with the release of paralives and reading through quite a lot of negative reviews (there are lots of positive reviews also, but nearly all of them mention bugs / lack of gameplay), i feel like as much as we want a good life simulator game, we're probably not going to get anything that fulfils all our expectations for a long time. i think expecting a small development team like the team working on paralives, to be able to surpass what EA is capable of in terms of making a good life simulation is probably not wise. (let me be clear, i'm not saying ts4 is a good game. it definitely isn't. but EA is a multi-billionaire company, so if they wanted to make the sims a good game, theyd have the team and the funds/budget to do so. they just dont because theyre evil). so while paralives is promising, unless this game makes literally a million dollars the chances of it ever being the perfect life simulator is like slim to None.