The worst part of all this is that I actually did ask for this. Magic, Garbage day(back @Laundry Day voting), Eco Footprint(sort of), and keeping the builders happy with home show contests, those were all things I’ve asked for in the past year. They didn’t come out the way I’d envisioned, but it is as if there finally is someone at Maxis trying to do something with this game.

In a way, that is more troubling than Grant and Lyndsay sitting on the IP for years. It may mean the infantile marketing that kept TS4 afloat with new tween customers has fatally poisoned the IP itself. You can only build with the blocks you have, if the bricks themselves are rotten, it doesn’t matter what kind of house you build.