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With free updates, perfect patios and spas The Sims 4 wants to be loved again.

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The disastrously troubled release of SimCity (2013) was not as crucial a failure for EA and Maxis as the release of The Sims 4 was. It took 5 years for The Sims Studio to come up with the much anticipated successor to its highest selling game of all time, The Sims 3, but, the outcome was harmlessly disappointing. While no one was expecting The Sims 4 to be as rich and imaginative as the kind of game that its predecessor had become in last 5 years, the decision by Maxis to remove toddlers and swimming pools from the base game did not help promote their efforts. 

This is the list of all the features that were removed from the base game (and some that were added later).

However EA and Maxis, unlike their treatment of The SimCity, had a different plan which required “..delivering on the vision set out for The Sims 4 required focus.” Despite late addition of swimming pools and other features with regular patches the path that Maxis had set for the game didn’t see any light until the announcement of first expansion pack Get to Work. Maxis, for the first time since the release in September, stopped covering the tracks and started expanding the new Sims 4 eco system.

The work at The Sims Studio and constant improvement of the game, which was much invisible and mundane up till now, can be seen in the new Perfect Patio stuff pack and Spa Day game pack. Soon after the release of Luxury Party stuff pack EA announced Perfect Patio stuff pack. The glamorously intimate hot tubs which came with The Sims 3: Late Night expansion have been added back along with a new grill and other similar objects that make up a perfect patio for your wealthy Sims.

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In addition to that in the new monthly update Maxis has added back half walls, which aren’t exactly half this time, and locked doors (Finally!), which the simmers had been demanding since Get to Work expansion. The update is available for free and can be downloaded right now.  

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Not enough? Do not worry.

“After getting to work in April, we figured your Sims could use even more Zen – and what’s more relaxing than a luxurious spa?” – Perfect Patio announcement.
Yes, a Spa. Remember the nice Sauna from The Sims 2? Well it is making a return this month. The new game pack will also include mud bath, ‘a safer form of relaxation’; Meditation, ‘Talk about Zen’, Yoga and Massages. But if you are still not satisfied you can always do the great olden WooHoo, this time in Sauna. After all if The Sims wants to be loved again it won’t stop your Sims from making some. 
Check out these photos and trailers of Spa Day releasing on 14th July. 
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