I don't know, that's your choice.

My choice is I'd rather have shorter load times if it means when I go to the club it will be active and fun. Not have 2 sims in there dancing and a lonely bartender. I wasn't really a fan of the open world, you are I guess. So it is completely fine that you won't by the game without it.

I'd be a fan of a open world if it meant shorter initial load times, little lag/hiccups, and that the world actually feels alive. Maybe they will have known how to do that with Sims 5, i dunno. But I'm happy that there is no open world because imo it bought more problems than fun.

EDIT: Also I want to add for the performance issues of Sims 3 I also play it on a SSD drive. It did help a lot.

Oh come on. It's been exactly the same back in Sims 2. In Sims 3 the key was searching one of those "hotspots" - and no, I wasn't too fond of that mechanic because it was completely random - and you had, well,.... 5 sims there. With the bouncer and the mixologist you could easily get up to 10 Which was more than any club back in Sims 2's downtown got back in the days, or even in Hot Date when you built your club on a big lot.

But that's not the point. How exactly do you KNOW that this will be any different in Sims 4?! You saw it in a trailer? like this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZcq9f72r2c

Oh boy. Maybe we deserve what we get after all.

I can't say if that's a good or a bad thing though, considering we don't know yet if "what we get" is actually good or bad...

I just love The Sims 3, and it's hard not to compare it with the news about The Sims 4. With all those lacks TS4 wouldn't catch my attention for longer time, than a week. We must face the fact, that TS4 is rather the game for children only... Everything looks so simplified...

*Cough* I'm not a child, although I do try to stay in touch with my inner child. From what I can see on this site alone, many adults, ranging from 20 to 50 + are interested in this game.

I've read quite a few guesses and assumptions as to what kind of person/simmer this game appeals to and almost all of them have been off. Based on that, my guess is that it's hard for those who are not interested in the game to truly appreciate why anyone would be.

Loading times blah blah... CASt blah blah ... Does this game do anything to advance the quality of the lives of the Sim people, that is what I would like to know. The review/comparison does suggest some reasons for optimism, but maybe that's me reading what I want to read into it. What it really looks and feels like, and whether it's worth the sacrifices, I still can't tell; in other words, the article did not "get me off the fence" (i.e. sell me the game).

I can't take seriously a game review that doesn't bother to note the specifications of the computer they played the game on. It's such a huge oversight that I have to assume that that's purposeful, and they're being disingenuous. Going to "System", where processor, memory, and harddrive info is listed isn't rocket science. I do appreciate the photos included, however.

I'm calling it, alan650 and/or the writer of that "review" are EA shills.

I really hope that post is meant as satire.

Yes, that was probably a bit uncalled for. I suppose I woke up on the bitchy side of the bed today. I apologize.

No, you don't. You choose to assume.

I recommend Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.

Don't write exactly what I'm thinking and apologize for it.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.