Completely! I hardly ever say a bad word about EA or The Sims, I always have patience for the bugs, and the fixes but this time around... I am SO DISSAPOINTED I am seriously considering not buying any more packs. The bugs are ridiculous and the fact that The Playtesting is so limited before release they are knowingly allowing issues out in Updates and Pack releases.
This just goes to show their integrity has vanished, and as such, this is a backward step or should I say leap!
The Kits are a massive disappointment, and clearly, just another way to make money.
What happened to stuff packs?
Game packs seem to give you more for your money all around but as always there are bug issues.
Then this latest expansion... I have never seen so many recolours, where are the NEW ITEMS if I wanted re-colours I would get CC, I PAY for NEW content, and this is such a rip-off, after gifting out hundreds of pounds worth of Sims Game Codes in the last few years, I won't be doing this anymore either. Why on earth would I continue to promote a game that clearly has lost interest in the community that plays it and continue to put profit first?
I am also past the point of 'NOT' blaming the GURUS because yes although they get paid, are they not the ones that play and promote these packs before they go out? Has not ONE OF THEM got a backbone to tell their bosses NO THIS GAME IS NOT READY? Have the Gurus lost touch THAT MUCH with the community and the game they are meant to LOVE SO MUCH that they are willing to crush the dreams of the community who love and follow them by continuing to promote a game they ALSO KNOW is not FIT FOR RELEASE?
In three years I have gone from worshipping this game to creating three magazines, a website, and a community to shutting the magazines and moving to our blog, hardly playing the game I literally just build for an hour a month and stepping back from the community because all we see are the problems The Sims have and NOTHING ever given back, The constant arguments over CC 'rights' and still The Sims won't stand up and say what's what, yet sit back and watch a community explode and deteriorate because they simply can't make anything clear one way or another and rely on comments from Twitter posts or forum comments from Gurus who have not a leg in the legal department.
It also disgusts me that they continue to think they can pull the wool over the communities eyes and we will continue blindly to bow down and throw rose petals at their feet for every little free piece of re-coloured base game furniture they give us and collaborations with big tech companies that are so pointless and just a money grab its shameful.
I am sooooo annoyed right now with the whole lot.
The Sims - was once a family fun game, that had humour, had content and gave back to the community.
Now it's a political point-scoring, publicity-seeking, money-grabbing, bandwagon-jumping popularity contest with a life simulation game attached... Play with Life... more like 'The Sims was here.....
