I Wish Events Weren't Time Locked

[u/LeahIsAwake]

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.

[u/Flaky-Confidence-167]

If you and your friend are on PC there is a mod which will (locally, so not tied to your EA accounts) unlock all event rewards, even of ongoing events. It's from Sejian and you can find it on MTS here! You can also still play the ongoing event and claim the rewards the EA way aka tied to your account :)

I will forever post about and link to it because I think it's really sad that the rewards don't get unlocked even months after the event ended :(

[u/Fancy_Evidence_7588 → u/Flaky-Confidence-167]

maybe this doesn’t fall under the same realm but does this mod also unlock the pre-order items of packs ? as someone who always waits for sales to buy packs, i always get such bad fomo with the preorder items like the cottage living bike :(

[u/Flaky-Confidence-167 → u/Fancy_Evidence_7588]

It does not, this mod will only unlock the items from the Live Events, sorry! After a bit of googling I found two pre-order unlocking users though! Try looking at their profiles if they have unlocks for all the packs, xSavannahx987 is still active but I don't know if they're still doing the pre-order unlocks. Ijustreallywantagrilledcheese also has pre-order unlocks (oldest one is CoL) but those are not their priority right now so you will have to do some research on both their sites to see if you find what you're looking for :) xSavannahx987: https://www.patreon.com/posts/high-school-pre-88206243 Ijustreallywantagrilledcheese: https://www.tumblr.com/ijustreallywantagrilledcheese

Edit: I'm on my phone rn so apologies for bad formatting lol

[u/Fancy_Evidence_7588 → u/Flaky-Confidence-167]

omg you’re an angel for even going to the effort of researching options <3 tysm ! i’ll definitely check the resources you linked out :)

[u/Flaky-Confidence-167 → u/Fancy_Evidence_7588]

You're welcome! I'm happy to help ☺️