They could literally turn Sabacc from Journey to Batuu into poker and no one would notice.

We all badly need Patches and Packs that cheer us up and as St Valentine's Day is next month maybe we could go along the Generations path with more romance and consequences, Births, better babies, weddings, and funerals, venues like churches (or whatever suits you to choice), and feasts, Depends whether they make it a Game or Expansion pack on how generous they are. better still a free update they probably owe everybody who has paid out on the game so far.

It could be followed (or preceded) by a Patch for funerals and cemeteries for all players. More work for Grimmie, but some might want that to help with mourning they are doing at the moment. The game is not complete without cemetaries.

Not all cheerful but it might help me get through the Lockdown the UK is in now, even over Valentine's.

PS: Even better if they added Hotels and a Bridal Suite!

P;easant Sims experience a building bug. Either from CC/mods or the game is that borked.

Maxis yet again spends money on advertisements instead on the gane

Also, another weird collabs witth a product.

In that specific instance, Grant said it wasn't because actually adding them would push the rating or anything. He said it was that it wouldn't appeal to younger players who wouldn't have any interest in casinos. Which, despite the fact... wait for it... THIS GAME IS RATED T. I REPEAT TTTTTTTTTTT. Why do they try so hard to appeal to *specifically* younger players despite the fact that they aren't even the minimum age range the game is designed for? They did it with TS3, and at the time it was considered a more tame game compared to TS2.

Grant is so idiotic sometimes it honestly blows my mind.

Sims 4 is rated 12 on the PEGI scale, and copying what they say about it is.... Looks like a casino wouldn't be out of the question in those circumstances. Maybe he was trying to hide that casinos might come in a much later pack or not until he had left?

'PEGI 12
Video games that show violence of a slightly more graphic nature towards fantasy characters or non-realistic violence towards human-like characters would fall in this age category. Sexual innuendo or sexual posturing can be present, while any bad language in this category must be mild. Gambling as it is normally carried out in real life in casinos or gambling halls can also be present (e.g. card games that in real life would be played for money)."

Idiotic is the cover story for things that can't be admitted. "Honest mom! I didn't know stuffing three rolls of toilet paper in the toiler would clog it!"

I'm sure he pushed the idea around in his head that since kids wouldn't be old enough to go to one, they'd have no idea what it was. And it would've made perfect sense to him. I knew what a casino was at 12, and what people did at one.

I still think about the Cats and Dogs livesteam sometimes where someone asked something as innocent as seeing the woohoo spot at the lighthouse and he was all "Weeee can't show thaaaat, come on guysss", like it was full-on graphic WW style sex being shown. JM and Romeo even called him out on it, reminding him it was a rated T game. He looked so annoyed lol.

Don't forget Grant is the guy who said dog houses weren't included in Cats&Dogs because they're abusive.
No there is nothing abusive about providing your dog with a dry shaded place to go while they're outside.
While it could mabye be argueed that keeping a dog outside 24/7 in all types of weather is abuse, No one could argue that leaving one outside of any length of time without access to shelter is.
Plus even before the game was released it was pools and toodlers can't happen right now because the engine doesn't support them. If that where true they would not have been added with FREE updates because the engine would have needed to be overhauled at least somewhat first. And no way the greedy overlords are letting that much effort happen without some momentary return.
So yeah anytime someone from the TS4 team says "x cant be added for some technical/sociallogical reason" I immedantly translate that to " because it's way too much work and we really don't care enough about the quality of our product to invest that much".
Just wish they would admit that they dont have the freedom,resources,and skills that the TS2&3 teams had instead of hidding behind these flimsy excuses.

I think the team do have the skills but don't have the freedom or resources. Many of them worked on the previous iterations and some probably even longer than Gurus Grant, Graham or Ninja, not producers but specialists in their fields.

This looks like something new in their jobs advertised last week. Still advertising for Sims 4.......

Outsourcing Character Review Artist – Maxis

'The Sims 4 has a very unique player base with 60% of our audience being women between the ages of 18-24. We are looking for someone with deep insights on how to create the best experience for our players.

As an Outsourcing Character Review Artist, you will maintain the visual style of any assigned project and coordinate and supervise the efforts of vendors to achieve that look. You will work with the outsourcing lead, Art Director, and other art leads to help guide the outsourced content creation on several characters and clothing assets. You will contribute to the success of our outsourcing efforts, and will need to work in a dynamic environment, while maintaining a productive relationship with external partners to provide high quality art with consistency and efficiency ........................'

Posting my response here since base game is being updated too:


FINALLY! One of the most broken things about the TS4 emotion system was that they lumped fear and frustration into one emotion that was usually expressed as the latter. Took them long enough.

Honestly I can't even properly express what it means to me - and I'm sure many many simmers out there - I know it won't be perfect, but damn if it won't make a huge difference when I play the game.

I doubt if he's actually idiotic any more than Trump is - you don't get to high up in any organisation unless you're smart. I think it's more that he's disrespectfully waving off our concerns with the first nonsense that comes into his head rather than explain the actual reasons, or even honestly tell us "I am not meant to tell you what was discussed in our meetings" which will possibly be the real reason.

Smart people don't work for EA.  Smart people also don't borrow from their 401K to buy a house or anything else for that matter.  People get slammed with a 10% penalty and big government takes half of what was 'borrowed' automatically.

The only reason I bring this up is because when Grant's personal Twitter wasn't private, he spent a lot of time bitching about how EA had to do better with their stock because the asshat named Grant drained his account for house he clearly couldn't afford otherwise.  The people that hang out on Twatter are so brilliant, all of them should be called Sunny.

The joys of stupid people! Handing over their money and then some just so they can be impulsive and compare themselves to their neighbors.

Good on him for realizing he only blocks everybody from his personal account except his inner circle of PC SJW corporate humanoids, and saving the effort.

If he bought a house in the area, it's pretty clear he's going to ride The Sims all the way to the ground. We can only hope it's sooner rather than later.

Since people are so willing to pay fat stupid taxes, I say bring on all the stupid taxes.  Borrowing from retirement plans, credit card debt, student loans, car loans...the sky is the limit. Somebody has to pay for all the SJW crap. 

There is a 'theory' that TS4 is already in trouble.  EA hasn't hired any so-called professionals to advertise for TS4 until recently and even then, that was bad.  The ad had a disclaimer that was being shown was actual gameplay, but schools for TS4 are rabbitholes.  Nobody should be surprised by this false information, but I do wonder how much people are paid to peddle such bullshit with their name on it.

Theory:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neZ...sNeckOfTheWoods

Ad: ( this is not linked directly to the ad itself. It is linked to a person talking about the ad. EA doesn't get clicks on my time...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1L...nnel=SimmerErin

One of these days I need to look into whether complaints can be filed with the federal trade commission regarding false advertising.  This wouldn't take long, however, it keeps slipping out my radar.

EDIT: I did finally look up whether complaints can be filed with the FTC. It can be done, but there are lots of hoops that need to be jumped through and most cases are referred to state level.  In other words, if a person lives in a EA friendly state, it isn't likely the complaint would be taken seriously unless EA did something really bad.

Why does EA want to buy Codemasters when Codemasters haven't produced much recently?

Simmers: How about a Racing car expansion for Sims 4!

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2...thdraws_its_bid

"Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA had this to say in a company announcement: “We believe there is a deeply compelling opportunity in bringing together Codemasters and Electronic Arts to create amazing and innovative new racing games for fans. Our industry is growing, the racing category is growing, and together we will be positioned to lead in a new era of racing entertainment,” he continued “We have admired Codemasters’ creative talent and high-quality games for many years. With the full leverage of EA’s technology, platform expertise, and global reach, this combination will allow us to grow our existing franchises and deliver more industry-defining racing experiences to a global fan base.”
https://verbalizm.com/2020/12/15/ho...odemasters-for/

I can't decide if you really don't understand how EA works or if these posts are just to see who will take the bait.  The bolded part of the quote explains what Android Wilson is up to. He wants to do what EA always does.

Buy this studio, purchase / own the rights to all IPs, then suck as much cash out of all IPs or games as they can.  EA doesn't just go around offering money to studios.  If there was no money to be had, EA wouldn't bother.  I digress. The part the humanoid didn't mention of course is once any (all) of the IPs or games have been sufficiently destroyed, they will become more proverbial headstones in EA's game graveyard. They've done this very thing 14 times thus so far; this acquisition would make 15. 

As a side note, I wanted to see why Take-Two decided to decline their offer.  There wasn't much of a reason other than EA came in with a higher bid.  Take-Two, the last time I checked, has zero debt on their books. I'm speculating, but if I had to guess, they probably decided that getting into a bidding war wasn't worth it.  While I was looking, I found the following quote. The first sentence is about keeping Codemasters alive and thriving, the rest explains itself.



https://www.pcinvasion.com/take-two-codemasters/

EA destroyed Need for Speed.  There is no reason to think that history won't repeat itself.  EA is the Grim Reaper of gaming studios and the games they produced before selling to the company voted twice for golden poo awards.