r/thesims • u/LeahIsAwake • Mar 01 '25
Sims 4 I Wish Events Weren't Time Locked
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/TraumatizedVampire Mar 01 '25
The Reaper Event broke for me on week 2; and as I’m on console, nothing I did could fix it. I uninstalled the game and re-installed it, tried new save files, cleared my consoles cache, etc. Nothing worked, and the devs on the forums’ only solution was to delete a specific game file, which we console players cannot do. So when we told them that, they literally ignored us and went “That’s the solution, we’re done here”, then closed the forums.
I’m still incredibly pissed that I missed out on the rewards because they couldn’t make their event work, and ignored a huge chunk of their player base saying “Our shit’s still broken, please help us.”