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So the CAS demo announced just a day or two ago was delivered to a lucky few thousand simmers yesterday. The general reaction to the tools themselves appears to be very positive. It certainly seems very quick to make sims - some people were churning out examples at an incredible rate almost immediately after getting their hands on the demo.

I think they are wise to release a CAS demo after all the dissatisfaction being expressed in the last few weeks (toddlers, pools, story progression, load screens etc). CAS is the one thing they've really shown off so presumably is the one thing that it truly finished and ready. Also, how very useful for them to get a huge number of free testers!

I was one of those was selected to receive the demo, which is highly unfortunate given that (1) I don't intend to buy the game, (2) I don't use Origin so I cannot access the demo and, most importantly, (3) it wouldn't work on my Mac anyway.

If it had been web browser-based I'd have probably been curious enough to have a go at making a few sims, but there's no way I'm going to re-Bootcamp my Mac and install nasty Origin just to access a demo for a game I don't intend to purchase.

I have contacted some people to see if it is possible to transfer my early demo chance to a friend, in which case I would love to be able to give Ollie the demo, assuming he doesn't have it (if he did then I'd give it to LGR so he could review it). However there seems no way to execute such a transfer. Sorry, Ollie, you may have to wait for the more general release of the demo later this summer. I hope they don't keep you waiting too long.

It shows how rattled they are by the fury of the fans lately, & like some mother with a screaming kid hope giving it a lollipop will shut it up.

The officials has people showing what they've made. Some look quite nice, others not so much.




We can have Sims with heads almost as big as their bodies without slider mods?

I am quite enjoying seeing people make their simselves (which originally autocorrected to sim elves! silly iPad). Most of the sims in the trailers and videos we've seen so far have had such outlandish appearances - like the ones in wrestlers outfits! It is reassuring to see that you can make vaguely realistic-looking sims, even if they will ultimately be obliged to participate in "weirder" stories.

Aw, Ollie's friend has the demo and she made his simself. Sweet!





I still don't like the hairs but she did a nice job of making an Ollie

It has been good fun watching Jodie play and mess with create a sim.

I signed up for The Sims 4 CAS demo now available to sign up at http://www.thesims.com/ so I'm hoping that I shall be one of the lucky 'few' who get to play it.

Thank you Caspin for posting this, im glad that you like it so much as its been great having Ollie's company during the videos. We hope to do alot more Simming together as i am also new to the simming community.

Hi Jodie, nice to see you here

Fingers crossed that you get the demo this time, Ollie, although they should be rolling it out soon anyway. It'll be interesting to see if the Gallery can cope with loads of players trying to upload their creations at the same time.