After 10 Years, Is It Time To Say Goodbye To Sims 4?

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has been around for over a decade, and unlike many titles that have existed for as long, it still receives support and content to this day, which shouldn't be a surprise. There isn't much competition in the life sim genre yet, so has been able to dominate unchecked, allowing it to keep its immense player base. Despite this, the game is ten years old, and if some recent buggy releases for the title are anything to go by, could be tearing at the seams.

EA does have an upcoming game that it is working on, titled Although there hasn't been too much information about it, the game promises to take the series to a new generation, but it doesn't seem like all the eggs have been put in 's basket. Content and packs are still being made for despite the announcement of a new game, and these packs still ask for some pretty high prices for what they are, especially given that the game they're for is ten years old.

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For a single-player series as successful as it is very odd for the developer not to make a sequel in ten years. It is no secret that the real money made from the series comes from its overwhelming amount of DLC that adds anything from universities to werewolves and mermaids, but recently the launches of the packs have been anything but smooth. Worse still is that the newer packs have been known to create bugs for existing packs, and the game might be suffering from having too much content on a ten-year-old skeleton.

Although it is ten years old, has only been free since October 18, 2022.

The most recent pack is a good example of the woes of Before it launched, the pre-release patch was full of bugs that made Sims overly mean, which EA had to come out and apologize for. This was then followed up by even more bugs when the pack was released, namely one that could corrupt game save files and end a playthrough there and then.