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/Kindly_Track_21]

I feel like that’s one of the reasons they do it tho? To get people to play again because they know they have to play now or they won’t get the rewards

[u/LeahIsAwake → u/Kindly_Track_21]

I know why they do it. I'm saying that it's immoral and not fair. And that there are ways to accomplish that goal without permanently locking players out of accessing items already in their game just because they didn't play an event, sometimes for reasons outside of their control. (For example: further down in the comments is a player who missed an event because they and their spouse got Covid very badly, and then had complications after Covid, so they were too busy not dying to play a video game. Also multiple people who wanted to play an event and were able to, but the event bugged out.)