So, I have activated Sims 4 (a free game) on Steam.

I see Steam try to launch Origin (now renamed).

So, I turn on Origin. And I cannot launch the game from there, because it was activated through Steam.

Let me repeat that.
I cannot play a free game directly, because I have activated it once indirectly....

FUCK THIS SHIT!!!!

@icedquinn
Paradox? Why is it made by the only company in the world, that I trust LESS to spam DLCs at the game?

@icedquinn
What the hell? I had no idea about either of these games :D

@LukeAlmighty @icedquinn idk what CIG is but paralives does genuinely look good. It'll probably have all the same woke shit sims 4 does in it but thankfully, due to the nature of the game itself, it isn't much of an issue. You don't have to play characters with those features and you can toss the default characters like that in the swimming pool with no ladder or just manually change them xD

But yeah it does look good still, lots of detail and effort put into it. Lots of charm. Art style is nice. There's an in-game tool that lets you change text, which is pretty cool for not just translations but also changing the names of stuff like the "gamebox 400" into an "Xbox 360" or whatever xD

The paradox game looks more like a tech demo tbh. Like, a sandbox game that's going to require mods to have actual content. I don't like their weird AI chat implementation either. It just seems devoid of emotion or substance and I'm not a big fan of the artwork either.

Then there's Sims 5, which we don't really know anything about besides there was a "demo" that leaked that was just a room where you could move the furniture around or something. I'm fully expecting it to be a live-service, microtransaction hell with slightly better graphics than Sims 4. If we get something like an actual game I'll be very impressed.

@beardalaxy @icedquinn
The tech demo from Paradox seems to be quite unfocused. The Sims was developed as a house-trading simulator in it's initial phase, and that lead to Sims having an individual will/needs. The "play whoever you want, any time" part in trailer scared me a lot, since that would change the nature from a simulation to a sandbox.