Yeah, thanks for putting that thought into my head!

What gets me is CC creators have been putting out things like this for years and years. And there is the crap CC that very few would touch, to the really nicely detailed stuff worth having. From T-shirts to bras, really looking good and fit for purpose.

And of the crap stuff you would not desire to keep in your game, Maxis has made the same quality skintight spray-on clothing nonsense. Why bother? Not even the least discerning console player would want this crap, surely.

Given the skintight nature, it might actually work better for swimwear than any other category. Ouch!

And you just know what's coming next. "Help. Whenever my sim takes a bath or shower, they are always wearing a layered top."

Sounds about right.

Time for more EA buffoonery. The pocket watching edition.



https://s204.q4cdn.com/701424631/fi...lease_FINAL.pdf

This is what was left over for their fiscal year for 25-26.

All the overlords are sending EA endless praise about well they did and how great they are. 7.5 million is a lot of money, until one thinks about this how much profit they had left over the course of 12 months. That comes out to be just over a half million per month... for a "multi-billion dollar company" with roughly 10,000 employees.

There is the dumb expression where it is said that if people say something enough the thing they are bullshitting about must be true. This is proof how dumb that expression really is...

As I said - the marketplace releases are getting smaller and smaller. Last time, there was a CAS set. Now? $2 for a SINGLE hair style on the marketplace and there’s now a ballroom kit coming, looking right out of Royalty & Legacy.

Make it make sense.

Simmers around the world: Please fix this broken game!
EA: You never asked for it, but here you go: layered clothing. And many new bugs to go with it.

Looks like the new pack things are a Netflix tie-in for Bridgerton. Certainly not my cup of Earl Grey.

Coming soon, Disney Princesses..... mark my words!

If they must make content, please make architecture. When building, I never struggled to furnish or decorate a lot.

What I do struggle with is wallpaper, flooring, and different build items.

I don’t need another couch, I need complete architectural sets.

If Royalty and Legacy is final EP, will they continue to release content on MartketPlace? I feel like they will still resort to gameplay objects (like premium objects from The Sims Store, otherwise I don’t see how the game will survive if they continue developing or doing anything to keep TSFOUR afloat.

Personally, I just want them to end it all so there wouldn’t be any talk about it.

TBH... I have a TON of build mode sets and CC from various creators, so much more variety and completeness than Maxis ones. The official sets mostly have a couple of windows and doors in each pack, plus an archway if you're lucky, but there are plenty of CC sets out there that fill these out into complete styles. Peacemaker and Illogical do some really great jobs of creating full sets of Maxis themes, from sofas, tables and chairs to windows, doors and surfaces
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There are many more out there depending on your taste and tolerence for creators who flout the Patreon paywall window.

Try House of Harlix for amazing architectural sets, although I think they have gone back behind a paywall

I realise that you yourself Matrix may know all this but I just want to help anyone who wants it.

Premium items are the ONLY items I will consider getting from the marketplace. Only. I don't need yet another couch or yet another lipstick. Even then, said premium item should be in a Stuff Packs, or some kind of gameplay kit. It doesn't need to be anything abstract or crazy. They better start doing it now, because no one's buying the content now. They're not even trying to make it hard resist making a purchase.

For example: A kit for pub games with a pool table and shuffleboard, with different games and tricks to do on a pool table or the ability to compete with Sims (like you can with bowling). For deco, there can be a chalk board score deco, a rack of pool sticks, and an overhead pub style pool table lamp. Throw in a pub style counter & counter island set with matching bar, and a few shirts for pool players or competitors.

That would be hard for me not to buy for $5.



I'm aware of build CC and where to find it, but I'm referring to Maxis or Creators. Businesses should fill niches and solve problems (even ones they make themselves), but the Marketplace feels like a place where creators employ the least amount of effort for the largest payout possible. There isn't even a nursery set or children's furniture. Players without CC have been stuck with the BASE GAME HIGH CHAIRS since GROWING TOGETHER, yet, we get pimple patches and creators expect us to salivate over 10 minutes of work? No.

@matrix54 like The Sims 4 Pool Tables Stuff? That reminescences me of Bowling

I was thinking kit, and I gauge it's utility based on animations. Pool tables require extensive animation work. Even 3 reused Sims 2's animations. Given how much work would be required for a group activity like pool to function, and a few different designs, I get it.

I would like to bet that that they’re mayble unable to animate new objects like pool tavles would require, considering how much they cut in corners (starting with gamepacks, then stuff pack and now - EP are over). This may even be the saddest dawn of TS4.

Do EA actively approach CC creators to invite them to join the Marketplace?

As it stands, the Marketplace has no interest for me whatsoever. As matrix54 pointed out, how many sofas, beds and bookcases do we need?

But, speaking of Pool Tables, I have long enjoyed this mod - https://www.patreon.com/posts/billiard-mod-a0-97979134 - and get to wondering, how long before EA start actively approaching and recruiting such creators to fill the Marketplace with more interesting gameplay stuff. Because till then it's dead in the water.

I just don't know if that would be a good thing, stealing such creators away to make them exclusive to the expensive Marketplace. Another step toward Sims Dystopia.

I use this awesome billiard mod too.
I think it would get very shady when EA starts to release a patch where these functional mods get unplayable so that the creators upload them to the marketplace.

Based on what I've heard over the years, animation limitations aren't so much a matter of how much EA is willing to pay for them, but also how animation used in the Sims 4 engine. Animation usage doesn't appear to be as flexible as other games, so they're careful with what animations are introduced into the game. Obviously, Maxis can afford to animate the game, but the engine appears to be the issue.

This is exactly why EA wants to reboot TS4: the QA costs are too high and the engine is too outdated. People who have all of the DLCs report that their game is very buggy and it lags pretty bad. I think those people play their TS4 on a laptop not meant for gaming, but, SatchOnSims has a pretty decent computer and there is sill lag.

TS4 was never meant to be complete: there is just too much DLCs on an old (outdated) engine. The game had issues back in 2015, but, now, after 10 years of content, I can imagine how annoying and buggy the experience of playing TS4 is. That is why TS4 has so many UI elements, and little new animations.

EDIT: I still play TS2 and that game has so many little animations. Almost all the animations in the play category are unique and complex. It is the same thing with the romance category.

Damn, I made a good comment about the deal with what terrible foundation of the engine they created (lack of open world and how road system doesn’t exist, with cars being rudimentary item that should have been in simulation game of mundane life, but hasn’t) but MTS for some reason bugs out on phones that I cannot post a reply.

Anyway, these one of things I never get - why they have to effing put limitations of themselves by cutting corners, which in turn for save costs and coding knowledge/time they made it impossible to do certain changes. I can’t not get over how stupid they chose to implement Community Spaces (Neighborhoods or whafever term it is) over Open World where physical cars could exits and be interacted with. The consequence was foreseen and was stupid to expect players would be ok with it.

The newest update that came with layering already comes with a plethora of new bugs. People report all sorts of issues with CAS, both on PC and on console. It would be best not to update your game!

How do they introduce new bugs despite not making any new content? Fix 150, make 50…



We could have had a vehicle parked in front of our home lots like we had with Bustin’ Out. I don’t think anyone was expecting the game have playable cars but a PARKED car was 100% possible.

4 just wasn’t meant to be a sequel. It was brute forced into one. They probably say 3 dwindling in sales over time and didn’t want to commit to a sequel but felt they had no choice when Sim City flopped.

When 4 really kicked off, I think they felt obligated to commit to it. Instead of using that money to fund a proper sequel, they just didn’t and pivoted to Rene.

Madness.

Nothing new really, but it keeps being brought up so I guess (?) there is something to it.



https://www.tipranks.com/news/compa...d=mw_quote_news

So another "amazing" patch

Fixes an embarrassing numbers of bugs with infants & toddlers, which I never play anyway, but if I did I would be annoyed.

Most of the other stuff like autonomy I have already modded out and all the wrong categories can be fixed with Sims4Studio.
(I recommend re-pricing all curtain sizes of the same style to an unused value, say $83. Then they group nicely in build/buy)

I'll be happily staying off-line thank you EA!


P.S. Found out why one of my Sims keeps wanting to go to the toilet, no more "Danger Kid" for you!

Another Patch, and another hot fix.

did you honestly think it would be different this time around?

Absolutely not.