Sims 4 devs assemble team to focus on fixing bugs and upping performance, updates to now land every two months
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Starting with fixes for summoning a cheese toastie, among others, later this month.
  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    612·
    6 months ago

    Sims 4 released in 2014. They had plenty of time to address bugs in-between the millions of stupid updates, but they didn’t bother. Who honestly expects any real work from these guys at this point?

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      37·
      6 months ago

      It’s funny how as soon as two competing projects (Life By You and Paralives) start to get closer to release they suddenly care about improving stuff they’ve ignored for 10 years lol

    • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      6 months ago

      If I’m given a choice between some fixes and no fixes, I’ll take some. You know they’ll dump the code like a hot potato once Sims 5 starts rolling out micro expansions.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      I think the real news is that they are no longer making new content cause the new mainline game is now all hands on deck with whoever’s leftover just working on minor updates for 4 now

      • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        I don’t even know how I feel about this. On the one hand, it’s great we’re moving away from 4 which was always a shitshow to begin with, on the other hand I have no faith whatsoever 5 is going to be even on par with 4.

        • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          I’m both hopeless and optimistic at the same time. I want it to be good so I’ll reserve judgement until we get actual concrete info.

          Yeah, I got sick of the way they dealt with dlc for 4. Early on it was still kind of annoying but if you were of a certain persuasion you could look past it. But compared to how it ended up being, the early days of 4 expansions now look like heaven.

          Instead of playing 4 I’ve been messing around with XP and playing 1, 2 and the Stories games. I’m sad the series had ended up how it is but I’m glad of the earlier games still though and they bring me endless joy.

      • Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Where did you see that they are no longer making new content for Sims 4? The article doesn’t seem to say so and the last I heard they planned to release content for Sims 4 alongside Sims 5. FYI, I would prefer they stop with Sims 4 content.

          • Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Oh okay. A while back, their VP Lyndsay Pearson explicitly said they plan for Sims 4 to continue to exist side by side with Project Rene (aka Sims 5). I was wondering if that had changed. My cynical take on the plan to keep both going is that Sims 5 is probably going to be a live service abomination, which they wanted Sims 4 to be, so keeping Sims 4 might be hedge in case Sims 5 fails hard. Of course, they could also have been lying.

  • Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    They didn’t need to announce this. They could just fix the bugs and players would start noticing that a bunch of bugs were getting fixed.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      They could have done nothing and been okay because Paradox apparently put their competitor Sims game on indefinite hold so we’re still stuck with just EA’s bullshit instead of having a choice of which life sim with an outrageous amount of paid for DLC we want to play.

      • Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        I had not heard about Life By You being on hold. That’s frustrating. Paradox games go nuts with DLC too, but some competition is better than none.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          Paradox seems to be having some problems at the moment. No idea what is going on.

          I think it is just an issue that management is greenlit to many projects simultaneously and now there aren’t enough resources to go around (shockingly), so they have to suspend some stuff so they can focus on other stuff.

        • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Personally I don’t really mind the DLCs in paradox games.

          The DLCs fund the smaller free updates and they are optional. If you want to regularly get more content for the games you love it might be worth the 20 euro (or whatever) and you absolutely don’t need to buy every single one just the ones with features and content you like.

          Basically the options are: more new paid features and some new free features or no new features.

          • Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            I don’t mind DLC that’s done right for games I love. I just know it’s a common complaint for Paradox games to have a lot of DLC. That said, there are games that have produced a ton of free updates with very little DLC, like No Man’s Sky, Terraria, Minecraft, etc. So, I don’t know that it’s always necessary to have a ton of DLC to support ongoing game development. It’s all very subjective and varies a lot from game to game.