During today’s Maxis Monthly Livestream The Sims Team has announced that they’ll be giving The Sims 4’s brand a complete revamp!
Starting early next week you’ll be able to see The Sims 4 in a whole new way with a whole new plumbob, new box arts, new renders and a new color palette surrounding the game!
The Plumbob
The Plumbob now has a glossier look with more saturated colors and more shine. The new plumbob will be replacing the old one in all places except in-game where the plumbob in Live Mode will remain the same.
The Box Arts
All of The Sims 4 box arts will be getting a whole new look, starting with The Sims 4 Base Game Box Art which features new Sims, a new plumbob and a new color palette!
The Base Game isn’t the only Sims 4 game that’s getting a revamp – ALL of the current packs we have (and the future ones coming as well) will be getting a whole new look. Expansion Packs will no longer be marked to their specific colors (for example red for Cats & Dogs) but rather under the same color tone. All of the box arts will have their pack icon featured on the top right and will focus more on the renders now. Some of the box arts will even have an entirely different render featured – for example The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff Pack shown down below.
The Sims 4 logo will be featured in all of the pack box arts on the bottom left corner.
Main Menu
The Sims 4’s Main Menu now has a completely different look! There’s now a lot more room for Expansion Packs, Game Packs, Stuff Packs and Free Packs in the “Your Collection” section.
The Sims 4’s updated logo is now also added on the top right side of the screen. The Sims 4’s brand new signature render is displayed in the middle. Just like now you’ll be able to switch between different game renders!
Those who don’t have a complete collection of Sims 4 Packs will now also be able to build their own pack bundles using the “Build Your Bundle” feature straight from the Main Menu. This is exclusive to PC / Mac and won’t be transferred over to consoles while all of the other changes will be applied to Console players.
Loading Screen
The Loading Screen now features a new background and the new plumbob!
It seems The Sims Team still has plenty of more plans for The Sims 4. SimGuruFrost elaborated on Twitter why the sudden change of the look, saying that one of the main reasons why they’ve pulled this off was because of The Sims 4’s ongoing success. According to Frost, this is also a way to show The Sims Team’s commitment to support The Sims 4 for many more years.
The ongoing success of The Sims 4. We are in the fifth year of The Sims 4 and we think this is a great way to mark such an incredible milestone. It’s also a way to show our commitment to supporting The Sims 4 for many more years.
— SimGuruFrost ✈️ Sulani (@SimGuruFrost) July 12, 2019
ew ew ew ew no who okayed this
I’ve been a Sim fan since the very beginning with Sims 1 and never have I been disappointed with anything, but this new look is way too harsh and the colours do not flow at all. I’m a graphic designer and know to not put too many bright colours together especially for people with sensory issues. The new blue is way too harsh and loses the original soft glossy Sims look. Many many people are complaining about the loading screen to hurt their eyes, and so plain? Damn.
Maybe the sims team should focus more on…idk the bugs and the disappointing lack of content their packs still continue to give us.
The thing is, the people working on graphic design aren’t the same as the ones building the game and bugs…
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Like… the toddler bug would be a nice one to start with, imo.
Major step back
PLEASE tell me this is an elaborate joke
Ok, I really hate this. The bright colors are hurting my eyes, the lack of white in the loading screen is awful. Tha main menu looks terrible and the plumbob doesn’t fit the game at all. Also, like many others, I can only destinguish an expansionpack by it’s color. This is the least user-friendly stepback ever.
I would like the option to opted out of this new story mode but in my options window it wont let me highlight it how do I go about this?
I prefer picking not only my sims traits but their career and would rather not start with different skills
The new designs make me feel physically ill. Please tell me there will be an option to keep the old UI – I don’t want to end up feeling sick every time I load up the game or have to go through a loading screen…
I hope they make the whole UI blue
The new box art is ok, the new plumbob and UI just don’t fit with the game. The Sims 4 has “soft”, colourful graphics that the old UI fitted the best. This rebranding fits the first The Sims game more than this one. It could have worked better if the blues were lighter, almost pastels.
What would be really nice is if we could opt out of the new UI in the settings! (similar to the interactive loading screen in TS3)
Wait, this was supposed to be a comment by its own. Blame it on the mobile interface!
Yikes. I do not like the new look
Saaaaame….
It’s ugly. I really don’t like it 🙁 it won’t fit the rest of the boxes I have at home…. :(((((( why they’re doing it?? it’s ok to change some stuff here and there but not EVERYTHING!!
Yeah I agree. It’s way too busy.
The part I really hate is the pack rebranding. The only way I can tell the difference between my expansion packs is their color. Get Together is purple. City Living is blue. Now they’re all teal. Bad move Maxis.
What’s that extra free pack logo about?
Idk which one you’re talking about but there’s three:
The free holiday stuff
The guitar you get for doing the newsletter
The family portrait of you sign up for Sims Mobile
I absolutely love it omg so awesome. Amazing. Well done. Now release more packs and expansions. Including university please and more worlds. Love love love is.
The new update!
Plumbob is great, loading screen is good, but whatever the f happened to main menu they better undo it NOW
I don’t mind it. I mean sh*t i prefer the first one more. But i won’t lie i dislike the new Pack look and it technically makes part of the main menu so yeah… I agree change that