The thing that's so weird is that EA would take down creators who paywalled their CC...only to just repackage the CC as Creator kits. I don't support paywalling CC, but I think EA banning paywalls - only to start making the creator kits is so insidious.
I fully support paywalling CC. The whole concept of people expecting to get others' work for free is ridiculous and greedy. Whereas CC creators have largely brought it upon themselves by continuously working for free, it's also the general attitude these days. Many people are deep in taker mentality and have no understanding of (edit: or care for) how much effort and energy CC creators (and other content creators, artists, etc.) put into their work.
it's always "spread positivity and community! be kind and caring to one another!" until someone says something they don't like and then they start hurling slurs and death threats like they're regular words that are normal and okay to say. jesus christ yall need help, the internet has cooked your brains beyond belief
Exactly! It’s the mental hoop-da-loops of people having a holier then thou attitude who think it’s okay to treat someone badly over a different viewpoint. 🙁
I didn't know or care about sims stan drama before your videos but I keep watching because your tea is DELICIOUSLY HOT keep calling them out babes THIS IS REAL JOURNALISM
I have yet to see anything positive from her fandom. I just came from a tiktok that was discussing something similar about Simfluencers lying to their audience, and lilsimsie fans were all in that comment section although no one mentioned her name. Edit: LMAO. He played the tiktok I was talking about.
@@NotMalcolmpeople but especially sims 4 fans are so brainwashed that when someone tells them the truth they get so violent bc otherwise they would have to admit they are in the wrong (and acted dumb all of this time and they idolized a multimillion company who literally doesn’t care less about them😂)
There was someone I saw on a community post or TH-cam video on her channel who asked a simple question, and got screamed at in the comments and called names. That isn’t the only sims-tuber community mess where I’ve seen that happen either. 🙁
I totally agree, its sad bc i believe lisimsie is genuinely a good person but i am also convinced that she is way more smart, shrewd and money driven than she appears to her fanbase
it's genuinely baffling to me how much sims 4 players will glaze EA and defend their practices. i've never seen anything like this in any other gaming community
I'm not into the sims but why is it that every time I hear about sims fans harassing others its always lilsimsie fans? Lmfao? Are they like the sims equivalent to swifties or what
@@puppiekit As someone who had an Experience tm with the fans because I dared to leave a comment expressing a negative opinion about her videos, I think comparing them to swifties is apt They're something else
Again, as someone in the EACN I love you because I’m a RARE voice standing up against the ridiculous “favorites” of the EACN. Always. Be. Honest. That’s my motto. Always.
I mostly lurk on your streams { munchkin from twitch } but that’s why I will always respect your work because you keep it real. I am glad to see you see nonsense even part of the EACN
HOW is it cc if ea is SELLING it?? Isn't it just dlc? Atp just donate to ea. They already give them their money for nothing might as well get the tax write-off
These people didn't play The Sims from the beginning and it shows, they are used to mediocrity and will defend it to the death, the game morphed into a glorified ''microtransactional'' dollhouse. With no Sims 5 and losing FIFA I don't see a bright future for EA.
Satch is the only Sims influencer I'm looking forward to every single day because how brutally honest he is about the game and not sucking EA's d*ck all the time
I used to like him, for exactly that reason. But he's so difficult to stand. The laugh and the stupid lewd comments get to me. I'm mentally 7, and a dick joke is always funny to me, but not 10 of them in a 20 minute video, with that laugh after each one. I had to quit watching him.
I've been in The Sims Community since the very first game (mostly on online forums, because at time social media wasn't a thing) and it was never *THIS* toxic. We had disagreements, but it never got this nasty. I just don't understand what happened to our beautiful community.
its during TS4 era where everything went sharp DOWNHILL, failure after failure, glitches after glitches, mehs after mehs... well, no wonder our beloved franchise is dead and zombified by these manipulative people and EA's predatory business practices
The Sims 4 happened. This game shouldn't even exist as it is and here we are 10 years after, with EA announcing mobile and spinoff online crap while taking a decision of not making The Sims 5 at all... What used to be an excellent franchise is now a joke. I'll forever love the first three games, that for sure, but for me The Sims is dead now. RIP 2000-2013
Sims 4 girlies are going feral whenever some simmers are criticizing The Sims 4, and the worst part of it all? It's always the lilsimsie stans who are going after you for no reason. Plus, another problem with the Sims 4 girlies is they got used to overconsumption bc of the cash grabbing packs Sims are releasing. They even demanded that they want some CC creators to have a collab with the Sims 4 like girl this cash grab needs to stop, it's not healthy anymore. Plus, EA giving some simfluencers a makeover? That was the most random thing I've seen, like girl huh? From what I've seen from the Sims 4 influencers these days, they don't give negative comments about every single pack that they review. I was like, can y'all be brutally honest for once in your reviews? It ain't giving. Yes, EA has a long VERY LONG history of unethical business practices. It's getting way more funny and embarrassing, trust me 😭
Overconsumption has always been a problem in the Sims series, but the Sims 4 has taken it up to the wazoo. It's astonishing to see that there are still Sims 4 stans getting all hyped up for the next DLC that offers so little after 10 years.
EA: We have the money to give influencers makeover, but not to pay our staff better and giving them more time to make a good game (because the quality of the games is a reflection of how employees are treated and paid)
As long as EA is giving those Sims 4 influencers money, benefits and free stuff, these influencers don't care how the quality of the game. This symbiosis relationship will never end as long as both sides get their profits. In the end the rest of us are collateral damage. Yes, Lilsimsie did agree to EA for using her quote, but EA skirted the details on how the quote was used. It wasn't a good look for Lilsimsie no matter how you slice it. Of course, Simsie fans don't care the specifics and brought pitchforks and torches claiming you said something negative about her. (Truthfully it isn't, and from the looks of it she seems fine despite the allegations)
thank you for saying this! my comment was snarky but it was more so coming from a place of “this quote on the Home Screen isn’t helping her” there’s little to no room for nuance when you bring rabid fans into the equation ig
i just don’t understand as someone who was in the sims 3 community years and years ago before the sims 4. everyone was so critical of ea and especially when ts4 came out a ton of creators said they’d never go back to it… how we went from being critical to this is just sad
Lgr isn’t exactly a sims TH-camr but he is the only one I fr trust with reviews. But he started getting too honest for EA and they stopped giving him review codes lol
I’m so glad someone is talking about the sims 4, it’s community, and the influencers who spread sims 4 brain rot openly and clearly. You are genuinely doing a public service with these videos. Thank you 🙏
Like listen I LOVE watching Steph but I REALLY wish she wasn’t taking sponsorships from EA because this is not the first time she has done this and it’s just starting to get very icky to me 😬
@@sweethistortea this exactly, all these packs fused as a big one wouldve actually been worth the 40 bucks but we all know EA, Money over everything else :)
In Sims 3, my Sims seem quite smart? Like, they learn routines (doing the dishes after eating, washing their hands after using the toilet) and actually do what needs to be done when left to their own devices (eat, sleep, pee, go to work, etc.). My Sims 4 sims barely eat, never sleep, do push ups every 10 seconds, and take like 10 business days to go to work unless I am fully controlling them.
I used to be on the gamechanger program years ago and it used to really bother me how whenever an opportunity to work with the Sims would come up it would always go to one of the bigger Sims TH-camrs. It still happens now with the creator network, it's like there's an "elite" group of Sims TH-camrs. We all know who they are. My biggest regret is the fact that I didn't expose the shady things that they were saying about smaller content creators on discord, they had their own private discord chat. It was messy, let's just say that a few of these TH-camrs wouldn't be around now. They would have absolutely been cancelled because some of the things that they were saying 💀 and I know that im not the only person who saw rhis chat.
One of my main issues with the creator network and the sims influencers is the favouritism and the fact that EA/Maxis/the simgurus don't even try to hide it anymore. They're only ever interested in working with the same 6 or 7 people. That sparkd tv show is a good example of this, that was meant to be a show about simmers so why did they not cherry pick people at random from the gamechanger program, no instead they once again picked the same 6 or 7 people to take part. And the funny thing about this is that these bigger sims influencers will call people like us jealous for calling this kind of thing out when in reality its just us calling out something incredibly shady that has been going on for years now. Its not fair to all of the smaller content creators out there who are also part of the creator network.
It's disturbing how psychotic people can get over protecting a person they don't even know who just plays a game. That level of malice & pure hatred directed at you is honestly very chilling and was extremely undeserved. I love the rest of the sims communities just vibing and having fun. I started in Sims4 and ONLY play the first 3 now, so I left Sims4 behind. No regrets.
It's disturbing that you would use the word psychotic to describe that and not something like, vile or other synonyms. Psychosis is something people genuinely suffer with and using it to mean "evil" just gives a bad stigma to something already so hard to deal with. Other then that I do agree with you.
@@NotMalcolmyou're good. It's about time someone calls out the infuriating Simfluencers. The only one I do like is James, but the rest? I can't stand them. Especially Deli and Simsie.
Honestly, we don't have these kind of toxic issues from TS1 up to TS3 Its TS4 where it all began and degraded our beloved franchise into a fanbase milking machine EA have Glad I wasn't heavily involved in "The Sims Community" and mute these "influencers" out of my algorithm
I feel like some simmers feel personally attacked when people have different opinions about the game than them, they take it as an insult when really its just an opinion.
Literally everyone does these days. People just need to learn not to care, and I am aware that this is controversial to say. but truly the world is better if you ignore societal standards, expectations and be yourself, be a creator of your own world. Instead of a enforced one. But I am not right here, this is just a observation I am just a cog in a system.
Deli being one of them. She got mad at someone for saying the sims 4 isn’t a competitive game or something like that. Like girl, pick a better battle. The sims is a simulation that requires no skill versus games like COD, Overwatch, etc.
@@TheGamerz_Hubit does take skill, I’d just not competitive skill. Just look at the first sims or builds people make compared to something a few years in and tell me you can’t see a skill increase. Art and design are still skills and shouldn’t be looked down upon. That’s how you get joyless societies.
IM NOT MAD AT EA USING LILSIMSIE - MY TH-cam AUTOREPLAYED ONE OF HER RECORDED LETS PLAY AND SHE LITERALLY SAYS "IDK WHERE THESE ACCUSATIONS ARE COMING FROM AND IM NOT LYING ABOUT THE SIMS 4 PACKS WHY WOULD I LIE AND RUIN MY REPUTATION" SHE'S A LIAR AND A SEEMS LIKE IF YOU CALL HER OUT ON HER STUFF SHE GETS MAD - SHE DOESNT WANT ANYBODY TO KNOW BUT ITS SO PAINFULLY OBVIOUS
For such a bland, boring cartoony game, the Sims 4 has some of the most unhinged "players" ever. They lose their m'fuckin' minds if you even hint that the game is trash and that they're being ruthlessly exploited. They also tend not to play any other game BUT the Sims 4 ( some have never even played previous series of the Sims or SimCity) so I wouldn't even really call them gamers. They're like intense Second Lifers, especially the lilsimsie stans.
I’m not even in the sims fandom lol I’m just here to snoop because I find it interesting and also want to see if precedents are set for excusing bad monetisation that will spread to other game communities
Sims fans would probably buy actual trash if EA sells it as Sims-branded merchandise. A consumer base as mindlessly dedicated as that is something other companies would kill for.
I fear the only reason why I've been able to cope has been bc I haven't paid a dime for anything but ts4 + one dlc. I've gone full pirate lmao. I used to eagerly buy the next ep or packs during ts3 + ts2 days, but it's not worth it knowing I'm getting a fraction of the gameplay I used to get with the earlier games in the franchise paired with the shameless money grabbing tactics from EA. It's been liberating from an emotional investment perspective. I can't imagine the sort of frustration people feel who have put all kinds of $$$ into playing the dysfunctional mess that ts4 tends to be.
Wait I thought the sims community didn't agree with death threats, slurs, and hate comments 🤔 Or is that only when the hate is directed towards devs and popular sims influencers. This community is such a chaotic hypocritical mess smh.
The thing that I don't get about influencers, and the people that follow them, is that they love to brag about the events they were invited to, the hotel stays the brands paid for them, the food they got to eat, etc. and they always thanks the brand when in reality... it's the CONSUMER that's paying for it. These simmers are thanking EA for the free pack that they sent them while THE PEOPLE BEING SOLD THE PACK are the ones who paid for it. It's not just their audience that's funding their lifestyle, no, when they get free shit from EA, it's ANYONE WHO HAS ACTUALLY PAID FOR THE GAME that's contributing to them getting that free stuff.
You are a blessing in the gaming community (not even just the sims) - love seeing someone call this all out. Companies are not our friends, & we need to stay critical of advertisements of all sorts honestly.
Wait so you're telling me they are still people who unironically play this badly designed game and are buying every mediocre pack to it that is maybe fun to explore once but since it doesn't add anything of value to the core gameplay loop it is bascially worthless otherwise and haven't rolled back to The Sims 3 or The Sims 2 yet that are fun even without expansions? I guess I did well when I decided not to engage with The Sims 4 community whatsoever.
I feel like people have literally lost their minds on their behavior. Given this an American company we have a right to complain about it, remember free speech. I keep playing the Sims 4 but not like it's given to me. I have to load up so much CC just to enjoy it. Not to mention for a game meant to play on a gaming laptop it manage to nearly kill my gaming laptop. Even though I uninstalled it and put it on my desktop I've had all sorts of issues with it since. Like that is crazy. I never had as game mess up a computer like that. By the way this computer is three years old so younger the game itself.
So proud and grateful for you and your objectivity and voice daring to call out hypocrisy, exorbitant greed, excuses and justification for mediocrity, and wanting to enhance quality - the terror of the Sims community!
This is crazy… stopped playing the sims a long time ago and back when I used to play It thought the influencers were so annoying and fake to me. To see that this is what they’re up to?? I am so flabbergasted. Super happy I’ve expanded my gaming library because this is just ridiculous.
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the thing ive been saying about these new packs is exactly what you were saying about commissioning modders for expansions and stuff--that's literally what lovestruck and life and death are doing now in a way! like i was perfectly fine with my wicked whims dating app and my ww attractiveness features, now it's a thing i can pay for with lovestruck! like y'all are not slick!!
Okay, so I'm a pretty big Sims 4 fan. It's actually just about the only game I play. Like, the last time I bought a game on release day was when GTA V came out, you know? I'm the most baseline casual gamer. My opinion is that the EA model for these DLC are predatory, especially with the preorder bonus content being locked away forever if you don't buy the DLC within x days of release. I'd love to see them release DLC for free after like 3 years on the market so that the community can still enjoy the games. Honestly I'd love it if they released working packs that didn't shatter the game and require three patches to fix up. Why do I still buy the packs? I mean, I'm really not exaggerating when I say it's the only game that lets me unwind for a couple of hours after work, and that means my video game budget is like $80 a year. I think there are probably a lot of people in the sims community who are pretty similar, it's the only game we play consistently and the predatory practices don't seem so predatory up close because some of us are only ever really looking in that direction, unaware of how other games and companies treat their consumers. Doesn't give anyone the right to harass you though god twitter sucks.
CC has always been for the community to make open source resources for each other. EA making it for purchase corporate official “creator kits” is top tier exploitation.
Not to encourage 🏴☠️ but 84 DLCs? If you are/were from a family that doesn't have enough money to spend on videogames instead of groceries and you finally achieved the monetary power to get the game and the DLCs you'd have to pay a small fortune... They themselves are encouraging 🏴☠️🏴☠️ of their game, no way someone's dropping that kind of money or getting the DLCs little by little when they can just open a website and get the whole game for free
I bet the reason EA felt confident enough to put lilsimsie on the main menu is because she has more or less supported and promoted the game for them for the last decade with very little criticism. They are in eachothers pockets, this benefits the both of them, what EA did was shady but lilsimsie knows that this is a scummy company just as much as we do and she continues to associate with them and "oo and awe" at recolous of existing objects to encourage her rabid fan base to buy the latest £40 ep. Anyway, if this is an indication of EAs desperation to sell dlc then hopefully the Sims 4 is losing interest and going down. I for one, haven't even bothered to pirate the latest packs, 😂
The fact that they keep releasing packs and crap and people still promote it positively just shows how money hungry everyone involved in the Blandness 4 are cause the sims 4 is horrible
LMAO the death threat is INSANE. Over a video game?? That's crazy. I like your videos, events ought im obsessed with inzoi I can take criticism over a game I like.
Sims 4 has so much stuff but none of them... Works together. Like. In theory, it should be easy to build a modern house with the platforms and different modern styled doors and windows and furnitures. But nothing works together! You cannot really mix windows from the spa pack with the eco lifestyle doors because the colours dont match. And the furniture is just so... Samey but not in the matching way. Samey in the boring way that makes it difficult to make a nice house or even gym. And there is a fitness thing! I cant with this game. I really want to make a save file for my gf but this game is testing my patience
After seeing the latest Dragon age Veilgard debacle and how most TH-cam reviewers have exposed and given their honest opinions, it just pisses me off with the things EA gets away with in the Sims 4 due to the creator network ecosystem.
I haven’t played sims in…awhile. If I want to play a life sim game, I’ll play Crusader Kings or Dreamlight Valley. The community isn’t that much better, it’s like a giant Tumblr blog and might be more toxic then the League community. 😬 (Also, I adore your Eleanor of Toledo picture. I have a book that talks about her, very cool lady. ♥️)
is it just me or the idea of playing the sims 4 is more fun than playing the game it self
no i feel the exact same, like having a storyline and trying to execute it in sims and it ends up being boring
This is so fax, every time I open the game I immediately feel exhausted lol
this is why mods are mandatory otherwise i can't play it, especially the gameplay mods ;_;
I just play the sims 3. It’s cheaper and has more customisation and an open world
@@chattychatotchannel i wish the sims 3 was on the ps5, but EA wants to force console players to play the newest game instead of working on a port
The Sims community, when you have any criticism towards the game: 🤬🤬🤬
But then the community when they complain 😡😡😡
The Sims 4 single-handedly destroyed the sims franchise and some simmers that are in the pocket of EA helped them kill the Sims.
2014 was the beginning of the end ong
sims 3 was the last good one
The thing that's so weird is that EA would take down creators who paywalled their CC...only to just repackage the CC as Creator kits. I don't support paywalling CC, but I think EA banning paywalls - only to start making the creator kits is so insidious.
“insidious” really is the perfect word 🙌
I don't. They want to make money off of it. They're a company.
@@Ready-ForTheEndwell theyre greedy asf
paywalling cc gives us the chance to support our favorite cc creators, they need to pay rent too
I fully support paywalling CC. The whole concept of people expecting to get others' work for free is ridiculous and greedy. Whereas CC creators have largely brought it upon themselves by continuously working for free, it's also the general attitude these days. Many people are deep in taker mentality and have no understanding of (edit: or care for) how much effort and energy CC creators (and other content creators, artists, etc.) put into their work.
it's always "spread positivity and community! be kind and caring to one another!" until someone says something they don't like and then they start hurling slurs and death threats like they're regular words that are normal and okay to say. jesus christ yall need help, the internet has cooked your brains beyond belief
Its hypocrisy at its finest lol.
Exactly! It’s the mental hoop-da-loops of people having a holier then thou attitude who think it’s okay to treat someone badly over a different viewpoint. 🙁
People on social media really have normalized death threats, it's incredible.
The beginning of your comment reminded me of Elen DeGeneres and we know how that turned out... I see similarities.
The absolute hypocrites
I didn't know or care about sims stan drama before your videos but I keep watching because your tea is DELICIOUSLY HOT keep calling them out babes THIS IS REAL JOURNALISM
Agree. 👍
this comment is my everything lol
Its always the lilsimsie stans after you pls😭😭
I have yet to see anything positive from her fandom. I just came from a tiktok that was discussing something similar about Simfluencers lying to their audience, and lilsimsie fans were all in that comment section although no one mentioned her name.
Edit: LMAO. He played the tiktok I was talking about.
They are all brainwashed i swear 😂 i cant watch her twitch bc its crazy in that chat
i can’t stand her
I can't watch her live streams and that also made it so I can't watch her. She is fine until someone says something she disagrees with.
I can’t stand her ass lmao she enables tf outta her fans. Never addressing their hateful attitudes towards other creators
Sorry those people called you slurs and were so vitriolic. That’s gross.
i appreciate that! i sorta became numb to it after the 50th hate comment lol
People suck unfortunately. The said thing is, I see a lot of those awful comments come from people who claim to be “loving and accepting”.
@@NotMalcolmpeople but especially sims 4 fans are so brainwashed that when someone tells them the truth they get so violent bc otherwise they would have to admit they are in the wrong (and acted dumb all of this time and they idolized a multimillion company who literally doesn’t care less about them😂)
typical toxic positivity from "cozy" gaming tourists.
@@sweethistorteabeen seeingbthat a lot lately
Honestly, it's her community I detest more than Lilsimsie herself these days. Especially with their double standards on what they deem hate speech.
There was someone I saw on a community post or TH-cam video on her channel who asked a simple question, and got screamed at in the comments and called names. That isn’t the only sims-tuber community mess where I’ve seen that happen either. 🙁
The live chats on her streams are so
Wild. Even the bot is condescending about asking questions or what’s allowed to be talked about. 🫠
@@PoetLaureate16 Literally
I totally agree, its sad bc i believe lisimsie is genuinely a good person but i am also convinced that she is way more smart, shrewd and money driven than she appears to her fanbase
If I say lil simsie is like the Taylor Swift of the sims community will y'all fight me? (this is not a compliment btw)
it's genuinely baffling to me how much sims 4 players will glaze EA and defend their practices. i've never seen anything like this in any other gaming community
same it’s some bizarre stuff lol we need to get the doctors in here
Glad you didn't let the lilsimsie sheep get the best of you
Literally such a good descriptor. Mean I guess, but truly how that fanbase comes off. Shrug
I'm not into the sims but why is it that every time I hear about sims fans harassing others its always lilsimsie fans? Lmfao? Are they like the sims equivalent to swifties or what
@@puppiekit As someone who had an Experience tm with the fans because I dared to leave a comment expressing a negative opinion about her videos, I think comparing them to swifties is apt
They're something else
It’s so funny how defensive they get on twitter
@@puppiekit they are Swifties equivalent actually 😬
Again, as someone in the EACN I love you because I’m a RARE voice standing up against the ridiculous “favorites” of the EACN. Always. Be. Honest. That’s my motto. Always.
I mostly lurk on your streams { munchkin from twitch } but that’s why I will always respect your work because you keep it real. I am glad to see you see nonsense even part of the EACN
HOW is it cc if ea is SELLING it?? Isn't it just dlc? Atp just donate to ea. They already give them their money for nothing might as well get the tax write-off
exactly lol why are people acting like they’re doing something amazing for CC creators
For real, as soon as EA packages and sells it, its not CC or a mod, its just another pack same as all the others.
These people didn't play The Sims from the beginning and it shows, they are used to mediocrity and will defend it to the death, the game morphed into a glorified ''microtransactional'' dollhouse. With no Sims 5 and losing FIFA I don't see a bright future for EA.
Back when the Sims felt like a Maxis game and not an EA game
Satch is the only Sims influencer I'm looking forward to every single day because how brutally honest he is about the game and not sucking EA's d*ck all the time
I really like Satch.
@@Ready-ForTheEnd me too, I don't trust any other Sims influencers rn
I used to like him, for exactly that reason. But he's so difficult to stand. The laugh and the stupid lewd comments get to me. I'm mentally 7, and a dick joke is always funny to me, but not 10 of them in a 20 minute video, with that laugh after each one. I had to quit watching him.
I get super excited for when LGR does a nice ass tearing on sims 4 😂
i like steph0sims just cause she’s funny
I've been in The Sims Community since the very first game (mostly on online forums, because at time social media wasn't a thing) and it was never *THIS* toxic. We had disagreements, but it never got this nasty. I just don't understand what happened to our beautiful community.
i agree … i’ve been here since sims 3 community and i felt that space was so good because everybody was critical of ea but now :/
its during TS4 era where everything went sharp DOWNHILL, failure after failure, glitches after glitches, mehs after mehs...
well, no wonder our beloved franchise is dead and zombified by these manipulative people and EA's predatory business practices
Whenever someone asks me for a toxic game community, I say the Sims.
The Sims 4 happened. This game shouldn't even exist as it is and here we are 10 years after, with EA announcing mobile and spinoff online crap while taking a decision of not making The Sims 5 at all... What used to be an excellent franchise is now a joke. I'll forever love the first three games, that for sure, but for me The Sims is dead now. RIP 2000-2013
Sims 4 girlies are going feral whenever some simmers are criticizing The Sims 4, and the worst part of it all? It's always the lilsimsie stans who are going after you for no reason. Plus, another problem with the Sims 4 girlies is they got used to overconsumption bc of the cash grabbing packs Sims are releasing. They even demanded that they want some CC creators to have a collab with the Sims 4 like girl this cash grab needs to stop, it's not healthy anymore. Plus, EA giving some simfluencers a makeover? That was the most random thing I've seen, like girl huh? From what I've seen from the Sims 4 influencers these days, they don't give negative comments about every single pack that they review. I was like, can y'all be brutally honest for once in your reviews? It ain't giving. Yes, EA has a long VERY LONG history of unethical business practices. It's getting way more funny and embarrassing, trust me 😭
you woke up and said let me spit some facts 🙌 all this
Overconsumption has always been a problem in the Sims series, but the Sims 4 has taken it up to the wazoo. It's astonishing to see that there are still Sims 4 stans getting all hyped up for the next DLC that offers so little after 10 years.
EA: We have the money to give influencers makeover, but not to pay our staff better and giving them more time to make a good game (because the quality of the games is a reflection of how employees are treated and paid)
As long as EA is giving those Sims 4 influencers money, benefits and free stuff, these influencers don't care how the quality of the game. This symbiosis relationship will never end as long as both sides get their profits. In the end the rest of us are collateral damage.
Yes, Lilsimsie did agree to EA for using her quote, but EA skirted the details on how the quote was used. It wasn't a good look for Lilsimsie no matter how you slice it. Of course, Simsie fans don't care the specifics and brought pitchforks and torches claiming you said something negative about her. (Truthfully it isn't, and from the looks of it she seems fine despite the allegations)
thank you for saying this! my comment was snarky but it was more so coming from a place of “this quote on the Home Screen isn’t helping her”
there’s little to no room for nuance when you bring rabid fans into the equation ig
@@NotMalcolm I'm no fan of Lilsimsie, but I will credit her when she is in the right and call her out when she is not. Plain and simple.
i just don’t understand as someone who was in the sims 3 community years and years ago before the sims 4. everyone was so critical of ea and especially when ts4 came out a ton of creators said they’d never go back to it… how we went from being critical to this is just sad
I stopped watching sims creators a while ago because I always got this strange gut feeling... I'm glad to know now that it was justified lol
Me too. I haven’t watched any of them in awhile.
The only one I watch occasionally is Satchonsims. He seems genuine with his reactions and doesn't suck up to EA.
Lgr isn’t exactly a sims TH-camr but he is the only one I fr trust with reviews. But he started getting too honest for EA and they stopped giving him review codes lol
I’m so glad someone is talking about the sims 4, it’s community, and the influencers who spread sims 4 brain rot openly and clearly. You are genuinely doing a public service with these videos. Thank you 🙏
Like listen I LOVE watching Steph but I REALLY wish she wasn’t taking sponsorships from EA because this is not the first time she has done this and it’s just starting to get very icky to me 😬
i used to love steph so much but 5 out of her past 6 videos are literally just pack reviews sponsored by EA
How many people are actually playing sims that they need 84 DLCs for the game?
Feels like these should have been a new game or just free updates?
You could combine a bunch of those DLC’s too. Parenthood, Growing Together, Toddler and Kids Room would have been an epic pack.
it’s overconsumption core at this point 😭
@@sweethistortea this exactly, all these packs fused as a big one wouldve actually been worth the 40 bucks but we all know EA, Money over everything else :)
@@sweethistortea Add My Wedding Stories and High School Years and it's basically a worse and more expensive version of Generations from The Sims 3
The James Turner eyeshadow palette joke was incredible
"Zombified corpse of the sims 4"
4+4=ATE
Lilsimsie literally said today the sims in sims 3 are dumber than in sims 4. I had to rewind it. Wtf?! Sims 4 sims are not dumb they are brainless.
In Sims 3, my Sims seem quite smart? Like, they learn routines (doing the dishes after eating, washing their hands after using the toilet) and actually do what needs to be done when left to their own devices (eat, sleep, pee, go to work, etc.). My Sims 4 sims barely eat, never sleep, do push ups every 10 seconds, and take like 10 business days to go to work unless I am fully controlling them.
I used to be on the gamechanger program years ago and it used to really bother me how whenever an opportunity to work with the Sims would come up it would always go to one of the bigger Sims TH-camrs. It still happens now with the creator network, it's like there's an "elite" group of Sims TH-camrs. We all know who they are. My biggest regret is the fact that I didn't expose the shady things that they were saying about smaller content creators on discord, they had their own private discord chat. It was messy, let's just say that a few of these TH-camrs wouldn't be around now. They would have absolutely been cancelled because some of the things that they were saying 💀 and I know that im not the only person who saw rhis chat.
Drop the names 💀
kitsch is sort of an art movement
kitch is a synonym for "tacky"...
@@adrianblake8876 you're both correct.
Pro tip: Piracy is always an option
One of my main issues with the creator network and the sims influencers is the favouritism and the fact that EA/Maxis/the simgurus don't even try to hide it anymore. They're only ever interested in working with the same 6 or 7 people. That sparkd tv show is a good example of this, that was meant to be a show about simmers so why did they not cherry pick people at random from the gamechanger program, no instead they once again picked the same 6 or 7 people to take part. And the funny thing about this is that these bigger sims influencers will call people like us jealous for calling this kind of thing out when in reality its just us calling out something incredibly shady that has been going on for years now. Its not fair to all of the smaller content creators out there who are also part of the creator network.
i want to go back to sims 2 era
we all would want that
the best of times ❤️
Me too, I'll even take Sims bustin' out on PS2 atp 😢
It's disturbing how psychotic people can get over protecting a person they don't even know who just plays a game.
That level of malice & pure hatred directed at you is honestly very chilling and was extremely undeserved.
I love the rest of the sims communities just vibing and having fun.
I started in Sims4 and ONLY play the first 3 now, so I left Sims4 behind. No regrets.
It's disturbing that you would use the word psychotic to describe that and not something like, vile or other synonyms.
Psychosis is something people genuinely suffer with and using it to mean "evil" just gives a bad stigma to something already so hard to deal with.
Other then that I do agree with you.
Dude I honestly really like LilSimsie's videos but her fans are so scary😭
i like her a lot more than her fans ngl
I do miss the gameplay videos. But I also get why youre making these videos. It does need to be talked about.
i swear at some point i’m gonna do more gameplay 😅
@NotMalcolm Please I miss the drama of your families so much
@@NotMalcolmAnd feel free to do not Sims, your GTA grandma was hilarious
@@NotMalcolmyou're good. It's about time someone calls out the infuriating Simfluencers. The only one I do like is James, but the rest? I can't stand them. Especially Deli and Simsie.
Honestly, we don't have these kind of toxic issues from TS1 up to TS3
Its TS4 where it all began and degraded our beloved franchise into a fanbase milking machine EA have
Glad I wasn't heavily involved in "The Sims Community" and mute these "influencers" out of my algorithm
I feel like some simmers feel personally attacked when people have different opinions about the game than them, they take it as an insult when really its just an opinion.
Literally everyone does these days. People just need to learn not to care, and I am aware that this is controversial to say. but truly the world is better if you ignore societal standards, expectations and be yourself, be a creator of your own world. Instead of a enforced one. But I am not right here, this is just a observation I am just a cog in a system.
Deli being one of them. She got mad at someone for saying the sims 4 isn’t a competitive game or something like that. Like girl, pick a better battle. The sims is a simulation that requires no skill versus games like COD, Overwatch, etc.
@@TheGamerz_Hubit does take skill, I’d just not competitive skill. Just look at the first sims or builds people make compared to something a few years in and tell me you can’t see a skill increase.
Art and design are still skills and shouldn’t be looked down upon. That’s how you get joyless societies.
The Ariana grande audios IM CRYING
Thank you for spicing up the video again
There's a reason SIms 3 is 20 bucks while 4 is free.
Lmao this
another day another slay. Malcolm the messiah is back again
adding “messiah” to my resume as we speak 🙌
some times i watch lil simsie because i need some positivity but the girlies going to battle for her are MENTAL
IM NOT MAD AT EA USING LILSIMSIE - MY TH-cam AUTOREPLAYED ONE OF HER RECORDED LETS PLAY AND SHE LITERALLY SAYS "IDK WHERE THESE ACCUSATIONS ARE COMING FROM AND IM NOT LYING ABOUT THE SIMS 4 PACKS WHY WOULD I LIE AND RUIN MY REPUTATION" SHE'S A LIAR AND A SEEMS LIKE IF YOU CALL HER OUT ON HER STUFF SHE GETS MAD - SHE DOESNT WANT ANYBODY TO KNOW BUT ITS SO PAINFULLY OBVIOUS
Satchonsims is the only honest one😕 BUT THIS GAME IS SO DAMN BORINGGG OMG😭😭
And don't forget LGR
I LOVE SATCH!!!! He’s so brutally honest but it gets him tons of hate from the Sims Cult.
I love how he doesn't mince his words and is quite fair in pointing out the bad and the good points.
Sims 4 is THE game, i will always get as a repack with all DLC. EA got enough money of mine and i am so done paying for this greedy company
preach
Not people using slurs to cope with how they wasted their money. 😭
It’s always those who preach about positivity and love are the one showing their disgusting hypocrisy when facing the smallest inconvenience…
I just like to build and share my creations. I dont follow sims influencers, they drive me nuts
King i missed your presence on twitter😭😭
miss you too stay safe out there 🙏
For such a bland, boring cartoony game, the Sims 4 has some of the most unhinged "players" ever. They lose their m'fuckin' minds if you even hint that the game is trash and that they're being ruthlessly exploited. They also tend not to play any other game BUT the Sims 4 ( some have never even played previous series of the Sims or SimCity) so I wouldn't even really call them gamers. They're like intense Second Lifers, especially the lilsimsie stans.
All of the sims have unhinged fans it’s not just the sims 4 specifically lmao
I’m not even in the sims fandom lol I’m just here to snoop because I find it interesting and also want to see if precedents are set for excusing bad monetisation that will spread to other game communities
Sims fans would probably buy actual trash if EA sells it as Sims-branded merchandise. A consumer base as mindlessly dedicated as that is something other companies would kill for.
I fear the only reason why I've been able to cope has been bc I haven't paid a dime for anything but ts4 + one dlc. I've gone full pirate lmao. I used to eagerly buy the next ep or packs during ts3 + ts2 days, but it's not worth it knowing I'm getting a fraction of the gameplay I used to get with the earlier games in the franchise paired with the shameless money grabbing tactics from EA.
It's been liberating from an emotional investment perspective. I can't imagine the sort of frustration people feel who have put all kinds of $$$ into playing the dysfunctional mess that ts4 tends to be.
Wait I thought the sims community didn't agree with death threats, slurs, and hate comments 🤔
Or is that only when the hate is directed towards devs and popular sims influencers. This community is such a chaotic hypocritical mess smh.
The thing that I don't get about influencers, and the people that follow them, is that they love to brag about the events they were invited to, the hotel stays the brands paid for them, the food they got to eat, etc. and they always thanks the brand when in reality... it's the CONSUMER that's paying for it.
These simmers are thanking EA for the free pack that they sent them while THE PEOPLE BEING SOLD THE PACK are the ones who paid for it. It's not just their audience that's funding their lifestyle, no, when they get free shit from EA, it's ANYONE WHO HAS ACTUALLY PAID FOR THE GAME that's contributing to them getting that free stuff.
Wow that lilsimsie message about leaving hateful comments really changed my opinion about her. I am so glad she did that.
You are a blessing in the gaming community (not even just the sims) - love seeing someone call this all out. Companies are not our friends, & we need to stay critical of advertisements of all sorts honestly.
ALL of the popular simmers on this platform feel so artificial D: its so sad bc they claim to be so genuine.
Wait so you're telling me they are still people who unironically play this badly designed game and are buying every mediocre pack to it that is maybe fun to explore once but since it doesn't add anything of value to the core gameplay loop it is bascially worthless otherwise and haven't rolled back to The Sims 3 or The Sims 2 yet that are fun even without expansions?
I guess I did well when I decided not to engage with The Sims 4 community whatsoever.
I feel like people have literally lost their minds on their behavior. Given this an American company we have a right to complain about it, remember free speech. I keep playing the Sims 4 but not like it's given to me. I have to load up so much CC just to enjoy it. Not to mention for a game meant to play on a gaming laptop it manage to nearly kill my gaming laptop. Even though I uninstalled it and put it on my desktop I've had all sorts of issues with it since. Like that is crazy. I never had as game mess up a computer like that. By the way this computer is three years old so younger the game itself.
So proud and grateful for you and your objectivity and voice daring to call out hypocrisy, exorbitant greed, excuses and justification for mediocrity, and wanting to enhance quality - the terror of the Sims community!
Ok but you’ve made so many videos shitting on the sims lately WE GET IT
it's funny bc this is literally two sides of the same coin, he's not as "different" as he thinks he is compared to the people in the video...
You are the only Sim TH-camr I can watch at this point. Thank you for not folding to the Lilsimsie crowd.
CC Creators's kits is good for console players who wanna support them, I just hope they were paid a decent amout of money since it was a flat fee.
This is crazy… stopped playing the sims a long time ago and back when I used to play It thought the influencers were so annoying and fake to me. To see that this is what they’re up to?? I am so flabbergasted. Super happy I’ve expanded my gaming library because this is just ridiculous.
2:59 Didn't know you were dominant like that, lol
😂 BRUH
Kitsch:
Noun - art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.
Adjective - considered to be in poor taste but appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.
I could never put WhinyBrit in the same category as a lot of others in this vid 😢
the thing ive been saying about these new packs is exactly what you were saying about commissioning modders for expansions and stuff--that's literally what lovestruck and life and death are doing now in a way! like i was perfectly fine with my wicked whims dating app and my ww attractiveness features, now it's a thing i can pay for with lovestruck! like y'all are not slick!!
Okay, so I'm a pretty big Sims 4 fan. It's actually just about the only game I play. Like, the last time I bought a game on release day was when GTA V came out, you know? I'm the most baseline casual gamer. My opinion is that the EA model for these DLC are predatory, especially with the preorder bonus content being locked away forever if you don't buy the DLC within x days of release. I'd love to see them release DLC for free after like 3 years on the market so that the community can still enjoy the games. Honestly I'd love it if they released working packs that didn't shatter the game and require three patches to fix up. Why do I still buy the packs? I mean, I'm really not exaggerating when I say it's the only game that lets me unwind for a couple of hours after work, and that means my video game budget is like $80 a year. I think there are probably a lot of people in the sims community who are pretty similar, it's the only game we play consistently and the predatory practices don't seem so predatory up close because some of us are only ever really looking in that direction, unaware of how other games and companies treat their consumers. Doesn't give anyone the right to harass you though god twitter sucks.
EA is gaming Morphe.
you give valid criticism abt the sims 4 community and you get called slurs for it 😭 and for some reason people still say you're the hateful one?!
I love this channel because they say everything I wanted to say for years😌
haha I’m here to serve, also love ur username
@ thank you🤣❤️
If you aren't making enemies, you are not making a impact.
I love that I found you! Love your amazing work on telling the truth.
thank you i love that you found me too 🙏
CC has always been for the community to make open source resources for each other. EA making it for purchase corporate official “creator kits” is top tier exploitation.
Not to encourage 🏴☠️ but 84 DLCs? If you are/were from a family that doesn't have enough money to spend on videogames instead of groceries and you finally achieved the monetary power to get the game and the DLCs you'd have to pay a small fortune... They themselves are encouraging 🏴☠️🏴☠️ of their game, no way someone's dropping that kind of money or getting the DLCs little by little when they can just open a website and get the whole game for free
one thing im grateful for is that i found your channel.... like i have absolutely no idea how but youre the real one...
Bruh, not people calling you slurs and sending you threats over a video game 💀
I bet the reason EA felt confident enough to put lilsimsie on the main menu is because she has more or less supported and promoted the game for them for the last decade with very little criticism. They are in eachothers pockets, this benefits the both of them, what EA did was shady but lilsimsie knows that this is a scummy company just as much as we do and she continues to associate with them and "oo and awe" at recolous of existing objects to encourage her rabid fan base to buy the latest £40 ep. Anyway, if this is an indication of EAs desperation to sell dlc then hopefully the Sims 4 is losing interest and going down. I for one, haven't even bothered to pirate the latest packs, 😂
Oh perfect on a Sunday, Malcolm uploaded.
The fact that they keep releasing packs and crap and people still promote it positively just shows how money hungry everyone involved in the Blandness 4 are cause the sims 4 is horrible
at this point lilsimsie's little idiot ducklings are brainrotted to the point of mush
wait a lesbian calling someone a f*ggot is crazy, people who are part of the lgbt community and still chuck slurs about as insults drive me insane
Don't let the hate get to you, there's very few people like you speaking honestly about the sims, you're needed.
thank youu ❤️
LMAO the death threat is INSANE. Over a video game?? That's crazy. I like your videos, events ought im obsessed with inzoi I can take criticism over a game I like.
I'm so happy you uploaded a video earlier than expected! I thought you needed some time off for your mental health!
Stay awesome Malcom!💪🏻💪🏻
the REALEST in the sims community
A++ Spice Girls usage
Sims influencers annoy me so much
Sims 4 has so much stuff but none of them... Works together. Like. In theory, it should be easy to build a modern house with the platforms and different modern styled doors and windows and furnitures.
But nothing works together! You cannot really mix windows from the spa pack with the eco lifestyle doors because the colours dont match. And the furniture is just so... Samey but not in the matching way. Samey in the boring way that makes it difficult to make a nice house or even gym.
And there is a fitness thing!
I cant with this game. I really want to make a save file for my gf but this game is testing my patience
Damm the thrust trap at the end
Not the Navia pfp using slurs… lmaooo
And they call themself a lesbian too.
After seeing the latest Dragon age Veilgard debacle and how most TH-cam reviewers have exposed and given their honest opinions, it just pisses me off with the things EA gets away with in the Sims 4 due to the creator network ecosystem.
I’ve subbed, what a breath of fresh air. Sorry you got such awful hate, people are bizarre.
As a console player I am totally thankful for all the kits. I love building and I'll throw my money at all the content I can get.
i can't be the only one that drops whatever they're doing when Malcolm uploads a video
lol just be careful if ur holding a baby or a teacup or something ❤️
I love how in Poland expantion pack cost 179.99 PLN after horse ranch XD
I haven’t played sims in…awhile. If I want to play a life sim game, I’ll play Crusader Kings or Dreamlight Valley. The community isn’t that much better, it’s like a giant Tumblr blog and might be more toxic then the League community. 😬
(Also, I adore your Eleanor of Toledo picture. I have a book that talks about her, very cool lady. ♥️)
At this point, I just keep up with the sims for the drama.