no fun, no drama, nothing, everyone who loves the sims and is not smoking copium has all the rights to be mad like this

[@LiterallyJustAnActualPotato]

People are addicted to the hype cycle. It’s definitely an overconsumption/addiction/dopamine issue. The product is subpar at best, but they love the hype. They love using and hearing exaggerated hype about the new DLC coming out every other day. “I’m literally OBSESSED” “this is a game changer!” “This is going to change everything!!” “I’m so excited, I’m literally crying”. I’m convinced they love the hype more than anything in the game. I’ve heard the same hyperbolic nonsense about every DLC they’ve ever released.

[@rummagingchaos]

for real 😂 do you hear hype about half the expansion packs they made in the last 4 years? people scream and shout and in 2 weeks they're bored and asking for the next thing. it's WEIRD

[@naediggs4816]

I went into depth in a different comment, but I fully agree this is like addict behavior... It's like EA is the dealer and the modders are the enabling family - even though it's the dealer causing all this damage, the second the family stops enabling the addict, the addict lashes out at THEM. Although the modders essentially carry the entire Simming community, they receive some of the worst backlash, even though they have less power comparatively. And the addiction also explains why so many Simmers accept bare-minimum behavior - addicts are not picky about where, how, or in what way they get their products... and when they're desperate, they def dgaf about the quality. I also think there's an undercurrent of religious social conditioning reinforcing certain behaviors, tbh, but that's another story. It's crazy to witness...

[@NotMalcolm]

you ate with this comment 💯 it’s absolutely wild seeing people lose their shit over a new toilet paper swatch

[@TwobitsTiger]

​@@naediggs4816 right!!!

[@Anya-b5s]

Exactly; EA applies similar psychological techniques to the online gambling industry to exploit its Sims 4 customer base. The majority of them act like total crackheads.

[@lightb3am]

I was ashamed I bought a DLC pack a few months ago. Like what was the point? Nope. No more. The fact they made a whole pack about dating, a whole pack on life and death… These should be base game things that are covered and WERE covered in previous games.

[@soliferi]

same, havent even played it. the annoyance at myself. no more, im not rich enough

[@cloed0ll]

spill mama.

[@lightb3am]

The likes are at 169, noice

[@toxxicduck]

@@lightb3am I ruined it right then, I am sorry 🥲

[@mokje_]

Same, i bought 2 packs and never again. I'm sailing the seven seas🏴‍☠️

[@Monica1998x]

People are going feral to pay 40 to woohoo the grim reaper its so strange 💀

[@bathauss]

the way it was in the base game & EA got rid of it so they could package into a £40 DLC 💀

[@chchcherrybalm]

@@bathauss they took out woohoo with grim from the base game??? when?? say sike right now 😭that is FOUL lol

[@AnymousScreams]

​​@@chchcherrybalmLast I checked they removed that even with cheats.

[@NotMalcolm]

it’s giving feral 💀

[@Parizz-zb6ek]

@@bathauss diabolical, removing it from the base game just to sell it. love how they did that instead of fixing the game (sarcasm)

[@ImaniBlues]

The community gets frustrating sometimes. I’ve heard several ppl say they will pre order the new pack and just wait for the bugs to be sorted to play. So EA doesn’t have to wait for your money, but you have to wait to play a functioning dlc you paid full price for? The common sense isn’t common sensing.

[@NotMalcolm]

couldn’t have said it better myself!

[@MuseViews]

"I'm not a hater, I just woke up!" Don't worry, I AM! 😂 But nah fr though: EA is definitely taking advantage of one of the most loyal fan-bases, but at the same time, they have been complicit in normalizing these practices for way too long. I remember when I thought the Batuu fiasco would be a turning point for the series.. lol

[@cryingwatercolours]

worst part is, i can’t even blame half of them. FOMO and also the fact the game is so DAMN empty are two crappy reasons ppl still buy dlc and i honestly would rather blame ea and the influencers who endorse them

[@tonichan89]

@@cryingwatercolours The reason I keep buying packs isn't even for the packs themselves, but cus I like the mods that come out of them 😭and if I pirated them, I can't ask for technical support in MCCC's handy dandy server that checks for errors. Lovestruck is the only expansion I haven't bought, because my mods already does everything that pack does, but better.

[@BuryTheLight-tds]

​@@tonichan89Damn, that's a dick move imo, especially considering how expensive this game is with all DLC. It's a literal steal!

[@wiktoriajurkiewicz3144]

If I shared that a man was doing the bare minimum for me as Sims 4 does, sims girlies would tell me to drop him BUT when Sims 4 does the same bare minimum they're running to the store with their last pennies 😭

[@gimmiemedkit]

This is such a great comment lol

[@LivenUp7]

My husband literally calls EA my abusive partner, and I agree with him.

[@werosification]

the same girlies would stay with a man who's giving the bare minimum or less soo...

[@wiktoriajurkiewicz3144]

@ lmaooooo 😭😭

[@bathauss]

sims 3 is forever my baby, the open world is just so freeing to me, yeah it might slow down the game but she was ambitious for her time!! people act like the game is completely unplayable cause they refuse to even try make it run better

[@clearlynotchloe]

ive tried all the optimisation mods and my game just won't run anymore. i have a fantastic computer, so it really is just the game. it's unfortunate but, at least the sims 4 actually runs

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

Mine runs fine on my laptop now and I don't even have mods.

[@Fitzpatrick5380]

My computer isn't the most advanced and the game is pretty smooth. Unfortunately, it's advisable to know something about computers to make it run right.

[@hyukarismo]

​@@clearlynotchloeso you're clearly doing something wrong then, even without mods my game runs just fine

[@jkutiye87]

Even with that, I dont run everything I have every time I play

[@kittenchristmas4194]

If EA is one thing it's that they're consistent. Consistently exploiting the playerbase through nickle and diming DLC.

[@NotMalcolm]

ts4 stans love that kind of consistency!💞

[@carafurry7862]

I stopped getting exited for sims packs when they released a pack for the pets pack. 💀

[@NotMalcolm]

that was such a wild time 😭

[@cassidyjr]

I hate how insidiously monetised the packs/kits/stuff/etc system is so much that I won't even buy packs that I think would be interesting anymore, because I refuse to reward EA for that kind of greed & for prioritising quantity over quality. Whenever someone I know wants to get into the Sims and they ask me about it, I just show them how to get the Sims 2 because there's no way in good conscience I could recommend Sims 4.

[@mjewrites]

how does one get Sims 2? It’s my fave sim game and I miss it so much.

[@cassidyjr]

@@mjewrites There's a subreddit called r/sims2help or something, the people on there are really nice & helpful and there's a few posts my boyfriend found that link you to the "ultimate collection" (with all the dlc) and there's lots of posts with helpful links to things like fixes or installation guides!

[@ambiguousname1336]

@@mjewritescheck the Sims 2 subreddit

[@floopyboo]

@@mjewrites It's on Old Games Download. :)

[@EmilyTV33]

that's why i got them all for free! i won a... giveaway...

[@NotMalcolm]

sure, girlie 😉

[@lei4moon]

same 😂 I always use the updater give away. I get the hype... then keep my money 😊

[@EmilyTV33]

@@lei4moon works everytime!

[@Fabz-j2u]

I won mine at a beach, some guys with eye patches and wooden legs were distributing.

[@werosification]

​@@Fabz-j2uI won mine from a parrot, she was pretty cool 😎🦜

[@avikasixfour2362]

Sims 3 released when I was a teen with no income, all I had was small allowance and few gigs here and there. I literally could afford all major dlcs in preorder (which were pricier than standard ones). I'm adult with steady income, way more spare cash. I can't afford even major dlcs to the sims 4. I felt trash about it when it released at first. Sims 3 was such a ritual for me, preordering here and there and anticipation for what the next major game update will be. All of this still using previous dlcs and being entertained. Sims 4 releases crumbs of content for big bucks, content we have becomes boring quickly

[@KM-ld9ln]

fitgirl and Anadaius

[@RachelsValorantGames]

@@KM-ld9ln I love them so much. The saying of how its morally okay to pirate Nintendo 100% applies to sims, and EA in general.

[@cellochel1582]

All of my chore money as a kid/teen basically went to sims2/3

[@atodeblue]

one DLC being the same price as a full triple A game is actually the craziest thing ever

[@luismigueldias8543]

Ngl, but I find it hilarious how someone said out loud "Let's do a funerals pack, they'll eat that shit up!" and they just went for it

[@NotMalcolm]

hahaa sadly i feel like they would eat anything up atp

[@atodeblue]

the wild thing too is that fans consider that one of the GOOD packs. like it isn’t a basic part of life itself that tbh should be base game

[@sugapac65]

I used to buy every DLC pack the day it dropped, I stopped at Horses, I own 79 DLC, I didn't even realize it until I did a repair. I'm done!!! 79 , and it's unbelievable that 12 more are on the way. This probably could/should be a Class Action lawsuit.

[@PeepoTis]

I can’t believe they NERFED open world in Sims 4 and people are still buying it. I happily own every Sims 3 expansion pack and they run like a dream + they have amazing cross compatibility. To this day I am STILL discovering new experiences in the Sims 3.

[@FlowersOfIcetor]

And the only annoying popup is from the Seasons festivals!

[@Bananachan289]

Sims 3 is truly special ❤

[@lavahoundbrlava1883]

I'm glad i don't pay for my dlc. I get them from "alternate" sources 😉

[@affinityxs]

Tell me how? (It's pirating isn't it)

[@honinakecheta601]

Same lol

[@aleesha5579]

Same here , the last pack I brought was get famous, every since then I've been playing via "alternate" sources. 😂

[@fredchu3982]

​​@@affinityxsa n a d i u s

[@LenaGws]

​@@aleesha5579 is it safe? Like is there a possibility that EA will block me and i'll "lose" all the packs i bought?

[@iipepo]

I remember years ago i bought like 3 dlc because some KZbinrs were making it seem amazing and recommended them….I regret every single cent.

[@NotMalcolm]

i wasted so much money on sims 4 dlc like 😭

[@Thim22Z7]

To be fair, some of the earlier packs were still good; not great, but good. Packs like City Living and Seasons did really add to the experience and I wouldn't say I regret buying those, because of the fun I've had with them. I wouldn't be too hard on yourself for buying some of the early packs (cause certain others were bad back then already) The later packs though, since 2019-2020ish and especially when they started with Kits, are basically all packs that are not worth the money. I bought High School years after a long while of not buying any packs and that for me was the true wake up call to never buy any Sims 4 DLC again, because it simply isn't worth the money. I cannot understand how people are willing to forkover €40/regional equivalent for something so lackluster; especially because there's plenty of other games you can buy for that money!

[@tonichan89]

I think you do have a right to complain if you have all the packs. Like consider this... if you've bought all EA's crap, you've done exactly what they want you to do, right? You've been a super loyal customer. It's pretty wild that you 'should' expect to be punished for that. Edit: What I DON'T understand is how everyone can, as you say, experience pack after pack being broken on release and half of the time never fixed, and then STILL get super excited when a new pack is announced? Everyone should know by now to curb their enthusiasm for when we can see that the pack works, and that it actually is decent. Their trailers are 88% of the time (source: trust me bro, and rough estimation from experience) simply not what playing the pack is like. Those trailers are just the concept, not the actual game. Even if the concept is cool, that's not what you're likely to get to play.

[@AriesClips044]

Sims 3 and sims 2 could never

[@coca-coda2303]

they WOULD never

[@AriesClips044]

@ sims 3 and sims 2 all day

[@Jordanthecryptid]

Sims 3 absolutely suffered from too much DLC, they had to change the launch screen so you could pick what packs you want to play with. But at least the packs were usually worth the price tags 😭

[@AriesClips044]

@@Jordanthecryptid but like what you said you didn’t have all the expansions and didn’t feel like you missed anything with sims 3

[@DoinItforNewCommTech]

u wot m8 have you seen the Sims 3 Store TS3's DLC practices were just as insidious as TS4, if not more (including invasive ads in CAS and BB, above and beyond a glowing shopping cart icon) The total cost of the Sims 3 Store is at least 2 grand (the claim of being over $74,000 does seem to be a myth due to somebody on Steam using faulty maths) The only difference is they don't use the word "kit" or "pack", but that doesn't make TS3 any less insidious

[@EritsStudio]

So glad I stopped buying sims 4 crap after I bought the bust the dust kit. Once I saw how broke that kit was i lost all faith in EA. Luckily I didn’t waste anymore money on Sims 4 😊

[@cryingwatercolours]

it drives me crazy when people say “i stopped buying after for rent” and i’m like 💀 like glad u stopped but that wasn’t even that long ago how have u only just realise d

[@EritsStudio]

@ haha wow yeah for real 😅 idk I saw the signs early on but after buying that kit I’m like NOPE. Saving my money 💰

[@juliusma4880]

I stopped at the knitting SP and Eco Lifestyle EP. I was like, "You have wasted enough money, time, and computer memory space on this thing. Time to put an end to this." 🙈🙈🙈

[@steggopotamus]

I like to think they're teenagers or have a compulsive shopping addiction. @@cryingwatercolours

[@DoinItforNewCommTech]

It's ironic that Bust the Dust was so universally hated that it convinced EA to never make another gameplay Kit ever again, given it was the only Kit was actual shit to do in it Yeah it's buggy but god does it beat paying $7 AUD for plant clutter

[@jaubert5313]

Tbf EA has a great marketing team. They hype the products, oversell the features and keep people engaged. It would be interesting to watch an analysis on how their marketing tactics usually work, they must have a very successful formula.

[@NotMalcolm]

this is so true their marketing is actually amazing!

[@ene4659]

The get famous pack trailer ruined me... it was so disappointing to play compared to the trailer

[@MissDatherinePierce]

Honestly, just get Sims 2 guys. Most of the clothes and furniture and more and more game play has been converted from Sims 4 to it by the still very active community. Yes, we have our own problems (pink flashing for example) but most have fixes or are being worked on. These days I need to check the tags on tumblr whether a download is for Sims 4 or Sims 2 because the styles have become so similar. Save some money and get a better working mess from EA and the community. Also paid CC is very frowned upon so basically everything is for free.

[@affinityxs]

You're right. The Sims 2 is the most detailed I've seen in the series

[@mauroc1896]

Even if it's a pain in the ass to get a game that doesn't want to be played working, i love it. Plus if you like the aesthetic of sims 4 there's a lot of cc creators that make 4t2 conversions. Pretty sure someone even made a parenthood a mod for sims 2

[@MichaelBowker-1970]

Got it on disk and all the dlc the sims 2 is the best in the whole franchise

[@canariawing]

i would love to play the sims 2 again like i did as a kid, but i literally can't play if i have any sort of cc installed otherwise i get hit with the pink soup. no fix works, i've tried literally everything. i'm sticking with the sims 3 😔

[@lyrik5725]

Tbh I don't really like the Sims 2

[@crisis420]

its literally sunk cost fallacy. but also it feels like its addiction of some sort. and the relationship eaxis has with its own customers feels borderline like an abusive relationship. its weird and i hate it.

[@skylersadventures765]

82 DLC?! I stopped at 5 😭

[@skylersadventures765]

All I have is (not all in order) Get To Work, Island Living, Cats and Dogs, Dine Out, and Vampires was the last one I got.

[@NotMalcolm]

ok this is such a flex 😂❤️

[@skylersadventures765]

@NotMalcolm I haven't bought any dlc since before covid. So happy I caught on to EA's greedy-ness when I did.

[@daniegal]

I can't believe they scrapped a possible ts5 just to keep ts4 alive. It would give me so much joy if there comes a day where the sims 4 won't stand another DLC and crumble to pieces, and chaos will ensue among the ts4 community

[@HelloYell0]

The sims 4 is akin to a shoddy flipped house. If your base is crumbling no amount of pretty exterior upgrades will make it better. You cant fix a broken base without ripping everything up and starting over. People have been complaining about simulation lag and other bugs in regards to 4 for years now. And with each pack expanding the bug list im not surprised that the game has completely broken for some. Top tier quality control for a 1000 dollar game I guess. We should have gotten a sims 5...

[@NotMalcolm]

preach, brother 🙌 i say let’s just demolish the whole thing

[@brunobisio2406]

The sims is like a 💊 addiction for some people and EA is their dealer. As long as they are the only option on the market, they can cut and dilute their stuff as much as they want and people will keep buying it for full price because it's the one good thing about their day, and dlc means something new and extiting in their lives... or in the lives of the sims they live through? It's sad they pray on people's lonelyness like that

[@NotMalcolm]

I love this metaphor haha so real

[@naediggs4816]

...I truly think that this behavior is indicative of a huge underlying societal problem - I think many Simmers engage in escapism behavior, and think a number of them/us are addicted to the escapism. Someone else commented that it seems like people are moreso addicted to the "hype" of the release, rather than the actual release, particularly because the actual releases are subpar, so the dopamine can't actually last. I think this makes sense because of the correlation between cozy gamers and mobile phone gamers - many of the players are the same crop of people that got addicted to facebook, and then mobile games, which would make sense as to why EA is trying to exploit the mobile gaming algorithm/format to essentially farm money out of the player base. I think that the people's addiction is one of the root causes as to why the quality of the Sims has gone down so much. I agree that players ARE being exploited. I also think the decrease in quality is symptomatic both of the American identity of hyperconsumerism and corporate greed, BUT I think this accept-whatever sheep-like mentality letting companies get away with it, stems from, hear me out, the deep rooted Puritanism in American culture. This attitude is very much "you'll take whatever you get and be glad for it because you aren't deserving of anything at all, you SINNER." I know it sounds strange, but this behavior, imho is truly at the root of so much dysfunction within American society (though not exclusively) - you find this mentality in toxic relationships, toxic families, toxic friendships, even toxic work environments - where people are constantly accepting terrible conditions that they're unhappy with, but they can't find it in themselves to leave. Honestly speaking, these people need help, but it's deeper than just the game... if love to what others think (if you read all this, that is 😅)

[@naediggs4816]

I also think the weird puritan undertone explains this weird/crazy/entitled attitude towards CC/mod creators too. There's obviously a power difference between EA and the modding community - weird puritanism accounts for why so many Simmers show, like deference and almost a worshipper attitude towards EA. Although the modders essentially carry the entire Simming community, they receive some of the worst backlash, even though they have less power comparatively. And the addiction also explains why so many Simmers accept bare-minimum behavior - addicts are not picky about where, how, or in what way they get their products... and when they're desperate, they def dgaf about the quality. It's like EA is the dealer and the modders are the enabling family - even though it's the dealer causing all this damage, the second the family stops enabling the addict, the addict lashes out at THEM. It's crazy to witness...

[@matthewvp8507]

I 💯 agree with you. I definitely believe that the American hyper individualism, which created the American hyper consumerist capitalism model, has its roots in puritanism. there was a breaking down of the community-based model and a glorification of hard work over else. And the saddest part is that it's been enforced on the rest of the world, and we see it breaking down the pre-existing community cultures there

[@naediggs4816]

@matthewvp8507 omg, yes, YES, EXACTLY!!! I think there is SUCH a larger discussion to be had, and I think escapism is running as rampantly as it is due to societal breakdown and intolerable social circumstances. I wish we could have like a live talk on it, but that Puritanism, the remnants olde English classism/caste system, hyper individualism, and all this other stuff is RUINING us. I see it occurring in other parts of the world too, which is the problem I have with globalism... would love to hear more thoughts on this, almost no one talks about it 😭

[@Monkey_Demon]

​@@naediggs4816please write a book, i really like your mind

[@bluewrites2278]

All entertainment since Roman times has been capitalizing on the fact the people want to escape the reality of their own boring lives. That is what entertainment is, an escape. Why would games be any different?

[@Carrots-sb7qo]

Sims 2 has everything I need in a life sim. I can mod it to my hearts content. And no new updates will break those mods.

[@MadameBitch]

... plz teach me your ways. Unfortunately I bought the sims 2 collection but it can't run on newer pc's :(

[@6inksy]

Malcom does it ones again! Speaker of truth 😭

[@UnaestheticGoblin]

“I just woke tf up” I love this video

[@NotMalcolm]

hahaa love you for loving it!

[@UnaestheticGoblin]

@@NotMalcolm permission to use that sound clip in a future animation? 🤣

[@NotMalcolm]

absolutely haha

[@starhwas]

Just a sidenote, Syd Mac only very recently became an EA creator or whatever it’s called, so I believe the huge majority of her packs are self bought until maybe just recently. I feel like it changes the context of her pack ratings a little bit. Great video as always!

[@NotMalcolm]

thanks for watching!! regarding Syd Mac do you think she would’ve been less honest if she hadn’t bought the majority of the packs herself? Or do you think it made her ranking more honest?

[@intri8116]

@@NotMalcolm I watch a ton of Syd's vids and she's a very honest creator imo. I think she would still be honest regardless of her status as an EA sponsored ytuber or not. She often makes statements where she's like "yikes" about certain features in packs or references major issues that have occurred in the sims franchise in her videos while casually talking. She doesn't necessarily go out of her way to trash talk, but I don't see her over-hyping either. Just gets excited for the things she likes or thinks she will like as a builder :)

[@Alectallica]

In some cases, I believe pirating is morally ethical. Not when it comes to small and new creators (obviously) but big, greedy companies like EA is totally understandable. Infact, Pirating is how a lot of media is preserved. Without it, tons of art would've been lost to history.

[@fifi9648]

Ya I got all the sims 4 DLC for free so easily 😭😭😭 do not regret that

[@ebonydarknessdementiaraven4610]

I was too broke for the sims 4 as a kid so I just used google sheets to create sims/families and imagined the game in my head. would recommend tbh, u can use all the DLC, including things that aren't in the game but u wish were all for free + no bugs, crashes or loading screens

[@toxxicduck]

😂😂 this is indeed the best way to play any game, or read any book even, and any movie. Remember to write everything down for posterity!

[@thereallofigirl]

3:25 hey that’s me 😭😭 Also I heavily agree. The way the sims community tolerated the fact that the game has more dlc that all the others combined is insane. You don’t see this in any other gaming community

[@nikolozgilles]

Paradox interactive community: *AMATEURS*

[@TheFeralFerret]

My interest in the Sims franchise (2 & 3 thank you very much) may wax and wane, but my thirst for this piping hot tea never goes away.

[@NotMalcolm]

i’m here to serve hahah

[@pilzkuh1387]

4:44 The issue is that this reasoning would apply if there were multiple options, like with blenders. But imagine you really want a green smoothie, and there’s only one blender you can buy. I know that Paralives is in development right now, but it’s not ready yet, so The Sims 4 still holds a monopoly. As long as it holds that monopoly, it’s the only blender on the market-and I really want a green smoothie. So, if I want that smoothie, I have no choice but to buy The Sims.

[@Rhinoiron]

There’s… the sims 3….

[@giovanamelo3759]

I LOVE sims 4. The fact that I pirated it, and never paid a dime to EA, probably contributes to the sentiment.

[@peacetimecomes]

It's always morally correct to pirate Sims 4 DLC

[@gianeirationgco5163]

Sims 1 has 7 packs, Sims 2 has 18 packs, Sims 3 has 20 packs, meanwhile the Sims 4...it never stops due to overconsumption and hype cycle 😭 EA is not the only problem here also the (some) Sims 4 players are also the problem here because they keep asking for more 💀

[@clownii_the_imp]

EA is so money hungry it's insane

[@honeyedboba]

i just wish sims youtubers talked about the overconsumption and didnt glorify the new packs as much as EA does. EA barely needs a marketing team because they give a couple free packs to some youtubers and they do the rest of the hyping and overanalyzing for them. its one thing to encourage people to wait to get a pack until its on sale, but its still encouraging people to get stuck in this cycle. the sims 4 is just a content farm at this point and it really sucks to see

[@NotMalcolm]

I completely agree! it’s wild how complacent the sims community has become

[@JoshuaLodge2701]

The problem is people want a life simulation game but EA has full monopoly on the genre and every dev that’s tried to make a game has tried and failed many many times every game has either been delayed multiple times, taking too long to develop that they lose their interest or get cancelled outright paralives, life by you, inzo. And the problems with each Paralives - taking to long to develop and release Life bay you was cancelled fully by the developers and publishers Inzo - too high high system requirements for the vast majority to even run The same way how Mojang has monopoly on block building games and rockstar has full monopoly on the open world games

[@Adverage.]

Stopped playing TS4 when they released the mountain expansion pack where you can go skying. I played for 10 minutes and realized there was no new gameplay, felt so played on, so I said by bye and plays TS2 and TS3 again. Best decision ever! If you are unhappy, stop buying, stop playing!

[@krakentoast]

People who don't play with cracked DLCs are just dumb

[@blip-blup]

right? like even if you worry about the legality, why would you ever feel bad for not giving ea money....

[@RC-vk1oo]

Or they're not on PC

[@rue2280]

Before my computer died, I had about 50 hours of the Sims 4 playtime. But the Sims 3 baby so many years spent playing.

[@NotMalcolm]

✨taste!

[@rinriots]

Instead of being embarrassed for buying the dlc people should be UPSET they got scammed!!

[@S-Dfan]

You know it’s bad when it’s not even worth pirating anymore. I bought a lot of packs to the game but stopped around 2019/2020. Found an easy way to pirate them. But then the game was just that boring, I didn’t bother any more. I’m an almost exclusive sims 3 player now with some sims 2. I have high hopes for Paralives!

[@ZethRyder]

I'm glad you're talking about this. This has been an ongoing problem for a while now. I stopped playing the game about 7 months ago and uninstalled it due to how much stuff was breaking. I didn't even buy all the packs and was experiencing this nightmare. The worst part is EA selling us broken content that they still haven't fixed, like my wedding stories. I finally gave up and been playing the sims 2 because I get a more complete experience with less bugs.

[@NotMalcolm]

sadly i think this is only going to get worse and worse… moving to the sims 2 was a good call! 😊

[@ZethRyder]

@@NotMalcolm Definitely, especially when I noticed how more animated the characters were when doing tasks in the sims 2. It really makes you realize how lazy the devs are being with the sims 4 and just rebranding old content/animations. I'm holding out hope that Inzoi or paralives will be good.

[@Majichickenuggets]

it’s the fact that even funerals and cemeteries were base game content in the sims 3…

[@lunaoak6741]

Imagine buying a fully completed game

[@NotMalcolm]

what does that feel like! 😂

[@Soy_boi]

I feel like one reason it has gotten this bad is that the original release of the game was so bare bones and broken and was in such a constant need for updates, it began to prime people that while there were bugs, the team was working on them. The excuse was that the game was missing a lot of features from earlier games in order for the game to run easier. And the first few packs weren’t as buggy. But as the packs began to get buggy, people were invested and the team was supposedly trying to fix and patch packs, so the community was more forgiving. But it has gotten to a point where packs are so barebones and buggy that they aren’t worth it and EA has used up all of the community’s goodwill with their false promises.

[@supercalifregilestic]

That's why I stopped buying packs..........6 years ago...

[@NotMalcolm]

share some of your self-restraint with the class

[@supercalifregilestic]

​@@NotMalcolm Sims 4 IS an abusive relationship that we're all in, voluntarily, one way or another. We are trying to "I can fix him!" it with buying and adding more stuff to an already broken and corrupted thing we used to love, which is a shell of its former self. We're all yearning for that same thrill, love, friendship and most importantly, the respect that the game gave us back in the day. But let's face it, it did change, people have changed, it's developers have changed, the so-called community changed. They're all sitting in their dull echo-chambers, butchering "the Sims" brand while we are the ones who is genuinely worried about it and it's future...and that's just sad.

[@samsamsam446]

The sims 4 is so lifeless and hallow, I can’t blame fans trying to make the game feel as fun as the older ones. And now that it’s official it’s the last one…

[@florian4626]

Well yes, but don't we all remember how fucked the sims 3 store was? Like you could easily spend over 1k on there, a new world would cost a kidney, EA was always greedy.

[@Nobody-yh2ht]

Fair point, but they gives you a free World map creator so if you wants a new world you just download it, if you wants some new objects/clothes you just download cc. EA always was greedy but in the sims 3 you have more options to avoid it than the sims 4.

[@Parrot5884]

But did anyone need store content for basic gameplay features? You don't miss out on much if you don't get anything from the store, especially with CC. Don't get me wrong, TS3 was already showing hints of what was to come, but it was very different to TS4.

[@florian4626]

@@Parrot5884 oh definitely, I just don’t think the sims 3 came with less overconsumption. I remember all the big sims 3 KZbinrs having all the store stuff and I was so jealous. Even the sims 2 had a store page. My point is I’m so scared what the sims will become. I love these games so much

[@cryingwatercolours]

@@florian4626and bingo there it is- all the sims youtubers have it. why wouldn’t you want it? we already want what celebrities have anyway, but when you add the fact people download their sims and builds, then u kinda “need” what they have.

[@canariawing]

the greediness has always been there yes, but the sims 3 store content was always nothing more than genuinely optional content whereas the sims 4's dlcs are very much not optional. if you don't buy sims 4 dlc, your game will be barren of even the most basic of features. which isn't to say the sims 3 store content was good or worth it of course, but they're very different in my eyes. plus the sims 3 sold big beautiful worlds that were fun to explore and use that didn't require any packs to use whereas in the sims 4 if you want a new world you literally have to buy an entire pack for it, even if you don't like or want what comes with the pack

[@WillowTitov]

I play Sims 3 with 4 dlc. It's not much, but it's what I like, and it runs exceptionally well. :)

[@lusibeth]

I grew up playing Sims, I'm a big fan of the franchise. I had so much DLC for 1, 2 and all of 3... I only bought 1 DLC for Sims 4... Get Together. You're not gonna be able to make me buy more than that lol...

[@NotMalcolm]

right there with you!! (albeit 19 packs too late lol)

[@somegamerchick3568]

"Sweety, that's a train..." Yeah, the train EA is running on sims 4 fans.

[@LilDiabloRob]

Only MOD I have is MCCC and yes I do NOT have all packs/kits. Been playing since release. Again, I’ll say it again. We shouldnt be even talking about sims 4. We should be talking about sims 6 release ATM. Sims 5 should’ve been out back in 2018. Just my honest option. FakeGamerGirl and SatchonSims are both 100% correct!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Before the most recent pack, my LAST PACK I bought was Growing Together. I do NOT buy kits. Whenever a kit is free, that’s when I get it. Loved Sims 3. Never had a chance to play 1 & 2 due to crappy pc from that time period.

[@KatsCorner]

Left the Sins 4 years ago when I realized how toxic the community is. The Devs never addressed this issue and apparently the bullying continues. It is a bad game all around.

[@imjakedeason]

this trilogy is everything to me... we need more

[@kostajevtic9739]

Malcolm, I literally love you and your Sims 3 content so please do not just become a drama chanel 😭 I know criticism of Sims 4 is important, but having some creative content from time to time is also okay! Btw where are the nerdy thirst traps?

[@NotMalcolm]

working on my next drama video as we speak

[@imanihodges5183]

I completely agree I miss the sims 3 content so much 😭

[@NotMalcolm]

@@imanihodges5183 respectfully, it has been 4 months since I’ve posted any sims 3 content… if these videos aren’t what you’re looking for then perhaps check out some of the other amazing sims 3 creators out there

[@arikins_]

12:35 this is such hopeful thinking and i fully support but i have to be real. the "real fans" i believe are already gone. i've already seen these developers completely lose touch with their consumers and even their own game over the course of the past 4+ years. sims 4 was already ill but i think them "canceling" sims 5 was the final nail in the coffin. this company is failing. i hope they see that and reflect on their decisions.

[@arikins_]

i also think sims 4 was doomed from the minute development began but that is a whole diff story. this game was not supposed to exist in the way it does today

[@Rhinoiron]

@@arikins_because EA decided multiplayer was better, with 0 evidence supporting that. Then when Simcity failed because of multiplayer, they had to revert to single player and rush to fix Sims 4 to be single player. EA has *always* been making bad choices

[@arikins_]

@@Rhinoiron yes this is exactly what i was referring to 😭 like jesus y'all cannot get it together

[@erinwhitlock7166]

Is it just me that thinks sims 4 looks kinda bad now as well. It needs a graphics update BAAAADLY.

[@NotMalcolm]

the graphics are definitely aging, some of the textures and stuff look rough

[@sfregion7653]

They should give us the option to turn off specific game pack features if we don't wanna use them. There's a lot of objects I want from packs but don't care about the game mechanics.

[@estelladee]

The so-called sims community definitely is the most toxic community I have been in. And that's from someone who plays LoL. Like seriously, all of my other games, people complain all the time. And usually especially if the complain is legitimate people would rally behind that complain. The Sims 4 community though would just want you to shut and take what you are given. lol. Funny.

[@chromemaskqurae1222]

' The amount of stuff The Sims 4 has, is enough to make NASA's Supercomputers overheat. ' - Chrome

[@julia-nu4fj]

i hope the sims 4 doesn't completely implode from the amount of content because that would be unfair to the people who play it, but also, if that happened it would be really funny

[@NotMalcolm]

so unfair! and it would absolutely *not teach EA a lesson about milking its players for all they’re worth

[@izzymorgen62468]

When I would buy a pack for The Sims 3, I would rush to install it and spend literally days playing with every single feature. It was so exciting because the expansion packs were so full of new stuff to try, you could play multiple generations and not get through it all. The only pack I’ve ever bought for the Sims 4 was Seasons and I was bored after a couple of hours. I just kept thinking of all the other things I could’ve spend my $40 on lol. Like, that’s the price of a whole new triple-A game! Luckily EA doesn’t get any of my Sims money anymore… 🏴‍☠️

[@eliskacvesprova6539]

I found your channel yesterday and now ur on of my favorite the sims youtubers :D! I love how real and entertaining you are.

[@hopefullyc]

I don't buy any of them full price. But yeah 82 is way too much. I'm on console so I don't have any mods haha. 😅 But yeah. It's a fun game but not worth paying full price for any of them. Just wait for a sale.

[@sabrinarosario6499]

Another problem is that people, by this point, have spent hundreds of dollars on this game and have the (di)ilusion that "well, maybe with the next pack, the game would become fun". The game is boring, and another kit is not going to fix it. Another shallow expansion pack where you do everything the pack contains in a few hours will not fix the game. I did everything there was to do in StrangerVille in a matter of hours. I did everything there was to do with Get Together, Get To Work, City Living, etc in 1-2 days max. Snowy Escape? Skiing. That's it. Hiking? Boring as hell. There is stuff in Sims 3 expansion packs that I keep discovering every time I play the game. Same with The Sims 2.

[@NotMalcolm]

100% all this ☝️i wish i would’ve realized that sooner, definitely would’ve saved me a couple hundred dollars lol

[@ManaTheSacrifice]

The Sims 4 community is the most dull community I have ever seen. Defensing such huge company is new level of low lmao.

[@someball90q]

This is why i sail the high seas 🏴‍☠️ I owned the majority of the expansion packs for sims 3 and some for sims 4 but I can't justify the amount of money it would require to make sims 4 enjoyable anymore. It feels like EA is just selling everything piecemeal, though this isn't exclusive to the sims franchise and is a wider trend in gaming in general where previously larger content gets sold in smaller but more expensive parts or even microtransactions. Which the sims 3 had tbh, but I'd rather have the points shop back than subpar dlc where you buy dlc for your dlc 😭 And let's be honest, the lag/game crashes were a problem even in sims 3 when you had all the dlc. Especially with the island paradise pack. It's just even more insulting now since they knew it was already a problem previously and didn't prevent it in the sequel. Though I hear the s4 engine sucks balls and that might be the cause, which makes the lack of a sims 5 even worse.

[@kashiomi_art]

It's so interesting, many sims 4 stans say smth like "we critique the game all the time!" in response to you, but that's after attacking you for complaining about the game. Mostly that's because you are calling them out for hyping up and financially supporting ea's shitty practices. They won't do better if people keep rewarding them with money! But apparently pointing out that part of the blame lies on the players is wayyy too toxic.

[@NotMalcolm]

thank you! it’s such a bizarre double standard but it happens to so many people who speak up about the problems with the game 🤷‍♂️

[@AresiaMarkisthebest8]

I’ve been a player of the sims 4 since its release but honestly I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said here! And it’s impressive to me how people can get bored of the game unless they buy a new pack, like I only bought the cats and dogs pack and yet I have tons of fun through making up challenges for myself or making houses/new sims and downloading mods and cc which ARE FREE😭 although the base game is lacking, do people even realize they can make the game fun themselves without having to empty their bank accounts for it?💀 idk the sims 4 fan base has literally gone insane in the past few years imo

[@Atrament04]

Off topic but yeah, Witcher 3 is actually amazing, my favourite game ever. The DLCs are so vast and unique they could be considered a separate game (esp Blood and Wine). If EA were to make those 2 Witcher dlcs, we would actually get like 50 of them, each with a separate mission and a new sword variant (and kits for Roach's saddles)

[@NotMalcolm]

this is so true haha and i don’t think i’ve ever been more emotionally wrecked by a video game than i was by the Hearts of Stone dlc (bar, maybe rdr2?) it was amazing

[@Dr_Sleepenstein]

I refuse to pay them anymore honestly. After the disaster with switching to the EA app when i still can't properly install my sims 3 content and didn't get any help from the tech support team, I just started sailing the seven seas to play the sims. At least if its a mediocre experience I didn't pay for it XD

[@koalabffs9050]

One thing I’ve noticed personally as a sims 4 player, (mainly builder) when I see simmers building with the packs, I tend to want them more cause I want what they are using. It’s obviously how it works, they are influencers. And I totally get your point about overconsumption. I wish I didn’t feel the need to buy the packs but as I know myself quite well, I still will continue. I really think they should work on getting the packs and the general game work well before they even think of making more dlc

[@Bananachan289]

100 percent 👏

[@PinkPygmyPuff]

“When Sims 4 players see a light at the end of the tunnel they think it’s new DLC but sweetie that’s a train” sir, that was masterful 😂

[@NotMalcolm]

hahaa glad you liked it 😉

[@bwokki]

I am extremely proud to say that i've been playing Sims 4 (with all dlcs) since the release and have never spent a single dollar on it. be smart and crack the game, its insane to pay thousands of dollars to play sims when there are other outstanding games out there for a fraction of this value

[@thetoofberry]

i too have shamelessly done this but even with all that i still got bored and left the game anyways. nothing is really that exciting about it, not gameplay wise or building wise. the fact I HAVE to keep getting a bunch of stuff in order to keep playing or come up with some challenge is just so tedious. I just wanna build

[@recycledMilk]

Im not a sims player but im in the pokemon fandom and i see the exact same thing over there... people just keep buying the obviously BAD GAMES. How come Scarlet and Violet are in the top 3 best selling games when its an absolute dumpsterfire... yall... under capitalism voting with your wallet is everything. Stop buying broken products, its the only way companies will change

[@AdamantGremlin]

To be fair (as someone who plays all the sims games) none of them would be playable without modders. And I’m not talking about extra content. Sims 2 and 3 have essential mods to keep them going. Sims 4 has problems, but some of these aren’t brand new. You could make sims 3 thousands of dollars as well if you did store content at time of release. Ea is a predatory company, but they’ve always used the community to fix things. Even in s3 they would recommend not to play every pack. It’s a bit better now because we all have superior computers, but none of them are flawless. To me the most offensive thing about sims 4 is the ai. The queue is always broken. I will concede other sims games are better in that regard. Also if s4 removed the phone and push up animation it’d be so much better lol.

[@toxxicduck]

yus! all of it! Ai lag and derp in 4 is the one thing i can’t seem to fix with a mod and it drives me nuts when my sim is stuck in a cycle of lag and idle poses when they need to get their pea brain ass to work! 😂 It’s like ALL sims in 4 have the Absent-Minded Trait from 3

[@AdamantGremlin]

@@toxxicduck yeah i haven't been able to find one either. They move very stiffly too because they have to stop and think.

[@SimplySimmingXO]

I agree to a certain extent, but in TS2 case, it's the age of the game that makes mods essential, not it being released broken/unoptimized.

[@AdamantGremlin]

@@SimplySimmingXO There a few things that ts2 - and while not as prevalent as people think - saves do get broken or corrupted. Sims 2 rpc. 1st born syndrome. Broken face templates. Just basic knowledge not to mess around with certain npc. Learning to merge folders. learning simspe. learning what clean templates are. Installing things like community time.Installing things like lot debugger. While there are tons of tutorials, it's not exactly plug and play. I had a ton of problems getting my sims 2 to boot on my first time. I had to find the dxvk files. Then I had to find a very particular shadow fix. It was all doable, but it took research and some pulling of hair.

[@toxxicduck]

sims 2 definitely has bugs and glitches that would make simmers these days call the game “broken”. Same with 3. If the Island Paradise one happened again today, people would be lighting fires 😂 The mod chore is so frustrating but when it all works it is 🥰🥰🥰 finally I can be cozy in my happy place

[@killahkurlz7157]

I remember back in 2019 I was a dlc collector. Hadn’t bought a single dlc since until this year when I broke down and bought 2 that I had been wanting for a while….and even then I used a 3rd party discount site.

[@Crabernacker]

The sims 1, 2, and 3 had at least 100hr of BASE GAME the sims 4 girlies have not seen the light

[@Noname-sz5ui]

youre one of the realest simstubers out there keep doing you!!

[@boltcore._.]

I fully agree with everything you said in this video like always at this point. I really love them! For me the hardest pill to swallow is that i was once like really obsessed with this game and i have 500 hours in the BASE GAME ALONE. When i managed to install dlc through the unholy ways it all felt so boring... the sims 4 is simply not the game i used to love and like anymore and it does make me really sad because my all time fav franchise has now been ruined. Project rene will not save the day and sims 4 will crumble at a point and it s like the community nowadays is just full of chronicaly online peeps. For now i do still play sims 4 but i don t really have much fun with it but at least i got free dlcs thank you lord anadius.

[@paulplummer5766]

I actually deleted the sims 4 and never looking back. Wasted so much money on a game that gets boring/bugs is very ridiculous! I’m much happier person switching back to the sims 3 ❤ 😊

[@Alectallica]

Same here! I mainly play the sims 2 and 3, much better gameplay experience than the sims 4

[@rai1578]

I uninstalled TS4 when For Rent was announced and I'm proud to say I've stuck to that decision so far. It just got to be too excessive, and even with all of that DLC, I still wasn't enjoying the game... I'm honestly having way more fun playing TS2 and TS3

[@soporific_hollow]

i would like to recommend, if yall haven't seen them to read the comments on The Sims 4's community posts. theyre seeing the issues, they just don't care. people arent excited, just the content creators getting gifted or paid by EA to increase hype are what youre seeing. people arent happy with the game, period, honestly

[@ronniebennet9413]

my game was also broken for a couple months, even without buying the most recent packs. I love this game (mostly because of mods tbh), and Im sure I will continue to play for years to come. as far as giving more of my money to EA, I think Im done with that. this last break was the last straw for me. I had to delete one of my long running save files that was corrupted and delete all of my gallery just to get it to run again without crashing every 5 seconds. (and yes, I did remove/ update mods and cc, delete cache, EVERYTHING). how do they justify charging literally thousands for subpar content/ a broken game?? they are sitting on piles of cash but there isnt room in the budget to make the game RUN apparently!!

[@LluviandAgua]

@Malcolm This whole video reminds me of a huge, never-ending argument I had with a sim 4 stan on reddit. Where I explained her why InZoi is a better game than sims 4 and why sims 4 does NOT add a color wheel. In a nutshell because EA could lose their exploit, If they ever get a color wheel out, player creations would be better than EA's dlc. Then EA would have no excuse to release more useless kits and recolors, They would lose that money that is exploiting the players on purpose. But NO.. this girl started to defend EA, downvote me and say that a color wheel is not needed at all, that she don't want the game feel overconsuming, that it would take much longer to create things. Dumbest comments. Seriously i had to stop responding her, Because all the good things he said could make the game better, she easily rejected, defend EA, and then make fun of the really passionate simmers. who take the game so seriously and complain for "a game"

[@auroraonline5233]

I just wait for packs to go to 50% off, I really don't care if I need to wait a year it's just the sims lol

[@TheOG-GG]

Thank you!! I am so glad you made this video. I don't understand the sims communities obsession with buying packs they KNOW are overpriced and broken. That's why It is just better to just use the Anadius Sims 4 updater instead. Save your money and just get all the content as an endless free demo. Works better too.

[@NotMalcolm]

appreciate you watching!