May - last edited May
This new update further confirms my decision of no longer buying these games. This latest update is a primer for in-game purchase models. I've seen this happen too many times in games now to be optimistic about it. This is how it starts.
1. Game starts adverts on front page
2. Game then gets adverts in game
3. Game adds a nifty - in game menu where you can do things in game for free items. "It's totally free and you don't have to buy anything!"
4. Game let's that happen for a few months to get us used to it and to stop complaining about it.
5. Game adds in a currency instead so you can buy what you want with the game points... but some things that are really hard to get points up for. So you'll start wishing for more points. These items will be extra cool to make you want to buy extra coins to speed up the process.
6. Game adds in game purchases for coins because everything you do for free is just a coin or two less than what you need to get the coolest item.
Welcome to your new Gacha... you didn't even know it happened.
No thanks. I'm done. This is exactly the wrong direction for me to enjoy this game. The ads aren't going away and they're only going to get worse. It's a shame because I really enjoyed Sims 4... it was a good avenue for inspiring my writing. I'm highly disappointed in this direction. (I copied this from another post on the adverts... I really hate the direction the game is moving in... this is not good)
May
It has been a full day since the announcement about login rewards, and I have yet to see the popup or any items in CAS or BB. In fact, when I go to BB, "event rewards" is empty. I logged in yesterday and today, and nothing. Yes, I downloaded the patch. Yes, I took out the few mods I have.
May
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@Amuni50 With the BB event rewards you also need to click the colour options for the items to show up according to advice from the same topic in the old forums.
May
Not confusing at all, once you log in it will pop up in the main menu and u click "claim". It's free content instead of having to pay. I Love it, my Legacy sim has already started playing darts with his dad! Can't wait to login tomorrow for the necklace! Can't complain bout free content! They are probably testing it out now to see how it goes, they might have plans to have it in Project Rene. Sure there might be glitches but it can't all be perfect, they try their best to keep us happy!
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@Agmtransman The confusing thing is that the popup isn't showing for some, meaning that thy are going to miss the dart board and other things because this thing isn't working.
May
"And this one is for both Desktop and Console players! @loner_cowplant pointed out a brilliant solution to unlock the new Practice Makes Perfect Trait. Simply click the Randomize button on traits in Create A Sim until the reward trait pops out. And for the Build Objects? There’s a solution there too! Use the new “Event Rewards” filter in Build Mode and add any and every color within the filters to have the new Sims 4 Login Rewards show up."
May
agreed! Both my daughter and I checked yesterday and today and nothing has popped up on our games when we logged in!
May
So, I've never posted or replied to anything on this forum before. But this issue motivated me to post here for the first time. For context, I have an embarrassing number of hours in TS4, and I've been playing since 2016. I have almost every expansion pack and game pack. I've had a lot of patience for issues with the game in the past. But this is a direction that I'm REALLY not happy with.
Here's my reason. I like to post things to the gallery, and I like to download things. I like making things easy to download - choosing a handful of packs to use for any given build. And I appreciate finding builds and households that use only packs that I own (to avoid hairless sims and unusable lots). The gallery is already unfriendly towards downloading compatible builds. It doesn't let you filter by packs owned (the filter that says "packs owned" shows you every build that has at least one of the packs you own, regardless of how many other packs it uses), and the onslaught of kits has made finding builds I can download very impractical.
But that's nothing compared to login rewards. From now on, gallery posts will not only be uploaded with content that I don't own, but also with content that I can NEVER own. At least with the kits, I have the option of buying them if I really want to. Plus, it's very likely that I won't be able to filter these builds out of my searches. I was already discouraged from posting or interacting with the gallery when they removed notifications - making it difficult to tell if someone commented or posted. But this is even more heartbreaking. I like playing the game by myself, but gallery interaction was a huge aspect I really enjoyed.
I don't really care when some other games I play offer limited time rewards (for example, Forza Horizon 5). If I get the rewards, great, but I don't get FOMO when something passes me by. But that game doesn't have a content hub that gets ruined if you don't have every item - like TS4 does. Also, you can get a lot of those items at the virtual auction house if other players want to sell. There are no ways to trade in this game.
I don't plan on claiming any of the daily rewards. I don't care about content that gets locked. And while part of me knows that nothing will change, I really hope that if enough people say something and/or don't utilize the daily rewards, the Sims team will change their minds about this.
May
You seem not to understand how this works. Since day one there has been locked content in the game. Meaning that the items are in the game just locked. This has always worked fine if you downloaded something with a locked item from the gallery it will still be there and your sims can use it, You are just limited in what you can do with the locked item. You can move it but not copy it and if you delete it you can't get it back.
I hope this relieves your fears of what will happen when you download a locked item from the gallery.
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