Going in expecting the game to be a 1:1 Sims replacement is a bit much.
I do hope it improves over time.
It sure wants to be though. Seemingly.
It’s a good goal to have, but expecting it from the early access release isn’t the right mindset.
It’s the developers or publishers themselves that shouldn’t hold these kind of expectations. Because it’s when they fail to hit a target that their enthusiasm fades and we’re left with a rushed project, abandoned halfway.
Keep in mind that “those games” also have decades of content added through expansions and mods, it’s very difficult to separate the true base games from what they have become today, in fact a lot of them were relatively simplistic and shallow in their very first releases too. Go play the first version of one of the Sims games with no expansions and tell me if you’re having a good experience with deep and interesting mechanics for your Sims, knowing what you know now of what the Sims are capable of.
We are comparing a game in its infancy to an established giant, of course it will pale in comparison… for now, and for quite some time. The question is whether it will catch up, because if it does, it’s going to become something very, very big. Yes that’s a big if, but it’s an if worth waiting for.
