Sims 4's Infants Update Isn't As Free As You Think
screenrant.comadded a free update to infants in March 2023, but the content in that update might not be as free as it first appears. Since the release of in 2014, infants have been given a role that amounts to little more than furniture with a few interactions. The update in March made big changes to infants, including allowing infants to be playable for the first time in the series.
has received a variety of expansions and updates over the almost decade it's been available, but it wasn't until and the infant update that infants — now the life stage after newborns — received a significant amount of attention. March update now allows players to play as infants, which includes giving them traits and choosing toddler clothes that have been restyled for infants. However, the free update t can seem, in effect, more like a promotion for instead of the improvement to infants that many players hoped for.
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One problem that the infant update faces is items shown that are actually exclusive to, such as changing tables and the playmat for infants. Even the diaper pail is blocked by the paywall of the expansion, meaning that players without the expansion are subject to having their Sims' houses filled with dirty diapers left on the floor. While the free update includes features that make infants more interesting, it can seem like it was added to encourage the purchase of .
Nearly a decade of expansions means that has a lot of extra content that can cost players hundreds of dollars to obtain. Even at its release lacked features that were in previous base games, so the minimal content available for free in the infant update might not be surprising. However, it might have been better to include at least one
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