Hey guys!
I’m here to warn you about several things I read about The Sims 4 on the internet these last couple of days. Before I begin with this post, please note that I’m not picking any sides of this story, I’m just here to warn you about spreading false and unconfirmed facts about the game.
I came across this list of The Sims 4’s ”missing features”. Actually, I stumbled upon this list several times.
I’m here to tell you that the ”89 features missing from The Sims 4” post is bogus and contains some features/objects that were added in 13 years of developing The Sims Franchise (2000 – 2013/The Sims 1 2000 – 2003/The Sims 2 2004 – 2008/The Sims 3 2009 – 2013). Although the list doesn’t contain content from Additions of The Sims Games, it still contains lots of content from features that were added during the releasement of The Sims 3 Patches/Updates. There is absolutely no way to add features from 13 years of work on Sims Games to a Sims game that was worked on approx. 3 – 4 years.
Things such as ”no animated hair” and ”no dreams” didn’t even exist in previous Sims base games, so I’m not sure why was that added to the list. Most features on that list were even removed in The Sims 3 and got an improvement.
This list spread like a wildfire all over the internet and it made a lot of people lose interest in the game.
The point of this post is to not trust everything you see or read online, since many people will do lots and lots of things just to get attention. Trust yourself and what you think about the game and choose carefully from who do you want to receive future information and updates.
If you still want to see what’s in and what’s out in The Sims 4, thesims.com forum member JoeWow1003 made an accurate list of new and missing features in the game. You can check it out HERE!
Thanks for reading this post and have a nice day!
– Jovan,
Sims Community Founder
While I agree most of that list is bogus, something you mentioned is incorrect. Sims 2 actually had animated hair, and sims have always had dreams. That’s why those two things are on the list.
And to simply add to the point: although it was included in the future expansion, the sims dream aspect was even broaden with the use of the dream pod. You could even choose the types of dreams your sims could have.
The hair wasn’t actually animated in The Sims 2. If it was longer and reached their necks (or even more), the hair was somehow ”attached” to their bodies and it was only responsive – not animated depending on their environment.
As of dreams, sims didn’t really have that aspect of dreaming – only random thought bubbles popped out.
That’s still a lot more animated than the hair in Sims 3 or 4 though. That’s why it’s on the list. And no, sims definitely had dreams outside of just the thought bubbles. Sims can even gain skill points while they’re sleeping if they’re dreaming of certain topics.
Yes, but that was in The Sims 3 Into the Future Expansion Pack and the list clearly said that they didn’t mention any content from Expansion Packs.
I’m not talking about Into the Future. Even in Sims 2 sims would dream at night and have the possibility of gaining skill point.
I’m sorry, but I completely agree with Nathanial. Hair wss animated in TS2, spin a Sim from side-to-side in CAS and it will wave. TS2 had dreams, Sims with a bad aspiration score would wake up with a shock due to nightmares. I know everything from 14 years of Sims games can’t be included in one base game, but we have 14 years of technological progress and little to show for it in TS4.
It wasn’t. It appeared to be animated, but long hair was still ‘stapled’ to the bottom of their necks.
Someone should make a lair of things that weren’t in the sims 3 to show how dumb this list is. I’m sure it would have even more missing features
Thank you so much! I’ve seen that stupid list and was going to make a reaction video. How can someone complain about so called “missing features”, when half the stuff they listed wasn’t even in TS3 and the rest have been improved upon. The only major missing features I can think of off the top of my head are of course, pools, toddlers and family trees. The rest, I couldn’t care less.
I have seen the list and I don’t really care. its a new game new ways to pay its only the base games if we ask for stuff to be added they will. Does it really matter that much if there hair moves or not.
Sorry but hair was animated in the sims 2,