SimGuruGrant has confirmed that with the recent update for The Sims 4 they’ve removed some cheats from the game for technical reasons.
The developer confirmed that Sims 4 Removed Cheats that have been excluded from the game will be making a comeback. All in a more “official” way as The Sims Team plans to add more cheats over time with better presentation and availability.
Sims 4 Removed Cheats statement from Developer
There is a specific bullet in the patch notes I want to talk about. You might be mad. But, let’s discuss. (This may take a few Tweets). This is in regards to Cheats. We create cheats in every pack to help us test and develop features.
— Grant Rodiek (@SimGuruGrant) June 26, 2018
We also discuss which cheats we can expose to the community. We know many of you use them to tell stories, get to the part of the game you like, all of that. Unfortunately, we exposed a handful of cheats that we really, really shouldn’t have. It was a mistake on our part.
— Grant Rodiek (@SimGuruGrant) June 26, 2018
Why shouldn’t we expose some cheats? Well, some cheats can REALLY mess up your game. In ways we cannot fix or reverse. It’s also very difficult for us to know what you did and what cheats you used when you come to us with glitches to fix.
— Grant Rodiek (@SimGuruGrant) June 26, 2018
While this will frustrate you, and that’s fair, we needed to remove some cheats to basically make sure you don’t get into a case where your game just doesn’t work. Long term, though, something we’d like to do is make many of our cheats more official. What does this mean?
— Grant Rodiek (@SimGuruGrant) June 26, 2018
The idea is that we would develop cheats and put them in the option menu, or in official game interactions. They would be fully developed so that the ones we release cannot break or ruin your game. Whether it’s “cheating” money, skills, and so forth, we’d make it “real.”
— Grant Rodiek (@SimGuruGrant) June 26, 2018
So, stay tuned. It’s “on the roadmap” so to speak. I’m sorry for the bad news. pic.twitter.com/bFairu9tW1
— Grant Rodiek (@SimGuruGrant) June 26, 2018
Grant also provided a useful list of all The Sims 4 Removed Cheats that have been removed from the game for the time being. Here’s the list:
