Sims 4 is not a perfect game by any means, but it has its charms; that’s part of the reason why I’ve continued to support the game in buying content. I also have a collector’s heart as well and can actually run the game on my laptop, unlike the Sims 3, which while extremely charming, takes a ridiculous amount of power to run even semi-smoothly.
However, lately, I’ve been extremely disappointed. I tried to look past it after both the Snowy Escape expansion pack and the Paranormal stuff pack came out as they both felt well-flushed out. However, between the terrible Star Wars game pack and now the Kits they’ve decided to release, I just can’t ignore it anymore.
EA is greedy.
This isn’t news as other people have pointed out. Sims 3 had the store that infiltrated your game with things that you could buy with real money while you were already in the game. Not just regular real money, no, you had to buy sims points that you could then use to buy those items with. I completely understand why people call that parasitic.
Even this doesn’t take away from the Sims 4 Kits being a half-hearted cash grab. Just because it doesn’t show up in the game as something you can buy while already having loaded in, doesn’t mean that it won’t show up in the future. I hope it doesn’t, but seeing as worlds already do, if you haven’t purchased the packs I wouldn’t put it past them.
I’ve seen better custom content created for free by the sims community, hence I stand by what I’ve said. The Kits currently in the US are $4.99, half the price of a stuff pack with roughly a third of what a stuff pack should offer. I say “should” because they’ve also had terribly abysmal stuff packs previously. I’m basing my “should of” off the newest released stuff pack- which at $9.99 has a new career, new build/buy mode items, and new CAS items. In comparison, the Throwback Fit kit only has new CAS items, the Country Kitchen kit only has new build/buy mode items, and the Bust the Dust kit has a new gameplay mode, but as of me writing this article, it has glitched.
This leads me to probably my biggest gripe with the Sims 4 in general. It’s so unbelievably glitchy and they’re aware of it, yet nothing is really being done about it. The Dine Out game pack was released in 2016, it’s 2021 right now and both eating at restaurants and running them is essentially impossible. Additionally, they’re still releasing new content with even more glitches.
Content that you paid for should come without errors and the fact that it doesn’t, shows how the company as a whole doesn’t prioritize consumers’ enjoyment of the game. Instead, they prioritize profit. We as consumers need to hold them accountable until they provide us what we paid for.