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EA once again choosing quantity over quality. We NEED a Sims 5

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I’m a game dev, but you don’t need to be a game dev to know that the Sims 4 is shuddering under the weight of the countless dlc being poured into it.

Most packs barely function, and take many patches to even become reliable. A lot of packs don’t like each other, people who own all or most of each pack report multiple conflicts and issues.

The game itself was a complete state on launch, first being built to be an online game with appropriate framework for that. Only to be very suddenly reworked to be an offline one.

This isn’t a small feat, and I can absolutely guarantee their code base and systems have been hacked together to accomplish this. I imagine their tech debt must be enormous now. And they keep adding more and more on top.

The game is like you had to build the foundations of a house as fast as you can out of scrap wood. Then being told to keep adding more and more floors to the house. That foundation is cracking, and breaking more and more with each level.

That’s the sims. And it baffles me that EA has decided they are entirely focusing on expanding the Sims 4. No amount of patches is going to fix this. They need an entirely new, fresh project to build up again. This time done right. But they won’t do that, because they have a cash cow right here and evidence people will keep buying their broken content.

It’s just shambles. And it’s a shame that this is what the game industry is now. Monetisation trumps quality.

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