The game has been an anti-consumer dumpster fire from the beginning. I didn't buy it due to it lacking an open world, and EA has gone out of their way to repeatedly validate that decision. It wasn't enough to add faggots and trannies. Now they're adding polytard shit. They're also fucking up a romance system that worked perfectly fine in 3:
Just fucking perfect. There goes the story telling aspect. Now the game is hard coding whether two Sims can be attracted, and combined with the sexual orientation nonsense it will be easier to create a faggot with 10 different butt buddies than make a straight male and find him a wife to start a family. They'll probably make the straight male Sim an incel and push him towards dating a troon or getting spitroasted by other dudes. Fuck this game and fuck EA. They almost got me to reconsider this dumpster fire with their farming EP, but I just couldn't justify it with all the fag and tranny shit the game is infested with. My instincts were sadly correct.
Also here's a bonus article where a retard games urinalist confirms what we've all known for a decade: TS3 blows TS4 out of the water. The grifting hacks have added so much DLC to 4 that they've wiped out the performance advantage it had over 3.
Do you know the funniest thing about The Sims 4? It's not even all this leftist virtue signalling, it's how the normies and sims fans are all shitting on the townies ( randomly generated sims ) with how fugly the devs made them and there's as you point out zero open world style interaction the game is known for.
Yeah, fuck TS3 as well to be honest, it may have had better gameplay but the game runs like dogshit and it's not a hardware issue it's the devs constantly adding bloat and not knowing how to code. The whole pronouns and polyamory nonsense is just the icing on the cake for making it unplayable because as everyone keeps discovering it makes the character creator utter gibberish.
Another well known franchise running itself into the ground making it that much easier for an indie creator to slide in and steal their customers kek. Even disregarding all the woke shite ( which is extremely hard to do in this game ) the gameplay itself of TS4 is fucking cancer, apartment living seems to be broken and so is the eco lifestyle nonsense.
For the record, yes, it's that broken in some instances or the design is annoying along with the virtue signalling it's not even worth pirating, that's how bad TS4 is. In fact most of these modern games aren't even worth looking at generally because at their core they're bare bones third person controllers with a live service tacked on. Maybe if you're lucky you'll have some kind of half-arsed build mode thrown together to give some semblance of gameplay but otherwise no, they are all the fucking same.