The Sims 4?

quote DC Sniper

Uh guys, no one is forcing you to buy the expansion packs.

The Sims 3 was great in terms of content and I actually enjoyed it. My only gripe with it is the intense loading screens and lack of a story mode.

No and I didn't buy them either. I think most people can't help but be a little bit pissed though when they notice EA selling expansion packs for £5 more than they used to be for TS2 with less features in them. I can't help but be a little bit annoyed that they give you limited clothing and hairstyles and then demand extra money for more items. It's kind of obvious at this point that they don't really give a shit about what the players actually think. They just know that a lot of people out there will fork out the money for the new games.



Is this stuff pack for the players or is it for the sake of making more money? How many TS3 players wanted lots of Katy Perry themed sweetie furniture? Not many. It doesn't really add a range of interesting things to the game. You'd get sick of using if after using it maybe once and the novelty would wear off faster than you can say "product placement". We kind of forgave them for TS2: Ikea stuff because we thought "hey we like Ikea furniture, this works in game." My patience is starting to wear thin with this.

Furthermore, TS3 was and still is sloppy. When the game was first released, a remember a number of threads popping up in this forum complaining about glitches with the speed of the game, lag etc. Not all of them were down to poor computers either. They fixed a few issues in patches but the speed glitch was an obvious mistake that should have been picked up way before release. The game was also missing a variety of things they had promised to gamers such as the tattoos and the breast sliders which they only added to the game in an update a year or so after release date.

My laptop fits all of the specifications of this game and isn't even on the borderline and yet it still struggles to run it because it's notorious for overheating computers and graphics cards in general. They didn't make it so the game limits the amount of use of the graphics card. Instead it just overuses it (unnecessarily as well) until the laptop overheats and crashes or shuts down to protect itself. They could have fixed that before release but they never did.

I only really play TS3 for the traits system, the open neighborhood and the create a style feature. If it weren't for those features, I'd just stick to TS2.