#lawd!!!!!

I'm saying that as someone who doesn't have an interest in Paralives (or InZoi), but for real… they've started with paywalling mods and the game is just in early access…?

Sims 4 ruined its own community because of greed. I mean people can blame EA, but you can't ignore the people within the Sims 4 community playing a part. I don't even think most of the players even play the literal game or play it without a shit ton of mods that make it something it's entirely not meant to be… which is a Rated T video game.

I've got to state that a lot of this has to do with the demographic of Sims 4 players or at least I hope, because in short, the older gen was 'raised much better than this' or even just, 'much different than this', which is also a big reason why the Sims 1 through Sims 3 communities roll a different way.

A lot of what's been promoted, hyped, and jazzed up wouldn't fly with the previous Sims communities -- and that's a fact, Jack!

And there's no going back. Not until people stop paying for early access and paywalled mods/custom content at the rate they are (or all together), but that's literally never likely to happen when people are literally refusing to turn their games on until said modder updates their mods because they just can't play without them because, because, because… like not for nothing, but there once was a time where mods didn't even exist for the previous Sims games. Custom content did, but hardly anyone I knew, was talking aout mods back in the days. And guess what? WE PLAYED. FOR HOURS. DAYS. WEEKS. MONTHS. YEARS.

Having 'all or nothing' isn't exactly a good thing -- CLEARLY, as plenty of us have already seen.

The entitlement I see people complain about shouldn't be entirely blamed on the creator who is showing entitlement. How do you think they got there? The people in the community who gave them their bread and butter, stroked their ego, and practically glorified them. It's our fault as much as it is their fault for their behavior. Of course they could be better about it, but I've lost a ton of faith in humanity since 2020 (probably 2016 if I'm completely honest), so if someone's gonna become egotistical and entitled, I gotta say -- the shit's not gonna exactly shock me.

People are speaking up about the wrong things in this community and they're so far into their bubbles that they can't even see the big picture -- and that's the literal truth.

People need to stop following each other around in circles. Think and speak for yourselves (even outside of the community), but also, learn to love the game for what it is.

Sims 4 is never going to be Sims 1, Sims 2, or Sims 3. It is its own game.

When people insist that modders have made it so others are able to play Sims 4 -- is insane to me. No modder out there is responsible for the fun that I've had in my game. They've made things more tolerable and they've enhanced it in certain ways, but to give them this level of credit for a game that isn't even theirs -- is wild. This is exactly why some have become entitled.

This idea that Sims 4 has to be 'altered' to the extent I've seen it altered is just mentally not normal and it's also not mentally healthy. Of course I'm no doctor, but I can see a trainwreck a mile away.

Knowing this is what's made me start to want to move AWAY from as many mods as I can in my own game because I've lost sight of what's actually included with the packs and when I've discovered them -- I've been surprised, I've liked it, it's brought me some form of joy.

But you can't even say that. I've said it already a few years ago -- shouting out the players that play mostly vanilla or entirely vanilla, because people look down on them.

If you're a console player who has no choice, but to play vanilla, everyone literally forgets about you. You don't 'truly' exist as a simmer, or matter, because it's your fault your ass is playing on console instead of buying a computer to play the game.

If you're a computer player that just chooses to play vanilla, ALL you see are people running into community spaces with, "Just use a mod for that." or "There's a mod for that."

I'm sitting there some of the time like… is anyone going to stop and think before they actually speak? Meaning, "Hi. I'm not sure if you use mods or not, but if you do, there is a mod for that."

No. Everyone just 'assumes' that PC players are drowning themselves in mods and custom content, because that is ALL this community talks about.

No one is asking anyone what save they're currently in. No one is asking someone why their favorite Sim is their favorite sim. No one is trying to get to know another simmer on an honest personal level.

Every single thing that actually matters about humans and their 'favorite video game' or at least one they love a great deal -- especially one that is what it is because of how players have the ability to create endless scenarios has been ruined by superficial bullshit.

Reshade should NOT be this important.

Wicked Whims should NOT be this important.

Obsession with Neutrals… EVERYWHERE, should not be this important.

This gaming franchise was built as a Rated T game in the year 2000, for that ONE computer people had to take turns using in either their own living rooms, or a friend's (because there were A SHIT TON of people who could not afford computers back then), with nothing, but tacky furniture and wacky colored carpets for build/buy!

And if anyone says "Well times have changed" -- yeah… for the worse, bro. Because now there's nothing else there.

Or the argument, "Everyone should be able to play their game the way they want." Yes -- but at one point there were SEVERE limitiations to the game and people still had a GREAT experience -- but also, I repeat, is anyone even actually PLAYING Sims 4? And the excuse, "The game is so broken I can't play it." is stretching the truth LIKE HELL.

Think outside the box. Learn to work around things. HAVE FUCKING PATIENCE. Start a new save for the meantime. Have several saves for when things stop working in one of them. REMOVE YOUR FUCKING MODS. REMOVE YOUR FUCKING CC. TRY TO FIGURE OUT YOUR PROBLEM… by actually making an 'effort' to figuring it out.

And THIS… is what people are trying to let happen to Paralives or even any other game that'll come out that'll be in the same genre as The Sims?