@QUI2Clean
It really does make me sick that they’re selling parts of the game we used to enjoy! Everything we fell in love with isn’t base game anymore. The packs/DLCs aren’t even worth it.
@eveecosplay6446
I think sims 2 is underrated. I was born in 2001. I have played all 4 games. But I keep wanting to go back to sims 2. I really liked it. I also have many expansion packs, all on CD
@LisaOrlandoOfficial
That was the most excellent telling of the way that the Sims franchise has gone down the drain and I am so glad I saw your video I'm so glad I'm not the only one that sees this stuff... it really is sickening what they're doing and I can't wait for the competitors that are coming out with life simulator games to hopefully make a better life simulator with way more to offer & actually get me back into playing and loving life simulators the way I used to with the older Sims games
@4everhippies
Wonderful video, but this don’t even mention how buggy and game breaking the $1,000 DLC is. What’s even worse then all of that it that EA and Maxis have No intention of fixing any of these issues 😓
@icecold1805
I would say, the issue with the Sims 4 I don't think is "lack of features" per say, I think it has a lot of content, it's more of disconnected systems. You got a growing up system that doesn't connect at all with the whole having pets system, having pets is not related at all to how you have horses, or cooking, or getting a job, and so on. All this are isolated separate systems. Imagine if the whole going to university allowed you to gain the knowledge needed to be a veterinarian and do more advanced stuff with your farm animals, if having pets could influence the way child development works, if one could be pregnant and go to university as an adult and face the challenges of parenthood while studying in university. What I am saying here is having all this systems interact with one another to create new systems, and this would allow this feeling of "having content" in the game to explode exponentially.
@Swamp_fairy
This is a great video! I bought a bundle at the beginning of the summer because I had extra money and I haven’t even played it because I got bored of the sims from it crashing and not updating its base game. They’re neglecting to improve their older DLC and refuse to make the base game better because they prioritize pumping out DLC as if we sim fans are addicts to the game🙄 I think a lot of what impacts how much I play now is knowing issues I have with the game will never get resolved and the game won’t get better :/ it makes me want to breakup with the sims and that’s sad
@sir_christmas_leopold_duckson
Ultimately, it boils down to the fact that consumers still shell out money and enable companies like EA to continue their greedy tactics. It won't change unless people close their wallets, which they won't, which is why the term "mindless consumer" exists.
@astrosteve
I tried playing The Sims 4. I grabbed it when it was on sale for $4.99 years ago and within an hour or two of playing it, realized it wasn't very good and cut my losses there. I think I have maybe 3 hours in the game at most. In contrast, I played the hell out of 2 and 3. If I ever want to play Sims, I play 3 now. In retrospect, the fact that The Sims Medieval was a flaming pile of unplayable garbage should have foretold what was going to happen with 4.
@mazhylis12
lol my metascore shows sims 4 now at 66 score :D
@QveenRex
I liked to live in blissful ignorance of how much I spent on Sims 4 content. Knowing that I have likely spent 900+ dollars on this game…well. IDEK what to say.
@ilikesmosh101
Once other simulations come out hopefully there’s enough competition that they’re forced to actually make a good game. They’ve had no competition when it comes to life simulation and clearly it’s gotten them a little too comfortable releasing any half ass dlc bc what else are we gonna do? There’s no other games for us to switch to. Sims 4 needs what city skylines did do simcity
@sumysim3245
I remember the times when you could buy all of the packs and DLCs for $500...and even THAT was too expensive for me, who was quite young at the time, to afford.
@manyyoumas
glad to see a video about this! i'm also super passionate about this topic and have so many childhood memories attached to the sims - i grew up watching my brother play s1 (i was too young) and then sims 2 was my golden era. sims 3 was really great too imo but, suffered a lot of lag issues that ultimately makes sims 2 my top pick still today. what really infuriates me is that honestly, i feel like EA KNOWS they don't need to put in effort/time/energy anymore, people will inevitably buy it because there's a good chunk of that percentage that's just literally kids/teenagers and i feel like kids are much less likely to understand how poor quality and shallow this stuff really is bc well... theyre kids i am forever hoping that a sims-like from another company comes around and humiliates the sims 4, the same way cities skylines did to simcity.
@EQOAnostalgia
If ever there was a game that said to me "Just pirate me" it's The Sims 4.
@Amiator99
Take any expansion pack from TS2 or TS3 and you’ll find it has been fragmented into 3 or 4 DLC packs in TS4.
@Hallie2214
The thing that gets me is that I have basically all the packs and I still will play for like a week straight then never touch it for months later, that shouldn’t happen Especially when I’ve payed over £200 to even make the game bearable.
@V3ntilator
Maxis should have made their usual unique games already after The Sim 1. They have more or less milked The Sims for over 20 years instead, probably because it were easy money for EA.
@charislitt
Almost 10 years later and still no rock bands.
@catsinbed7634
Man i always loved The Sims, ever since the first game. Omitting features and overpricing not-so-significant gamplay expansions is sad but...i think it's important to differentiate - if you really enjoy a game and it gets well-made DLC (like i think Planet Coaster/Planet Zoo/Cities Skylines usually seem to release decent DLCs for example), i think you're perfectly fine, spending all the money you would spend on several games usually on just this one. If the content packs are shitty though, then yes, the price is definitely a valid point of critique. I think that should be made more clear. 1100$ is not the issue - only in connection with lackluster quality it is. Also, something i just realized - there is a point to be made though that The Sims 4 is a game that even many non-gamers play. So yeah, those people are basically losing money. They might not be able to tell (due to a lack of experience) if DLCs are reasonably priced and packed with enough content.
@thescrumpus