{"id":4134,"date":"2022-07-28T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T11:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/28\/a-very-unfortunate-bug-is-making-sims-want-to-date-their-family\/"},"modified":"2022-07-28T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T11:14:04","slug":"a-very-unfortunate-bug-is-making-sims-want-to-date-their-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/28\/a-very-unfortunate-bug-is-making-sims-want-to-date-their-family\/","title":{"rendered":"A very unfortunate bug is making Sims want to date their family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sims 4 introduced a free patch ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-sims-4-high-school-years-expansion-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High School Years expansion<\/a>, finally bringing back wants and fears, curved walls and a broader selection of orientations. Those are the intended additions, of course. Some rather unfortunate side effects of this patch appear to be your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/a-sims-4-bug-is-making-sims-speedrun-the-aging-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sims rapidly aging<\/a> and, uh, wanting to date their relatives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Get more out of Sims 4<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: EA)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-sims-4-mods\/\">Sims 4 mods<\/a>: Play your way<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/sims-4-cc-maxis-match-custom-content\/\">Sims 4 CC<\/a>: Custom content<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-sims-4-expansions-and-game-packs\/\">Sims 4 expansions<\/a>: Worth it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yep, regrettably it looks like romantic wants have forgotten to exclude sims who share family ties. The issue was posted to Reddit, showing a sweet granny who wants to ask her son to be her boyfriend. Mind you, she does look rather horrified at the prospect, but that&#8217;s beside the point. It seems like familial relationships aren&#8217;t taken into account for some reason, with the want being triggered &#8220;from being friends&#8221; with her son.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/thesims\/comments\/w9oryi\/why_is_my_sim_getting_a_whim_to_ask_her_own_son\">why_is_my_sim_getting_a_whim_to_ask_her_own_son<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/thesims\">r\/thesims<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The issue&#8217;s also been shared on the bug report forum, with players understandably being a bit uncomfortable with the situation. <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.ea.com\/t5\/Bug-Reports\/Wants-Fears-Sim-wants-to-ask-a-relative-to-be-GF-BF\/td-p\/11668769\">One report<\/a> read: &#8220;In the recent update I made a new save, more to have a new family and fresh start on my sims games. However this has unfortunately triggered the whim &#8216;Ask  to be Boyfriend.&#8217; Which would be all fine and dandy if she wasn&#8217;t thinking about it for her father.&#8221; What a wild paragraph to digest on this fine Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully EA is aware of the issue. As well as the team acknowledging it on the forum, SimGuruNick took to Twitter<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimGuruNick\/status\/1552493042044612608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> to say<\/a> &#8220;I just wanted to acknowledge that the want to date a family member is something we know about, we&#8217;ve reproduced ourselves, we&#8217;re working on it. We&#8217;re looking to get it fixed ASAP.&#8221; He also mentioned that the rapid aging bug was being looked at, too. With High School Years mere hours away as I write this, let&#8217;s hope the fixes are pushed out soon enough.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]A very unfortunate bug is making Sims want to date their family<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>The Sims 4 introduced a free patch ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-sims-4-high-school-years-expansion-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High School Years expansion<\/a>, finally bringing back wants and fears, curved walls and a broader selection of orientations. Those are the intended additions, of course. Some rather unfortunate side effects of this patch appear to be your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/a-sims-4-bug-is-making-sims-speedrun-the-aging-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sims rapidly aging<\/a> and, uh, wanting to date their relatives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Get more out of Sims 4<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: EA)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-sims-4-mods\/\">Sims 4 mods<\/a>: Play your way<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/sims-4-cc-maxis-match-custom-content\/\">Sims 4 CC<\/a>: Custom content<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-sims-4-expansions-and-game-packs\/\">Sims 4 expansions<\/a>: Worth it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yep, regrettably it looks like romantic wants have forgotten to exclude sims who share family ties. The issue was posted to Reddit, showing a sweet granny who wants to ask her son to be her boyfriend. Mind you, she does look rather horrified at the prospect, but that&#8217;s beside the point. It seems like familial relationships aren&#8217;t taken into account for some reason, with the want being triggered &#8220;from being friends&#8221; with her son.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/thesims\/comments\/w9oryi\/why_is_my_sim_getting_a_whim_to_ask_her_own_son\">why_is_my_sim_getting_a_whim_to_ask_her_own_son<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/thesims\">r\/thesims<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The issue&#8217;s also been shared on the bug report forum, with players understandably being a bit uncomfortable with the situation. <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.ea.com\/t5\/Bug-Reports\/Wants-Fears-Sim-wants-to-ask-a-relative-to-be-GF-BF\/td-p\/11668769\">One report<\/a> read: &#8220;In the recent update I made a new save, more to have a new family and fresh start on my sims games. However this has unfortunately triggered the whim &#8216;Ask  to be Boyfriend.&#8217; Which would be all fine and dandy if she wasn&#8217;t thinking about it for her father.&#8221; What a wild paragraph to digest on this fine Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully EA is aware of the issue. As well as the team acknowledging it on the forum, SimGuruNick took to Twitter<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimGuruNick\/status\/1552493042044612608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> to say<\/a> &#8220;I just wanted to acknowledge that the want to date a family member is something we know about, we&#8217;ve reproduced ourselves, we&#8217;re working on it. We&#8217;re looking to get it fixed ASAP.&#8221; He also mentioned that the rapid aging bug was being looked at, too. With High School Years mere hours away as I write this, let&#8217;s hope the fixes are pushed out soon enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}