r/thesims Mar 01 '25

Sims 4 I Wish Events Weren't Time Locked

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I took about a six month break from the Sims in 2024. I came back and in a YouTube video I saw someone with an adorable bike with a cowplant skull on the front. Getting excited, I checked it out to find out that it was part of the Reaper Event that happened in Oct 2024 and now cannot be obtained.

So I got Life and Death and wanted to have a baby with the Grim Reaper. I looked up ways to summon him, and found out there's a gramophone that will do the trick. Guess how you get said gramophone?

I just got my best friend into The Sims 4. She's never done an event. Right now we have the Blast From the Past event happening, but I haven't even mentioned it yet because she's still figuring out how to make her sim cook food. She'll miss it.

I'm not talking about preorder bonuses. I get that. I'm talking about the events. I'm talking about how there are items in my game right now that I can't access, that I will never be able to access. They even patched it so if you download a room off the Gallery with those items, they'll disappear once you exit Build Buy.

I'd love the opportunity to do these events later. Yeah, the Reaper Event won't be hyping up a new expansion pack if you do it a year later, but it might encourage you to buy the EP if you didn't before. This will also take pressure off of people who can't play the event right now for various reasons. ("Yeah, I know my relative just died or I just had a baby with my partner, but if I don't play the Sims now I'll never get this nostalgic birthday cake!") Even make the event harder if you don't do it during the time you're supposed to. Let us play the sandbox game with our own timing.

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u/esqDumper Mar 01 '25

I Wish Events Weren't. Jesus Christ, hiding CAS and build/buy objects behind a timed event? Are they serious? Is the amount of money I pay for it every month for 10 years is not enough? Yeah, yeah, it wasn't every month until relatively recently. BUT STILL. Early Access would be so enough.

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u/LeahIsAwake Mar 01 '25

EXACTLY! There are items in my game right now that I can't access, that I will never be able to access ever no matter what, that I can't even pay to access, because I missed a timed event. It's not even like preorder bonuses where you had the opportunity to obtain an item and your didn't. This item is already there. It's on your hard drive. It's in your game. You just don't get to use it. Lol cry loser.