UUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH GOD, here we go. (－‸ლ)
TS5 better not have multiplayer, EA, don’t you even try it. Simport was a hot mess in TS3. Your own frikkin townies are annoying AF, EA! Y’all remember the WA tourists, SN zombies, random wildlife (and that effing Ice-cream Truck) from Pets, and those obnoxious LN paparazzi? Well, imagine all that…with other effing people’s sims invading your world, too. O_O Absolutely not.
Stop tryna make The Sims your next live service microtransaction riddled franchise killer, EA. SimCity TANKED, and for a reason: EA keeps effing up perfectly good games, cuz they’re not about gaming, they’re about trend-chasing and maximum profits with minimum effort.
There are wishlists upon wishlists of missing and lackluster features in TS3 & TS4 that have gone ignored or not delivered. EA’s “innovations” always seem to come at the cost of sacrificing something precious to what made The Sims such a quirky game in the first place. TS3 had open world & CASt, but EA charged and piecemealed every effing thing cool from TS2 in Store DLC, or spread across a dozen EPs. TS4 runs better, and the push-pull effect in build/buy & CAS is its best addition, but the worlds are effing microscopic, the gameplay’s boring and there’s barely any EPs even after all these years, even though they’re on their billionth SP filled with useless clutter.
The Sims isn’t moving forward as a franchise – EA keeps regurgitating the same EPs, while removing all the freaking CONTENT from them (just compare Bon Voyage to Castaways to Island Paradise to Island Living). They’re not taking any fresh ideas seriously at all – they’ll start out with a great concept, like Tiny Living, and ultimately do NOTHING with it. T_T
EA, I challenge you, I DARE you: Add these, and watch The Sims be a better game for it, BET:
playable/liveable boarding schools for KIDS in a Generations/University crossover for frikkin once
more interactive professions/careers (stop with the effing rabbitholes!)
WAY more content for ELDERS
more hobbies/skills/group activities (boardgames, cardgames, Bingo, birdwatching, knitting, square dancing, storytelling, WAY more musical instruments, new sports, etc)
more balanced CAS & build/buy content catered towards MALE SIMS (y’all stay giving females aaaaaalllll the effing content and I’m sick of it; pick up a effing MAGAZINE since y’all like trends so daggone much, and find some frikkin inspiration!)
more options for PREGNANCY (babies in TS4 are a joke, and y’all didn’t even have Toddlers until the community nearly pitched a dang fit for years on end), like interactive lamaze classes, throwing gender reveal parties & baby showers
making Zodiac signs frikkin mean something again
more multiculturalism and lifestyles represented as new WORLDS – where’s Japan, Africa, Native Americans/Inuit, Australia, India/Cambodia, Greece, Poland, New England, (Old) England/UK – where 👏 are 👏 the 👏 new 👏 CULTURES? World Adventures could’ve been the start of a whole new Sims series, Bon Voyage style, where sims just jetset to different places – and time travel, too!
different/alternatives to technology – EA has YET to make Sims live off the grid, or fully green. Where are the rustic/medieval FARMS? With actual farm animals, animal husbandry, horticulture, hydroponics, and more? Buggies and wagons with horses, donkeys, and LLAMAS. It’s a crime against nature that The Sims hasn’t had pet llamas, EA.
And keep embracing Supernatural Lifestates! I’m so TIRED of simmers who complain that the game should only be realistic – did you mofos even play TS1?! What effing planet do y’all think sims live on, where Grim Reapers, ghosts, aliens and cowplants are BASEGAME (in the earlier titles at least), and y’all think these effing sims are living realistic lives? Come on.
And bring back CASt/Color Wheels, open worlds & transportation. Y’all were out of your GYATDYANG MINDS when you left them out of TS4, with NO GOOD REASON stop the lies, EA.
I swear, this is why I’m just sitting here waiting for Paralives (and you watch those scummy EA mofos go and copycat every good idea from Paralives–and make it worse–just you watch!). The Sims needs some freaking competition. Maybe if everyone jumps effing ship EA will realize just how badly they’ve been letting down the community & get their act together. And for crissakes someone get rid of Graham Nardone; ever since he showed up The Sims has been just spiraling in the wrong direction.
Fix your current mess, EA, before you start mucking around in a whole other sandbox. Jfc.
