The Sims 4 has just received a huge wave of new players thanks to the free-to-claim offer that’s currently available now until May 28th, 2019.
It’s no secret that The Sims 4 has come a long way since its release on September 2nd, 2014. The game has been getting new updates regularly that included new content, features and bug fixes that have made the game that it is today.
The game, no matter how many new features it brought to The Sims Franchise was also extremely lacking in content on the release date. No pools, messy user interface and a whole lot of worrying bugs are just some of the things that were present.
Here are just some of many things that players struggled with in the beginning of The Sims 4 that new players will never have to worry about:
1) This blinding loading screen
I had to put on eyedrops before opening up the game just to make sure I don’t go completely blind.
2) Lack of Pools and Ghosts
A video game franchise that’s mostly known for killing Sims off in the pool and controlling the ghosts of those drowned Sims didn’t have either of those things at launch…oof.
3) A Messy User Interface
The entire user interface had text with at least 5 spacebars between each word.
4) Demon Babies
YIKES.
5) No Toddlers
When aging up babies would literally jump from their crib and immediately move onto the Child age phase.
6) Dishwashers? Forget about them!
Poor Sims had to wash the dishes exclusively using the sink for about a year.
7) The Family Tree? Nope. Wasn’t a thing.
8) I’d like to speak to the designer of The Sims 4’s initial user interface design
Double yikes.
9) Lockable doors? I don’t know her.
10) Indoors that were quite dark
The indoors in The Sims 4 were quite dark for a while until The Sims Team decided to finally let the daylight in.
11) Who said that this was okay
12) Babies and Children would automatically be plopped into a rabbit hole daycare center until the parents come back
Luckily you can now hire nannies to take care of your precious ones!
13) Sims had tendencies to get stuck below stairs
The only escape was the good old resetsim cheat.
14) Musical Chairs
Sims sitting while having a conversation was one of The Sims 4’s greatest obstacles as they would stand up and relocate every few seconds.
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Oh man Sims 4 surely was messy at launch but after the toddlers patch I really started liking it.
Cant wait for whats missing in Sims 5
Age Restriction: 0 = for Everbody, means No more Deaths +pregnancy
Missing lifestages: Babies/Toddlers + Seniors
No open world
No pools
No dishwasher
No oven
The ability to switch light off is missing
Messy interface
Online only (bad servers which you have to pay for)
etc …..
Sims 5 beta basically. After 3-4 years we will then have the real sims 5….after it gets all its updates.
Reply to WeShouldHaveGotWitchesByNow
I only got the sims 4 in January so few.. I didnt see any of these lol
What do you mean I still experience 13 and 14
Reply to paradiseplanet
IKR me too!
Also we initially didn’t have ghosts either. It wasn’t until a month after the initial release that we got them.
I think there is a type for #2. Where is says “toddlers” I think it is meant to say “ghosts” based on the explanation.
We also didn’t have basements! I also think the number of levels the houses could have was less, but I might be wrong on that one.
I still have problems with #14, but it isn’t as bad as it was!
Ah, I spy Dennis Kim in #13! The infamous Spencer-Kim-Lewis stairs! In my game the first to fall victim to this stair trap was Vivian Lewis! 🙁 These stairs sure didn’t like the elderly! :_(
I remember all of these. 14 still happens though
Could you fix the thing where when you go on a build on the gallery it says everything is “999,999,999” instead of the real amount?
And also when you look at the News on the gallery how it says “No Packs” when there are packs.
Please fix it.
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