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Sims 4 devs assemble team to focus on fixing bugs and upping performance (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] 63 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sims 4 released in 2014. They had plenty of time to address bugs in-between the millions of stupid updates, but they didn't bother. Who honestly expects any real work from these guys at this point?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think the real news is that they are no longer making new content cause the new mainline game is now all hands on deck with whoever's leftover just working on minor updates for 4 now

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't even know how I feel about this. On the one hand, it's great we're moving away from 4 which was always a shitshow to begin with, on the other hand I have no faith whatsoever 5 is going to be even on par with 4.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I'm both hopeless and optimistic at the same time. I want it to be good so I'll reserve judgement until we get actual concrete info.

    Yeah, I got sick of the way they dealt with dlc for 4. Early on it was still kind of annoying but if you were of a certain persuasion you could look past it. But compared to how it ended up being, the early days of 4 expansions now look like heaven.

    Instead of playing 4 I've been messing around with XP and playing 1, 2 and the Stories games. I'm sad the series had ended up how it is but I'm glad of the earlier games still though and they bring me endless joy.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Where did you see that they are no longer making new content for Sims 4? The article doesn't seem to say so and the last I heard they planned to release content for Sims 4 alongside Sims 5. FYI, I would prefer they stop with Sims 4 content.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It didn't explicitly say. I'm reading between the lines of the PR speak.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Oh okay. A while back, their VP Lyndsay Pearson explicitly said they plan for Sims 4 to continue to exist side by side with Project Rene (aka Sims 5). I was wondering if that had changed. My cynical take on the plan to keep both going is that Sims 5 is probably going to be a live service abomination, which they wanted Sims 4 to be, so keeping Sims 4 might be hedge in case Sims 5 fails hard. Of course, they could also have been lying.

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    • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Me over here still messing around in Sims 3

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Sims 3 was best, no? I feel like it was the full package and mostly complete right out of the box. Didn’t have the same feeling in 4 at all. Been some years since I tried 4, but when it launched I remember going back to 3 almost immediately after a couple weeks.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I did the same thing. It may have been because there weren't as many dlcs and expansions, but it just felt really dull. Plus it didn't have the completely open world like 3 did. Sitting through all those loading screens every time you wanted to go somewhere was a pain.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I tried playing Sims 3 again recently and holy hell is the performance bad. Like the FPS is running at whatever I cap it at but there are constant freezes and stuttering with no FPS drops even with all the recommended performance mods. I then remembered I stopped playing for that very reason ages ago and now my desktop is like 100x more powerful.

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    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They didn't need to announce this. They could just fix the bugs and players would start noticing that a bunch of bugs were getting fixed.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    They could have done nothing and been okay because Paradox apparently put their competitor Sims game on indefinite hold so we're still stuck with just EA's bullshit instead of having a choice of which life sim with an outrageous amount of paid for DLC we want to play.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I had not heard about Life By You being on hold. That's frustrating. Paradox games go nuts with DLC too, but some competition is better than none.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Paradox seems to be having some problems at the moment. No idea what is going on.

    I think it is just an issue that management is greenlit to many projects simultaneously and now there aren't enough resources to go around (shockingly), so they have to suspend some stuff so they can focus on other stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I don't mind DLC that's done right for games I love. I just know it's a common complaint for Paradox games to have a lot of DLC. That said, there are games that have produced a ton of free updates with very little DLC, like No Man's Sky, Terraria, Minecraft, etc. So, I don't know that it's always necessary to have a ton of DLC to support ongoing game development. It's all very subjective and varies a lot from game to game.

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    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    ...Aren't they a bit late?

    I mean, better late than never.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    A bit too late honestly…

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    For a game that’s been out for nearly ten years, I’m not expecting over much in the way of actual work from this team. It would be nice as I do miss playing the Sims 4. I suppose this is only happening to reach a larger audience since the move of making The Sims 4 free to play and the packs their cash cow. Which most users have been happily buying despite these packs being glitchy and broken on launch, and for most of their existence.

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