The Sims 4 Producer Talks Future Quality of Life Updates and The Marketplace

How does The Sims Team feel about the player response to The Sims 4's new paid mod marketplace?

Morgan Henry: We really appreciate players sharing their thoughts with us. The Sims community is passionate and creative, and feedback from our players and Makers is already helping us really understand what's working, what needs to be a bit more clear, and how we can continue to improve the Marketplace over time.

Players can still enjoy The Sims 4 the way they always have with the custom content and mods that the existing custom content community continues to share. Our hope is that the Marketplace adds to that experience, not replaces it. It's meant to give players more ways to discover content, expand creative options for console players, and create more opportunities to support our creator community.

Creative expression has always been a huge part of The Sims, and that’s something we want to continue supporting. As the Marketplace grows, we'll keep listening to both players and Makers to make sure it feels like a thoughtful, complementary part of the larger Sims experience and creative community.

As far as bug fixes go, a large part of this update is dedicated to Infants/Toddlers and autonomous Sim behavior. Can you give us a hint about what part of the game you're focusing your attention on next when it comes to major overhauls?

Morgan Henry: We know autonomy is a very important topic to players, it's part of what makes The Sims so special! For our next few updates, we want to focus on general autonomy alongside top community-reported issues.

We already have a number of autonomy improvements in the works, from bigger changes like Sims properly facing each other during social interactions, to smaller tweaks like Sims who dislike gardening no longer gardening autonomously. We're also planning to put a lot of effort towards cutting down on spam Sims get from their phones and in The Sims' notification UI, which will hopefully make the game flow better and feel more relaxing.

We have more food, drinking, and dining autonomy improvements in the works based on other feedback we've received, too, and we're always tracking top-reported and voted-on issues from EA Forums as well as feedback from our Discord and Reddit threads pertaining to these topics. We're quite busy, but [are] having a lot of fun working so closely with the community to direct our focus!

Source: Gamespot