this...

I started to play the Sims 2 again and having to download a bunch of recolors for clothes, hairs, and objects made me realize just how much I used CASt in the Sims 3. Removing it is SUCH a step backwards

Yep... They could've at least included a colorwheel in TS4.

As if they don't have the resources
They probably made more money than ever with the overpriced rip off that is the store(where 1 living room set,a town and a few clothes cost almost as much as the base game ) and the endless stuff packs. On top of that The Sims is one of their biggest franchises...if not put resources in here where else?
They think they're slick but everyone sees what kind of a money grubbing company EA truly is.

As a recall a lot of fans hated BTW I mean The Sims 3 and now it is amazing ARTPOP I mean The Sims 4 finally making fans realIzing what a true downgrade feels like

I love TS2 in a throwback way. I'd never want that repeated in 2014. The revival of loading screens and basicness isn't really suitable. I am even more upset that they are giving us incomplete material for $60 and then expect us to pay more money for expansions. I understand EA is a business who needs money, but just blatantly preferring money > fandom just seems so dated. At least pretend

This game is gonna flop. The news about this train wreck are spreading like wildfire. The Facebook comments They either delay the game and put the features people asked for or they release the uncomplete game and it sells a lot 1st week and then it is COMPLETLY dragged to the pits by the media and critics.

1) The graphics genuinely look like a sims game for an iphone
2) No more open world. I mean, this is 2014 and we're going all the way back to 2004 whent TS2 came out?
3) Pools and toddlers. This was the epithome was the train wreck their team is.

I'm not even gonna go into the CASt or the lack of a color wheel. The game is BASIC! BASIC!

Watch TS3 coming for their rebound #1 billboard 200 and slay ARTPOP! I mean TS4!

This makes total sense. This basically confirms EA is pushing the game out knowing it's not fully ready because they know they can just add expansion packs. **** EA.

The other problem is they can always add pools in an expansion as ****** as that is but not making the game open world would need a heavily redone game engine which isn't happening. I can't believe The Sims is doing this to me.

They need to shut up, they're really destroying the hype for their game if they can't defend it and can't delay it.

Either use less content. Defrag your disc. Or the best option, purchase an SSD and have super fast loading times. But most likely having too many things will slow it down.

That's because you deleted your caches, remember? Just give it some time and they game will regenerate all the thumbs, textures, etc.

By this point this is a Sims 1 remake for mobile... gone wrong

They need to delay this game into 2015. Enhance the graphics, make loading screens as smooth and as swift as possible, add toddlers, pools, and every ****ing feature that's been in TS3 as a whole, EPs included.

There shouldn't be load screens tbqh. They didn't have them 4 years ago!