I love the sims. i really do. but the bugs, the crashes, the glitches. make it not fun to play. i love playing the sims but all of that just makes the game no fun.
1. The game itself is full of bugs. Glitches and things that are so simple and should have been repaired while in the development.
*Basic things such as your sim not doing what you tell them to. When you tell them to do something they just stand there. And this happens often. I have to reset my sims all the time and it’s tiring.
*All social events are too glitchy and buggy, and it’s no fun. I expect more than I can get. And when glitches like these happen, I’m just used to it because it’s expected.
*Way too many broken packs. Like the Dine Out pack is so broken. And you can’t even sit and enjoy a dinner. It clashes with the Get Famous pack as well, because if a famous sim shows up, every. Single. Sim. Will get up and flock toward them.
*Another broken pack is My Wedding Stories. It makes weddings not even enjoyable. And I’d rather not even do an event at all. It’s awful.
*You have to pay for everything. Even though the game is free (rightfully so) every single thing is a pack you have to pay for. Like you need to pay for weather when it should be base game. The Cottage Living Pack and Horse Ranch pack should’ve been a joint pack.
*Console players have tremendous disadvantages. I was a laptop player but was forced to switch to console since my laptop couldn’t run TS4, and it destroyed my laptop. Even with no mods, or CC. On console the game crashes much more often. It just crashed on me 2x today. And since we don’t have access to mods, it’s even worse. So I was in CAS and lost all my progress. And it’s so frustrating because this happens so much.
*Infants are so buggy SO BUGGY!! The infants could’ve been fun, they had potential. But it’s so buggy to the point where when I need to age up my baby I’m dreading it. Infants could’ve been so much more if they just tried, and fixed things more.
*The Sims interaction with the other Sims is not intuitive. For example if you ask somebody to go on a date they are going to be all over the place interacting with other Sims and even when you try to converse with them to spend time together - they will be roaming around and leaving as they please.
They have a forum dedicated to fixing bugs and issues and it's the player that is doing all of these things not electronic arts.
I’ve been a sims fan for many years. And I’m about to stop playing. The glitches and bugs make the game unbearable to play. And they want to come out with TS5??? It’s worrying because I’m afraid it’ll be just a huge buggy mess like TS4. Losing my progress 24/7 because I’m in CAS is exhausting. Even just in gameplay it’s just frustrating to play. I can write such a longer review, because all of the packs are so buggy, EA doesn’t try to even build nice base game houses/houses that come with packs. They lean on Youtube Simmers sometimes to do it, which is awesome. And they should do that more. But they need to spend a lot. And I mean A LOT. Of time fixing bugs and glitches. Because the game is just not enjoyable anymore. Listen to the community.