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The Plumbob Report: Sims 4 Updates, Life Sim Rivals, and the Summer Giveaway You Need to Know About · The Plumbob Report

• 0:00
  [Becca Hartwell] Takk for att du så med.
• 0:12
  [Danny Reyes] Welcome back to the Plumbob Report.
• 0:14
  [Danny Reyes] I'm Becca Hartwell.
• 0:15
  [Speaker 3] And I'm Danny Reyes, and Becca,
• 0:18
  [Speaker 3] I have to say, this week in the life sim world is absolutely unhinged.
• 0:22
  [Danny Reyes] Unhinged is the word.
• 0:24
  [Danny Reyes] Like, I don't even know where to start.
• 0:26
  [Speaker 3] Start with the chaos.
• 0:27
  [Speaker 3] EA dropped a June 23rd patch laundry list,
• 0:31
  [Speaker 3] a Q&A,
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  [Speaker 3] and a second wave of maker packs all basically at once.
• 0:36
  [Danny Reyes] Right?
• 0:36
  [Danny Reyes] The Sims team came out swinging.
• 0:39
  [Danny Reyes] We're going to break down what's actually in all of that and, you know what, whether it's enough.
• 0:44
  [Speaker 3] And that's where it gets spicy,
• 0:46
  [Speaker 3] because EA is not the only game in town.
• 0:49
  [Danny Reyes] Oh, we are absolutely getting into that.
• 0:52
  [Danny Reyes] Paralives just landed a 9 out of 10 on Steam and has an instant modding community already going.
• 0:58
  [Speaker 3] That sim is not okay,
• 1:01
  [Speaker 3] and inZOI dropped a .9.0 update with schools.
• 1:04
  [Speaker 3] a business system,
• 1:06
  [Speaker 3] and first-person view.
• 1:08
  [Danny Reyes] First-person view in a life sim!
• 1:11
  [Danny Reyes] It's a lot.
• 1:12
  [Danny Reyes] The solo Monopoly era might genuinely be over,
• 1:15
  [Danny Reyes] and we have thoughts.
• 1:16
  [Speaker 3] We also have good news on the community side.
• 1:19
  [Speaker 3] EA's summer gift giveaway is live.
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  [Speaker 3] Free creator packs,
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  [Speaker 3] which I am always here for.
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  [Danny Reyes] And Kynseed,
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  [Danny Reyes] the life sim from ex-Fable devs, is heading to Switch,
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  [Danny Reyes] PS4,
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  [Danny Reyes] PS5 and Xbox this August,
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  [Danny Reyes] the genre is popping off.
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  [Danny Reyes] Okay,
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  [Danny Reyes] so much to get into.
• 1:37
  [Danny Reyes] Let's start with what's coming to The Sims 4 on June 23rd.
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  [Danny Reyes] We want to hear from you!
• 1:48
  [Danny Reyes] Submit questions via the web form in the description or give us a call at 747-677-1037 and leave your question.
• 1:57
  [Danny Reyes] Don't be shy!
• 1:58
  [Danny Reyes] Our AI assistant makes it super easy.
• 2:06
  [Danny Reyes] Okay,
• 2:06
  [Danny Reyes] so the June 23rd Laundry list dropped today,
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  [Danny Reyes] and I have to say,
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  [Danny Reyes] there's actually some good stuff in here.
• 2:13
  [Speaker 3] Laundry list,
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  [Speaker 3] which,
• 2:15
  [Speaker 3] by the way, love that they call it that,
• 2:16
  [Speaker 3] very on brand.
• 2:18
  [Speaker 3] What are we washing this week?
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  [Danny Reyes] So Sims Community covered it this morning, and the patch is fixing things like Sims randomly resetting mid-action,
• 2:27
  [Danny Reyes] broken NPC routing,
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  [Danny Reyes] and okay,
• 2:29
  [Danny Reyes] this one's been bothering me for months,
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  [Danny Reyes] MIRRORS not
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  [Danny Reyes] not reflecting properly in certain lighting.
• 2:34
  [Speaker 3] Wait,
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  [Speaker 3] the MIRRORS?
• 2:36
  [Danny Reyes] The MIRRORS!
• 2:37
  [Speaker 3] The MIRRORS!
• 2:38
  [Speaker 3] We are in year 12 of this game and the MIRRORS are just now getting fixed.
• 2:43
  [Danny Reyes] I mean, come on, to be fair,
• 2:45
  [Danny Reyes] it's a long list.
• 2:47
  [Danny Reyes] There's also a fix for build mode objects snapping to the wrong grid level.
• 2:51
  [Danny Reyes] That one's been in since the Basement Treasures update,
• 2:53
  [Speaker 3] That Sim is NOT okay and neither is the grid.
• 2:57
  [Danny Reyes] right?
• 2:58
  [Danny Reyes] But genuinely,
• 2:59
  [Danny Reyes] the routing fixes are the ones...
• 3:00
  [Danny Reyes] ones I care about most.
• 3:02
  [Danny Reyes] Watching your Sims stand in a doorway for four hours deciding whether to enter a room is a special kind of agony.
• 3:09
  [Speaker 3] The Autonomy really said choose violence every time.
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  [Danny Reyes] Every.
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  [Danny Reyes] Single.
• 3:14
  [Danny Reyes] Time.
• 3:15
  [Speaker 3] Okay, but does a bug fix patch move the needle for people who've been frustrated for years?
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  [Speaker 3] Like, is this enough?
• 3:22
  [Danny Reyes] That's actually where the Quality of Life QA comes in.
• 3:25
  [Danny Reyes] Sims community published a whole breakdown today from the dev team.
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  [Danny Reyes] game,
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  [Danny Reyes] and there are some things that got me genuinely excited.
• 3:31
  [Speaker 3] Such as?
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  [Danny Reyes] They're reworking how wants and fears surface in gameplay,
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  [Danny Reyes] making them feel more connected to what your Sim is actually doing,
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  [Danny Reyes] which,
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  [Danny Reyes] like, if you played Sims 2,
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  [Danny Reyes] you remember wants actually mattering. That's giving Sims 2 in the best way.
• 3:48
  [Speaker 3] Ah, you pulled out the Sims 2 card.
• 3:50
  [Danny Reyes] I always pull out the Sims 2 card.
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  [Danny Reyes] It's my right as a person who has been playing since launch day 2000.
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  [Speaker 4] Listen.
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  [Speaker 3] Duly noted.
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  [Danny Reyes] Better
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  [Speaker 3] What else?
• 3:58
  [Danny Reyes] lot trait visibility,
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  [Danny Reyes] some UI decluttering,
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  [Danny Reyes] and this is the one the community's been asking about forever,
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  [Danny Reyes] improved notification filtering so you're not getting spammed every time a neighbor's kid ages up.
• 4:11
  [Speaker 3] Finally,
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  [Speaker 3] my notification panel looks like a GroupMe from a family reunion.
• 4:16
  [Danny Reyes] Accurate,
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  [Danny Reyes] but look, there are still things people wanted that weren't in the Q&A.
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  [Danny Reyes] Open neighborhoods,
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  [Danny Reyes] story progression.
• 4:24
  [Danny Reyes] Those words were not used.
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  [Speaker 3] Shocking,
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  [Speaker 3] totally shocking," said no one.
• 4:29
  [Danny Reyes] Yeah,
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  [Danny Reyes] so it's progress,
• 4:32
  [Danny Reyes] just selective progress.
• 4:34
  [Speaker 3] Okay,
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  [Speaker 3] pivot.
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  [Speaker 3] The Maker Packs.
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  [Speaker 3] Four new ones hit the Marketplace on Thursday,
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  [Speaker 3] Sims Community reported.
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  [Speaker 3] What's the vibe?
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  [Danny Reyes] So these are the second round of Maker Packs, community creators working inside EA's official pipeline.
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  [Danny Reyes] we've got clothing,
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  [Danny Reyes] furniture,
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  [Danny Reyes] themed build sets,
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  [Danny Reyes] the Quality on some of these is genuinely high.
• 4:56
  [Speaker 3] I'll be honest though,
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  [Speaker 3] every time I see Marketplace,
• 4:59
  [Speaker 3] a little alarm goes off in my brain.
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  [Speaker 3] Is this EA celebrating the community or just finding a new way to charge us?
• 5:07
  [Danny Reyes] Both?
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  [Danny Reyes] I mean, the creators are getting paid,
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  [Danny Reyes] which is good,
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  [Danny Reyes] and the Packs aren't wildly expensive,
• 5:14
  [Danny Reyes] so you do have to buy them, so it's not exactly-
• 5:17
  [Danny Reyes] Exactly the same as getting a free mod from someone's Patreon.
• 5:20
  [Speaker 3] Right. And the modding community has been making this stuff for free for years,
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  [Speaker 3] so there's a little tension there.
• 5:27
  [Danny Reyes] There is.
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  [Danny Reyes] Though I'd rather see creators get compensated than not, it's complicated.
• 5:33
  [Speaker 3] Fair.
• 5:34
  [Speaker 3] Motherlode energy would be if they were all just free.
• 5:37
  [Speaker 3] But okay.
• 5:39
  [Danny Reyes] Motherlode energy would solve a lot of problems.
• 5:42
  [Speaker 3] So we've got bug fixes,
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  [Speaker 3] some QoL wins,
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  [Speaker 3] creator packs,
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  [Speaker 3] and look,
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  [Speaker 3] it's genuinely good stuff.
• 5:49
  [Speaker 3] But I keep thinking about the bigger picture.
• 5:52
  [Danny Reyes] Say it.
• 5:53
  [Speaker 3] Some of the features in that Q&A, things the team is treating like exciting news,
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  [Speaker 3] other games shipped with those things already working on day one.
• 6:03
  [Danny Reyes] Yeah.
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  [Speaker 3] So the question I keep coming back to is,
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  [Speaker 3] when competitors are already clearing some of these bars straight out of early access,
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  [Speaker 3] access,
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  [Speaker 3] does a laundry list of fixes still feel like enough?
• 6:21
  [Danny Reyes] Okay,
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  [Danny Reyes] so while we were talking about EA fixing mirrors,
• 6:25
  [Danny Reyes] Gaming Bible dropped a piece calling a new life sim,
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  [Danny Reyes] quote,
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  [Danny Reyes] The Sims 5 alternative gamers need,
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  [Danny Reyes] and it's sitting at a 9 out of 10 on Steam.
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  [Speaker 3] Nine out of ten?
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  [Speaker 3] That Sim is not okay.
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  [Speaker 3] And by that Sim,
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  [Speaker 3] I mean EA's quarterly projections.
• 6:44
  [Danny Reyes] Okay, okay,
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  [Danny Reyes] so which one are we talking?
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  [Speaker 3] Paralives is the big one getting that love,
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  [Speaker 3] but honestly,
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  [Speaker 3] the whole life sim space just woke up, like inZOI dropped their 0.9.0 update this week,
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  [Speaker 3] schools,
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  [Speaker 3] a full business system.
• 7:00
  [Becca Hartwell] First-person view.
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  [Becca Hartwell] They added first-person view,
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  [Becca Hartwell] Becca.
• 7:04
  [Danny Reyes] First-person view in a life sim!
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  [Danny Reyes] That's actually kind of wild!
• 7:10
  [Becca Hartwell] Right?
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  [Becca Hartwell] That's not a small feature.
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  [Becca Hartwell] Schools alone would have been a whole Sims expansion pack and a half.
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  [Danny Reyes] And that's the thing about this moment.
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  [Danny Reyes] I've seen this before,
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  [Danny Reyes] sort of. When Sims 3 launched and actually threatened to eat the Sims 2's audience,
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  [Danny Reyes] EA started listening differently.
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  [Danny Reyes] Competition made them sharper.
• 7:30
  [Becca Hartwell] Okay, fair,
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  [Becca Hartwell] but Sims 3 was still EA competing with themselves.
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  [Becca Hartwell] This is outside pressure.
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  [Becca Hartwell] That's a different animal.
• 7:38
  [Danny Reyes] Totally different.
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  [Danny Reyes] I'm just saying historically competition works.
• 7:42
  [Danny Reyes] And if inZOI is shipping schools in first-person mode while EA is celebrating mirror fixes?
• 7:50
  [Becca Hartwell] The contrast is a little uncomfortable to sit with.
• 7:53
  [Danny Reyes] Yeah.
• 7:54
  [Danny Reyes] A little.
• 7:56
  [Becca Hartwell] And xb.t.games covered the 0.9.0 inZOI update in detail.
• 8:01
  [Becca Hartwell] They flagged the business system specifically as a full gameplay experience.
• 8:05
  [Becca Hartwell] expansion,
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  [Becca Hartwell] not just a feature toggle.
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  [Becca Hartwell] Like there's actual depth there.
• 8:10
  [Danny Reyes] So is inZOI a real threat right now, though?
• 8:13
  [Danny Reyes] I keep going back and forth.
• 8:15
  [Danny Reyes] The visuals are stunning,
• 8:17
  [Danny Reyes] but the community vibe feels different from what Sims players are used to.
• 8:21
  [Becca Hartwell] Hmm,
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  [Becca Hartwell] I'd say inZOI is more like a warning shot.
• 8:25
  [Becca Hartwell] It's early access,
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  [Becca Hartwell] the player count has been up and down,
• 8:28
  [Becca Hartwell] but a warning shot that landed.
• 8:30
  [Danny Reyes] That's fair.
• 8:32
  [Danny Reyes] Paralives, though,
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  [Danny Reyes] that one feels closer to home for Sims fans.
• 8:36
  [Danny Reyes] Cinelinx published a breakdown yesterday saying it launched May 25th and already has a very positive Steam rating.
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  [Danny Reyes] Active modding community right out the gate.
• 8:46
  [Becca Hartwell] It launched and already has mods.
• 8:49
  [Becca Hartwell] Already.
• 8:50
  [Danny Reyes] Already!
• 8:50
  [Danny Reyes] You know what that means.
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  [Danny Reyes] The community trusted it enough to build on it immediately.
• 8:55
  [Danny Reyes] That's not nothing.
• 8:56
  [Becca Hartwell] Sul Sul and also What the heck honestly.
• 8:59
  [Becca Hartwell] The modders showed up before the tutorial dust settled.
• 9:03
  [Danny Reyes] Right?
• 9:03
  [Danny Reyes] And that nine out of ten rating Gamingbible flagged?
• 9:06
  [Danny Reyes] That's not hype from a trailer.
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  [Danny Reyes] That's people who played it.
• 9:09
  [Becca Hartwell] Which is the part EA should actually be sweating.
• 9:12
  [Becca Hartwell] Not the announcement,
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  [Becca Hartwell] not the trailer.
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  [Becca Hartwell] The retention.
• 9:16
  [Danny Reyes] Players staying,
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  [Danny Reyes] that's the number that matters.
• 9:19
  [Becca Hartwell] So is Sims in trouble?
• 9:20
  [Becca Hartwell] I don't think it's in trouble right now,
• 9:22
  [Becca Hartwell] but the era of zero competition?
• 9:25
  [Becca Hartwell] That's over.
• 9:26
  [Danny Reyes] And I think that's actually good for us as players.
• 9:29
  [Danny Reyes] Like, I want EA to feel a little nervous. It makes them fix MIRRORS faster.
• 9:35
  [Becca Hartwell] Twelve years,
• 9:36
  [Becca Hartwell] one competitor,
• 9:37
  [Becca Hartwell] one MIRRORS fix.
• 9:39
  [Becca Hartwell] Math checks out.
• 9:41
  [Danny Reyes] The math is always undefeated.
• 9:43
  [Danny Reyes] Okay,
• 9:44
  [Danny Reyes] and speaking of Paralives, I actually read through their June 18th patch notes this week. There's some stuff in there about aging and life stages that made me...
• 9:52
  [Danny Reyes] Me stop and stare.
• 9:53
  [Becca Hartwell] Oh, I want to hear that because Sims players have some opinions about life stages.
• 9:58
  [Danny Reyes] They have so many opinions.
• 10:01
  [Danny Reyes] Let's get into it.
• 10:08
  [Danny Reyes] So the June 18th Paralives patch notes, I read them so you don't have to.
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  [Danny Reyes] And Danny,
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  [Danny Reyes] they're doing something with aging that I genuinely haven't seen since Sims 2.
• 10:18
  [Speaker 3] Okay,
• 10:19
  [Speaker 3] make your case.
• 10:20
  [Danny Reyes] So the aging system in Paralives isn't just life stages taking down a clock.
• 10:25
  [Danny Reyes] Each para has an individual age, like an actual number.
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  [Danny Reyes] And the pace of aging flex based on what's happening in their life,
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  [Danny Reyes] relationships,
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  [Danny Reyes] stress,
• 10:35
  [Danny Reyes] lifestyle.
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  [Danny Reyes] it affects how they age.
• 10:38
  [Becca Hartwell] Wait, lifestyle actually changes how fast they age.
• 10:42
  [Danny Reyes] Right?
• 10:43
  [Danny Reyes] And the life stages themselves,
• 10:45
  [Danny Reyes] baby,
• 10:46
  [Danny Reyes] child,
• 10:47
  [Danny Reyes] teen,
• 10:47
  [Danny Reyes] adult,
• 10:48
  [Danny Reyes] elder,
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  [Danny Reyes] they each have distinct physical changes,
• 10:51
  [Danny Reyes] not just a hat swap and a wrinkle filter.
• 10:53
  [Becca Hartwell] Wow.
• 10:54
  [Danny Reyes] We're talking actual visual progression tied to the character.
• 10:58
  [Becca Hartwell] Okay,
• 10:58
  [Becca Hartwell] I feel like Sims 4 elders just got distinguished hair and a bad back.
• 11:03
  [Danny Reyes] That's literally it.
• 11:05
  [Danny Reyes] And Sims 2,
• 11:06
  [Danny Reyes] I keep coming back to Sims 2,
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  [Danny Reyes] but that game had life stages that felt like they meant something.
• 11:12
  [Danny Reyes] Sims 2 elders could pass down memories. There was weight to it.
• 11:16
  [Danny Reyes] Paralives is reaching for that same emotional logic.
• 11:20
  [Becca Hartwell] So what did the patch notes actually ship, like what changed in the June 18th update specifically?
• 11:26
  [Danny Reyes] Sims community covered the patch notes, and it's mostly stability and polish.
• 11:30
  [Becca Hartwell] Mm-hmm.
• 11:30
  [Becca Hartwell] Hmm.
• 11:30
  [Danny Reyes] bug fixes,
• 11:32
  [Danny Reyes] quality of life stuff.
• 11:33
  [Danny Reyes] But what's interesting is how the team is talking about it.
• 11:36
  [Danny Reyes] They're clearly iterating fast.
• 11:38
  [Danny Reyes] This is early access behavior that actually looks like a roadmap.
• 11:42
  [Becca Hartwell] And the community is noticing.
• 11:44
  [Becca Hartwell] Reddit was going off this week. People doing side-by-sides of Paralives and Sims 4 aging screenshots.
• 11:50
  [Danny Reyes] Oh, I saw those.
• 11:52
  [Becca Hartwell] It's not even close visually.
• 11:53
  [Becca Hartwell] And look,
• 11:54
  [Becca Hartwell] Cinelinx had a breakdown piece on Paralives recently.
• 11:57
  [Becca Hartwell] They called the modding community very active basically right out of the gate.
• 12:02
  [Danny Reyes] That tracks.
• 12:03
  [Danny Reyes] The game only launched May twenty fifth.
• 12:06
  [Becca Hartwell] May 25th and there's already a modding scene?
• 12:09
  [Becca Hartwell] That's wild.
• 12:10
  [Danny Reyes] Okay,
• 12:11
  [Danny Reyes] but here's what actually makes me stop and stare.
• 12:14
  [Danny Reyes] DualShockers ran a piece listing ten Paralives features that already make Sims feel dated,
• 12:19
  [Danny Reyes] and one of them is just the build mode.
• 12:22
  [Danny Reyes] The way objects scale freely.
• 12:25
  [Danny Reyes] No gridlock.
• 12:26
  [Becca Hartwell] Becca,
• 12:26
  [Becca Hartwell] don't do this to me right before I have to play Sims 4 tonight.
• 12:30
  [Danny Reyes] I know,
• 12:31
  [Danny Reyes] I know.
• 12:32
  [Danny Reyes] But it's good that this exists,
• 12:33
  [Danny Reyes] like this is the pressure that makes games better.
• 12:36
  [Becca Hartwell] I'm on both sides a little bit, because Paralives is still early access,
• 12:41
  [Becca Hartwell] very positive on Steam is great,
• 12:43
  [Becca Hartwell] but let's see where it is a year from now with more content.
• 12:46
  [Danny Reyes] Totally fair.
• 12:47
  [Danny Reyes] The aging system sounds incredible in concept.
• 12:50
  [Danny Reyes] Except, actually living with it across multiple generations?
• 12:53
  [Danny Reyes] That's the real test.
• 12:55
  [Becca Hartwell] And Sims 4 has 20 plus years of content.
• 12:58
  [Becca Hartwell] That's not nothing.
• 12:59
  [Danny Reyes] Not nothing at all.
• 13:01
  [Danny Reyes] You know what I mean?
• 13:02
  [Danny Reyes] You can't replicate that overnight.
• 13:04
  [Becca Hartwell] Okay, speaking of community,
• 13:06
  [Becca Hartwell] funny pivot,
• 13:07
  [Becca Hartwell] while everyone's online arguing which life sim is better,
• 13:10
  [Becca Hartwell] the Sims Creator community is just out here giving stuff away for free.
• 13:15
  [Danny Reyes] Oh, the Summer Gift Giveaway!
• 13:17
  [Becca Hartwell] Yeah,
• 13:18
  [Becca Hartwell] free clothing packs,
• 13:19
  [Becca Hartwell] furniture packs,
• 13:20
  [Becca Hartwell] Creator-made stuff—just dropped.
• 13:23
  [Danny Reyes] The community really is something else.
• 13:25
  [Danny Reyes] Let's get into that.
• 13:31
  [Danny Reyes] Okay,
• 13:32
  [Danny Reyes] so while we're on the topic of the community doing good things,
• 13:35
  [Danny Reyes] EA kicked off a Summer Gift Giveaway,
• 13:38
  [Danny Reyes] and Boris Piletskiy over at ibxtgames covered it.
• 13:41
  [Danny Reyes] Creator-made clothing and furniture packs,
• 13:44
  [Danny Reyes] free!
• 13:44
  [Becca Hartwell] Wait, just free?
• 13:46
  [Becca Hartwell] No battle pass?
• 13:47
  [Becca Hartwell] No limited time bundle for $19.99?
• 13:51
  [Danny Reyes] Free!
• 13:51
  [Danny Reyes] Just grab them!
• 13:53
  [Danny Reyes] Clothing packs,
• 13:54
  [Danny Reyes] furniture packs,
• 13:55
  [Danny Reyes] all made by creators.
• 13:56
  [Danny Reyes] This is giving main menu music energy,
• 13:59
  [Danny Reyes] honestly.
• 14:00
  [Becca Hartwell] That's the summer content I actually want.
• 14:03
  [Becca Hartwell] And look,
• 14:03
  [Becca Hartwell] after all the discourse we were just in about competition and patch notes,
• 14:07
  [Danny Reyes] Right?
• 14:08
  [Becca Hartwell] the creator community just showing up with free stuff is kind of the antidote.
• 14:13
  [Danny Reyes] It really is,
• 14:15
  [Danny Reyes] and it makes me think about how much of the Sims ecosystem runs on creator love.
• 14:20
  [Danny Reyes] Like, EA can patch MIRRORS all they want,
• 14:23
  [Danny Reyes] but the creators are out here making full furniture sets for
• 14:26
  [Danny Reyes] That's for free in June.
• 14:27
  [Becca Hartwell] Motherlode energy right there.
• 14:30
  [Becca Hartwell] We do not deserve them.
• 14:31
  [Danny Reyes] We really don't. Okay,
• 14:33
  [Danny Reyes] shifting gears because Danny,
• 14:35
  [Danny Reyes] I know you've been watching the console space.
• 14:37
  [Becca Hartwell] Okay,
• 14:38
  [Becca Hartwell] yes, so Kynseed.
• 14:40
  [Becca Hartwell] This is the life sim from ex-Lionhead developers,
• 14:43
  [Becca Hartwell] the Fable people.
• 14:44
  [Becca Hartwell] It's coming to Switch,
• 14:46
  [Becca Hartwell] PS4, PS5, and Xbox this August.
• 14:49
  [Becca Hartwell] Push Square and Nintendo Life both had the story.
• 14:53
  [Danny Reyes] Wait,
• 14:53
  [Danny Reyes] Fable devs made a life sim?
• 14:55
  [Becca Hartwell] Right?
• 14:56
  [Becca Hartwell] It's been on PC for a while, kind of Stardew-meets-Fable vibes,
• 15:01
  [Becca Hartwell] according to the coverage,
• 15:02
  [Becca Hartwell] and now it's hitting consoles in August.
• 15:04
  [Danny Reyes] I mean,
• 15:05
  [Danny Reyes] Stardew-meets-Fable is a combination I did not know I needed.
• 15:09
  [Becca Hartwell] And there's Ashwood Valley.
• 15:11
  [Becca Hartwell] That's already out on Xbox right now, according to RedDeerGames via Playday.
• 15:16
  [Becca Hartwell] Farming and Life Sim.
• 15:18
  [Danny Reyes] So console players are suddenly eating this.
• 15:21
  [Danny Reyes] this summer.
• 15:22
  [Becca Hartwell] The Life Sim space just keeps expanding.
• 15:25
  [Becca Hartwell] It's a good problem to have.
• 15:27
  [Danny Reyes] Honestly,
• 15:28
  [Danny Reyes] whether you're a Sims diehard or you're just Paralives-curious or you're picking up Kynseed on your Switch in August,
• 15:34
  [Danny Reyes] there's something for everyone right now.
• 15:37
  [Becca Hartwell] Best time to be a Life Sim fan,
• 15:39
  [Becca Hartwell] arguably ever.
• 15:41
  [Danny Reyes] Arguably ever.
• 15:42
  [Danny Reyes] And we've got the free furniture to prove it.
• 15:50
  [Danny Reyes] OK,
• 15:51
  [Danny Reyes] that's a wrap on the Plumbob Report.
• 15:53
  [Becca Hartwell] What an episode!
• 15:55
  [Becca Hartwell] MIRRORS fixed in year 12,
• 15:57
  [Becca Hartwell] wants and fears coming back Sims 2 style,
• 16:00
  [Becca Hartwell] and somehow Paralives pulling a 9.10 on Steam while we weren't looking!
• 16:04
  [Danny Reyes] Right?
• 16:04
  [Becca Hartwell] Yeah.
• 16:05
  [Danny Reyes] And honestly,
• 16:06
  [Danny Reyes] the big takeaway from today,
• 16:07
  [Danny Reyes] the solo era for the Sims is over.
• 16:10
  [Danny Reyes] Competition is here,
• 16:11
  [Danny Reyes] and that might actually be the best thing for all of us.
• 16:15
  [Becca Hartwell] The modders,
• 16:16
  [Becca Hartwell] the maker packs,
• 16:17
  [Becca Hartwell] the-
• 16:17
  [Becca Hartwell] It's the Kynseed console drop.
• 16:19
  [Becca Hartwell] It's a good time to be a life sim fan.
• 16:21
  [Danny Reyes] Soul Simmers! If you love today's episode,
• 16:25
  [Danny Reyes] subscribe and drop us a review.
• 16:26
  [Danny Reyes] It seriously helps other fans find us.
• 16:29
  [Becca Hartwell] And share your wildest sim stories with us on social at Plumbob Report.
• 16:34
  [Becca Hartwell] We want to hear them.
• 16:35
  [Danny Reyes] Thanks for hanging out with us.
• 16:37
  [Danny Reyes] We'll see you next time.
• 16:38
  [Becca Hartwell] Later,
• 16:39
  [Becca Hartwell] simmers!