There is merit in that statement of content moving forward, but current times have nothing to do with Maxis breaking content purchased 7-8 years ago. For example, someone who bought Get To Work at launch shouldn’t have to deal with Maxis bricking Retail for several months when Businesses & Hobbies launched last year.

Those are about a decade apart. That’s unjustifiable.

On the other hand, if one pack breaks, why buy another one? Dine Out and Wedding Stories didn’t break yesterday (nor came out at that date), but people still bought Getaway and Royalty Stories, the Lovestruck and alike packs. Why?

A new dlc won’t fix it. Pets disappearing is a symptom of player autonomy and lack of critical thinking. The downfall of the sims is very much the fault of consumers (that don’t do what they preach), as much as of Maxis’/EA’s

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Laymens terms: EA cannot afford the debt they've signed up for this so-called deal and heaven forbid the buyers put down more money for the purchase. Ooops! They can't afford this deal either.

They [EA] are looking for ways to lower payments on said debt, but Big Government has other ideas. EA could very well end up paying more than they planned. All this yapping about securities and interest rates on bonds does not include interest on any loans they have with banks such as JP Morgan, ect...

Any interest that is earned from said treasuries is not going to save them and they would have to pay taxes on said new 'income' or interest. T-Bills and other things printed from Treasury do not accrue a lot of interest on a monthly basis. A person could find better rates at their local credit union. I digress.

About Treasury Marketable Securities

https://treasurydirect.gov/marketable-securities/

If they just focused on making good games, none of this nonsense would have happened. EA has a massive catalog behind them, but they actively choose to uphold terrible business practices, shamelessly.

What a mess. That company is not much longer. At least not in its current state.

If the whole thing falls apart, it is going to get even more interesting.

All the shareholders that agreed to this stupid deal to begin with can turn around sue EA if this thing flops. If shareholders can do that, I'm willing to bet bondholders could do so also, plus whoever else put it in writing that if this blows up, they want all of their money back. None of this includes any missed debt payments. This could happen even before the first debt payment is due.

Bonds are not a loan or debt for anybody that doesn't know. Anybody can purchase bonds, Treasury bills or T Bills as they are called. Depending on what a person buys depends on the terms. Again, they're not exciting. It is basically giving the US government money, in return, they give the money back plus a little interest. If this whole thing blows up in EA's ugly mug, EA is going to be in a heap of trouble whether they have bonds or not. A 20-year bond does not mature in a few months. It takes 20 years for it to maybe be worth paper it is printed on.

While I'm not a business person, I understand that with business comes risk. For EA, there is a risk that a video game doesn't sell well and the overlords pitch a fit along with customers. Then there is fucking sheer stupidity of trying to sell a business with a insane amount of debt spread over 20 years to 3 groups of people that can't afford said debt themselves. If these people can't afford the business to begin with, how are they going to afford to keep the EA compound in Redwood CA running, plus wherever else EA is camping out. EA has buildings all over the globe.

I'm not asking for answers, I'm just yapping out loud. For far too many years we've had ass hats from EA telling customers how stupid they are, and yet here's EA doing this. The projection though...

From the Sims community news..... EA Reveals The Sims 4 Quality of Life Roadmap

P-please make it stop!

So to summarize this: EA needs a whole year to deal with some of the many bugs the game has.

Maxis is doing the loopty-loop. They've been yapping about quality of life improvements for TS4 for over a year. The only new thing in all of that verbal vomit was mention of obligation. Going on 11 years and now there is a sense of obligation? Interesting. Instead of just doing things the right way the first time or fixing problems when they needed to be fixed, the best option was to wait over a decade. How stupid is that? Fixing something that is broken when it breaks. Pffft! You're such a crackhead, GC!

My team of flying monkeys are not picking up on the obligation vibes. It is more like the the unforgettable stench of gaslighting. How many times has the collective we seen the following conversation? I've lost count.

Maxis: We're investigating

Maxis: We're still investigating

Maxis: These problems are all mod related.

Console players: We have these problems too!

Maxis: These are all player problems! We did our job! Next!

We can't leave out my favorite newest addition: You're using too many wallpapers, windows and doors!

Are there lots of players that are too lazy to properly maintain their mods and keep them up to date? Absolutely. However, when console players start to chime in by the droves that they are having the same problem (s), Maxis rolling their eyes and trolling is not the appropriate answer. Nor does it speak of having any sense of obligation.

They're looking for new players. See, see! We care about our game! Yup, we're going to fix all the broken things now because we 'heard you'. Gross! That's not it. Their jobs are being threatened.

I love that thing they do on the EA forum where you're looking to see if a bug is happening to others, and when you find a post about it, there's someone going "Do the 50/50 method" or "have you checked the mod compatibility post?".

I know the state of my Mods. I came here to get an answer or solution to a GAME fault, NOT to "50/50" my Mods or some such nonsense. My Mods are organised and put in a holding folder until I am happy they work. After that they are mainly sorted by creator and I know which ones to check.

IT IS NOT MY MODS! If it was a Mod I would go to the creator's website for a fix. I am on the EA forum because I believe it is the game that is at fault. But all they ever do is fob you off anyway.

(I enjoyed that! )

Usually, I think the creator kit's are much better than the Maxis Kits, but Yard Charm isn't really striking a chord for me. It kind of feels caught in the middle of Minimalist House accents and "Quirky-Neighbor-Core," but doesn't have any kind of must haves.

Wonderland Playroom is a kit It's well made but feels like it's doing too much for every day use.

And you need to delete the localthumbnail cache file. Always delete it, as soon as the wind changes.

Grrrrr...

They think they're helping, I guess. But... Grrrrr.

Actually! I have a mod script for that as well!

And people will still continue to pour money, buy remastered game that will be broken or get broken at every each update and new expansion/whatever pack that comes out, people will insist on buying kits to decorate their lackluster Sim lifes, all while yapping they want TS5 How much I love this part of the fandom! No backbone in sight!

We should judge the quality of the game by that cheat input UI. That thing has been stretched out of shape for literal years at this point.

Oh that's a vanilla issue? I always assumed some rogue mod I had was distorting that.

I don’t use mods often. It’s been broken and has stayed broken.

Considering how little time it takes to actually fix it (it’s basic flat UI and probably 9 sliced or something), it being broken signals a lack of complete care about the overall game’s quality. They can’t fix something that takes 5 minutes to do?

Speaking of bugs, there has been a lighting bug since LAUNCH. Walls have this shadow that fade into the foundation. Windows also get this effect. The problem? Windows on upper floors receive the shadow, while windows in the bottom floor do not.

11 years.