The Sims 4 got a personality improvement for Sims back in late May with the Likes & Dislikes Preference addition. This feature allows players to choose which Music, Colors, Activities and Architecture (with Dream Home Decorator) their Sims like or dislike.
We got a hint with the release of the update in the patch notes that the current categories added to the Base Game are only the first iteration:
Sims can now have Likes and Dislikes! For our first sweep of Like and Dislike categories added to Base Game, you can now define whether your Sims Like (or Dislike) various Colors, Music Genres, or Activities in Create a Sim near the Traits Molecule.
In the latest Inside Maxis livestream the developers revealed that next up they’ll be tackling new music preferences & activities for the future update:
Will the likes & dislikes system be expanded in the future?
Well we saw a very positive reaction from the community when we added the new likes & dislikes in the base game last month but we definitely don’t want to stop there! We definitely want to add new music preferences & activities as time allows.
I’m so glad to hear that! I feel like there’s a bunch of hobbies especially that are lacking. Like knitting, chess, reading, archeology etc. seem like such obvious things to add and I was sad that they weren’t an option.
Same. Also with the clubs too. I would rather have too much to choose from then too little. Hopefully they patch what you’ve suggested soon. I guess a part of them didn’t want to waste too much resources in case this somehow became a negative or meh reaction.