I ranked all of the biggest controversial topics surrounding The Sims 4 ever since its release until now.
In this video I discuss all of the fails made surrounding The Sims 4 by the Sims community in general.
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guys I just realised I missed out the open/closed world update in the list. Oops! If i remember to put it in the video I would’ve said mildly unpopular (😬). As I think most simmers are casual players (double 😬), most casual players don’t have high end gaming PCs so it doesn’t make sense to have an open world. I’m glad (and know many other people are glad) that the closed world system has allowed them to enjoy the game with it running smoothly. And I’m all about inclusivity so as long as all people can play it I’m happy x
i literally don’t remember 90% of the game when it first came out. the world map being a blue print seems like a fever dream
Same
I remember seeing that at launch and just thinking, wow, they didn’t even care did they? I can see what they were going for, making the lot you’re looking at colour in to highlight it, but it just looked really ugly and I think they could’ve made it look much better by having it be coloured in by default, then when you click on a lot everything else transitions to be black and white or a blueprint again, leaving just your lot highlighted, or make it an option to be even better.
I bought it about a few years after that happened, so I never experienced it. But I remember a girl in college complaining about all the stuff in the then-new Sims 4, like no toddlers, no swimming pools, etc. By the time I came around to the game, most of the stuff she complained about had already been patched into the game.
Dear the sims fans, I think we all know what is the true purpose of swimming pools ☠️ Also my biggest issue with the cupcake machine is that its cupcakes are not even tasty. Sims feel bad after eating them.
I never even bothered with the cupcake machine hehe
Will you please NOT EVER change? Everything you’re apologizing for… the distractions, the chaos… I love it. It’s gold. Gold I tell you!
Moschino was another one; when it was announced, the room went quiet. Everyone was icky about it but now, it seems like a pack that's for some people but not for everyone, like all stuff packs. Personally, I think it's great, but it was definitely a bit controversial.
Moschino was my least favorite pack, till I wanted to play as a travel influencer and bought it. Basically my favorite stuff pack atm (especially the clothes)
You’re absolutely right. The Sims 4 is made in what is called spaghetti code, which is why every release and patch breaks something. The code was made for online play. It’s made for constant online server monitoring and account stat updates, not offline single-player game assets. It’s like trying to make people believe they’re eating cake, when all you had was cookie dough. Yeah, it’s still delicious and still sweet…but, it’s not cake.
dang
I remenber that teenagers were also a controversy when the game came out, bc they look Just like adults. It's pretty clear How EA don't respect the Sims franchise with this shitty lazy game, they just cash in qnd use the Sims money on other projects
"When do you ever use a swimming pool?" *starts sweating*
As a Half Korean person, the whole reason that the shrine thing was controversial is because in the period Japan had taken over Korea, they would force said Koreans to prey to those shrines among other similar things There are still Koreans who are sensitive when it comes to things like that, such as the imperial japanese flag; kind of like how the n word means to African Americans. (Although I'm not a history expert so don't entirely count me on that.) However, it's not that they were going to make the prayer mechanic manditory, or make it that certain sims were forced to pray at those shrines because it was most likely meant to be a little interaction that you can do if you want to. The Sims team didn't mean to actively affend Koreans when including that interacrion, it was meant to be a japanese mechanic for a japanese themed pack. Maybe if it was a more general east asian themed pack, I could see how people would think it's weird to only include the option to pray to a japanese shrine and none other if they only included that in the first place, but not when it's a Japan themed pack. Also there was another more minor controversy about the little patterns on one of the CAS items looking like the imperial japanese flag and the few Koreans I asked about this said that it didn't even really looked like it. All in all, how can see how Koreans could find that questionable because of the history, but I personally believe that it's mostly just Gen Z being Gen Z.
It's odd tbh to pretend like a religious thing isn't religious when they say they avoid religious stuff with the exception for medieval I guess
It's odd tbh to pretend like a religious thing isn't religious when they say they avoid religious stuff with the exception for medieval I guess
Just gonna say it again: As a millennial, it's not just Gen Z that is outraged/cancel cultured about stuff; have you seen Karens? Or boomers? Heck, now ever Gen Xers are getting weird about sh*t... Outrage culture ain't limited to a generation
I don't understand why people talk about Gen Z like the whole generation are a bunch of sensitive babies when it's literally only the ones that have the attention put on them smh.
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@@irotanagatchi333 I am gen z and I wholeheartedly agree unfortunately.
Yeah i feel like its not gen z that complains about stuff, but its the time period were in, everybody young and old complains about everything these days. Gen z just gets thrown under the bus cuz we are the young adults of the time😂
I'm still pressed about the lack of burglars tbh. Also, the shrine thing is associated with a pretty severe and traumatic war. Gen Z 'being sensitive' might be true in some cases, but this is a real and historically painful topic. Also, the skintone thing...I'm a disappointed you didn't rank that worse given the severity of its implications. Anyways, I'm surprised you didn't mention the ball pit! THAT ballpit.
The shrine thing is because the japanese religion was forced into the Korean population during the japanese invasion and it's still a big thing there. And another thing that was in Snowy Escape was a pattern resemling the rising sun (japanese imperialism flag) it would be literally like putting a swastika in the game, this one I think was rightfully taken out.
Please respect the Japanese culture
@@kommandantvhs4994 Imperialism isn’t culture. If you’re talking about the shrine, I agree with you it was a little bit unnecessary to remove it from the game, but if you’re talking about the rising sun, then it was needed. It isn’t part of Japanese culture, it’s part of imperialism. It’s like saying swastikas should he embraced as part of German culture.
That pattern was just a hand fan. Rising sun would have a circle in the middle.
@@milokonna It wasn’t angled like a hand fan, I re-visited the pattern to see if I was wrong and it’s literally the rising sun without the ball in the middle. And it doesn’t need a circle, just the context is enough to know the reference, like neonaz1s wearing manjis in armbands, it’s not a swastika per say, but given the context, we can see the reference.
@@ashsummermakaio4756 On the sleeve it has visible "⁄ \⁄ \⁄ \⁄ \⁄ \" pattern oraund it. Normal for a fan, weird thing to add to a sun. And what context? That it is japanese? Hand fans are also popular in Japan.
Even if an online version of the Sims 4 worked exactly as intended, I doubt it would've gone over well. Most people enjoy creating their own worlds/stories and exploring them solo. Modding would've been impossible because of server restrictions. An offline, single-player version is what they should've been their focus through the entire development process.
A lot of companies these days seem to be intent on pushing their own desires on consumers & not what they actually want. Take Instagram as an example! And it’s like EA don’t know their market at all. People who play the sims are often not the same people who enjoy playing GTA/other FPS games online. Some like both but I don’t believe it’s the rule. I don’t know many people who ever asked for the sims to be multiplayer as standard - an option, sure, but that’s not what the game’s ever been about!
Also I’m not trying to say GTA is a FPS I meant other heavy shooter games lol
I’d love if you did an updated version of this. I feel like with things like MWS and more would recent controversy I’d be interested to see your updated opinions
I absolutely hate my first pet stuff… but as a lover of rodents… I couldn’t not get it.
would have liked it better if they added guinea pigs
And that's EA marketing scheme in a nutshell. As in previous generations of Sims games, Rodents would - and should - have been part of the pets expansion pack.
Toddlers are so annoying,they just play and cry like useless babies I can’t make them even do child labour
I'm sorry what-?
Fkekfiie you killed me
Me, I personally love toddlers because they're so happy, playful and most importantly, CUTE!
Realistic tbh
I'm a star wars fan and I love the sims 4 but some things are not ment to go together.
The swimming pool was the first ever kill weapon that’s why everyone was mad 😂
I totally agree that swimming is boring and useless, but drowning on the other hand...The first thing I wanna test out in this game is sims floatability, lol For the shrine thing, there is one specific shrine in Japan that honors "defenders of the country", including several war criminals, so that one is very controverial and potentially offensive, but as far as I know there's nothing wrong with shinto-type shrines in general ?? It might have been cool to include a touch of spirituality, too, it's a touchy subject but it's part of people's lives
you forgot the ball pit lol
To be fair, I saw a hot tub just like the 20th anniversary one at the Ideal Homes Exhibition this year. I remember because I literally stopped and was like “that’s the controversial Sims 4 hot tub IRL omg”
I remember downloading the game demo when it first came out and being so disappointed. And I remember the chaos over the blank looking map. People were planning on boycotting the S4 altogether, they were so angry. I mean I would be to if I paid almost $70 for it (which is unbelievably what it originally was released at). I cannot explain how enraged people were
I am a HUGE star wars fan, but the Journey To Batuu pack is just not it... 1. The gameplay focuses on the sequel trilogy, which is infamously hated by a lot fans for inaccuracy and just not being up to par with the og trilogy and prequel trilogy. This is bc George Lucas(creator of star wars) sold star wars to disney and the story wasn't being created by the same person. 2. Batuu doesn't exist in the movies and is literally only in Disneyland and ts4. 3. The different "aliens" or "species" in the star wars universe are all their own individual race and nation, but ts4 made them costumes, which takes away from the authenticity of them. Now obviously ts4 couldn't make them all occults with dif powers and such(I don't think it's in their budget and time limit), but they could've literally been just occults without any special powers or systems. If u want a solid star wars game get Battlefront II. It's literally way cheaper than the sims 4 game pack.
20:22 It would be great if they were working on a pack that includes learning to drive, buying a car, etc. Because as a gameplay it would be great to be able to take exams, see the sim practices, work to get money and go to car stores to choose the car, etc. Maybe private driver careers, driving school teacher, taxi/uber driver, traffic warden... I don't know. including cars in the game gives a lot of content. But maybe they save it for Sims5?
they had cars in sims 3 idk why they wouldn't put in sims 4, im just hoping they add it in an update later
@@maggiejo860 I think it’s just pure laziness, they worked in the Sims 2 despite that not having an open world either, they could’ve put them in the Sims 4 *really easily* but they just didn’t… and it’s been like 8 years now so they’re unlikely to be added.
I love the idea of this, but at this point I just know EA would screw it up and make it ridiculously boring 😭😂
@@justanotheryoutubechannel Actually is not that easy to add them currently, mainly because of pathing issues. They would need to update all the worlds to have paths for the cars to move in or not allow you to place them in certain worlds. Imagine trying to place a car in Sulani... If they ever do, I doubt it's in an update because of the effort it'd take
@@maggiejo860you cannot add cars to the game, there are some houses that aren't even accesible to cars, namely henford on bagley has a few.
i consider the skintones to be a more important issue than literally anything else on this list lol
It's kind of unbelievable that this video is just 10 months old, and we already have 2 more huge controversies with the game, that might be even bigger to the ones mentioned here... and probably they might be more to come.
I can feel myself pulling my face at the previous lots and world's 😂😂 Played Sims 2 for years and started playing Sims 4 in 2020 so this is a surprise to me 🤦🏽♀️
Idk you lived in Japan and you aren't aware of what Japan did to Koreans? I can understand why Koreans would be upset but not understanding where Koreans are coming from is like acting like you don't know what the Holocaust was. It's not cancel culture, the japanese government has repeated refused to apologize for atrocities in Korea and China and it's not a joke. But you said you didn't look into it so I hope it's just ignorance rather than downplaying genocide.
Watching this video after the release of My Wedding Stories and High School Years is pretty funny.
Look, people spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on this game…would it have been so hard to give them something great for the 20th anniversary? Like a carnival gamepack!
omfg SATCH the picture you used for the Shrine is from my Sims 2 game! I had posted it onto Reddit during the height of the drama to kind of laugh it off. How strange to see it here years later. Sadly, my old laptop died, and with it, my lovely Sims 2 game, so I've been playing TS4 and absolutely loving your content, its so cathartic bcos this game is killing me.
I agree a lot with what you said, and I hope your channel will grow more, you truly deserve it. 😃 You have a great personality and sense of humor, and it makes your content so unique and fun (even when it's a challenge everyone else has done) 😄
I don't really get why people want cars, it would be hell. I already lose my mind when the sims go travel somewhere and they run through the whole neighborhood and then disappear, imagine everytime you sim travel, they just summon a car, freeze for a while, and then disappear. Imagine have to reset the sim when they go to work, the missing work message appears, the boss calls and there is your sim T posing in front of the car again. Now imagine the worse scenario: they make animations of the sims entering the car. The hellish entering and leaving the car animations over and over like the bikes.
I don't agree with you on swimming pool, it can be use for community, not necessarily at home and it can give Sims a fitness skill.
Sims 4 do include religious items tho, we have hijabs in the game which is a religious clothing.
Hope you get better and focus on you we will be fine, trust!
Just one more thing that bothers me is that you said gen z as in all the gen z im part of this community and i knkw you wont want to offened me however you shouldnt critisize people for what year time they were born in but i do get where your coming from at the same time as most of gen z are drama hoarders and karens.. 💙😥😬
It was just a joke about entitled kids who get angry on Twitter and TikTok don’t take it seriously x 😁
I like chill(ed) videos, I'd be happy if you made more like this!
I remember hearing some controversy about the knitting back being a ripoff since it just reused animations from a previous pack, and one about eco lifestyle stuff being downgraded to just laundry because it was easier to develop, only for eco lifestyle stuff to actually come our years later. The biggest controversies I heard about were the pools, cars, and toddlers. Personally I didn’t care about the lack of pools as I don’t drown my Sims for fun and I don’t care that much but people were FURIOUS about it. The toddlers were the biggest disappointment, they should’ve been free at launch rather than split into an update and an stuff pack like 2 years later, especially since they were a really good phase in the Sims 3 and the babies also got nerfed. Luckily they got added and arguably were even better than the Sims 3, but I was really upset by this change. Cars were another huge one, I didn’t care that much because you didn’t need them in a non-open world but a lot of people were ENRAGED. They could’ve been implemented *really easily* and made to work like the Sims 2, where your Sim would get in the car and drive off the edge of the lot then trigger the usual loading screen/just disappear and go to work, but EA couldn’t be bothered so we didn’t get them. The lack of an open world itself was a controversy, while losing the open world is a shame it was done to make the game run properly and by comparison the Sims 3 feels very clunky, it’s laggy and glitchy and Sims move weirdly and teleport around, and the camera lags and stutters constantly as you move around and load new lots, and you rarely find many Sims out in public, the Sims 4 improved these issues at the cost of the openness. I would’ve much rather saw then release a Sims 4 with an open world that actually worked properly though, as I’m certain EA could’ve done it since the Sims 3 was really just held back by it’s age, it couldn’t use more than 3 CPU cores and was limited to 2048mb of video memory out of the box, and can only use 2gb of RAM without a patch and it’s locked to 4gb even with one because it’s a 32-bit application.
My opinion is unpopular, in that as much as I liked the sims 3 open world, I really enjoy TS4’s half open half closed world too. TS2 was just a bit too closed (although I do enjoy the mechanics of calling a taxi 😂) and TS3 was just a nightmare to run. I could live without the open world. There’s no reason we shouldn’t have cars though. I can’t imagine they’re difficult to design & animate compared to other things like idk. Cows and llamas 😂 (though I was DYING for a country pack so I love it) The sims 3 is just almost unplayable. I reinstalled it tonight and managed to make 2 sims, 2 horses and a shell of a house in 4-5 hours. Meanwhile my laptop can run red dead redemption 2 smoothly on high settings, which is a significantly larger game with complicated mechanics. I hear the gameplay’s great but I barely remember it myself as it’s always run at snail’s pace even though it was my fave game for years 😂
I must look up this patch though. Anything to help with the laaaag 😂 TS3’s even worse than TS2 on anything less than high/ultra settings 🥲
With MFPS, I do like the stuff in the pack for sure but all of it should have been included in the Cats and Dogs expansion.
18:33 I think that it’s kind of happening again now with paralives. In sims 4’s current state, as soon as paralives is released everyone is going to stop buying sims content and stop playing sims 4 because they will all be going to paralives. I know I sure will be going over to paralives once it is released
I always use pools but I hate them in Sims 4 cause you can't do anything with them. where are my pool parties EA???
You lost me when you went on that rant about Gen Z
They do include religious stuff tho seasons came with a few menorahs
my first pet stuff comes with the dogs and cats expansion now on xbox
I sometimes think that the sims 4 is a weird alternate universe in which cars are the price of an IRL spaceship or cars were popular for a while and then everyone got sick of it..... much like the game itself
This is such a fun video. I agree with mostly everything!
How were you to know about my wedding stories 😂
I bought the Journey to Batue just to see how bad it was and why people hated it so mad. I was shocked about how bad it was I was bloody livid.
As someone who has played 1-2-3....I am so glad I waited YEARS to play 4.
I like Star War, but I absolutely HATE Journey to Batuu. The game play is kinda ok, if you are ok being railroaded around. Played is in a try before you buy way... The build-buy things are only there so that they can be used on Batuu. They are pretty much useless and don't fit anywhere else. Skin tones... Or why the Melanin pack mod is so nice to have.
I really enjoyed your ranking, thanks 🤍
So when The Sims 4 came out, I had already decided to not bother with The Sims 3 for reasons that aren’t relevant here (I recently got the base game, which is currently all I have), so I was still playing exclusively The Sims 2. I wanted to play a new sims game, I really did and then I found out no pools (which I actually do use a lot in the Sims) and no toddlers (which was and is my favorite life stage) and I just decided the game was without hope and didn’t bother looking up anything else on it for years. I only learned they finally brought toddlers to the game, because my sister played and didn’t get the game until 2020 when I heard about a sale. As a result I missed most of the other controversies, because they happened before I actually started playing TS4.
I literally just got the patio pack with the freaking hot tubs bc they look more like actual hot tubs always have. 😢
Question why is the machine so big 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ couldn't they make it for a counter like a kitchen appliance. Tried sizing it down to place it that didn't work, even if it did I doubt the animation would even work 😩😩
I don't think they should have removed the shrines they already had religious symbols for Jewish people
i’m a boy and like cute pets what you mean?!?!!?!???!?!??
Thought thr last one was going to be the rebrand when they changed all the colours and style
I remember the controversy about the eyeshadow palettes and their cooperation with mac in general. And something with the kids having romantic relations with adults? Or just something along these lines. Just people going crazy about this bug and rightfully so imo. And then obviously the my wedding stories controversy along with them banning the pack in russia. Oh, and also the kits controversy. It was pretty loud, when the announced it. Dunno if you'd consider the bust the dust kit controversy as one and the same or separate, but I remember people being very pissed off because it being a glitchy mess
Sims 2 was also a closed world and even more restrictive on lot to lot gameplay yet it had cars. Doesn’t make sense
I know people are still asking for cars but they really should stop because it will probably never happen....you would literally only drive to the load screen (like sims bustin out for playstation) if they did anything . We can't get fixes for bugs, no way they will rework the whole system to fit them in.
As a swimmer, i think its okay that u put the pools in midily unpopular because what u said is true and even though i love swimming 🏊♀️ your entitled to your own opinons loveee i satch ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'm a female and I couldn't care less about the extra stuff packs like kits and my first pets. BUT. The extra toddler stuff IS SO CUTE and I want to buy it next. I mainly buy packs for gameplay because I don't really trust mods. That being said, because MODS can help you with the game it's absolutely ridiculous the prices we are paying for the game.
I understand why people don’t like Moschino, buuuut I really like it in terms of family gameplay, making pictures with more people and having family photo walls in my houses 😂👍🏻 that‘s the only thing I use and like from this pack
I 100% agree with the no religious stuff in the game EXCEPT I feel as though muslim friendly clothing is a requirement. Although hijabs and other coverings are religious items, the sims 4 is supposed to be a safe space for everyone and everybody should feel represented.
umm hijabs represent enslavement but ok
I'm part of Gen Z and I don't think it was some Gen Z being stupid. I really think you shouldn't have said that. Some Koreans have grandparents that were traumatized from that war. The Gen Z Koreans were vocalizing the horrific associations of those features.
yeah this rubbed me the wrong way too and definitely deterred me from subscribing. that & the fact that the skintones issue is only in tier 3 as if the other stuff is more important? why would a boring star wars pack be somehow worse/more cancellable than POC being excluded from a life simulator game..
I dont really understand why people want cars, its not open world so why do you want them? To see your sim drive 2 seconds and then get a loading screen
Only reason why I got star wars pack because it was $10 on ps4 sale
That "*cough* gen z" got me good 🤣
I don't care about my first pet stuff I just feel like more cap items shouldn't have been like the one and only selling point
i love your channel
Gotta make an update! 🤣
Enjoying your videos. And speaking truth about the sensitive atmosphere with gen Z. Glad I'm not the only one.
2:10 this was so funny
I think Star Wars was when many simtubers started annoucing that they won't play Sims 4 anymore. This relly have canceled the game
I didn't notice that toddlers was missing until the update 😂
someone got offended at the shrine to pray to the Llama God. how long have people been asking for a shrine or something like that, with the Llama being the God? i am one of them. i had the Jesus Buddy in Sims 1, the pulpit and the benches people could sit in and worship! i did the same thing in Sims 2 with the pulpit. i would invite people over, have someone go speak at the pulpit, and have everyone go watch them speak! it was a business function we could make look like church. then everyone would eat from the Luau Buffet table when we were done, and swim in the pool! ❤❤❤❤
I wanted pools so I could drown my sims
When the Star Wars game pack was announced some people were annoyed, some just made fun of it, some were totally pissed off and some were saying "I don't care about Star Wars but I'm glad for all of the Star Wars fans among us that they have a pack made for them." The last of those straight up put me into the "totally pissed off" group as an og hard core Star Wars fan. First of all we get a new trilogy that butchers our beloved universum with the most boring movie to start it of, second being retcon and the third being retcon of a retcon and bringing the most idiotic twist and toxic romance known to mankind. Then EA comes trying to make that last trilogy into even bigger cach grab than it was by creating a pack based around it. My friend then being one of those last group people giving me a key for this pack for my birthday was just the last stab into my already bleeding fan heart. I didn't use that key to this day and never will just out of spite towards this pack.
Why speak about Koreans and Gen Z like they are two separate entities that have no crossover
Good video
Love your cancel culture rant btw, straight from my own mouth.
The thing with spacships and cars u said is so funny but let’s not be toxic about it❤️❤️❤️❤️ love u satch ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This reminds me of the opposite of how games like The Last of Us by Naughty Dog worked. How long was the gap between the two parts? Part 1 on 14 June 2013, with remastered released in 2014. Part 2 was released 19 June 2020. So they took 7 years to perfect the game for the second part and it DID NOT disappoint fans AT ALL. EA, please follow their lead!!
you look like Edd sheran
Cupcakes
Omg the cupcakes machine
i finally find a cute guy that plays the sims.....and he's gay.....fml. i'm just messing around. thanks for making these videos. i enjoy them very much!
People getting offended over a shrine is one of the most stupid things I've ever heard. I don't even think the asians cared. This community loves to complain about everything and its annoying
As someone who spends a lot of time online, I'd say Boomers are the most sensitive ppl in general, bur that's just me 😌
The shrines was because of Chinese colonization.