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Polystyrene Glioblastoma said:
EA refuses to listen to old simmers and instead propagandizes double-agent shills to lull the gullible. The mobilification, hyper-casualization, and excessive wokeification of 4 and 5 will be it's death rattle.
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I like your hopeful outlook, but people eat this slop by the bucket load and ask for more. Hell, younger gamers have been raised on mobile-tier games that nickel and dime you at every corner and think it is 100% fine. If you told them back in the day $60 got you a full game and the expansion was a whole 'nother game that actually expanded on the previous one you'd blow their minds, if they already hadn't had them rotted out by tiktok.
 
It looks like EA will continue on with shoving rainbow propaganda down people's throats in TS4, as an SDX drop was released today that adds more unsightly rainbow items: / Archive

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It also looks like EA pushed this release early to try to lure back people from inZOI because that game "isn't rainbow enough", even though there are some rainbow aspects to that game.

EA also posted a statement about the Save Corruption bugs, and still haven't said if it will be fixed. The workarounds they provided, i.e. to create empty houses inside with only decorations outside for set dressing, deleting photos, and deleting Sims, is again them admitting that the game is broken as shit and they won't fix it. Also, remember that on TS4's launch, save games had a soft limit of 180 Sims, and if you go over that number, the game starts culling Sims to get it down to that 180 number.

More details about the Project Rene Playtest are coming out, and it's again looking even worse. / Archive

It already starts off bad with Pronoun and Body Type selections:

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The graphics look like a mid 2000's game, and not a real Sims 5 game, had EA actually made one instead of wasting time on this multiplayer mobile soycrap:

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The whole thing looks like a corporate DEI clipart mood board. Sims on mobile devices can work, and they've had good mobile iterations, but they're shamelessly adopting the "make it appeal to as many people as possible" philosophy by making sim creation (and everything else) so brainless. "Does your sim smile at other sims, or does it write in journal?" Wow, how groundbreaking and innovative compared to Sims 2's fleshed out personality and aspirations system.
 
I can't wait to create an obese paraplegic otherkin nonbinary sim
I will smugly shame all the other players for being bi-phobic fatphobic ableist shitlords

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ATandTism said:
I like your hopeful outlook, but people eat this slop by the bucket load and ask for more. Hell, younger gamers have been raised on mobile-tier games that nickel and dime you at every corner and think it is 100% fine. If you told them back in the day $60 got you a full game and the expansion was a whole 'nother game that actually expanded on the previous one you'd blow their minds, if they already hadn't had them rotted out by tiktok.
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The biggest issue is that the Sims fanbase is about 90% Women and Gay men right now who treat the Sims as a dollhouse simulator where all they do is make sims and build houses they don't actually play the game and are happy to buy all of the EA slop if it means more stuff for houses and Sims. The fanbase has been this way since the later days of Sims 2, and EA started pandering to them during the later days of the Sims 3, I want to say right around the time University Life came out.
 
Thiletonomics said:
It looks like EA will continue on with shoving rainbow propaganda down people's throats in TS4, as an SDX drop was released today that adds more unsightly rainbow items: / Archive

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It also looks like EA pushed this release early to try to lure back people from inZOI because that game "isn't rainbow enough", even though there are some rainbow aspects to that game.

EA also posted a statement about the Save Corruption bugs, and still haven't said if it will be fixed. The workarounds they provided, i.e. to create empty houses inside with only decorations outside for set dressing, deleting photos, and deleting Sims, is again them admitting that the game is broken as shit and they won't fix it. Also, remember that on TS4's launch, save games had a soft limit of 180 Sims, and if you go over that number, the game starts culling Sims to get it down to that 180 number.

More details about the Project Rene Playtest are coming out, and it's again looking even worse. / Archive

It already starts off bad with Pronoun and Body Type selections:

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The graphics look like a mid 2000's game, and not a real Sims 5 game, had EA actually made one instead of wasting time on this multiplayer mobile soycrap:

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Even MySims looks better than this mobile ad bullshit:
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At least MySims has a cutesy style and is easy on the eyes. "Project Rene" on the other hand...
Harm said:
The whole thing looks like a corporate DEI clipart mood board.
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Its probably one of the worst examples of the corporate inoffensiveness and inclusivity style I've seen in a game. Its so fucking bland, its a chore to even read the UI. You also have to appreciate the devolution of player freedom; no more sliders in character creation for you, you get vague "body types" now:
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Yay, I can't wait to play as "lumpy frumpy gender blob #1"! so inclusive and relatable!
 
Thiletonomics said:
It looks like EA will continue on with shoving rainbow propaganda down people's throats in TS4, as an SDX drop was released today that adds more unsightly rainbow items: / Archive

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It also looks like EA pushed this release early to try to lure back people from inZOI because that game "isn't rainbow enough", even though there are some rainbow aspects to that game.

EA also posted a statement about the Save Corruption bugs, and still haven't said if it will be fixed. The workarounds they provided, i.e. to create empty houses inside with only decorations outside for set dressing, deleting photos, and deleting Sims, is again them admitting that the game is broken as shit and they won't fix it. Also, remember that on TS4's launch, save games had a soft limit of 180 Sims, and if you go over that number, the game starts culling Sims to get it down to that 180 number.

More details about the Project Rene Playtest are coming out, and it's again looking even worse. / Archive

It already starts off bad with Pronoun and Body Type selections:

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The graphics look like a mid 2000's game, and not a real Sims 5 game, had EA actually made one instead of wasting time on this multiplayer mobile soycrap:

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Looks like one of those MMO's full of predators back in the day.
 
I can't wait to turn my Male to Female trannies polycule pregnant with each other. I'm going to build them an Alpaca farm to live in.
 
Rudolf's Friend said:
Women and Gay men right now who treat the Sims as a dollhouse simulator where all they do is make sims and build houses they don't actually play the game and are happy to buy all of the EA slop if it means more stuff for houses and Sims.
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Yeah, I really liked what was it, Sims 3? For this reason. The one that was dog shit in loading time, but infinitely customizable in terms of texture/color of things. I miss that, but I'm definitely a dollhouse moder.

No one wants to play The Sims with other people. If I'm not building fun lots, I'm creating utterly sociopathic, horrid Sims to entertain me for a while before I get bored and go to the next build. I don't need anyone to see just how weird I am.
 
It's crazy how this new game looks somehow worse than previous Sims games.
Personally, I am waiting for the 41% expansion pack where you build a noose, click it, hang yourself and have the game uninstall itself afterwards.
 
Thiletonomics said:
It looks like EA will continue on with shoving rainbow propaganda down people's throats in TS4, as an SDX drop was released today that adds more unsightly rainbow items: / Archive

View attachment 7170218

It also looks like EA pushed this release early to try to lure back people from inZOI because that game "isn't rainbow enough", even though there are some rainbow aspects to that game.

EA also posted a statement about the Save Corruption bugs, and still haven't said if it will be fixed. The workarounds they provided, i.e. to create empty houses inside with only decorations outside for set dressing, deleting photos, and deleting Sims, is again them admitting that the game is broken as shit and they won't fix it. Also, remember that on TS4's launch, save games had a soft limit of 180 Sims, and if you go over that number, the game starts culling Sims to get it down to that 180 number.

More details about the Project Rene Playtest are coming out, and it's again looking even worse. / Archive

It already starts off bad with Pronoun and Body Type selections:

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The graphics look like a mid 2000's game, and not a real Sims 5 game, had EA actually made one instead of wasting time on this multiplayer mobile soycrap:

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this looks utterly horrifying, I hope whichever exec greenlighted this dies
 
I played some MyZOI the other day, very nice graphics and customization. Still early access so it's missing a lot of further customization and items it'll have on release, but it blew me away how much better the engine and fundamentals are than the current Sims 4

EA is obviously trying to tap into the TOTALLY UNTAPPED mobile market that their subhuman board of directors thinks is a totally unrecognized area for growth with the Sims 5. Embarrassing as fuck, people want more life sim realism with a great gameplay loop, not a 2012 tablet game Tamagotchi
 
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Doesn't seem like many people are fans of this. It does seem like pandering since InZoi is hard to play a gay character. Why else would they do this now instead of waiting until June?
 
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