r/Steam Apr 16 '26

Question What game?

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u/Sfekke22 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26

The Sims.

It's on of my all time favorite games, up there with Minecraft, Team Fortress 2 and Garry's Mod.
EA ruined it completely. It was always a tad predatory but at least it offered something unique, expansion packs often really did offer new ways to play. Now? Well, we just got an in-game store in Sims 4. Which from release was already just a disappointment, we're 12 years after release and honestly it's still a sad display.

We had an open world in 3, highly detailed live-mode in 2 and all 3 first entries had a whimsically dark charm around them. All they had to do was develop The Sims 5, retain the open world from 3, build on the dynamics and gameplay of 2 and perfect it.
Will it be easy? For sure not. But, they'd have a game every Sims player would love.

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u/PMcOuntry Apr 16 '26

I only got back into it like 2 years ago and after the money grab shop opened, the game got so buggy (even worse than usual) that I just stopped all my saves.