Why is High School Years DLC mostly negative???

[BiggestChilletFan2012]

Pls tell me, is it the bugs/glitches? Is it the price? Or is it just boring?

[Coffee Addict]

Originally posted by KiraLee20128:

is it the bugs/glitches? Is it the price? Or is it just boring?

yes

[Taklu]

it's been 8 years. The people can only tolerate and buy into something for only so long till they grow a mind of their own.

[Angela]

Mostly the bugs I think. There are many bugs and most of them are being treated as some kind of mystery to the devs it seems.

The content is fine as far as CAS items go, as always.

The content as far as gameplay goes is fine...I guess. Nothing to get too excited about. School mostly seems to work, but is over quickly. A few extra popups, some extra bugged popups too.

[Piperbird]

I think mostly people are disappointed. For 40 bucks we expected more than rabbit holes and classes you can't actually participate in.

As usual, CAS and BB is pretty good, which EA knows is good enough, since many people will buy the pack just for that, so they'll still get their money.

Watching the Let's Plays of different Creators shows an awful lot of glitches and issues - prom not working, graduation not working, sims not doing their commands, getting detention because your sim won't go to class and there's no option to send them to class, all kinds of stuff.

For that much money, we just expect more. And we expect it to actually work.

[memorycard8mb]

Originally posted by Piperbird:

I think mostly people are disappointed. For 40 bucks we expected more than rabbit holes and classes you can't actually participate in.

As usual, CAS and BB is pretty good, which EA knows is good enough, since many people will buy the pack just for that, so they'll still get their money.

Watching the Let's Plays of different Creators shows an awful lot of glitches and issues - prom not working, graduation not working, sims not doing their commands, getting detention because your sim won't go to class and there's no option to send them to class, all kinds of stuff.

For that much money, we just expect more. And we expect it to actually work.

THIS.

[76561198213095365]

I love the fact that the 12 lots which is more than most neighborhoods and the option to finally shave is good, but some players are disappointed with the actual high school experience such as building feeling too empty for its size in addition to it not working properly sometimes (and possibly might need to temporarily turn off autonomy as well while joining at high school). Also, the social bunny is best described as controversial even after the Guru team fixed a bug related to that such as an adult asking a teen to be boyfriend/girlfriend from there where some people are already hating on the social bunny app. Other known bugs are constantly being asked to be boyfriend/girlfriend or best friend which is a very annoying feature in addition to the prom and graduation possibly being bugged as well.

[Infinite Pudding]

I'm loving the pack myself. But I also haven't had that many bugs. Maybe I'd feel different about it if I did. Classes are a little boring though like others have said but I find them passable. It would have been nice to have a little more interaction during the actual classes for sure. I think the stuff that shines though is the new teen interactions. Proms and sneaking out to parties stuff like that.

It's my favorite expansion pack and I have them all. But I'm notoriously easy to please, so I'm not saying others are wrong.

[Lexi Lunarpaw]

I mean people hate school in real life so why would they want to come home and then go to school in the comfort of their own homes? (this is a joke please don't come after me)
in all seriousness its likely the bugs like the age-up phone addiction and stuff

[76561198213095365]

Originally posted by Fyon Corporation:

I mean people hate school in real life so why would they want to come home and then go to school in the comfort of their own homes? (this is a joke please don't come after me)
in all seriousness its likely the bugs like the age-up phone addiction and stuff

The cellphone bug is basegame related from the update and not expansion pack related. Fortunately, I got a mod for this recently where the cellphone addiction is not autonomous anymore which unfortunately the Guru team was too lazy or too ignorant to fix it. Or, perhaps word did not reach them fast enough for them to realize that the cellphone obsession caused by the basegame update was a serious problem that needed to be fixed as well from the emergency patch.

[Jarl Tobi]

i did high school in game today for the first time it like ok i enjoyed it.
but i think most people are just feed up of bugs every major pack so are taking it out in
the high school years reviews but i dont think ea cares about steam reviews

[76561198213095365]

Originally posted by Tobi:

i did high school in game today for the first time it like ok i enjoyed it.
but i think most people are just feed up of bugs every major pack so are taking it out in
the high school years reviews but i dont think ea cares about steam reviews

I think they do care about Steam reviews to perhaps help them learn from what they did wrong with previous packs, but when it comes to fixing the actual bugs that is mainly up to the Sim Guru team and not EA. You can not really trust EA to fix all of the bugs unfortunately besides their small Guru team that could be underpaid and understaffed as well. Should EA care about not making packs that are not broken before release? Absolutely, but the problem is that the pursuit of money also has the power to corrupt even for a billion dollar or multi million dollar industry where EA seems to overall care about the money than fixing all of the bugs where they think mods will help somehow fix any unresolved problems making EA unreliable when it comes to fixing bugs on The Sims 4.

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Fyon Corporation:

I mean people hate school in real life so why would they want to come home and then go to school in the comfort of their own homes? (this is a joke please don't come after me)
in all seriousness its likely the bugs like the age-up phone addiction and stuff

i'm sure that's said by youngsters but then again 10 years later and those same people end up fondly remembering their school years where they didn't have responsibility and so badly wished they could go back to those days where things were simple. that's innocence of youth clashing with someone who has learned about life and experience.

You'd be surprised how much people may have loved school and not realised it until much later. so i suspect not everyone for sure.

[Lexi Lunarpaw]

Originally posted by davidnoble1996:

Originally posted by Fyon Corporation:

I mean people hate school in real life so why would they want to come home and then go to school in the comfort of their own homes? (this is a joke please don't come after me)
in all seriousness its likely the bugs like the age-up phone addiction and stuff

The cellphone bug is basegame related from the update and not expansion pack related. Fortunately, I got a mod for this recently where the cellphone addiction is not autonomous anymore which unfortunately the Guru team was too lazy or too ignorant to fix it. Or, perhaps word did not reach them fast enough for them to realize that the cellphone obsession caused by the basegame update was a serious problem that needed to be fixed as well from the emergency patch.

What mod was that? i would like the name of it unless i have to pay for it

[76561198213095365]

Originally posted by Fyon Corporation:

What mod was that? i would like the name of it unless i have to pay for it

It is free. It does not cost me any money.

[Lexi Lunarpaw]

Originally posted by davidnoble1996:

Originally posted by Fyon Corporation:

What mod was that? i would like the name of it unless i have to pay for it

It is free. It does not cost me any money.

ok what is the name of the mod?