Apologies for not replying to this sooner. For a moment I thought I was on the official forum.
Very harsh RoxyMiller81, but I do share your frustrations. TS4 has proven a con & it's sad watching clever people throwing a lot of good money after bad in the hope it will make their game enjoyable. Game packs are supposed to enhance an already enjoyable game, not justify the base purchase.
But ask anyone who works at a game store & they will tell you of people they witness wandering past the same shelf many times over an hour, picking up a game box over & over before caving in & taking it to the counter only because they're bored with the games they've got, not from any optimism for the product. It's something we've all done at least once, as have people you think have more common sense than ourselves
I reckon a lot of people are still buying TS4 despite all the warnings because they're bored & may as well see how bad it is while awaiting something better. Something new to do is better for them than nothing at all. That sounds stupid, but when you consider there's a whole industry dedicated into successfully conning us into buying "new" versions of old music CDs we loved for a couple of extra bonus tracks, or "new" versions of old movies for a few minutes extra footage, it's remarkable how easily they can part people with their money only to revisit old good times.
All there seems to be available now is the millionth reboot of existing products, when that happens you become conditioned into trying out the new version no matter how long you hold out. Only this week, GINX TV had a real go at the latest Batman game (Arkham Knight) because it's a rehash of the previous game with better graphics. It's hardly alone in that respect, most of the biggest sellers this year will be from other companies flogging their own dead horses.
"HERE COMES THE NEW GAME! SAME AS THE OLD GAME!"
On the other hand, a lot of former TS2 players who never came over to TS4 love the new game because that's what TS4 is - a reboot TS2. At least to them that's what it is & they'll get a kick out of the new game no matter what. I'm glad at least they are getting some enjoyment from it, & wonder how many TS2 players will be forced over by this Windows 10, having heard stories that its compatibility mode isn't as compatible as Microsoft would have us believe.
If you have an aging machine, TS4 is also excellent if you want a new game with mimimum specs, although as Caspin (I think) mentioned in the past the additional content bulk out over time will soon drag it down to unplayable.
Finally, anyone expecting any "big stick" type admin at SF can forget it. Since being asked to sort the shambles this place had decayed into under the previous maladministration back in 2011, none of us have issued a single warning to anyone. I cannot speak for Caspin or Ollie, but I have no intentions to change that. Any warnings I will ever make will be by private PM, not by that impersonal Whack-A-Mole button.
I expect members to agree to disagree & be civil without needing prompted, but I'm also aware that we're all human, have bad days & are entitled to make the odd mountain out of a molehole now & again over our pet obsessions - it's not as if anyone here has MadameLee levels of the batpoop crazies. There's enough Stepford gaming forums manned by little tin Hitlers without us going down that path.