So that modders can fix it, you say?

So many modders say that the reason their mods no longer work is because Maxis keeps changing the code. As soon as a mod fixes a problem, a new upgrade comes out which breaks it or something else, and we're right back to where we were before - frustratedly waiting until the modders can figure out what Maxis did and "fix" it again (which is the main reason the masses rise up against them). Things like this keeps me coming back to believing that EA/Maxis has from the beginning deliberately set out to eliminate as many mods as they can (and are no doubt truly happy that the masses rise up against the modders). There's no fixing if you're deliberately out to eliminate competition and/or cause division.

No they can fix it ONLY when EA stops creating new content for the game. That's my point. No new expansion pack, challenge or bug fixes from EA. Because with every new content or patch from them the game breaks even more. That's why it would be better to leave this game as is and let the modders fix it. But this won't happen as EA has stopped developing Sims 5. They don't want to risk losing the Sims 4 player base and thus are going to concentrate on this bugged game for the next years.

According to Satch, they also jacked up the price of these kits as well. They're suddenly charging double for a kit?

Reviewing The Sims 4 Sweet Slumber Party Kit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVDE-BNLi1Q


If this is true and not some kind of website glitch, it is a sleazy move on EA's behalf. Charging more to cover the 5% commission.

Multi-billion dollar company acting like it is struggling with 5% of a frickin' TS4 kit. Where is the world's tiniest violin?

Agree, modders can fix it if EA/Maxis leaves it alone. But you and I and everyone else under the sun knows they will never do that as long as it's producing the milk - as the old saying goes, you don't kill the cow . . . Hence, stuff and packs are gonna keep coming and coming. There's no way EA/Maxis is going to allow modders to completely take over their cash cow, which indeed is paradoxical since they don't want to put enough energy into fixing it themselves though they want to get as much money out of it as they can. But I can see it - if the modders keep fixing it, more people will want to play it. Which gives them the opportunity to sell more stuff and packs for it. Which causes more issues the modders must fix. OK, very smart, EA.

Just took the latest "survey".

VERY interesting. Basically asking if you'd heard of Life & Death and if so why didn't you buy it?

Oh dear, did we not meet our sales targets....

(of course they could just be wanting to do some follow up)

To be fair, so far that pack is praised and raised by the fandom for good reason. I do think it makes sales and they have no reason to worry about.

I do honestly hope them to keep up with such quality not just supernatural packs, or alas - do more SUPERNATURAL packs if it will always guarantee that in-depth gameplay. It looks lame that teens cant pull pranks on household items like they did in TS3 Generations.

On the subject of kits, @Gargoyle Cat didn’t they like stop releasing stuff packs or smth? If so, all I see is them turning kits into stuff pack.

Based on how in depth and detailed Life & Death was compared to every. single. last. expansion pack since maybe Cottage Living, I'd say the budget was much higher than the others.

This especially true of the VERY DRAMATIC difference in quality between this and Lovestruck and all 500 of its patches. I wouldn't be surprised if many players were put off.

the price of the new creator kits is $4.99.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g19q1SEyTUA

If anybody was charged $10.00 for the new kits and didn't get a refund, get after EA about it.

Snatch critics what of a garbage pack growing together is

Honestky, I was shocked to see that all nine interactions of a “gameplay” object consist of walking around a boring park. (Well, actually seven but still wtf). I think what yall having is called SCAM. Maxis has no shame in scamming the players with fake new features and set dresssing for whatever the asking price is for an EXPANSION pack. Even when we complained that TS3 Generations should have been as a base game update, the quality was still high in the standards we had and known for a Sims game to have. Now it’s just “whatever”

And when he mentions how events are impossible to du with glitchy AI, it dawned on me…. how the heck you all manage to play TS4 when controlling in the game feels like playing TS3 on a 1999/2004 PC rig???? While TS2 was always the smoothest on which ever computer I played (aside from TS1, cuz I exclude it as its the simplest and minimalist game to fairly compare), even I manage to watch Sims going about their day smoothly and less sluggish in (ts)3 even when I was stuck with windows XP for the longest time around. It never felt intuitive and ‘fluid’ simulation with Sims in TS4

EA / Maxis gets away with those things because people continue to buy packs. This kind of crap has been going on for literally years at this point. One of the jokes regarding Snowy Escape was that sims could walk around, together. There is no reason or motivation for Maxis to change.

I read a YT comment this morning. It was in response to Malcolm's new video regarding Yibs and how Maxis did dirty by Kayla / Lilsimsie. Anyway, I'm paraphrasing here, but the comment talked about how the person got into TS4 because they enjoyed watching game play by James and Deli.

What the person found out was the game play they enjoyed watching was edited. All the problems that come with TS4 game play were of course edited out so it makes it appear that TS4 runs as smooth as butter with no problems. When the person that wrote the comment played the game him or her self, they quickly became disappointed because what they enjoyed watching was not reality.

For the person that is brand new to the franchise and has no idea about the history behind this game, it is easy to see how one could fall for the YT trap. James is very personable, friendly, blah, blah, blah. He keeps his head down, avoids controversy and so on, but at the end of the day, he's still a sims content creator that is a Yib and engages in YT magic to make money.

Supposedly the person that felt duped is no longer playing TS4. Whether they do or not does not matter. I've been watching Oshinsims for the past couple of days. She's chill, can come up with weird story lines surrounding a toilet... whatever. Just watching her play, tell her pixel stories one would think TS4 runs like a dream. I get tempted to download TS4 base game and muck around with it just because she has a neat UI mod and I know better. I still might just for the shits and giggles. It has been 10 years of avoiding the hot mess.

Content creators on any platform need to be viewed for what they are. They are around to make money. If there was no money in it, they would be doing something else and perhaps doing YouTube, Tiktok or whatever on the side as a hobby.